I love revisiting comments like these every 4 years.

And it feels so good! I hated how breaking in to the mobi files wrecked the formatting.

Appreciate the correction! I haven’t dealt with Amazon for e-books since I got my first Kobo reader 5-6 years ago, so I’m out of the loop.

Kobo consistently makes better products overall, but the ability to avoid Amazon (and the nonsense that comes from their proprietary format) is priceless.

We’re in agreement, but I’m more militant for the specific example (amitheasshole).

It’s right in the name. If there is no “I” directly involved, than the bot is an asshole. Sprinkle this philosophy liberally when expanding scope to almost all bot content, and it encompasses my opinion with scant few exceptions.

Eh… It has its place (especially if dude is going to set me up like that), and can be ignored if it’s not your cup of tea.

Prurient banter has been a part of online forums since BBS message boards. It’s how most people I know communicate IRL and online: Bullshit, bullshit, nugget of wisdom, picture of cat.

Not everything needs to be THUPER THERIAL, but it can be (and has frequently been) overdone because a lot of people don’t realize that self-censorship is a hammer to be swung heavily.

Because we will never reach a billion users and exist for 200 years like yo momma.

YOU CANNOT DOXX WHAT YOU CANNOT SEE.

I may have one on now.

Wholly off topic.

I feel like you should know about this if you don’t already.

The PWA works great when loaded into Firefox.

I have to ask: why does it seem like most people are clamoring to hand their account data over to yet another third party? Apps are convenient, but they’re not necessary.

Use kbin to browse the whole fediverse.

It has image hosting.

https://kbin.social/media/cache/resolve/post_thumb/60/f1/60f1d48d2af27f138aa7e01ddb1c11290847f1f636b77dbe981e3c191556ddf2.gif

That and to prevent megaleeching by scraping. It’s easier and cheaper to purchase curated lists of IPs than it is to bootstrap a tool to ban them based upon bandwidth.

Preface: I have no opinion. Have not installed, and will not install because I don’t need it.

If you have to ask, it’s probably worth investigating further.

The first thing I would do is search around for any mention of the app name and variants on the word “password”.

Never install anything that you don’t trust, and dissociate from your “real” email/identity for those that you aren’t sure about. Whoever owns the software potentially owns your credentials.

All of your gripes sound like a lack of patience, or a need for the corporate instances of social media to be replicated in the fediverse.

DIY isn’t for everyone. It will have rough edges. It will lack things until you build them.

You want people to go somewhere? Make it worth their time. This is like burning man. Show up to a blank slate and make it fun/interesting/sustainable.

If that’s not for you… well… perhaps you should stop trying to square peg this round hole.

I could barely get this comment to load. The image you linked is beyond a no go. Anyone kind enough to fill me in?

This was my initial read, so I clicked over to the discussion. They discuss the lack of captcha on that domain, and how that protection is flawed in every lemmy instance.

In short, there’s no way 1.05 million genuine new accounts went to a single, small lemmy domain in less than a week.