FarraigePlaisteaċ @ FarraigePlaisteach @lemmy.world

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That makes me wonder if the fediverse is disadvantaged by SEO. Each instance is likely "just" a domain to search engines.

Like yourself, SMS and phone calls. My bank app also handles authentication of online purchases a bit better with notifications enabled. Everything else is disabled.

On desktop I have notifications for email as well as those mentioned above.

We can go further

Things can be good from the consumption side. But the developers are often working long extra hours to make that happen. If we want to escape capitalism ever, we need to think of the human element.

I would love to see a non-proprietary desktop music player. Just something simple that I can listen to my MP3s with. Audacity is great, but it’s a PITA when it comes to casual listening.

/s. As sbv Said in another comment, I think it’s best to join an existing project. Loops has potential to rival TikTok but it’s still not in a state I would use.

Edit: I could have placed the /s a bit better to flag my surreal sense of humour. I was joking about FOSS lacking a desktop music player, because there seem to be hundreds of them. I use Audacity for editing, not listening to mp3s :)

Because it isn’t perfect, but it’s good enough and my favourite now. And they are the only consumer tech company I know of having such a positive impact on the environment worldwide.

I had stopped using it for the same reason. I think this new initiative is a way to make it easier, but as you say, consistency is the other issue.

But doesn't Leta use Bing as it's backend also?

It seems like a good alternative so some of the most popular engines. I think I'll stick with Ecosia, since on top of being EU based, they also make the world a better place.

I was initially against DRM support, but in hindsight I believe FF would have quickly slipped into irrelevance without it.

I could really use some of these. There’s a video showing what they look like for anyone interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUxcMQ4MKK4&pp=ygULRHVtYndhcmUuaW8%3D

“Simplify our policies” -> reduce checks and balances, making the world a little more awful but a little more profitable for me.

“Restoring free speech” -> Allowing more hate speech, which is coincidentally more profitable.

He's old and doesn't have much time left. The really problematic people are all around him and they are many.

If I understand you right, you're saying that you support making software like Lemmy accessible for users of all types. I agree completely.

A little unrelated, but "intelligence" is not a singular thing and nobody is "intelligent" or "not intelligent". Also, because we each have our own limitations, we're not really qualified to evaluate the abilities of another person since we tend to reference ourselves in doing so. IQ is now increasingly seen as not fit for purpose by academics and professionals of education. And all this without mentioning IQ's history is in the support of eugenics. So if the experts are abandoning the idea of IQ, we can do the same and stop beating each other over the heads with it. Then we can get on with focussing on accessibility, which as you say is where our priorities should be.

The whole process was a massive time and energy drain in the end with no benefit. I don't think anyone with a life would pursue something like this any further. I trialled-and-errored my way to Lemmy.world while I was out of work. Otherwise I'd still be on Reddit.

Championing for accessibility is the opposite of gatekeeping, no? And coding doesn't solve everything. At the moment, the perfect Lemmy instance could be coded and nobody might find it given the plethora of existing ones. Anyway, we disagree and that's okay.

In the EU there is some amount of data protection and privacy rights, so that matters to quite a few people. Commercial outfits handle those distinctions behind the scenes (eg, US users vs EU users get different amounts of privacy). On the fediverse, the user has to figure this out themselves.

Beyond that, I agree with everything you say. Some of the instances don't even have the name "Lemmy" in the domain or brand which makes it confusing. Or maybe they're not Lemmy but just ActivityPub compatible. I have no idea. You can also get unlucky picking a "bad" server. I first joined Kbin.social because it had the best UI at the time but man, it rarely worked and totally put me off.

"If somebody gave up on the registration, how would you know?" Because although I have an account here on Lemmy I can still see discussions on comparable sites.

"If you gave up on the registration, then how are you here?" Because I came back a year later after coming across a good explainer for how the fediverse works.

I'm not going to look at that link.

If any of that were true there wouldn't be posts and comments here and elsewhere from professional programmers who gave up on the registration process because of bad UX. I was one of them. People don't give up on registering here because it's "scary".

If you're one of the many people here happy for this to remain a niche for tech people then that's different.

I'm not trying to say that marketing is empathetic. I'm saying that meeting people where they are at is.