Yeah, those old forum threads really were great. Many forums had threads that were discussing topics for years, all in one place. There were people posting how they were building something and they would just reply to their thread with an update. It’s a great way to collect information and better than we are doing it here
Just FYI: Data is from May till June 2023. Musk took over Twitter end of Oct. / Nov 2022. A lot of stuff has happened since then, so that study can’t tell you much about the current X
To be honest, most other websites are not better, we are just used to them. Google? TikTok? Bing? Reddit? Yahoo? X? Twitter? ChatGPT? DuckDuckGo? XNXX?
But i am afraid of people messing up their devices and blaming me
Just to be clear: If your script messes up somebodys device, no licence in the world will keep them from blaming you ;)
Check out Flohmarkt:
Exactly this - Join-Lemmy.org has some (minor) UI and text issues. I’m also not quite happy about the sorting of the instances and the selection there. If f.e. you chose “General -> English” during onboarding, you get this screen here:
Hexbear? Some random 11 user instance from finland? Lemmy.world nowhere to be seen? They are randomizing the instances, which kind of makes sense to prevent the bigger ones from growing even more, but which might confuse new users.
But those are minor UI quirks that can be solved. All those reddit couch warriors that claim that everything should be completely redone exactly how they want it to be are insane. Normal users are able to understand the concept of instances.
You can also do a simple content filter. Using feddit.org as instance:
feddit.org##.d-sm-block.d-none > .post-container.row:has(.post-title:has-text(/trump|musk|puppies/i))
This will hide every post which has the words “Trump” OR “Musk” OR “puppies” in the title. Or if you don’t use Apple devices and don’t want to read about their new devices in every tech community:
feddit.org##.d-sm-block.d-none > .post-container.row:has(.post-title:has-text(/apple|iphone|macos|icloud|iOS|ipad/i))
After everything Matt has been doing in the last months, I’m totally not excited to see anything he backs or pushes.
There are a lot and in most cases you’ll notice when dealing with Americans, who are refusing to do stuff like the rest of the world. The meter and kilogram took over from hundreds of different measurement standards. Most of the world is using the same calendar and writes dates in the same way. Most countries are driving on the same side. Traffic signs are kind of the same worldwide. You can buy screws with the same standard everywhere.
email is a standard protocol. You can run your own server using FOSS software in 5 minutes if you start now. One of the biggest problems is that you will have a hard time “federating” to gmail and others due to the spam problematic, but that is something that we will see with Lemmy, too. Currently I can spin up my own server and start pushing shit to lemmy.world and other bigger instances, but I feel that this will change with the coming spam waves