Classic Chesterton’s fence principle.

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It was VPN issue for me. Some IPs in Proton VPN doesn’t work. When I tried a different IP or turned the IP off, I could access again.

Well, but most of the time I don’t care enough to go in.

Better learn COBOL now.

This is the real problem.

Ehm… Elliot uses Gnome.

https://youtu.be/ishgn7-NLlU?si=ox06KyNHHk35XlDL

The different servers, having to remember other people’s instances along with their username.

This is just like email, I see no problem here.

I think the problem is about the mindset and the onboarding experience. We’ve used too much proprietary products and prefer something easy and not too much diverge from the norms. Recently, I tried to advertise Mastodon and Lemmy to my non-techie friends, which are using X and Reddit. Some did try but gave up. They said they didn’t understand the concept, and didn’t want to bother with choosing an instance in the first place, because they didn’t understand the federation concept. It’s just hard to explain the benefits of the fediverse to non-techie people.

The type of people that the fediverse attracts are FOSS users.

I have the same observation as your view. Current fediverse communities are heavily towards tech. Some of my friends joined but gradually left because they had a few to no interactions or no interesting people in their interested areas to follow.

The Internet is great. It connects people. I learned so many things even I lived in a small town in a third-world country.

But ads, scam, and 15-second videos are bad. The current Internet is nasty and not as beautiful as it was.

Two sides of a coin, I suppose.

I learned the lesson: keep the hope low (so I don’t get disappointed), and never preorder.

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Use Vimium add-on and have a pop-up to search your open tab.

Or if you prefer no add-ons or don’t know how to use Vim keybindings then type your search query in the search bar like this:

% my tab title

I actually prefer that—a simple messenger without gifs and stickers, just plain text.

I’m not promoting WhatsApp in this case though. It’s one thing it’s done right, besides end-to-end encryption.

• The Witcher 3
• Final Fantasy 7 (Remake)
• Pokemon Emerald

Generally, I would feel there’s a void after playing something special. The emptiness after finishing the game is hard to describe.

Welcome to the endless civil war between Linux distros.

Nvim < Emacs + Vim keybindings (aka evil).

Ugh, my feed in Lemmy is full of this now. Is it feasible to “lower” the visibility of a keyword like “Musk” or “X”?

Not fully trust, but I trust it more than some listicles and low-quality SEO-boost sites.

When I want to learn something new, I often come to Wikipedia, or Britannica, or YouTube to get to know the subject. And generally, they will recommend me with some valuable reference to dig deeper.

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Wikipedia is like our dear friend. It gives us general information, good advice, and direction in life, but never gets too deeply in it. The choice is ours to make.

So Reddit would go from a social open hub, the “front page of the Internet”, to a walled garden? Ridiculous.