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Leraje

@ leraje @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • The most upvoted post on lemmy

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  • Which will only matter if those instances are hosted in the US, which a lot aren't.

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    How do I verify Lemmy on Mastodon? (and appears green link)

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  • <link rel="me" href="https://instance.tld/@username" /> in the <head> is probably a bit tidier :)

  • Shared from MeFi: "What the size of your book collection says about you"

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  • I love the aesthetics of hardback books, a beautiful Victorian-era library looks (and smells!) great but my own library is all ebooks. I don't have the space for over 2k physical books and as I get older and my eyesight worsens, the ability to adjust font size, line-height, borders, contrast etc becomes invaluable.

    I won't buy from Amazon at all, ever. I prefer to buy DRM free but if its not possible to buy DRM free then I buy a paperback copy from a local indie bookstore if possible which I immediately donate to a library or hospital or prison or whatever and, ahem, 'source' a DRM-free version from elsewhere. I do it this way because DRM is cancer but I also want to support small and/or new authors so buying and passing on a print copy is good for everyone and having a DRM free copy is good for me.

    As for subject matter, both fiction and non-fiction but more fiction than non. I like historical novels like the Aubrey/Maturin series, or the Shardlake series, Madeline Miller's greek retellings, Hilary Mantel's stuff, fantasy/sci-f- like Ursula K Leguinn, NK Jemisin, Margaret Attwood, Robin Hobb, Lois McMaster Bujold, Susannah Clarke, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Horror/Thrillers by writers like Peter Straub, Catriona Ward, Shirley Jackson. Non-fiction books tend to be popular science that are 'popular' enough I can grasp what they're on about but 'science' enough they're not just dumbed down crap.

  • In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers

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  • It's full of spam and I should really change it by now.

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  • 'Better' is relative :) is it better than using something like SearXNG? No. But for those people who insist on using Google, its better to do a proxied search than a first-hand one. Mullvad are European, are one of the very few orgs I personally think are trustable and have shown no signs of enshittification, Leta has been audited by a 3rd party - for those looking for a private Google experience this is about the best there is.

  • Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery

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  • Leaving notes...committing genocide, yeah they're interchangeable really.

  • Me after Mozilla and Proton

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  • Depends what you want. If you want an experience like Proton with its own app then use Tuta. If you're happy with IMAP with a client like Evolution (Linux) or FairEmail (mobile for Android) or access via a website then mailbox.org are very good.

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  • Sadly, 99% of people - wherever they live - won't really do or say anything until it affects them personally.

  • Why should someone join the Fediverse?

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  • Star Trek memes. I didn't even know I liked Star Trek until 2 years ago.

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    New here, need some help

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  • According to this comment the following is accurate as of two weeks ago:

    With keyword filter:

    • Voyager
    • Connect
    • Eternity
    • Interstellar
    • Raccoon
    • Summit
    • Sync
    • Tesseract
    • Thunder
    • Boost

    Without keyword filter:

    • Alexandrite
    • Jerboa
    • Lemmy UI
    • mlmym
    • Next
    • Photon
    • Quiblr

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    Do people in America actually believe Vaccine cause autism or is bad for health? Or Is it a joke?

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  • True-ish :)

    Wakefield went after the MMR vaccine. The whole (separate) mercury thing was started in the US and later perpetuated by people like Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey among others.

  • Lemmy/Mastodon experience

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  • I get that federation of content is one of the main selling points of the fediverse but doesn't there also come a point when the format of the content plays a part? Isn't there an argument to be made that content posted to one type of service (link aggregation) doesn't need to be shoehorned into the format of an entirely different type of service (microblogging)?

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    What do you think Elon Musk is actually doing?

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  • As others have said, money is most of it.

    But I also remember that what seems to have prompted his last few years of total unhinged behaviour was his daughter turning her back on him. That seemed to be the point of no return for him.

    So there is part of me that thinks he wants to have access to and control over data. The whole nazi salute wasn't about money, it was about ideology and I think controlling data will allow him to go after communities of people as part his ideology.

  • What's your favorite thing to come out of Monty Python?

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  • "A balm? What are you giving him a balm for? It might bite him."

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  • I do the same on mobile :) but I think once people do understand federation and why its actually a very good idea they would too - but thats not going to be true of the majority - certainly not before they use a federated service.

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  • I'm not suggesting its impossible to improve the UX but I a) I think thats going to be an incredibly low priority for the developers and b) I'm not sure what changes can be made to address the essential conflict between the whole point of the fediverse - decentralisation - and a sign up process that essentially hides that without taking away an informed choice.

    In reality, its not really that much of a difficult concept to grasp and there are loads of resources like fedi.tips etc to help people. If the communities and content was of a sufficient quality (as oppose to quantity) people would make the fairly minimal effort to understand why the fediverse is the way it is.

    And if people don't or won't thats really their call.

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  • The vast majority of people want an experience where federation is invisible. Sign up and post/comment. To maintain the benefits of decentralisation and choice, that's never going to be a truly workable thing.

    The vast majority of people don't want to create or even participate in communities, they just want to lurk, scroll and get their new content fix. Every social media based site I've ever been on, federated or centralised has a large group of people complaining about the lack of new content but never take it upon themselves to apply the obvious solution themselves.

    These are not necessarily UX issues, these are people issues.

    Maybe its time to stop continually worrying about this subject and concentrate on creating great communities? Because if we do that then users will participate organically.

  • Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether Shakespeare is in the public domain.

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  • Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Act IV, Scene 1

    [Enter pirates]

    First Pirate: Hold, villain!