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Greyfoxsolid

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Is there a launcher for me?

I’ve tried a lot of the launchers I see talked about frequently- Nova, Niagra, Smart Launcher, Action Launcher, etc. but they all seem to not be worth the hassle of switching away from pixel launcher. Also none of them have the Google News feed that the pixel launcher has. I feel like I’m losing features when I switch....

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

Weird. When I swipe to the left on nova, nothing happens. What am I missing?

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

Well, the Google feed mainly. I guess maybe it’s less about what features it’s missing and more about what features in gaining.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

I’ve tried the majority of the weather apps on the android app store, and they’re all just mediocre compared to MyRadar.

Then again, MyRadar is mediocre compared to what Dark Sky was. What an unfortunate situation with that app being bought by Apple and turned into WeatherKit or whatever. That was the best weather app, hands down.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

You will.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

Oh, sorry.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

What’s it called?

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

Nothing really compares to what Dark Sky was, but MyRadar is as close as I could find and I’ve tried all the major and some not so major apps on the Google Play store.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

I like being alerted to weather events such as warnings and watches. I also like hyper local forecasts.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

What is WX?

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

Just installed f droid to check this out. I don’t like it. Way too bare bones and not really intuitive.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

Doesn’t seem like those are available in Android.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

No, they tend to be correct.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

I appreciate the well thought out response!

Greyfoxsolid ,

Why does anyone think Google would shut down Gmail? You’d have to be stupid to think that they would shut down the most used email service on earth, one that is deeply integrated into Google as an ecosystem.

Greyfoxsolid ,

That’s Maddox, owner of The Best Page in the Universe.

Greyfoxsolid ,

I would also like to know how to remap the buttons.

Greyfoxsolid ,

I worked in a restaurant and received many Google assistant calls that sounded completely natural.

I just deleted my entire library and redownloaded it.

A lot of my files were shitty 480p versions of movies from the Napster days. Now they’re all 1080p, with a few 720p exceptions (mainly tv series episodes). All in all 500 something files in total. Now just watching uTorrent slowly download them all. Hopefully my VPN keeps the eyes off of me…

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

Which would you suggest?

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

Honestly I’m not sure. I’m using a VPN. Does that count? Lol

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

Which would your suggest? It’s been a long time since I’ve had to do a little pirating.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

Thanks! I’ll give it a go after this is all done downloading.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

What kind of storage do you use?

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

It’s been a while since I’ve used those. I didn’t want duplicates of everything either, so I decided to start over.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

Jesus fuck!

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

How would one get involved in something like that?

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

Excellent info. Thank you!

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

Duplicates may not be an issue for you, but they are for me. First off, I have limited storage. Secondly I want my Plex library to be nice and tidy.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

No, I haven’t heard of soulseek before.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

What do you use for storage?

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

How much did that setup cost you?

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

NordVPN. Is that a good one?

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

My apologies. I’ll be discontinuing it’s use after this project is done.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

It’s not. I need more knowledge.

Greyfoxsolid OP ,

I’ve got the Killswitch set up. How do I check for DNS leak?

masimatutu , to fediverse en-gb

Mastodon has the responsibility to promote diversity in the Fediverse

I love the Threadiverse. Compared to the microblogging Fediverse’s sea of random thoughts, Lemmy and kbin are so much easier to navigate with the options to sort posts by subscribed, from local instances or everything federated. You can also sort by individual community, and then there are the countless ways to order the posts and comments (which are stored neatly under the main post, by the way). That people can more easily find the right discussions and see where they can contribute also means that the discussions tend to be more focused and productive than elsewhere. Decentralisation also makes a lot of sense, since it is built around different communities. All that’s needed is users.

Things were going quite well for a while when Reddit killed third-party apps, prompting many to leave and find the Threadiverse. However, it is quite difficult to entertain a crowd that has grown accustomed to a constant bombardment of dopamine-inducing or interesting content by tens of millions of users, if you only have a couple hundred thousand people. This is causing some to leave, which of course increases this effect. The active users have more than halved since July, according to FediDB. The mood is also becoming more tense. Maybe the lack of engagement drives some to cause it through hostility, I’m not quite sure. Either way, the Threadiverse becoming a less enjoyable place to be, which is quite sad considering how promising it is.

But what is really frustrating is that we could easily have that userbase. The entire Fediverse has over ten million users, and many Mastodonians clearly want to engage in group-based discussion, looking at Guppe groups. The focused discussions should also be quite attractive. Technically we are federated, so why do Mastodonians interact so little with the Threadiverse? The main reason is that Mastodon simply doesn’t federate post content. I really can’t see why the platform that federates entire Wordpress blogs refuses to federate thread content just because it has a title, and instead just replaces the body with a link to the post. Very unhelpful.

The same goes with PeerTube. There are plenty of videos on there that I am quite sure a lot of Mastodonians would appreciate, yet both views and likes there stay consistently in the tens. Yes, Mastodon’s web interface has a local video player, but in most clients it is the same link shenanigans, may may partly explain the small amount of engagement. This is also quite sad, because Google’s YouTube is one of the worst social network monopolies out there, if not the worst.

And I know some might say that Mastodon is a microblogging platform and that it makes sense only to have microblogging content, but the problem is that Mastodon is the dominant platform on the Fediverse, its users making up close to 80% of all Fedizens. It has gone so far that several Friendica and Hubzilla users have been complaining about complaints from Mastodonians that their posts do not live up to Mastodon customs, and of course, that people frequently use “Mastodon” to refer to the entire Fediverse. This, of course, goes entirely against the idea of the Fediverse, that many diverse platforms live in harmony with and awareness of each other.

The very least that Mastodon could do is to support the content of other platforms. Then I’d wish that they’d improve discoverability, by for instance adding a videos tab in the explore section, improving federation of favourites since it is the dominant sorting mechanism on many other platforms, and making a clear distinction between people (@person) and groups (!group), but I know that that is quite much to ask.

P.S. @feditips , @FediFollows , I know that you are reluctant to promote Lemmy and its communities because of the ideology of its founders, but the fact is firstly that it’s open source and there aren't any individual people who control the entire project, and that the software itself is very apolitical. In fact, most Lemmy users both oppose and are on instances that have rules against such beliefs, so I highly encourage you to at least help raise awareness on the communities. Then, of course, there’s kbin, which isn’t associated with any extremism at all. As a bonus, it has much better integration with the microblogging Fediverse, but it is a lot smaller and younger, and still very much under development.

Anyways, that was a ramble. Thanks for hearing me out.

@fediverse

Greyfoxsolid ,

As a new user, I can tell you what some of the big issues are. First, ease of use. Lemmy is not as user friendly or intuitive as something like reddit. Second, lemmy is a dumb name. It’s a stupid point, but shit like that counts.

Greyfoxsolid ,

Having to decide between instances is a huge turn off for would be new users. It’s a weird concept and it even took me a while to understand it, and I’m pretty tech savvy. Lemmy will never take off like reddit until it’s more centralized.

Greyfoxsolid ,

When I first got email, it was issued by my service provider. Easy. When I got my next email many years later, through Gmail, the sign up process was easy to understand and intuitive.

Greyfoxsolid ,

Someone reply to my comment so I can see what sync does!

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