Idk, I’ve tried a few but still like Boost; just can’t get into Jerboa or Liftoff, which I tried. It’s mostly just their ad network being meh — though I mostly just get crappy fake gameplay ads, and not enough to bother me. I’m not even sure if they’re targeting me, cause if they are, they’re pretty bad at it.

Unfortunately I’m sure the app developer doesn’t get much say, virtually all mobile app networks are cancer.

Huh. Well, wouldn’t know. Kind of the point of defederating, I guess, you just stop thinking about them.

I can see it playing out fine either way, although it’s certainly more turbulent federating if we are to see their content and it washes out the other communities (which to my understanding is unlikely since it’s user based content like Mastodon). As others said, they already have our data, too.

Instead, I just wish the more… extreme communities didn’t defederate already. I’d love to see Meta users react to Hexbear or Exploding Heads in an unfiltered, unadulterated way (or those much much worse instances that everyone defederates from). Instead they get us relatively tame, generally nerdy Lemmy users. I didn’t even know what a Tankie was back in the before times!

Ah yes, those sweet bean memes will really show em! ;o

Inspired by the latest episode of Last Week Tonight?

Oh, you’re like me! I did the dive into Linux, SteamOS is a fork of Arch Linux which is super not newbie friendly.

Manjaro is a good Arch Linux fork that works well for gamers, though. Still not idiot proof, as I can atest to breaking it several times, but that’s the deal when you remove the training wheels off your OS.

Lucky it’s easy to reinstall from a USB. A little less if you insist on a duel boot like me, but that’s mostly Windows being a jerk.

Aw, their heads form a heart. Now that’s relationship goals.

Huh, I never looked at the instance statistics next to each other. Neat.

I read that Hexbear federating post and… Idk, seems all fine except for the very explicit stance on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine (especially regarding Donbas). Not exactly a popular stance.

None the less, the only way to avoid echo chambers is to federate broadly; probably the main reason lemmygrad remains federated. Hexbear personally gives me a headache, but I’d like to see why the largest instance wants to avoid the exchange of ideas. (I bet it’s bot related).

Oddly enough, none. Kind of like seeing the sheer variety the Internet had to offer (plus those folks have so much confidence it’s almost admirable). And at least it’s not gore-- I’ve seen accidently seen way too many dead bodies mindlessly unblurring pictures on Reddit or foolishly clicking troll links.

Probably going to change to block nsfw when my little ones are old enough to steal my phone and browse my account, though.

Not that I’m for letting it into the fediverse, but I wonder if something like Meta’s Threads will end up with that other demographic given how marketing (and influencer marketing in particular) is especially effective on younger, less savvy audiences.

Lemmy by it’s very nature is never going to do that. But then again, Reddit was never particularly hip; I teach at University and not even my nerdier students used that, let alone anything from the fediverse. That was all TikTok and Snapchat.