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  • As an average OG ex-redditor, Lemmy needs to move away from it's base barebones UI to something like Photon by default, here's why.

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  • What is the difference between

    • (A) - an opportunistic capitalist capturing the market and drive community maintained options into obscurity
    • and (B) - someone trying to convince a small community to change, purportedly in order to avoid (A)?

    If you trying to protecting a small community, but your solution somehow requires that community to be more like the big ones, then I guess you don't understand the point why small communities even exist in the first place.

    It's like coming to a small coffee shop somewhere in a side street of Prague and arguing that the shop should be more like Starbucks, because if you don't become more like Starbucks, Starbucks will win. Win what? If all you care is money then yes, but again, that's not why small businesses exist. (Which is what (pseudo-)capitalists and tech bros find so impossible to understand.)

    Human greed is not inherently bad, greed can often be legit justified as attempt to safeguard for future. That's fine, we should do that, but it becomes destructive when it's not balanced with the reasons behind why things are the way they are now.

  • As an average OG ex-redditor, Lemmy needs to move away from it's base barebones UI to something like Photon by default, here's why.

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  • I love the Lemmy UI.

    But I’m a gen Xer.

    So what?

    I'm sure you know that the value of a user or an opinion has nothing to do with their age.

    Why be ageist to yourself?

  • As an average OG ex-redditor, Lemmy needs to move away from it's base barebones UI to something like Photon by default, here's why.

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  • I believe adopting Photon as the default UI could make Lemmy far more appealing to the average Reddit user.

    How are you supporting that belief? Any data? Any A/B testing?

    I don't want to sound too harsh, but you have sort of marked yourself as a representative of "average OG ex-redditor" or "average joe". Actually, you refer to "average" quite a lot. But honestly, without any supporting evidence, it's just words to make the proposal more appealing or relevant. If we remove all this cruft (which might be supported by anecdotal study, but that should barely count, if even), what arguments are here that actually remain?

    Don't get me wrong, if you said that you like "something like Photon" more than the current default UI, then great! It is awesome that other alternatives exist and when people find them, it's great to share the review. (It's how I have discovered so much of great software!) But then again, it's all subjective, right? In your proposal, you seem to tend to state lot of these subjective opinions as if they were objective, which to me makes the proposal just far less convincing.

  • ‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research

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  • why on Earth would we make an entire mirror organism that’s has the potential to do the same but way, way worse

    it's in the article: because of fAsCiNaTiOn!

  • [September 2024] JD Vance says US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms

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  • I think we have one free chair left after UK, so...

  • Off by one solitude

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  • Don't wanna state the obvious, but it looks like they still ended up staring at each other for the rest of the evening.

    They have shown that they still love each other, so hope they can work with their one irreconcilable difference.

  • I hope you don't have any plans this evening.

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  • RTFB

  • The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter

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  • I don't have experience with Twitter or Mastodon but it reminds me of time when I quit drinking.

    When I quit drinking and tried to stay around people I used to drink with, I realized really fast how pointless this "engagement" (really just two people speaking past each other, and feeling like they have deep conversation) is. It's almost insulting what a waste of effort such an "engagement" can be.

  • I wrote a web front end for downloading Youtube videos, and i'd love some feedback

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  • Some people see "free stuff", and assume that it's now open season on wasting OP's time.

    It's a good way to kill any enthusiasm. Imagine your kid made a spaghetti portrait as a gift for you and instead of just accepting it you asked, "but what exactly did you do differently from all kids on the block?"

  • I wrote a web front end for downloading Youtube videos, and i'd love some feedback

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  • Why? Why ask for this from the creator?

    If someone can create new software and offer it for free, they should not also be expected to also create a comprehensive analysis of what other people did and list of differences.

    Just take it or leave it, it's that simple. No need to act as if you're trying to waste some door-to-door salesman's time.

    Edit: I expected some downvotes but not that many.

    To my defense, the question in this thread is "you could elaborate what exactly you did different than all the others". Look, I'm not a native English speaker either but I feel we could agree that is still pretty far away from simply being curious about design choices or "what led you to create this" sort of exploratory question.

    I might have overreacted, though, so sorry for that.

  • Whats your go-to naming convention?

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  • my go_to NamingCovention: ANYTHING but camel-case 🤮

  • bot casually stealing comments

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  • What's even worse that the stolen comment got much more engagement than the original.

    I've seen her comments all around YouTube, and this always seems to happen to her. (I'm assuming it's because they are the most insightful, informative yet still on point.) Don't give up Barbara, some of us are seeing through the scam and rooting for you!

  • I'm so sorry

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  • Is it AI though? I thought AI's are blocked from using celebrity faces.

    I assumed someone made it with AI using unspecified faces and then photoshopped in the real ones.

  • It happens each time!

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  • ALL KINDS OF SUFFERING ARE MERGE CONFLICTS

    GIT IS OUR MIRROR

    REBASE IS HEAVEN

  • YSK rice commonly contains arsenic, but most of it can be removed by boiling in water (4:1 ratio) for 5 minutes, and discarding that water before starting the regular cook cycle.

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  • Do you "discard" the water by... just letting it into the sink? How long before aresnic is everywhere?

  • "The Newspaper of Record"

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  • Honestly I prefer saying "Good Day" in Czech as well (that's the most abundant one used here).

    At some point I realized that the whole thing has silent "I wish you", which also means that if I say "Dobrý den" (=="Good day") I'm actually being more generous. So correcting me to "Dobrý večer" (== "Good evening") because it's 7 PM or whatever is actually not just petty but also kind of a dick move.

    (Edit: I also realize that my explanation is probably the pinnacle of pettiness, with just a little pinch of dickmoveines on top...)

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    Pick your seat, Lemmy

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  • Definitely not 4.

    Forget about Alex. That seat cushion would not stay clean for long.

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    Pick your seat, Lemmy

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  • Is it Satan, though? Looks like a just a common devil. He would probably just try to talk you into some dumb contract and fail in an amusing way. No racism, no shit talking, no being asshole, kind of a polite guy.

    OK, maybe slight smell of burned sulfur but that would be it.

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    Pick your seat, Lemmy

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