The internet is fine, it's social media and the people using it that are toxic (aided by algorithms pushing people to give their own worst for all sorts of reasons)
I've read it this year for the first time. It's fantastic. So short and so powerful.
So are there any good news in this respect?
Rewind
Wait, has it officially been dropped? I love Eternity, it's the best app I've tried of several...
No way you have the tools to make that estimate! Admit your lies 😄
Silence!
Don't tell the holy secret to the world!
I stopped using Windows in 2008 (juggling between a mixture of Linux and Mac OS). One of the reasons, is that at that time I thought Windows was legitimately a mess.
Over time, I thought it got a bit better when seeing it on friends's computers.
Due to laziness, Windows 11 got installed on my office computer (which I use 1% of my time) and I thought it was honestly pretty good (as in, I never thought about switching back, but it was fine to use it when necessary).
Now that they plug in ads, I'll certainly want to switch back /s
Very recently I started noticing that if you search anything on YouTube you don't find what you need at all unless you add many keywords and even then, the site only gives you one coherent answer and tons of garbage you don't need.
Mostly because, instead of giving you videos on the full set of keywords you use, it gives the first video which is based on all of them, and all subsequent videos based on just a single of such keywords, so mainly you get a lot of crap from influencers or such.
Has anyone else experienced this and knows if there is a way around it?
I don't know if this fits the bill but, for several years, I heard the story of a man who had been released from an asylum and spent all his time on the sidewalk of a large road pretending to be a tree, raising his hands and fingers as if they were branches and bushes and would wave them in case of wind (also imitating their noise). He was nicknamed after a specific type of tree I don't remember now
I've never met the guy, but it stuck with me since I heard the same story from various people who didn't know each other
Edit: grammar
Ooooh, now it makes sense! Thanks!!! I've been that guy several times, getting lost in my thoughts, so I see why everyone could relate to this strip!
Whoa dude!
PS This is a great shower thought!!!
Guys, I'm embarrassed but I got to ask: can someone explain how it should be understood?
No, I'm not making fun of it. I legitimately don't understand it and I would like to.
From the other comments I get it's something about video calls at home and maybe people yelling while on them? I'm confused because the guy walking on the horse is also relevant (perhaps in minding his business and being disturbed by others yelling)?
This game was really awesome! I spent so many hours playing online with whoever. It had several awesome arenas.
Now you make me want to play it again!
A strange but cool movie. It's not perfect, but it's got its moments
Since a few days I've not been able to see my up votes. If I go to my profile, I see the sum total of my comments and of my posts, but next to them I see two zeros.
This seemed to coincide with the Lemmy.World update.
I logged out and back in more than once, but it doesn't change this issue.
Has this happened to anyone else? If so, how did you fix it?
Thanks anyways for reading this
I unfortunately live in a very polluted area, one where air quality apps mark in red and recommend that I never get out of my lair.
When it rains enough the air quality becomes more bearable and here comes the question: where does pollution go when it rains hard? Does it get pushed to the ground and stays there? Does it get embedded in the water (so instead of breathing it, I get to drink it later in the tap water)?
I'm curious to know where it gets dispersed or stuck (to possibly avoid it)
Yesterday I saw a post about the Reddit IPO and commented on it. The post was on c/World News of Lemmy.World and seemed to just have been posted since it had no comments.
I then kept scrolling as usual and found out that the same exact post with the same title had already appeared on c/Technology of Lemmy.World with lots of comments and votes, so I understood the first one I saw was a repost and this was likely the original post and I decided to write the same comment again.
Now something interesting happened. I use Eternity and see my two identical comments being up or down voted and someone replied to my first comment (and I can see this reply in my inbox), but I cannot access the first post anymore (it says "error refreshing the page")
Thought the first post had been taken down because perhaps the original poster or mods decided it was a repost, but I woke up this morning and both of my comments keep being voted, so someone must be able to see both posts!
How is this possible?
Edit: fixed grammar
They post a video every five years and it's simple, but I like their imagination.
Here's Cool Guy 2 and Cool Guy 2.5
Are any of these features already existing (and can be activated, but I didn't see how)?
(1) Making the sub-lemmy in the header have a different color so the user can visually spot the topic before reading the title
(2) Moving the header road footer, so see the topic/sub-lemmy after the title of the post
(3) removing the exclamation mark in the sub-lemmy header across the app. Since it's present in all sub-lemmy's it is a bit a nuisance
(4) change the size of the sub-lemmy names in the list of subscribed sub-lemmy's
(5) write in user's points in the about tab
(6) graying out titles of posts already read
(7) search through posts you only upvoted (but not saved). This may be a Lemmy feature request and not just Liftoff though as I've seen this lacking from all other apps I tried
Thanks for making a really awesome app!
Since I joined joined Lemmy, I signed up for two instances (Lemmy.World and Lemmy.Zip) because I didn't entirely understand the fediverse and also because it seemed useful to be on multiple instances, since Lemmy.World sometimes has outages.
Anyhow, coming from Reddit I started to look for communities I care about and I tried to join them. It's been two months now and there are some communities where I clicked on "join" and I still appear as "pending". Of course, they need to chose to approve me, but I'm wondering what I must do to prove worthy.
Moreover, I learned about communities I might want to join and I cannot find them from the two instances I signed up for. More precisely, I wanted to join some communities on feddit.it and I cannot find them from the search bar in Jerboa, while I can see them from Connect for Lemmy but I can only browse them as guest. Is that because they're not federated with the two communities I signed up for?
I suppose in that case I need to try to make an account directly in such instances
Thank you for any insight you might have!
UPDATE: regarding the first question, as several people pointed out below, I still appear as pending, but these communities now appear as those I am subscribed to in my apps (this is some sort of standard glitch in Lemmy and it's OK).
Regarding the second question, I've been to feddit.it on my browser and looked for communities I like and then I searched for them in apps with a better search function, such as Liftoff.
While I know everyone is going gangbusters about Sync for Lemmy, I still haven't found an app I like the best, but found each app is doing something slightly better than others, so I need to get more used to the fact that (at least for now), I need to access Lemmy through multiple apps (which is not necessarily a bad thing).
Thank you everyone for your help!