Thank you! Pre-blocking this so I won’t have any splash damage my main feed. “Open mic” translates too much on nazi or hate baiting nowadays. Open socials need moderation or become chesspools. I do not hang out with toxic people in real life, I don’t understand the principle that “I have to” do it digitally. Hard pass. Good luck!

Sometimes I wonder if this folks that are so aggressively against Firefox but ready to eat up on Chrome, might be just bots. I mean I hope so.

Cause otherwise we will have so many options and Google will have the best intersts for all of us 😇

This will be another incentive for employers to pay staff even less “you have tips anyways”.

Sorry I will not be giving tips for a service I paid for as per menu. Tips should be reserved for whom went above and beyond not just for providing the service I paid for.

Nope I get the opposite. Maybe depends on specific instances you are following? In honesty I never replied on Reddit but here I found it pretty pleasurable!

Hope to see other countries do it as well soon!

Good reminder to not place all “digital eggs” in the same basket ;)

Really looking forward trying GrapheneOS or HarmonyOS even. Not interested in any of this stuff. 99% it’s flashy but not that useful on the grand scheme of things. You suck my data, AND I need to pay you now? No way 🤣

The United States is in decline. Has been a log while. It’s not just political propaganda. If anything Trump accelerated the process and made it more evident. And honestly, maybe that is a good thing.

The economy in the States is self cannibalizing, removing value to extract wealth from middle class, or sell nik naks to richer folks. There is not infostrucure for electricity, services. Everything is stuck to the 70s/80s. Look at the AI datacenters situation there. American companies are well deep into inshittification, and hardware manufactures are being rapidly outpaced by progress and development from their Chinese counterparts.

As an individual you have no rights, food kills you, health care is not existing unless you are in the golden path.

The amount of unhoused people is staggering, people that do actually have a job, but they are forced to live in a car. And worse part of it all? They could fix it. They could make it a great place. They have money, skills, resources to do so. But they decided to not do that. To allow rich folks to buy yet another island.

You can say a lot of things about China. But travel to their “rich” cities. Comprare them to USA’s ones. As see how prosperity really looks like.

I really hope so! That was a big let down moment.

I remember the good old times when people recorded movies in TV with VHS recorders using automated time triggers, and some models used to be able to skip ads too. Just sayin’

I am having a great time exploring the Fediverse and of course having a blast here in Lemmy. That said I have found a lot of limitations as well that makes the Fediverse work “for real” when you want to go in deep into the federation part of it. For example I was really trying to move away from instagram and I wanted to create my own instance of Pixel fed. The expectation is that I have my own instance in the fediverse I can own and I can connect to the rest of the network. The reality is that from your little bubble you can’t see old posts from accounts on other servers. Only new ones. Which does not really make it work for real. There are plenty of other use cases that work better, but assuming that’s the “only way” and it’s perfect is not being fully honest. A lot of people like to shit on ATproto, but it’s a protocol that feels less extreme on federation and more friendly on the “normal person” usability part of it. Every person have their own needs in the end.

Would have been cool to see Europe starting this seriously years ago, instead of titering and waiting for oil situation to explode. But at least it’s happening. Now I hear friends and family back home that were not into electric cars, now finally considering getting one. Now that even the availability of gas at station is not a given. Brighter future!