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I kinda get all the Threads worries and the fact that some people might not be comfortable with Meta collecting their data for advertising. But this is just insane. It just makes me think people are just irrationally angry at everything, and they like being that, instead of informing themselves about what everything does.

Probably they just want to use the same app they're using for listening to music. Although I also have them both. And I love AntennaPod more for podcasts, plus there's no tracking, and it's just a different experience overall.

So the OPML file does handle the read status as well? isn't it just a format to export and import feeds inside a reader?

Well, those who did not vote are complacent to the majority vote. So I'd say that's a win.

Always go out there and vote, regardless of the option you choose. That's what keeps a democratic system up and running. If you don't, you just agree with what is decided by others and stay complacent.

I immediately thought about ChatGPT or some other AI assistant with GPT in its name as an alternative to Copilot, lol.

Probabil or să le pese când or să vadă tot mai mulți efectele. Eu am RedReader și l-am folosit de ceva ani înainte de scandalul cu API-ul. Chiar am răsuflat ușurat când am văzut că nu e afectată aplicația respectivă, pentru că e cam cel mai bun mod de a intra pe Reddit pentru mine (da, am încercat mai multe aplicații, nu toate ce-i drept, dar parcă mereu reveneam pe RedReader). Însă, nu știu dacă e placebo sau dacă nu are legătură cu API-ul, dar parcă Reddit-ul chiar nu mai e ca înainte.

Îmi plăcea r/Romania că era un mix între shitpost, inside jokes și știri de calitate (din surse nepărtinitoare politic de obicei). Și acum sunt știrile destul de ok, însă sunt multe comentarii care se vede că sunt părtinitoare față de partidul x sau y (sau contra), sau care efectiv îmi dau brain damage.

Și da, se vede că sunt și mulți oameni aterizați de pe Facebook și care periodic își mai aduc și memele de acum câțiva ani cu ei (și care for some reason sunt susvotate ca și cum ar fi ceva extraordinar de amuzant - probabil așa farmează oamenii ăia karma) - din alea gen Vlad the Inhaler. Pentru oamenii de genul, faptul că stau mai mult pe Reddit decât pe Facebook e un beneficiu imo. :))

Însă eu, chiar și pe RedReader nu simt că am vreun câștig din a intra pe Reddit.

Probabil dacă și când vor descoperi că există o platformă pe care vezi în majoritate conținut românesc (eventual una numită feddit 👀) or să facă schimbarea de curiozitate (sau din patriotism deșănțat) cine știe?

News articles also in English from:

• Washington Post
• WSJ (Archived link)
• CNN
• The Guardian

Can't they add some sort of vegetation or something and make sure it's watered as regularly as possible? Maybe something specific to the area (besides cactuses) that can keep more shade.

lemmy.ml
first time [...] a mod didn't like the viewpoint expressed.

Haha, wow, first time?

Welcome to this place. Lemmy.ml is notorious for being run by the actual tankies that created this project. See what they support, what they don't, and have an opposite opinion on that. You will get the boys telling you how it acchually it is not and call you a glowie CIA agent or whatnot for not siding with them. The Reddit migration probably made them more accepting of opposite opinions, but probably because things have calmed down more a bit lately, they started aggressively moderating stances like yours and probably anti-Kremlin takes as well (seriously, before that, if you were against the Russian invasion in Ukraine or against China's politics you would have been accused of being racist towards them - but hey, you can say whatever you want against the USA, or The West, you can't be racist against these, can you?).

Anyway, here's a longer take by FediTips that explains the issues with Lemmy:
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379

Finally

This is the keyword for such a city. It should've gotten such a system already by now when reaching the first million. All these arab/middle eastern cities seem so extremely focused on car infrastructure to a rather disturbing degree. And all the carbrains I know think these cities are the pinacle of modern city development: all just gigantic glass skyscrapers and highways circling around them - nothing else.

Also, back on Facebook/Instagram, there's not a single person who had the money to visit Dubai once and post pictures from there (at least that I'm aware of), that is not car brained. I'm sure they all use their car everywhere and nothing less, they could even be doing their basic shopping from the corner store with it, I think.

That's why I set up 2FA on whatever account I can grab my hand on. It sucks that I cannot do it on every single one I have (e.g. some popular names like Spotify, last.fm, Bandcamp or Feedly do not support it, for example), but for every account that I do have, 2FA has become critical lately.

To each their own. My jacket does not have a hood good enough to protect me, it sometimes falls off my head, doesn't protect my nose etc. So I prefer an umbrella.