Still Publish, not Privish.

Change happens in waves - first come the early-adopters and enthusiasts, then the curious, then the majority hits, then after the majority come the initial sceptics until everyone is there.

If you apply the same logic in the past, our parents were probably the sceptics who initally said why would they install an app to communicate when they already had perfectly fine cellular calls and SMS, and they had no reason to use WhatsApp.

The same tech we try to move them from, were the same tech we probably spent the same amount of effort trying to get them to use it in the first place.

Is the problem the content or the platform? I thought it was the platform because crap content can be found everywhere, even in the non-US platforms. But I mean, as average people, what benefit do they have from switching their life? You would feel better, but what about them?

We could ask why not any other *buntu distro. Ubuntu is simply the default / most popular / most well known. Also, comparing desktops, Ubuntu seems modern (UI / UX) while KDE kinda gives me Windows 2000 vibes. I really prefer nice UI so KDE is just not pleasent to (my) eye.

Nokia / HMD tablets are trash. Like literally trash. I had the T20 and T21 as my company needed a ton for the workers in the field. We moved away from them ASAP. They are extremely slow and full of bugs. Avoid at all costs.

Just to ask, is it important to be European, or is it enough to be non-american?

I mean… Samsung is a South Korean company and has great tablets. Software will be American whatever device you buy.

Let me give you the perspective of your parents - it’s frustrating being forced into changing everything I know and is working perfectly fine for no obvious negative consequences of keeping things as they are. The entire thing seems purely ideological. Why change everything and make things break and make me basically start from scratch learning all these new things?

Instead of wasting time changing people who do not want to change, why not focus the time and effort on people who are bit more modern, tech-sawy, aware of the situation and at worst, evaluating the switch but still unsure? Instead of walking through a creek, you are frustrated because you try to drill a tunnel through a mountain.

Focus on the future, not the past.

Let your parents live like they used to, since they are probably not really impacted much anyway (until we are all impacted). Focus on teaching your kids who a) understand tech much more and b) will teach the next generations.

It can’t feel effortless and it never will. Why? Because Reddit is like having every person in your telehone book, easy to find and communicate with. And Lemmy and fediverse in general are like phone numbers without a phone book. You and someone else might both have telephones, but unless you meet in person or another way to exchange contact details, you can’t communicate with each other.

So, people need to put a bit more effort in it to understand it, or we need a fediverse telephone book.

All people have that in them, just “life” gets in the way. The things you probably want are not necessary, but additional. And most people have already so much stuff to do, and going on in their lives, they just try to keep the work and burden to the minimum. And by going that way, you would either need to carry more burden, or let something else fall down.

Cost and ease of maintenance. Isn’t it obvious? The only ugly thing is instead of having separated multuple conductors without isolation on the wire, you can have isolated wires, and twisted together, so instead of 50 wires throughout the air, you would have one thicker.

I think the focus is digital media, and in that space media is the short of multimedia.

Media is more audio, video, image. Which fits social media.

Most forums and blogs are text-based or primary text. There is no blog sharing only images/videos/audio as posts. Also no such forum.

That would be my key differentiation - forums and IRC is social, but not really media.

Not monotonous but non-creative. Any machine can do non-crative work. No machine can do creative work. You don’t need creativity to farm food, you do need creativity to invent new medicine.

In an average company that isn’t scaled worldwide, usually the cost of labour is 40-50% (paying wages). This means if we replace humans with robots, doing repetitive and non-creative work, we can make stuff cheaper by a lot. OFC unless the company boss, who is then left alone with all the profits, just decides to keep the prices with no people he needs to pay anymore.

You are right. According to the definition of social media, Lemmy is social media. However, “social media” would by definition fit any kind of digital communication media. A forum, or a blog, or an IRC channel are also, by definition, social media.

I would argue that the social media has a distinct association with Facebook, Instagram and the diverse spawns of those, and by association doesn’t fit anything else. At best, we simply lack a different term, which splits “old-school” stuff like forums and blogs. I view lemmy more like a forum. You have categories, and users can go into categories to start discussions. You don’t follow anyone. People also don’t create and post their own content, but rather seek discussions or share other stuff from the internet. Your goal is not reach, follow count or like count.

It is social media, but it’s definitely nothing like Facebook. We simply lack a better term.

It would be great if people stop using social media in general.

So, basically instead of having one huge gatekeeper, we now have many smaller ones.

Not sure what is that supposed to mean? I can only assume it is supposed to be some kind of insult, and can only invite me in the future never to even reconsider donating, seeing how “not doing what I expect you to do” creates toxic comments and bashing.

Care to elaborate?

I know, but if it was that easy to shift perspectives, the world would be a completely different place. I dislike the donation format since it plays a lot on the moral and psychology of the person - how much is enough, how much value does it actually provide me etc. Like I am the one doing the sales for the person. I much rather have a clear price.

Maybe it’s just because of donations and the “uncertainty” it makes me feel. I did pay for open source software before (open source != free), guess I prefer just to see a clear price tag.

If you have browser with search suggestions enabled, everything you type in URL bar gets sent to a search engine like Google to give you URL suggestions. I would not be surprised if Google uses this data to check what it knows about the domain you entered, and if it sees that it doesn’t know anything, it sends the bot to scan it to get more information.

But in general, you can’t access a domain without using a browser which might send that what you type to some company’s backend and voila, you leaked your data.