Just FYI, Tildes is run by one (1) dude with a full time job and a family. From what I read, the guy refers to himself as the God of Tildes or something to that effect which I think tells you everything you need to know about how it's managed.

Don't expect it to ever reach the popularity or capacity of Lemmy or Reddit.

I'm getting pretty tired of the obvious "Big tech company bad, Twitter dead, Linux good" bias that Lemmy seems to have. It's definitely decreased my usage over the last week or two. I guess it kind of comes with the territory given Lemmy is a more complicated platform that will naturally attract more tech-oriented users, but it's still getting super old seeing the same flavor posts every single day.

Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas are usually at the bottom of the rankings when it comes to the metrics you mentioned, especially education. Other southern states aren't much better.

Seeing as how modern conservatism has become nothing more than a culture war against the things that improve the general well-being of a population, yes it will continue to be that way.

Why did you guys make this community lol

"Stop talking about Elon Musk"

makes an entire community about him

Same except for Apollo on iOS.

Glad to be here. Everything feels less shill-y and spammy. No more 500 of the same shitty comments in every thread

• Username checks out
• This deserves more upvotes
• "This"
• Came here to say this
• Made an account just to say I agree
• Lost it at ______
• Sigh *unzips*

Wake me up inside

Can't wake up

Wake me up inside

Save me

What if we just, like... don't talk about it at all?

This is one thing that Lemmy REALLY needs to work on. The hobby- and topic-specific communities need to grow. Lemmy is currently dominated by like 5-10 communities, which is fine, but it really falls short of the experience I had on Reddit in that regard.

That's kinda what happens when you say "we're gonna protest for 2 whole days then go back to normal" lol. All Reddit execs and admins had to do was sit on their hands for 2 days and not say anything.

It's hilarious that whoever came up with the 2 day blackout thing thought that would make any bit of difference.

A portable battery should be considered to be removable by the end-user when it can be removed with the use of commercially available tools and without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless they are provided free of charge, or proprietary tools, thermal energy or solvents to disassemble it. Commercially available tools are considered to be tools available on the market to all end users without the need for them to provide evidence of any proprietary rights and that can be used with no restriction, except health and safety-related restrictions.

I'm glad they got specific. I wonder where Apple's self-service battery replacement program falls under this? AFAIK it's not free. They charge a fee to rent the specialized tools, which are also proprietary.

This gives Apple a few choices:

1. Make the tools commercially available, but at an astronomical price in typical Apple fashion
2. Make the tools commercially available at a normal consumer price (unlikely)
3. Make the self-service battery replacement program free (most likely, but will require a significant revision to the tools used since they are industrial-grade)

How about we don't talk about it at all?

Comments and Posts both seem to be on the rise

I think this trend will continue for a bit as more mobile apps get created and become more popular.

Gaben will die at some point

I won't allow it.

I've always referred to Reddit and other forum type sites as "anti-social media".

Nobody's here to gain clout. Nobody's here to get more followers. Nobody's here to try and be famous.

We're here because it's anonymous (if you want it to be), and because it's fundamentally different from mainstream social networking sites.

Brother, the general population in Arkansas is not even smart enough to change their Wi-Fi password, let alone use a VPN.

I WISH we had taxpayer funded healthcare in the USA. Sadly, we do not so I'm not sure your point is valid.

A shorter than 40 hour work week would be the biggest draw.

According to a study conducted by Zippia.com (1,000 full-time workers), the average worker is only productive for a little over 4 hours per day, with productivity capping out at 6 hours. This article on studyfinds.org references another 2,000 employee study done by OnePoll (no link given) that says "A new survey finds office workers are at their most productive by 10:22 a.m. each morning — but start to slump by 1:27 p.m."

Letting employees who commute to the office every day work 30 hours per week instead of 40 would be a HUGE draw for a lot of people. Less traffic on the commute, less "fluff" time where you're not doing anything, time to take care of personal errands during the week while businesses are still open, and I'm sure other benefits.

Not really. Baldur's Gate is a Dungeons and Dragons based isometric game (camera like Diablo) from the late 90s-early 00s. You control multiple characters at a time and issue orders to attack, use magic, use items, etc. It's much more RPG oriented than Skyrim or other fast-paced ARPGs of today.

This is my problem. I want to use Lemmy over Reddit, but there's just not a diverse enough population to find the content I want about niche topics. Bundle that with the same 3-4 "tech company bad", "CEO bad", or "USA bad" topics on the top of my feed every day and it's pushing me away from Lemmy tbh. I signed back into my Reddit account for the first time in months yesterday.

I look forward to reading many posts here.