burretploof

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New season!!

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[–] burretploof 1 points 2 years ago

The trickiest part will be having users pick an instance, but once past that hurdle, the federation aspect doesn't need to be a complicating factor.

Yep, that's the thing. When Mastodon was hot for a while, most complaints I saw were about people not getting that they can pick almost whichever instance and/or having trouble deciding because they didn't fully understand that it usually matters very little.

[–] burretploof 1 points 2 years ago

Oh. I guess that's why a few subs I submitted to some communities there have been pending for days now?

[–] burretploof 11 points 2 years ago

I was using Jerboa but it seems a little unstable, had it crash on me a number of times.

Currently I'm using wefwef as a Chrome app thing.

https://wefwef.app

[–] burretploof 6 points 2 years ago

Thank you and good luck!

[–] burretploof 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While I plan on using this platform for the forseeable future - I don't have too high hopes.

I think it will probably go the way Mastodon is going. A few weeks of being "hot", then dropping off until it's pretty much business as usual, as it was before being the hot new thing. Don't get me wrong, I want Lemmy to succeed and replace reddit, but I wouldn't bet money on it.

[–] burretploof 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm happy to be here. Lemmy seems like a good place so far. I'm not sure if it will take off in the long term (I think a lot of people don't "get" the whole federated thing, just like with Mastodon), but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[–] burretploof 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It would be cool if the dev(s) came out with a version for Lemmy, too. rif is my favorite reddit app and I'd love to be able to access Lemmy from a version of it.

[–] burretploof 2 points 2 years ago

While that is true, having 2+ radios for various global markets is much less of a hassle than having to design and manufacture at least two different cases, seals and possibly PCB layouts.

[–] burretploof 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Probably kinda likely, I think?

Manufacturing, storing, shipping and supporting two different models of basically the same phone is probably more expensive than just deploying the one model with the removable battery everywhere.

To elaborate a bit: This is very different than providing models with different radios/modems for different markets. A different radio/modem probably only requires a single, different component(?). A model with a replacable battery requires a different battery design, a different case design, different seals (to make it waterproof) and most likely a different PCB layout, too. That is a tremendous amount of effort compared to swapping out a component or two on an otherwise identical phone.

That's why I think it's not unlikely that replacable batteries might become much more common globally once this law is being implemented and applied.

[–] burretploof 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I totally get where they're coming from and I understand how expensive video delivery while also paying creators is.

But at the same time, I find it difficult to blame users that block ads. Over the last few years, ads have gotten progressively longer and more obnoxious, fewer ads are skippable, we also get multiple ads in a row and, to top it off, you'll every now and then see ads that are placed by malicious entities. It's out of control.

When it was just one short ad (each) before, during and after a video, I was fine with it and I disabled adblock on YouTube but as its gotten more and more and more - I enabled adblock again because I felt the site was extremely uncomfortable to use at that point.

Recently, I started sharing a YT Premium Family plan with a few people because I find 12€ a month for YT to be a hefty price, especially when considering that I don't ever watch "Originals" nor do I use YT Music, but I have to pay for those, too...

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