Cid Vicious

Fuck Imgur.

Exactly my first thought seeing this graph.

I mean the solution if you don’t want to see a common topic on /c/all or whatever we call it on Lemmy is to subscribe to specific communities and just read those. But I don’t think Lemmy is really big enough for that yet. I think if you did that you would very quickly notice that you’re just seeing the same threads popping up on your feed (individual threads seem to stay active for much longer on Lemmy than on Reddit, owing to less overall content). So I just don’t see any obvious path to provide what you’re asking. A list of “default communities” like reddit used to have? There’s reasons why reddit killed that off, mainly because no one could agree on which communities should or shouldn’t be on the list. Individually curated “starter packs” like Bluesky is doing? I dunno you probably could do something like that with the import settings functionality.* I mean the solution if you don’t want to see a common topic on /c/all or whatever we call it on Lemmy is to subscribe to specific communities and just read those. But I don’t think Lemmy is really big enough for that yet. I think if you did that you would very quickly notice that you’re just seeing the same threads popping up on your feed (individual threads seem to stay active for much longer on Lemmy than on Reddit, owing to less overall content). So I just don’t see any obvious path to provide what you’re asking. A list of “default communities” like reddit used to have? There’s reasons why reddit killed that off, mainly because no one could agree on which communities should or shouldn’t be on the list. Individually curated “starter packs” like Bluesky is doing? I dunno you probably could do something like that with the import settings functionality. Edit: Perhaps individual instances could have their own lists of default communities. It would give a bit more flavor to which instance you choose. I don’t know if current Lemmy codebase would support this, though.

I realize that a lot of people have a strong dislike of politics, but you wouldn’t see so much political discussion if there wasn’t an equally large number of people who engage in it. I think most people on Lemmy are probably reading the all feed rather than just local anyway, so one instance not allowing political communities wouldn’t really do much. Politics aren’t really limited to specific instances so defederating wouldn’t really help.

Learn to use your blocklists instead. Block communities, instances, and individuals that you don’t want to see. For whatever reason I find myself blocking far more individuals on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit, perhaps because there are a higher percentage of people with extremist views on various topics here.

It doesn’t really matter what they call it. Companies that want to be waterfall (or more accurately, whose executives want waterfall style commitments) are going to be waterfall even if they call it Scrum.

Huh I never type in portrait if I can help it, my thumbs are way too big for it. Landscape any time I’m typing and even then I wish I could make the keyboard bigger without losing visibility to what I’m typing/replying to. I also don’t swipe type, have never really liked it.

There’s a bug dating back to October that made Heliboard unusable for me, because it cuts off half of the keyboard in landscape. Looks like it just got fixed but hasn’t been rolled out yet. Meanwhile heliboard is just really bad about learning new words (tends to think capitalized words are a different word and adds them to the dictionary when you start a sentence with them, can’t seem to handle autocorrecting to a word with an apostrophe). I gave up on it and went back to Gboard and I don’t think I’m going back. Honestly I’m real frustrated with the state of android keyboards right now. Swiftkey used to be awesome but MS ruined it. Gboard is better than it used to be but it barely has an options for customizing it. I don’t know anything better.

Not sure I understand why you would want that. But more options for gboard would always be good.

I think the number of scammers went way up though

Some people don’t like having to use more than one launcher. Some people don’t like Epic buying out games and making them exclusive to EGS (which keeps the price artificially high for longer). Some people just feel like the launcher, er, launched without feature parity with Steam, and has made very few improvements since launch. I’m sure there’s more reasons people dislike Epic. I don’t overly care but it’s certainly not a preferred platform for me.