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Thanks for the explanation. What terrible news…

Seems we’re still in the early stages for this major happening, so I’m sure there will be more information released very shortly.

I guess this goes to show why a federated networks are important, and why people shouldn’t flock to the most popular instance. Right now many communities are down because of this, while the ones that were wise enough to set up their own instances are unaffected.

Isn’t that the beauty of a fediverse?

You can just move to another instace, if you do not agree with the current one you’re at.

Heck, you could even host your own, to completely set your own rules.

Well… It certainly helps, thats for sure.

But the main reason why everyone uses Chrome, is the same reason why everyone uses Google, and why everyone has a Gmail.

It was, at one point in time, a revolutionary product, which completely wiped competitors of the time.

I still remember when Chrome was launched, and how I immediate told all my friends and family to make th switch. Chrome was just so much faster, so much sleeker, and so much more intuitive. They basically didnt need to market themselves, as the product did all the work from them.

Now we’re in a different boat, and because of the high market-share, they can start playing dirty.

Other browsers have also more than caught up, but let me tell you, Firefox used to not be comparable to the Chrome experience at all, back in the day.

Well… It certainly helps, thats for sure.

But the main reason why everyone uses Chrome, is the same reason why everyone uses Google, and why everyone has a Gmail.

It was, at one point in time, a revolutionary product, which completely wiped competitors of the time.

I still remember when Chrome was launched, and how I immediate told all my friends and family to make th switch. Chrome was just so much faster, so much sleeker, and so much more intuitive. They basically didnt need to market themselves, as the product did all the work from them.

Now we’re in a different boat, and because of the high market-share, they can start playing dirty.

Other browsers have also more than caught up, but let me tell you, Firefox used to not be comparable to the Chrome experience at all, back in the day.

Well… It certainly helps, thats for sure.

But the main reason why everyone uses Chrome, is the same reason why everyone uses Google, and why everyone has a Gmail.

It was, at one point in time, a revolutionary product, which completely wiped competitors of the time.

I still remember when Chrome was launched, and how I immediate told all my friends and family to make th switch. Chrome was just so much faster, so much sleeker, and so much more intuitive. They basically didnt need to market themselves, as the product did all the work from them.

Now we’re in a different boat, and because of the high market-share, they can start playing dirty.

Other browsers have also more than caught up, but let me tell you, Firefox used to not be comparable to the Chrome experience at all, back in the day.

OLED dark theme.

Images shown in overlay, with gesture-controls such as:

Swipe up, close image (must be smooth) Double-tab to zoom

Automatic opening of instance links such using either /c/, /m/, or ! syntax.

Instances should be clearly distinguished from each other. Community names should be the full instace, and not just the name of the community, and users should have full instance name at least on profiles.

From what I understand, Kbin and Lemmy are two different projects.

They both use the same protocol (ActivityPub), so they can talk to each other.

The main difference is that Kbin also has what’s called “Microblogging”, which is what you know from Twitter for example.

Theres 2 domains. Org and com I believe.

I always have a hard time picking which one to download from, eventually going with the one that looks like it came from the 90s.

I’m not sure if one of them is fake or not.

As a person who has a friend that is employed by Reddit directly, I can confirm that this email was sent out to employees, and not just the press.

I did a few of my “test searches”, just to check the content, and I’m very positively surprised about the redults!

The site also looks like none other. Very distinctive and clean and modern UI.

While I probably won’t find much use of this, as I’m already pretty invested in private trackers, it seems like a wonderful alternative for the people who aren’t, so I may recommend this further on to my friends.

Cheers!

Plex?

I just saw this site a few minutes ago, in a thread abput self-hosting a Lemmy instance.

Basically there’s already a list of “bad sites”, which will be de-federated from the big instances.

https://thebad.space/listings/page/1

Yes, I also switched to DDG, before there were so many options on the market, and its been more than sufficient since then.

I have a feeling I’m not utilizing search engies as much as I should, as I only use them to navigate to other websites.

The built-in conversion tools are really great, and the Wikipedia info-box has saved me many clicks, but aside from this, I really just need a search engine that works, without selling my data to the highest bidder.

DuckDuckGo is just that for me.

LibreOffice (and not OpenOffice) is a must.

I have tried really hard to make the switch to GIMP, but Photoshop is too engraved within me.

I will probably keep using Photopea instead.