Graphene OS is amazing, if you're degoogled. Terrible if you need Google, though.

I tried it and loved it until I tried to get my work Google account working, lol.

LineageOS is a good option if you still need Google on your phone since you can install GApps.

gog-games is still on Tor. Not sure if they have Mac releases, though and I'm not set up to check on mobile since I only use it on desktop.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555

This is my first time linking to Lemmy from Lemmy. Hopefully, that works.

Edit: Cool. old.reddit link syntax works, too.

TL;DR: They demodded OP, the founder (I think?), of /r/piracy to force them to reopen. This shows that Reddit thinks it's very important for users to have access to piracy information and a place to discuss piracy on the platform.

This is tacit support for posting piracy on Reddit, and, really, the only reason not to list direct link to pirated content is now gone since the threat of taking the sub private is what "we" want anyway. I suppose you could also get your account banned from Reddit, too.

I'm not a lawyer, but I wonder about legal challenges this opens Reddit to. It would be amazing if Disney now sued Reddit for encouraging piracy of their content. You can definitely trust Disney to be lawsuit happy assholes, right? I'd get a lot of shadenfreud from that.

Same for Beehaw. They're working really hard to keep everything kind, to the point they defederated with communities with open sign ups that were sending lots of low-effort/mean/troll comments.

Lemmy.ml is a bit problematic because of ties to Tankies, or so I've heard. I'm avoiding all communities from that instance.

To add to this, in case people didn't know, Lemmy isn't centralized.

While there are Lemmy instances that are pro-CCP/STALIN/DRK, there are also instances that have entirely different values, from wholesome (Beehaw) to unregulated (Lemmy.world), and too many others to list (and I'm not really that well versed in them all either, tbh).

Point being, this community has absolutely nothing to do with Tankies aside from there being some Tankies heavily involved in creating the software backend for Lemmy to exist in the first place. (Or so I've heard; I haven't personally looked into this since I don't really care what they're doing over there since it has nothing to do with me or my use of Lemmy.)

They've also put together a few amazing mega bundles for charity over the years.

Not sure how to find them, though, since they aren't widely advertised. I've missed two that I'd have wanted.

Just wanted to add that not all instances are allowing new community creation, including Beehaw.

Record your baby's cry! It seems weird, I know, but they lose that newborn cry so quickly.

In general, though, remember to take pictures of the (literally) shitty moments, too. Kids love to hear stories about themselves as a baby and you're so sleep deprived right now that your memory isn't firing on all cylinders.

Records will help you remember so you can tell your kids the story of the time they shit an over the wall explosively. They'll love it.

And I know it seems like that should be something really memorable as a parent, but you'll be cleaning up so many bodily fluids it isn't really noteworthy after a while. And did I mention the sleep deprivation affecting memory? I don't remember.

Exactly my thoughts. $3/month would pay for a lot of server power for a Lemmy instance!

If Reddit charged a reasonable fee for API access and gave at least 6 months notice of the change, and, while we're at it, didn't write libel about Christian then we'd be in a very different place right now.

With Reddit doubling down on their misguided changes, I'm just done.

The incel terrorists in Canada were both on Reddit, iirc. There are some incredibly fringe communities on Reddit. And Lemmy, for that matter.

So, yeah. Agreed. If 1 in a million is violent, that's enough people for someone to get hurt.

I think that's already happened, for mainstream topics anyway.

Now, we're on the small side of a balance between small and large; as the Fediverse grows, it can support increasingly niche communities but, on the flip side, the less cohesive the userbase (and thus the harder to maintain culture) and the more attractive the platform becomes for spammers, trolls, and other malicious parties.

I think the technological barriers may be a good thing as it forces a minimum level of effort to get started. Just like private trackers are almost universally "safer" than public trackers since it takes some actual effort to get in.