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I wonder if theres going to be a split. Major platforms with all the slop, bots and ads, and then a more self hosted or volunteer ran services.

Personally I left the major platforms behind, says a lot if I say that Lemmy is the “biggest” platform I use these days (I don’t count watching YouTube without a account and never seeing the comments as using the platform in the “social” sense). Other than that, I’m on a small IRC network (we have about 150 people in total, 20-50 every day active ones and rest more or less active), same network hosts a old-timey forum, radio, git and something else that I’ve forgotten about, some of the people have Gemini capsules and stuff like that.

I much prefer the smaller place, theres less “noise” and I’m not demanded to do anything, nobody wants me to like and subscribe or watch/listen ads, nobody yells at me because I don’t subscribe to their politics 100%, nobody yells at me for asking a silly question about Linux, no. The radio has ads, but they are all jokes. Its less traffic, but I think the traffic is better quality. Like there might be days on the forum and theres no posts, there might be a few hours per day when nobody talks in the IRC, but that doesn’t bother me. Sometimes its good to not have a constant stream of stuff flying in your face.

I had to block that user for the sole reason of my brain stopping reading every time I saw that symbol, then I had to figure out what the hell it was before the brain unfuncked itself and could continue reading. I guess if I read that symbol every day, it’d get easier. But coming across that user every 3rd day or so, wasn’t really enough for my brain to start automatically figuring things out on the fly. And yes, my brain is stupid and it makes me stupid as well, I know this.

I’m already typing and reading in my 4th language, I don’t need to complicate my life anymore than that. So blockety-block-block is the answer.

Oh don’t worry, I enjoy being silly and if people think I’m being weird for it, I enjoy it even more.

Yeah it is flat, I was being silly.

And yeah, looks like its been sitting there for a long while. Also looks like the bonnet is open a bit, probably has some Volkswagen feature going on and as a result is now dead.

But its mostly round

That Volkswagen has air only in the top part of the tire.

Not really. I have never voluntarily listened anything about musk. Good example, this thread lol.

I don’t have many friends. Most of the friends I have I see about once a year. Seems to work fine, not much happens anyway so its not like we spend 8 hours going through all the events. Its more like one major event and a few smaller ones, then its just shooting the shit.

But if I don’t see or hear from someone in ten years and they don’t respond to my contact attempts or respond in a way that makes me think they are not interested, then those are not my friends.

Clarksoooon!

PeerTube is horrible for finding even channels you know exists. I thought doing a duckduckgo search for “the linux experiment peertube” would have given me a result to the page, but turns out the easiest way was to go click on the first link, which was to a The Linux Experiment blog post, about leaving some other video service and moving to PeerTube, and finding the link there… https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos

Anyway, thats the only one I can suggest, besides Veronica Explains, that I watch through PeerTube. I usually find the links to them through Lemmy. I haven’t been able to find new ones, or rather, I’ve given up on trying.

The whole thing is just a giant mess. I get that its a feature of the decentralized service, to be a bit of a mess but does it have to be this big of a mess? I remember trying to figure out how to subscribe to things through there, apparently you need to make a account. Sure, of course, makes sense. But then I read that you shouldn’t really make a account and save the account for creators? Not sure if thats instance specific thing, but I didn’t really bother finding out. Someone suggested to make a Mastodon account and use that, but I somehow failed to do that as well. I’m not sure how or why, but I gave up on that as well. So yeah, I’ve given up on trying to figure the thing out and just use it whenever I happen to stumble a link to a video hosted there.

Shame, really. I wanted to use it properly but its such a hostile experience and every time I’ve tried to figure it out, the answers have been very unhelpful or I’ve just found people asking the same questions as I do, with no answers to them. Bummer.

Of course not. I didn’t mean to say that would solve the issue completely. Theres plenty of other reasons why having a phone as a server is not the best idea, the battery is just the most flammable reason.

Assuming we would still be in this universe we call reality, any, really. Anything magical would be interested.

I saw one post where a guy was using a phone as a torrent share server thing. They had an app that cycled the battery between 10% and 80%. Setting that sort of thing up would take care of the battery issue.

Text. 90% of the time I watch youtube etc is when I’m eating or trying to pass out etc

I forgot to do that earlier, thank you for reminding me.

You have glass ears? Neat.

I sort of assumed this was a question from Don_Dickle /u/patnou@lemmy.world

A bit surprised it wasn’t.

Yeah thats how I thought about it. Like, one such silly post every now and then is good fun etc. But if the whole account is just being a clueless dummy “just asking questions” in bad faith, it gets tiring very fast. But yeah, that’s how I use the block list, remove annoyances.

lol I’ve seen this guys (these guys’s? the profile says its being used by multiple people?) posts before and I’ve thought “is this person serious? Should I block them?” every time I’ve seen their posts. Seems like my hunch was correct.