So, this week, we are talking about deGoogling on !android@lemmy.world.

https://lemmy.world/post/9772354

You guys are very welcome to join in the conversation.

I know, I can hardly believe it either!

Wait, no, now my astorturfing cover is blown. 😭

I can’t talk about selling out any more, it’s giving me a headache.

Fellow lemmings, I, for one, am glad that there are no corporate trolls trying to manipulate public opinions on Lemmy, it is the same warm, fuzzy feeling I get when I was watching multiple time Golden Globe nominated summer blockbuster, Barbie, now available on Blu-Ray and select streaming services.

I don’t know about you, but I sure hope Barbie sweeps the Golden Globes next month (and then the Oscars next year.)

Agree with you, there doesn’t seem to be any good alternatives to Google Maps on Android (Apple Maps is seriously impressive with their animations at this point).

And outside of TripAdvisor, one of the only good places to find restaurants reviews, because Yelp is… not good.

I think using a car tablet is equally as dangerous as texting and driving. Voice control would actually be better for adjustments while driving.

Replacing the buttons with a tablet has always been a cost saving measure on Tesla’s part that was marketed as “futuristic”, physical switches and dials made of plastic and metal as well as the underlying components will never be as cheap or as easy to wire as a simple touchscreen control. Other car companies followed suit, because Tesla made a method of reducing their own manufacturing costs hip, so many of them jumped on it.

But, Tesla tablets were designed with the belief that this cost saving is possible because of the delusion that full autonomous self driving is possible with existing hardware through software updates. When self driving didn’t happen after a decade of trying, people realized how inconvenient and dangerous it is that the only way to adjust the AC, stereo volume, and sideview mirrors while driving is through a tablet with no tactile feedback. So now, we are finally seeing that trend reversing.

One of the great thing about the AI revolution is that since generating infinite number of unique random (and commonly, bad) pictures of literally anything you can think of takes only seconds, the entire concept of NFT has become completely worthless as it completely destroyed the value-from-scarcity argument. Not that it ever was a good argument to begin with.

As funny as the thought of Stallman becoming a billionaire is, ultimately, like all celebrities, these people are strangers to the overwhelming majority of you. Parasocial relationships are never healthy, and the result of being put on a pedastal is that they became idols and symbols and ceases being people.

And I don’t think that’s what they would have wanted.

After all, the only good billionaire is a Barbi-onaire.

Let me address some of your points:

a forum like discourse, which is most definitely not a classic forum.

Linear post structure, sorting based on latest response, so it is a traditional in vein of old BBS/phpBB systems.

Do you really think you could replace the utility of stackoverflow with… Reddit?

Upvote based sorting and nested comment structure means StackExchange/Overflow is closer to reddit than it is Discourse.

It really is not much of a step to take your logic and replace lemmy or Reddit with Discord as a Q&A support and knowledge base platform.

Reddit, Lemmy, and Discourse are all public forums, Discord is a chatroom.

Even simple features that encourage engagement in months or years old threads are massive boon.

Thread necromancy for month/year old dead threads has always been considered offenses to almost every single forum, which is why most forums lock posts after a month or so. It’s not a feature, it’s a fundamental flaw with the sorting.

with copious features built specifically to enable and support that purpose. Which both lemmy and Reddit lack

I’m genuinely curious, what are some of those features? I can’t think of any significant one, outside of tags.

Forums are ultimately shaped by people, so I would say these forum succeeded in spite of the software instead of because of the software.

Should David Zaslav really be considered in tech? If WB Discovery is considered a tech company, then the Barbie movie is now (technically) a tech product…

How do you do, fellow tech workers?

What’s wrong with you? They are siblings!

I would like to ask you to please not be so condescending, as it is against Rule 5 here. Thank you.

What do you get when you take a traditional forum, add vote based sorting so that the best post and comments (in theory) rise to the top to avoiding the issue of thread bumping, use a nested comment structure so that individual conversations in each thread can be easily followed, and allow anyone to make a subforum as they please?

You get reddit. (or now, Lemmy) The only thing missing in Lemmy is topic tags, which I think is a nice to have, but by no means necessary.

There is a reason why very few people uses forums and most of conversation nowadays takes place on social media, while reddit and Discord has but all but replaced them. So, replacing Discourse/Zenforo as the software to use for independent Internet forums should be the aim for Lemmy to significantly grow.

Strangely, Discourse’s federation model seemed to be based on Mastodon compatibility instead of Lemmy-like Groups, which I think is a mistake.

Now you should do an AMA too!

Doesn’t it feel weird that people feel guilty when being mean to you only because you are famous?

No, because there are plenty more people in life who won’t feel guilty about being mean to you at all. It’s more stressful in the days knowing a Twitter mob is ready to “slam” you for every little thing you say or do in life 24/7.

Besides, it’s not like anything I say here can be tied back to me anyways. Why do you think I refuse to get verified?

You probably also have more anominous accounts

Ugh… That Letterboxd account…

https://lemmy.world/comment/5715981

This person who responded to me didn’t think so. Maybe you can talk to him about it.

I get all the references, but making a chain of references without any jokes isn’t exactly funny.

Meta comedy is overused to the degree that it is difficult to do it well.

On another topic, what kind of complete nonsense is that comment section?

It reads like if my phone’s autocomplete decided to go haywire one day and start spitting out random associated phrases: “Pablo Escobar… Colombian Drug Lord… District of Columbia…hungry hungry hippo…”

I don’t even know which is worse, that these are all bots, or there are actually multiple people who thinks posting these in public is a good idea.

Currently, I think there are two main branches of ActivityPub implementations: Microblogs(Mastodon and its forks, the microblog portion of kbin), which are user centric, and group based aggregators(Lemmy, Kbin, peertube, future Pixelfed), both of which are valid implementations, however, they don’t really work well with each other.

So, I believe that the threat of Threads to Lemmy instances is really overblown for the simple reason that there is no way for a Lemmy user to browse microblog contents through federation to begin with, whether it be Mastodon or Threads.