I'd be among the first to agree that Mozilla has made a lot of bad choices, but this video doesn't cover the important ones, whines interminably about some trivial ones, and generally says very little that's of interest. And I've already seen it linked to like 3 times on lemmy.
Just to let you know, your ipv6 address for lemmy.catasaur.xyz is misconfigured, pointing to a local address (fe80). I couldn't send you a dm, maybe because your ipv6 addr is misconfigured, so replying to a random comment.
I too have recently quit reddit. It was getting hard enough to put up with even without seeing the ads.
I do find it way too overly complex in the design of various of its many parts, but my comment there is what among my people would be referred to as a "joke".
I've had two not run over a few years of buying stuff randomly from steam. All I had to do to make them work was figure out how to bypass a stupid "launcher" that exists only to show you ads.
I'm not saying it leads to toxicity necessarily, just that it's something very different than what my first fediverse experience was, which was more about hanging out with a small group of friends. Lemmy seems more about interaction mostly with strangers in large groups like this one, which I also enjoy. Toxicity is probably more a function of it, along with lots of other places, getting flooded with new users who don't know how to behave. Eternal September was a phrase that got passed around a lot for a while over on pleroma. What's happening is analogous to that event (which I was there for) in a lot of ways, even if the details are different. Some places are better insulated from it than others, and this one isn't much at all protected from it as of yet. Like OP suggests it might be more so in the future depending on how things go.
Last time I tried lemmy was maybe about a year ago, and to me it just seemed empty and desolate then. Maybe I just didn't know the right places to look. Really I was looking for something to replace reddit, and the way I used reddit was to just ignore the algorithm and the front page and look at only my feed sorted by new of various strange and interesting little subs. There are still very few of those around here compared to the breadth of them that used to exist on reddit. Most of those are dying or dead as the more interesting people that sustained them gradually realize the site owners are indifferent or hostile to their existence and they move on to one place or another. I don't go back there any more. But Lemmy doesn't seem to have a big enough userbase to sustain a c/baduk all that well yet, let alone a c/badukshitposting. So that's what I hope it does have some day, along with any better tools that prove necessary to protect us from the storm that doesn't look like it will end any time soon.
Ah, I see. I was only around the past few years but over that much time it has changed a lot for sure. There's more of everything. If you preferred the old-school fedi experience though it seems like lemmy is the wrong place to look, as it's designed to be something else. As is mastodon for that matter. There still exist quiet corners where people do things more in keeping with the old ways. The ones where I started have since disappeared but hopefully some will hang together.
You mean c/fediverse? Or lemmy.ml? Or all of lemmy? Or all of the fediverse? Or the whole world?
Fedi is all about different communities coexisting, sometimes uneasily, alongside each other. Lemmy doesn't need to have only one monolithic community identity. I hope it grows in scope and diversity until everyone can find one that suits them.
Nah, the most toxic redditors will never leave reddit. Their souls will be consumed in agony as it collapses into a fiery little black hole of hate. The ones who made it over here can't be all bad no matter how stupid some of them appear at first glance.
They took Dark Souls off the market when its remaster came along. Microsoft is not above doing the same. If nothing else, you'll need a copy of the original Oblivion in order to play Skyblivion when it comes out. Of course I'm sure you'll be able to get it somewhere. Really I just wanted to play it again with the Shivering Isles expansion.
France has no more right to compel Mozilla to incorporate censorship into its web browser than it has to force authors to incorporate a paragraph of text praising the French Republic at the start of every book they write. I refuse to believe that things are so far gone in France that this law will not be knocked over if Mozilla pushes forcefully against it.
Among other ways it might make you better off, a tendency to boot linux on school-issued devices could also very much help get you hired some day. Although perhaps not in the education system. Seeing a teacher discourage it is even more depressing than seeing a student fear he'll be punished for it. So long as you're not breaking any laws, it seems like a fine idea.
Sane and reasonable people spent several decades advocating the use of cash instead of cards since at least the 1970s, until we mostly gave up. Who knows, maybe the newly invigorated crazy people will do better. They can't do much worse.
Firefox being free software, it wouldn't make much sense for them to try and do something like this. So obviously we know that Mozilla would never go along with such an absurd law and start doing censorship on behalf of France. ... right, Mozilla? Slightly strange that you didn't say so?
It's what turned me into a Steam user. Still feels like a moral failing using non-free software, but it sure is fun.