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One of my main motivations for cancelling my Spotify subscription was their insistence on capitalising on podcasts. They have a perfectly fine business model with music, why do they need to ruin podcasts?

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I think a lot of the “conflict” was based on people expecting the threadiverse to be user owned Reddit, without understanding how the Fediverse operates. As people start understanding the nature of how this place works, one would expect them to also calm down a bit about different communities having different moderation strategies.

Then again, it’s the internet. Some people are not exactly keen to understand.

A few will still slip through, but fewer, presumably. Which is the whole point. Content moderation does have an impact on content and in turn the user experience.

Worth mentioning that Vivaldi is basically the spiritual successor of Opera, and it’s doing pretty well at that. It’s still Chromium based though, so unless you really miss Opera for the functionality you’re better off with Firefox.

Still, rather Vivaldi than Opera, Chrome, or Edge.

And a lot younger - the project is less ready for prime time than Lemmy is. I think the last thing kbin.social needs right now is more users.

As a software Kbin is also more fragmented - most kbin users outside of kbin.social are running mbin.

It’s also not a huge mystery that what is essentially a one-man hobby project will slow down development in some periods, and speed up in others. I’m sticking with Kbin.social because I’m happy with the experience here despite some rough edges, but of course there are other platforms better suited for people who are unhappy about being beta testers of slowly developing software.

(For anyone interested, Fedia.io is the largest mbin instance!)

A swimsuit is quite common in Norway. Basically you ask yourself the question “am I going to make anyone uncomfortable”. If it’s single gender and people are not extremely shy, you generally go with only a towel, but nobody is really going to care. If you’re a gender mixed group of friends that don’t know each other that well, you might prefer putting on a swimsuit in order to make sure people feel comfortable and included.

From my experience the Swedes are the same.

This is based on private saunas with friends. In public mixed gender saunas I don’t think I’ve seen anyone go naked, but I’m sure certain Finnish tourists would and nobody would mind.

Oops, yes - there’s a bug in Kbin where links to local communities don’t work properly. I kind of assumed it would appear correctly when viewed from other instances, turns out that’s not the case. :)

On the contrary, a bunch of scattered communities create one large user base. The people you see in this thread all come from a bunch of different websites and services. You’ll see users from startrek.website discussing woodworking in communities hosted by lemmy.ca.

All subreddits are run by Reddit; if Reddit decides to overrun it with ads, require you to use their app, make content impossible to enjoy, or incorporate some awful AI bullshit, nobody can really do anything about it.

Over here, you are in charge of your own user experience. You’re reading this content from dbzer0; I’m using an entirely different application called kbin. We have completely different user experiences, and some users might be banned on my server but not on yours (or vice versa).

Others might get different user experiences through apps or front-ends such as Old Lemmy or more experimental stuff. It’s basically going to be a lot more difficult to enshittify as everybody is chosing their own experience.

As for the communities, they are indeed at the mercy of whoever runs a particular server. If the lemmy.world admins go a bit crazy, users might for example respond by jumping ship to the !fediverse community on a different server.

There’s a flip side to everything of course:

It is a little more inconvenient if your server dies, but other servers survive.

Assuming the server is going to die, it’s arguably more convenient on the Fediverse as most communities won’t die with it. If Reddit disappears the entire site will be gone; if lemmy.world dies the Threadiverse will continue on without too much trouble.

It is a little more inconvenient if your server blocks other servers and you don’t agree with the reasons why.

That’s true, but the added convenience is that you can join a server where you agree with moderating decisions. Content moderation is not one size fits all; at least on the Fediverse it’s theoretically possible for everyone to end up on a server they’re happy with.

One thing I like about Romania is that it seems to be steadily improving the last 30 years or so. Granted, it had a terrible starting point, and improvements are slow as hell, but whenever I check up on them things never seem to be actively getting much worse.

I don’t think many Italians dream of having a German life as much as they want German wages. You’d have to pry the food, culture and climate out of their cold dead hands.

I guess the French are happy that Macron has given them enough things to be dissatisfied about.

This is such a big factor. Good luck forcing a Finn to complain about literally anything.

Don’t forget the dragon!

I have used it for maybe a year and I never had any problems. Then again, I’m hardly a power user, so it makes sense that other people might have different experiences. :)

A personal recommendation is to use Droidify, it’s just a great F-droid front-end.

You can download the APK here: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.looker.droidify/

If they’re from F-Droid you’re good; if you’re on Google Play I doubt they’ll update anything to get more permissions without your consent.

However, if the developer has taken a turn for the worse (which this post seems to indicate), you might not receive any more updates for your F-Droid software, and you might get to a point where you don’t want to install updates from Google Play. Software that cannot be updated is generally not a good thing.

Furthermore, these apps deal with somewhat sensitive information by default, and I wouldn’t want to use apps developed by a company I don’t trust if I don’t absolutely have to. :)