ConstipatedWatson @ ConstipatedWatson @lemmy.world

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I still find Slashdot relevant! It doesn't feel like it faded into irrelevance, only that it stopped growing (it reached its needed critical mass and that was it)

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It really feels worse now, even in terms of topics in the subreddits for which there is no equivalent here.

Still, until certain things are born here or well populated, I'll still check it out from time to time.

At least, so far I seem to check it less and less and am grateful for Lemmy and its growth. I hope it keeps growing!

I guess I'm out of the loop, perhaps because I mostly browse communities I subscribed to, but...

What happened? Lots of spammy bots signing up and spamming the site? I guess I didn't notice where I was looking

Also, what does application based sign up mean?

Anyhow, Lemmy.World and Lemmy (in general) are growing nicely, so what's needed to defend them is cool.

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You hit the nail on the head, mate!

In previous times, I used to follow certain sites more closely, but then life happened and I lost track of things and now several sites have closed and I don't know where to start.

For example, I used to dig GameSpy for game reviews, but it closed down. I rarely buy games these days, but I don't know what to read when I do and want to inform myself (I remember IGN, but I don't know if it's good). I can check out reviews on Steam, but they're short reviews.

Same deal goes for PC reviews or computer accessories. I don't know where to look: everything looks like an ad site. I remember PCmag.com but I don't know if itself is an ad site or what to compare it to, if I wanted to check a second opinion. Every YouTube video about technology feels like a sponsored ad, though some are legit

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I also work from home for several extended periods of time, while during others I need to be on site one or two days a week (sometimes it's nice, sometimes it's a drag to be on site).

I have to say, while I can work a 100% of the time from home, the nice parts of being on site is to get to know more personally the people I meet. I don't deny the fact that this be successfully done remotely too, but I believe as humans we need social connections. Yes, we can make friends online (which can carry over IRL and I know that personally) and yes you can meet your partner online too, but it always felt (at least to me) that if you meet others in person, you accelerate the connection.

I mean, I had a fairly bad time in high school, but I had the time of my life on college and met most of my friends then. I'm not sure I'd have made as many friends if it had all been online.

Also, as someone wrote in another post today (but I can't remember where so I can't link it, sorry), sometimes people (perhaps new hires fresh out of college) are not experienced enough to know when to be vocal and object to flaws in a project and in person meeting can be a boon to acquire that skill.

It's a tricky subject, since it's not that WFH or doing things online prevents normal life evolutions, but perhaps can make them more scarce or slow, while in person events can precipitate them.

I agree that companies forcing things is not the way to go, but somehow it feels like doing things entirely online should happen more later in life, when you're settled and not before when you need to learn and make connections who you'll want to meet in person too.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

I haven't been following this lately and thought every cell phone mounts some form of chip designed by ARM.

When I read about the announcement I even started wondering if it would be sound to buy some shares (a tiny quantity, I'm no gambler)

Several people say it's a sinking ship and so now I'm thinking I'd better be careful with this idea.

Why is it sinking? Could I ask you guys to sum it up or give me a flavor of why that is?

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Moreover, not to take sides with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Dropbox, Box, etc, but storing files costs money to maintain (there needs to be redundancy, every once in a while drives need to be replaced, they need to be cooled, etc), so we'd like it to be cheap, but doing all these things cannot be free for the hosting company.

This is not to say they are jacking up prices, but that it cannot stay super cheap forever.

Still, these services have been very handy so far, though I'm looking to see if the plan I have is still convenient compared to the competition

This is really nice, thank you!

OT but related to the discussion: is there a way to track if and how the fediverse is increasing?

I looked on Wikipedia and it said it's just about ~67000 users on Lemmy VS ~52 million users on Reddit.

I'm spending most of my time on my phone on Lemmy (and about 5 mins on Reddit) every day now, but it would be awesome to be slowly attracting more users from Reddit over time.

Sure, it's better to be fewer users if it does lead to more quality conversations (which is what I find so far), but the fediverse still needs to grow!

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I've been donating to the Wikimedia foundation regularly since 2016 since I believe it's a resource everyone should have access to.

The Wikipedia is not perfect but, for several topics, it's a great starting point or recap. I've used it for science related queries and, even if the style is not uniform and some entries are hard to read, it is an amazingly useful project which doesn't get old (and the phone app is fantastic)

If you want to rock'n'roll, you have to pizza first

While the concepts you expounded are correct, their order is wrong.

Pizza did come after fire and wheel, but it is, of course, more important of them as it is encapsulating the concepts of "fire" in its forging and "wheel" in its shape.

Clearly, pizza represents the pinnacle of human evolution and, if you so desire, you can have it with a topping of penicillin.

Aaargh, you're totally right. It goes to show I should have read TFA! Sorry and thanks for the remark!

I always thought the only way to deal with earthquakes was to use gigantic mecha that only have 5 mins of unplugged charge!

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Reddit has a lot of international subreddits which don't really exist here on Lemmy (they have like 10 users and they almost never post).

Reddit has huge lively communities. I'm having a ball here on Lemmy, but I too must check Reddit once a day to know if important stuff happened.

Sure, someone could say I should work on jumpstarting these Lemmy communities, but I've only been able to to what I can so far (that is, replying to posts and joining the conversation)

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They found me out, got to run away now! 😁

Well, I'm waiting to drop a standard line that can be deduced from my username, but I still haven't landed a good post to do so...

Also, I wanted it to be disjoint from my former Reddit usernames

Thanks! I've implement your suggestions and am trying them out. It looks nice! I still am not completely sold, but am liking it

Obligatory reference to the Joe VS the volcano version of 16 tons

I tried Sync yesterday, but didn't have a lot of time to fiddle with it. What makes it so great everyone's excited? I checked it out and couldn't immediately see it having a clear edge over Jerboa and Connect (but it looked nice)

I was further thrown off by the fact that if I wanted to buy it, I'd need to pay for a yearly subscription (and in that case it didn't look cheap)

Honest question for who can answer