There are exceptions to all of the points below, but generally:

What do you like better here than on Reddit?

Everyone is here trying to build something better. The developers making the software are actually prioritizing transparency and user choice. Since the instances aren’t after profit, there’s no financial conflict of interest. It’s actually possible to prioritize a healthy community and user experience instead of making a profit.

What do you miss from Reddit?

Activity in niche communities, but that’s changing slowly.

Also, as a mod, we could still use better moderation tooling.

Do you feel the culture here is genuinely different, or does it eventually drift the same way?

I think over time it will become similar, and at the end of the day, a number of the issues are because of how groups of humans interact and not the platform itself.

However, the reason I’m here instead of the many other Reddit alternatives is because of federation. I believe that as long as we maintain a healthy balance in the fediverse (and not let one entity control too much), we can avoid the enshitification while centralized social media becomes unbearable for more and more people.

It’s working on my end as well!

I have Jellyfin, but I haven’t tried it with music. How does it compare to Navidrome?

For chat, I was thinking something super simple for the weird situations like this. Alternatively, Briar if you’re near the person you want to contact

It makes me wish I was selfhosting more services, music & chat in particular. It wasn’t important enough to set up yet

Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?

An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work

Is Signal down for anyone else?

Reddit seems to be having issues as well. hah

Signal seems to be down as well?

COBOL handles the books because no one else can understand the system and it’s too much work to change after 40 years

This deserves a post of its own

If they ask for recommendations / alternatives, then I mention it.

I also share links with friends when there’s something relevant or interesting, same as any other social media platform. Usually it’s when there’s a good comment or explanation, else it makes more sense to share the original source

Hanneke Faber became CEO of Logitech on December 1, 2023, after leaving her role as group president at Unilever. Since joining the Swiss peripheral manufacturer, Faber has attracted attention for her unconventional ideas about how personal technology should evolve – often with a focus on benefiting shareholders and companies first.

Faber is now best known for proposing the so-called “Forever Mouse” concept – a device with constantly evolving firmware features built on base hardware that customers would purchase only once. According to Faber, users would happily pay monthly or annual subscriptions to access these software-based upgrades. However, no concrete business plans have yet been announced to bring the idea to market.

Regarding pricing, the CEO compared the mouse to a Rolex watch and the software to Logitech’s video conferencing business. A paid subscription is possible, but Faber offered no further details.

What 😄

It’s still helpful for messages. The social share/thumbnail isn’t always available

A user is more likely to click on

https://unfamiliar.site/c/cats/192837/my-cat-napping-in-the-sun

compared to

https://unfamiliar.site/post/192837

I’m not saying that this should take priority over all the other things the developers are doing, but I’d still like to see it implemented at some point

Using backticks can help

https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q

edit: How odd, the equal sign disappears

Nice! Looking forward to seeing how it develops

I also find it nice and snappy. Two small things I noticed:

• It could benefit from some onboarding steps (ex. Setting the location, not having Tennessee saved as a favourite)
• Some visuals aren’t that helpful since they use a different scale on each day (ex. Daily temperature)

I don’t think cm0002 is a bot. From what I remember, cm0002 makes a lot of posts to grow various communities, some of which are crossposts in between communities with similar topics. Although this account looks different from the one I remember, so maybe this one is an alt.

I personally don’t find that behaviour to be harmful unless it’s fully automated or a fire hose of low quality junk. If a human is picking out the content to post, then it gives people something to discuss and vote on.

I’m likely biased myself since I also schedule out posts with another account @otters_raft@lemmy.ca. I do that since this account is an admin account, and so I don’t want to risk any issues if the scheduling tool goes haywire. I do check it about once a day and respond to comments when appropriate, but overall the post to comment ratio on that account is pretty lopsided.

We DO get harmful bots too, and they get downvoted/reported/banned very quickly. Those are pretty obvious since they post spam and ads in unrelated communities.

While Voyager has mod tools, I’m not sure if you can create a community in the app.

You might need to do the initial setup on the website: https://sh.itjust.works/create_community

Afterwards you should be able to take mod actions on the app

There’s also been some recent discussion about possibly moving them to a whale sanctuary

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/marineland-says-its-belugas-shouldn-t-go-to-nova-scotia-s-whale-sanctuary-project-9.6931272

I’d be curious if some independent entity can weigh in on if this facility would be adequate.

From what I understand, React is still very popular and it’s the usual recommendation for those who are learning web dev frameworks.

React Native is not as popular for new projects though, and I usually see people recommending Flutter

Meta will contribute React, React Native, and JSX (JavaScript XML) to a new React Foundation, part of the Linux Foundation, and said that “it is important that no single company or organization is overrepresented.”

The React Foundation will start with seven corporate members – Amazon, Callstack, Expo, Meta, Microsoft, Software Mansion, and Vercel – and its responsibilities will include maintaining React’s infrastructure and trademarks, organizing React Conf, and sponsoring the React ecosystem. The first executive director will be Seth Webster, Meta’s head of React.

React, created by Facebook in 2013, is the most popular JavaScript framework. (Facebook changed its name to Meta in 2021.) The most recent State of JavaScript survey reported usage by over 80 percent of respondents. React Native is a cross-platform UI framework based on React, and while it’s not as dominant as web React, Microsoft is a particularly big user. Usage of React is also likely being boosted by increasing deployment of AI coding tools, which in our experience tend to default to React if not prompted to use a different framework.

All of this sounds convoluted, but makes sense in my head.

Makes sense to me. I do something similar mainly to avoid tiny scratches on my phone screen. I hadn’t considered coordinating the coat pockets with the pant pocket system, but I might do that too now 😄