squeakycat @ squeakycat @lemmy.ml

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Reddit's bigger communities are a kind of double-speak: r/funny is anything but, for instance.

I tell this to myself often. Yet it is so very hard to actually believe it and act upon it with the amount of baggage that brings with it. :/

I too miss the LED notification light. If you have an amoled display, check this out:

https://github.com/Chainfire/HoleyLight

That makes me very uncomfortable. I love it.

Merry christmas 🙂

I imagine that this public reddit doesn't care about that; They are instead interested tn engagement and sinjing to the lowest common denominator. Quality control only matters when it hurts engagement.

I'm happy for you! We all take different paths in life and it's great you enjoy yours.

That is so wild! I love the inventiveness of human interface devices. Too bad it isn't FOSS, it'd be nice to see it in fdroid.

It took me until graduate school to learn that "mortified" is not another word for "scared"/"fearful"

It still looks that way to me what with mort in there!

It also took me a long time to realize that the word "awry", which I read often in books and inferred its meaning, and "ah-rai" were the same thing. I thought awry was pronounced "aw-ree" and it was just a synonym for "ah-rai".

For sure. I agree with you. I meant only to say that it might not be so black and white on this one.

I've been trying it out and I like it a lot! Haven't switched yet though.

I have no opinion on the person in question but depending on how severe their autism is it changes the narrative of physical outbursts a bit.

People say that? How odd, that seems like a totally different world. I don't agree with that sentiment! One is a general purpose communications protocol, the other is a community. As with any community, one can pick and choose who they fraternize with.

That's the point of federation! Choosing who you want in your community.

XMPP still exists - and I use it for chatting with one person. Nobody I know uses it. Techies I know use IRC and, more recently, Matrix. Or discord, disappointingly enough.

And I mention techies because the rest of the world is just happy with WhatsApp/Messenger/Slack et al.

What I'm getting at is that XMPP feels pretty dead in my experience. But who knows, maybe it would be in this same position regardless of Google like you allude to.

You're all good! And nice self-portrait :)

That's the joke :)

Step back, take a breath, and focus your beliefs into more succinct and tactful displays. And lose the passive aggressive judgment rhetoric.

And don't forget the CLA!

All of reddit's newer design is the definition of asshole design. Once old.reddit.com is killed off the site will be as unusable as X or TikTok is on web for logged out users.