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InfiniteHench

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  • arch enemies

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  • We must spread it across the Lemmy-verse! Gowron eyes demand it!

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  • I’m gonna report this community to the FBI y’all need to be stopped

  • This time, it's personal finance (voted Most subtle comic of 2025)

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  • snort

    First time I’ve seen GAGA

  • Amy Coney Barrett joins liberals to defy Trump—again

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  • Gotta wonder how long until he tries to fire the women from the Supreme Court

  • What Eddy Burback got wrong about his phone... [Discussion of Fediverse as an alternative within]

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  • I feel like this kind of misses the point. To be clear: If someone absolutely cannot avoid installing slop apps and enabling notifications for everything, I can see their need for an ultra minimal device or other solution. But I also think that speaks to a larger, personal discussion about discipline and possibly addiction, but that’s outside the realm of this thread.

    My point is we can choose which apps, notifications, features, and algorithms are allowed to get our attention. It’s easy to turn off all notifications or never even allow them in the first place—after all, apps have to ask for that permission in the first place.

    But the choice is the point. If someone is traveling somewhere they probably want maps to tell them important information about the journey. Otherwise why turn on directions at all? That’s the entire point.

    We even have the ability to disable all texting notifications but also choose to allow them from certain people if they’re important enough. These devices are simply tools and we have the power to choose how they operate. The device isn’t the problem, it’s our choices.

  • What Eddy Burback got wrong about his phone... [Discussion of Fediverse as an alternative within]

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  • I like Eddy. And at first I’ve liked this essay subject from other creators, but now I just find it shortsighted. The phone isn’t the problem, just like the television and radio weren’t the problem. It’s the content you put on it.

    You can watch great TV shows—documentaries, masterpiece dramas, etc. Or you can watch slop.

    You can do incredible stuff with your phone—get directions, listen to almost any song ever recorded, learn about the night sky, watch documentaries anywhere you are, write, create your own content, sky’s the limit. Or you can install slop and brain rot apps like Twitter.

    You don’t have to pull a stunt like locking your phone away. Just delete the slop. Be more mindful of what an app and the company behind it are, and either limit your use of it or simply don’t install it at all.

  • US defends tariffs on remote island of penguins and seals

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  • Those penguins know what they did

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  • For a little while I kinda split the difference. Early in my tech news writing career, I started pronouncing my last name as the French version.

    I fenced in high school and we did well enough to go to a national competition, so they brought in fancy refs from France. For the first time in my suburban upbringing I heard an actual French person pronounce my last name over the auditorium speakers and it was the coolest frigign thing I’d ever heard.

    So once I started doing interviews and getting on podcasts in the early days of my writing career, I pronounced my last name that way to try and distance myself from my family without going through a legal hullabaloo.

    I eventually I realized it was a bit disingenuous since I hadn’t spent the time to learn anything about my French heritage, which I was already quite removed from anyway. I dropped it and went back to what was surely the Ellis Island pronunciation I grew up with.

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  • So the lawsuits are going great, then

  • Restructuring Announcement

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  • Sounds like pulling a wanna-be Musk and all the lawsuits are going great

  • What is something you would like to abolish, and why? (Humorously)

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  • Totally. Whole businesses have sprung up for running and monetizing them. Check into Ghost, WordPress and WooCommerce, Memberful. Lots of other options.

  • PeerTube, the Fediverse’s decentralized video plattform, from the perspective of Elena Rossini, italian filmmaker, photographer and activist

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  • I mean. I’m generally an app snob and prefer them most of the time. But we also can just use the website. Lots of people visit YouTube simply in a browser on mobile, without the app on any platform.

  • What is something you would like to abolish, and why? (Humorously)

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  • People saying “blog” when they mean post. You did not write a new blog on your blog, you wrote a new post on your blog.

    You do not drive your car on the car. You drive your car on the road.

  • How do you not feel overwhelmed using Mastodon?

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  • I think the main idea is to look at some hashtags to find people to follow, then eventually wean off those hashtags if you want.

    Another key detail is that you can’t read it all. Not hashtags, not people. You’ll go nuts if you try. It’s about following people who are interesting, opening the app every once in a while to check in, then going on with your day.

  • Fact Checking is a Two Way Street

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  • Damnit you beat me to it

  • An idiots guide?

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  • One tip would be to use email addresses that you actually check for mission critical accounts.

  • Does anyone here use RSS, and do you have any recommendations for feeds to follow?

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  • I have a few hundred feeds across topics that I’ve collected over the years, but I’m gonna guess you don’t want to see my entire OPML. Want to share some topics you’re into? That should help recommendations a lot

    Also, a general tip: Most decent feed readers can sniff out a feed if you paste a website into their search box. Next time you’re surfing the regular web and find a site you like, try tossing it into your reader to follow it from then on

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  • I poked around with Matrix a bit this week but I’m confused as to how it’s being touted as a replacement for Discord. TBC, I’ve been on Mastodon since 2019 and absolutely want these people-powered alternatives to succeed.

    I’m not even talking about the onboarding part, I mean the actual function of the app. With Discord you join a community (server, whatever) and there are a bunch of separate channels, usually separated by topics. I joined a few Matrix servers and they all seem to be one single channel; just one big ol’ scrolling chat where everyone is talking about everything.

    Unless I’m missing something, I don’t understand how this will work at all for Discord users looking to jump ship.

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  • Apple, laying on a couch, head propped up with a seasonally colorful pillow from IKEA: “They just don’t understand the immense pressure I’m under…”