The ability to accelerate my speed of thoughts so I could come up with witty comebacks in real time and not hours later.

A dead mouse to my doorstep. I don’t even own a cat, they just really like me for some reason. I guess it’s the thought that counts.

While I technically did replace Reddit with Lemmy—I edited all my posts and comments in protests of the API changes and Reddit’s disgusting behaviour—I don’t use Lemmy in the same way I used Reddit. Most of my activities on Reddit were in niche subreddits that don’t have an active community here, so on Lemmy I just hangout in the popular communities with much lower levels of engagement. I also spend a lot less time here than I used to on Reddit, which is both a good thing and a bad thing…

They are awesome. I still use some toilet paper for drying, but they are doing a much better job at cleaning.

I googled Lemmy and signed up to the first result, not knowing what instances were back then.

I really hope the fanfiction community migrates in large quantity. On Reddit they are nearly 400k users, so even if 1% of them move to Lemmy, we would have 4k users…

Yes, I get that. I have a few fond memories of old old forums. With that said, Reddit’s ease of discovery for niche communities and my ability to instantly join the discussion without signing up to yet another website is something I will miss.

I stopped caring about the ethics of ad—blocking, I got sick of seeing scams, gambling ads, and shitty mobile games, crappy services that no one actually benefits from, and malware. I have ZERO tolerance for these sorts of ads. If an app has ads, I immediately uninstall it; if a website blocks adblockers, I stop using it.

The type of ads I might be willing to accept would be contextual ads (rather than personalised ones), and they should be individually vetted by either the content creators, or their community. If I visit a Linux forum, stuff like Linode or Tuxedo Computers would be effective, if I visit a Kendo forum, ads for shinai and other kendo supplies make sense, since we are the target audience, and there is no need to violate people’s privacy for this ad model. These ads would need to be non-intrusive, and not take too much space as well, and not over content, and certainly not staying on the screen as I am scrolling.

This is why when watching YouTube videos, I block ads, but I don’t block sponsors.

For the popular communities, yes. For the smaller niche communities it just feels empty and sad. Hope this platform catches on so the “there’s a subreddit for everything” quote could be a thing here too.

Same. FOSS is more trustworthy for privacy as well.

Pixel 6. I got it because I got a good deal on one and I needed a phone quickly. I also wanted a phone from a popular enough model so that I would be able to get parts for repairs.

I won’t even consider buying an iPhone since I can’t install apps that aren’t from Apple’s store, and most of the apps I use are from F-Droid and I generally hate all ads.

It worked well for AO3 (Archive of our Own).

Obligatory video making fun of lifted truck owners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcmYRSpDrOY

It’s kinda late here in Europe, but I would immediately go to my neighbour and explain the situation quickly.

His house isn’t worth a million dollars but I would buy it for 1 million dollars anyway, after the sale is done, I’d sell it back to him for a price so after taxes we would each get half. We know each other well enough to trust that we won’t screw the other…

That was mostly a general statement rather than specifically about influenza. People often died from things that we don’t worry about in the modern era. Stuff much worse than influenza that we don’t need to worry about today we’re devastating back then, like smallpox. Perhaps I should have used smallpox as an example, since this is a disease that literally doesn’t exist anymore.

As recent as possible to have modern medicine; I like not dying from a flu…