I just want to say that I really love this app, thank you for you're great work.
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Yeah, I use ublock origin. I don't like the ad model and many ads on the web are privacy invasive. I'm not averse paying for content (something I'm doing for some of it) but I won't watch ads to fund creators.
I live in Sweden. Yeah, the tap water is clean and can be drank straight from the tap without boiling, filtering, or treatment in the whole country.
I use Sailfish OS on the Sony Xperia 10 III.
I choose the OS because I wanted a phone OS which would get updates for a long time, which sailfish has a good track record of and I wanted one which ran linux so that I had the normal things I'm used to on the desktop like systemd, pulseaudio, bash, rpm, etc. I did need it to run android for a couple of banking apps and sailfish provide a pretty decent android support layer. It's worked really well, the biggest drawback I'd say is that parts of it are not open source and they're kind of doing their own stuff so while some things do work like KDE apps, other apps would take a lot more effort to get working (gtk apps for example).> Fairphone
I use SMS and Matrix. I'd love to see something like Briar become more popular, or maybe XMPP make a resurgence as it's been a great federated chat protocol for a long while.
I think I disagree. I have heard this a lot on Reddit and I've heard it about Twitter, Google Plus and a bunch of other social networks and I've been on small ones and huge ones alike. Honestly, to me, when a social network is large it includes both nuanced discussion and there more casual posting. I don't see why both can't exist on the same site and I feel like it often does exist on the same site.
I also think people have a huge range of interests, some of which might be quite niche and having a large user base means these niche communities can thrive. When I've used smaller social networks, this typically has been the problem. They often have their tech communities covered and they often have other large common hobbies and interests covered, but if you take for example learning welsh or theremin music or something else, then you typically only get communities about those things on larger networks.
I've signed, this is really important. Trains are vital for domestic travel, but also really important for international travel, about once a year I'll need to go to another EU country and look for a rail option, often it's not feasible. I really hope this succeeds, flying is unsustainable.
I really enjoy Andy Wingo's, wingolog, he usually blogs about compilers, scheme and browser development.
I've not been back to reddit once since I created my Lemmy account. I've googled some things which have only really yielded reddit links, however instead of going to reddit to get the answer, I've just asked my question on Lemmy.
Oh wow, thanks for the heads up. I am fairly new to sim racing so I didn't see the uproar about it.
I mean with federation it shouldn't matter which instance people sign up on. I think largely they should pick smaller ones which might be local to them, or they know their admins, or based on the admin's rules and approach to running an instance. The "subscription pending" thing is actually a Lemmy UI bug, you should actually be subscribed despite the UI, I think it's this bug report which covers it.
Federation works based on a push model where new posts are pushed to the servers it federates with, so the speed will largely depend on the local instance, which should be caching the posts and comments, not the remote instance.
Kmail on desktop and the native sailfish email client on my phone.