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fross ,

The mainstream ARE the crazies now, though. The outliers, and only some of the outliers, are sensible, smart people.

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fross ,

I did with my S10+, so you definitely could more recently.

Having said that I’m finding the crud much reduced on my S23, like they don’t try to push bixby down your throat every 10 seconds.

fross ,

This is not the case in places outside the US.

fross ,

To all the men saying they’re comfortable enough in jeans / chinos / whatever… you should TRY wearing a dress in a hot summer. There is a little bit of adjusting to get used to it, but after that damn they feel amazing. Women are so lucky to wear these whenever they want to.

You can of course decide you’re comfortable enough in whatever, but an informed decision is always the better thing.

fross ,

My s23 ultra totally smokes iphones on camera quality, battery life, and screen. UI is of course subjective and people like what they’re used to.

lemmy.world has bent the knee to corporations. Consolidated comments into body.

I don’t think this is EEE, I think this is a chance for meta to dominate the narrative by drowning us out with algorithmically curated censorship, distractions, hatred, outrage etc. I would join threads if I want threads, I would be on Reddit if I want corporate influence....

fross ,

Given the relative scales, it’s best to put protection in place, then wait and see.

If Threads is a positive place, we open up and nothing is lost.

If Threads is a(nother) cesspit of hate and bots, then we have protected ourselves from it.

fross ,

I disagree entirely, that’s simply incorrect. You can observe whether it is a cesspool or not whether you federate or not. The federation will not affect it at all. Everyone is able to go and use Threads, we won’t need to rely on “random screenshots or hearsay”, or to federate in order to see whether it’s good or not.

It’s an unknown quantity, 1000x bigger than the current fediverse. If we federate then block, there is just a mess to clean up. And you know the first few days are going to be a nightmare anyway, as they are with any social media platform, while the controls spin up and new ways to abuse them are found.

The benefit to doing it early is to let it land and let the smoke clear before making a judgement, without creating a mess for existing users. This is really obvious.

fross ,

As you said, “if it is problematic for a day or two”. It could be enormously problematic.

You fail to understand the benefit, and I don’t need to convince you, it’s still correct :)

fross , (edited )

It’s not about Zuckerberg, it’s about the userbase. With something that grew to 30 million users literally overnight, it’s impossible to determine what it will be like, and how it will mesh with the existing fediverse content/users.

With something this scale, it only makes sense to secure and observe - pre-emptively block, watch the content, maybe even poll the users on what should be done. There is nothing to be lost this way, it’s only a cautious approach towards a potential later link.

What could be lost is the Threads community overwhelms the lemmy community before there is a chance to react (it is 1000x bigger, after all). It makes sense to be cautious, here.

This isn’t inconveniencing anyone, any user can make an account on Threads as well and use both right now.

fross ,

I don’t agree with this notion of “facebook content” vs “fediverse” content or anything like that. Content is just content, it’s links, it’s media, whatever. It’s not “facebook shit” any more than reddit shit or lemmy shit. Content is a by-product of the users, so who/what the userbase is is extremely important - and that is why how it is marketed, who it appeals to and so forth, and the relative scale. thousands of lemmy users being drowned out by millions of Threads users, who are a different demographic, have different goals for the platform, and so forth, is the real issue.

You acknowledge that you have moved on from platforms when facebook/meta have got involved, and you’re welcome to take your decisions on this, but it runs into problems in a federated environment where the goal is to increase interoperability by default.

Don’t get me wrong, I think our goals are the same, to have an environment where people can talk and share links that is relatively exclusive / for like-minded people. I just don’t think the angle of facebook/not facebook is the right one (tbh I would go further - I would not integrate, but not because of the provenance/company, but because of the users’ expectations coming over from Threads)

fross ,

Up to 70 million as of a day ago bloomberg.com/…/meta-s-threads-has-70-million-sig…

I’m not concerned how many of these are real users - all the shills, the bots, are even worse than real users as they will just be spewing their propaganda around as much as possible.

Adding ONE million users overnight to the fediverse would be disruptive enough, 10x the biggest day from the influx from reddit. We’re looking at orders of magnitude more than that.

fross ,

I agree with all of this.

fross ,

I think you didn’t understand my comment. " thousands of lemmy users being drowned out by millions of Threads users, who are a different demographic, have different goals for the platform" specifically.

fross ,

I have a fondness for this soap’s smell as well.

fross ,

Honestly, I’d plumb the depths of nostalgia with these, find some of the stuff you used to use as a kid. Imperial leather, Badedas, whatever it is. It’s a cheap and fun way to really evoke some memories, smell is so powerful.

I grew up in Italy so it’s Borotalco for me.

fross ,

Friend of mine got covid and it just sent her sense of smell completely out of whack. Nothing smelled like it did before. A curry smelled like wet trees, she said. My leathery / amber perfume smelled like talcum powder to her. It was so weird!

fross ,

I thought you were eligible for settled status after 5 years of living in the UK for 6 months or more each year? Assuming you don’t get citizenship through your wife. (Edit: I see you’ve explained this in another comment further down, that sucks)

Sorry to hear about your redundancy, that does suck.

fross ,

This is the way.

fross ,

I trust the 1,000 security engineers at AWS, for example, far more than I trust myself to build, maintain and harden a solution that needs to withstand an attack so heavy it could penetrate AWS or an equivalent.

fross ,

how painful was the transition?

I particularly like lastpass’ autocomplete on chrome, firefox and android apps

fross ,

Scon to rhyme with gone is how posh people say it - the Queen said it that way herself!

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