Growing pains. You got popular, now you've got a target on your back.

The android community, especially on /r/android is/was intensely hostile towards Motorola for no good reason. It's basically just a Pixel/Samsung circlejerk, anything less than a flagship from those line is spit on.

Motorola's lines have been very solid midrange phones, shipping with near-stock android, unlockable bootloaders, and just all around respectable specs for their price. They were also shipping aux ports/SD card slots for way, way longer than the others until very recently.

And before someone says "update speed", not everyone cares. Most just want something stable.

So this was before cell phones, and I'll bet the landlines got knocked out by the quake, so yeah, in the immediate aftermath, you'd have no idea if your family was ok until you raced home to check on them. Makes perfect sense they wouldn't stop to take the shit off first.

And btw, if you haven't watched since Smith, you really, really should dive back in and watch Capaldi's era. Even if you didn't care for him at first, his Doctor is a slow burn. His second and third seasons are phenomenal and by the end he rivals Tennant for my all time favorite.

I've been saying it for years: were currently going through a soft reboot of the Post-Civil War/Reconstruction era. There are an incredible number of parallels.

This is something of a ticking time bomb, I think. I don't think the majority of people coming to Lemmy right now appreciate that their votes are public, and sooner or later somebody is going to write a bot or addon that uses that data to harass or censor users and it's going to be a scandal that scares people away.

Making votes public is a really bad idea because it disincentivizes users to vote how they like, for fear of reprisal. This is quintessential to a democratic system, and to a social media platform.

You want this place to grow, and order for it to grow, users have to interact. They are the engine behind the content aggregation, they should never feel hesitation to vote.

If you saw it moving, that means it wasn't an Angel. They literally don't exist when observed.

We don't know yet.

David came back to play the Doctor for the 60th Anniversary, so we're getting a story where regeneration went wonky. But it's only temporary.

Basically, 13 regenerated into Tennant again (changing clothes this time in the process which is unusual), and the Doctor reacts with confusion. That was the new years special last December. The specials this year will have Tennant again and explain why 13 regenerated into a familiar face. After the specials, Gatwa takes over as the official new Doctor.

They're asking about the total score. The better way to explain it is that there is not a total score, there is just the upvote count listed as the score. Downvotes and the calculated score based on upvote/downvotes are ignored.

The ethos of the fediverse (insofar as it's completely free with no ads) won't be sustainable at scale; income for continued development and support does need to be taken into account at some point, and that goes for servers, frontends, apps, etc. Funding from donations only gets you so far.

However, it is entirely too soon for ads and subscriptions. This feels openly and brazenly like talking advantage of Sync overly enthusiastic fanclub and the Sync name recognition. Get in early with a big name and start making money before any other big name apps like Boost are released.

I feel like it's worth reopening the sub just to share this.

Like, I've been watching reddit all day, waiting patiently for this news to hit the fan, and I'm not seeing it anywhere. Like...I'm kind of stunned. This is exactly the thing I would think would blow up on Reddit.

Blocking open community creation is a mistake and that will be abused down the line. It's also taking power away from users to make Lemmy their own.

First off, community creation is not the problem here. Anybody can make a community called the Donald, the problem are the people that will fill it. Those people are coming here regardless of what community they find themselves in. Blocking community creation doesn't stop them, only actual monitoring of individual users will do it.

There really has to be a line here between combating this kind of toxic hateful bullshit and completely locking down a social media platform so that everything must be pre-scanned and approved before it sees the light of day. Pre-approving content means moderation controls the site directly and obliquely. Before users can even cast a vote, mods can unilaterally and silently strike it down.

I just generally don't care for the overall notion that Lemmy needs to be carefully curated like a garden right out of the gate. Ban the obvious shit like the Donald but there has to be a fundamental acknowledgment that the users, the people, need to have the ability to make the space their own without some council pre-judging them.

Only if you leave your mic unmuted.

This is a troubling advancement, they all are, but the methods of countering this specific one are plentiful.

Really, what's needed is a more robust mute function with a good voice recognition system that automatically cuts off the mic when you're not speaking. That, and people need to learn to use push to talk.

Probably believes in Tildes more. Which is disappointing, because Tildes is less of a social media platform than it is a gated neighbored. It doesn't want to be reddit, it wants to be a club.

Btw in case anyone wants to smile, Newgrounds.com is still kicking. Same owner, same purpose, still no ads.

It's kind of beautiful. I feel the need to protect it in this current internet hellscape. Like some rare specimen of near extinct species, this one must survive

This would be my favorite feature if not for the fact that apparently there's a bug where voting causes all of them to become uncollapsed at once.

Same here. On Fennec for Android, though.

This is also the dev that got really hurt over his paying customers not liking when he completely changed the app they paid for under their nose with no option to roll back, and quit pushing updates for a while after that. It was a whole thing.

I'm not paying a dev that can't handle feedback and has an entire fanclub cheering on literally every single decision.

Is this the same magnifier that pops up in other apps? Like if you open an email app, or your text app, does it popup when you select text there? If so it's an android feature, not a Firefox one

Except...it's being DDOS'd, so no, it isn't.

If anything this is basically establishing to everyone out there that if you want to kill an instance or encourage people to move to a different one (with different admins who might have different..."styles"), just DDOS it and promote your alternative instance as a refuge.

I'm sticking with .world because the admins there are chill. Don't feel like rolling the dice on a new instance where some power mods probably set up shop.