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Can we stop making posts to complain about new users complaining about reddit?

What is more mildly infuriating than reading a post complaining about someone else complaining? Adding another level!...

TIL that Mississippi did not make child-selling illegal until 2009, after a woman tried to sell her granddaughter for $2,000 and a car and it was discovered that there was no law to punish her under.

Twitch has stories now, because all social media has to be the same

polygon.com/…/twitch-stories-clone-all-social-med…

How can we boost Lemmy membership?

Since my favorite reddit app came to Lemmy I’m really keen on getting more people into the fediverse to pump up the volume of content around here. Are there any initiatives that we can assist to get folks onboard?...

"Unless the house is on fire or you are hurt, do not interrupt me on the phone!"

Hi everyone, this is a small but hopefully enjoyable bit of MC from my childhood. Way back when, my Dad worked in IT and worked from home. This is back in the early days of telecommuting and so most of his day was spent on calls in between actual technical stuff. The internet was in its infancy, so if he was working he really...

What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about?

I’ve definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is “smart” nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn’t require any of that before....

Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument?

I know data privacy is important and I know that big corporations like Meta became powerful enough to even manipulate elections using our data....

A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school.

Right now there is a loneliness epidemic throughout the world. More and more people aren’t entering relationships. Gen Z men are having significant trouble dating while there are some economic factors in the mix. From my own view and experiences combined with what I’ve read most Gen Z men are lack the social and...

Ubuntu's Mozillateam PPA now forcing users over to snap install for Firefox.

What use to be the PPA that allowed Ubuntu users to use native .deb packages for Firefox has recently changed to the same meta package that forces installation of Snap and the Firefox snap package....

We should have an annual Mega Cake Month for all of those who joined Lemmy back in June, to celebrate our move away from Reddit.

Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses?

How many of you were using Digg during its prime?

What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English?

Ill start:...

why isn't the use of the bidet more widespread?

Why do people dislike California?

I recently moved to California. Before i moved, people asked me “why are you moving there, its so bad?”. Now that I’m here, i understand it less. The state is beautiful. There is so much to do....

What is the one most astonishingly dumb things that, as a child, you believed was absolute truth?

I dont remember the age, but it was before Kindergarten, thought men came into the house at night to load the next days shows into the TV.

Since nobody likes calling it X, why don't we call the platform "ex-twitter"? That way it's technically true, and everybody knows what you're talking about.

or maybe eX-twitter

I hate how much culture is controled by shitty people

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/23aa8373-a06b-4e1e-8ea9-c3cbf33f3d8c.jpeg

TIL that Proctor & Gamble and Unilever actively sponsor Russian war efforts and are on the International Sponsors of War list.

They own brands such as Pampers, Olay, Old Spice, Pantene, Oral B, Herbal Essences, Gilette, Dove, Hellmann’s, Axe, Knorr, Magnum, Breyers, and Lipton, among others....

What UI design trend do you hate the most?

I personally hate rounded corners and shadows added everywhere. Makes most things look crappy and smudged.

ELI5: Why did LED notification lights silently got removed from phone?

They were a good indicator for notifications that are missed when you were away from phone.

YSK that if you live alone and have a pet, you should carry a card in your wallet to notify the appropriate people of your pet's existence.

Why YSK: There are a lot of people these days living alone with pets and if anything happened to the owner, others may not know to attend to the pet. If something happened to you, a coma, an accident, death, etc, your wallet would be the first place anyone would look for info about you and it would probably be the fastest way to...