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2023-08-09.jpg in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

23 Aug 23. Ya, no ambiguity. /s

2023-08-23 is the way.

Any way to listen to music (privately?) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, I’d trust a vanilla iPhone over that hacked together mess you’ve got going there.

X, formerly Twitter, commandeers '@music' handle from user with half a million followers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Dude is still simping for Musk. No sympathy.

Saudi Arabia passes law requiring USB-C charges for smartphones in c/[email protected]
Saudi Arabia passes law requiring USB-C charges for smartphones in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Nothing about Saudi Arabia is pro-consumer.

Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I’m not defending anything, other than basic usage of the English language. I’m not saying Bluetooth is better, objectively or subjectively, than a wired connection. You’re free to prefer one over the other, but any preference is just that, a preference.

Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don’t think you understand what objectively means.

Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not objectively

Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

They are going to answer with some stupid reasoning like removing the 3.5mm jack.

But truly Apple stance on right-to-repair really is their only non-defendable stance. And this is coming from an Apple fanboy.

Twitter users right now in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Facebook is one of the biggest contributors to OpenStreetMap and makes lots of open source software.

I'd like to know more about this.

speaking of alternatives, what brand do people hate that actually has a decent alternative? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm certainly not trying to be an Apple apologist here, as iMessage has plenty to critique. But it bears consideration that iMessage falling back to SMS is a certain amount of openness, is it not?

speaking of alternatives, what brand do people hate that actually has a decent alternative? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not an unfair complaint against Apple, but ignores Google's/Android's problematic "support" for RCS, and in this context of this comment seems to imply that What'sApp isn't "closed" like iMessage.

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Suggestion: book club partnership with other communities (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
4 comments fedilink
 

Had a bit of a showerthought this morning. c/books could do a monthly book club pick but with the additional feature of inviting a related community to participate. For example, if the book pick was "Two Wheels Good" by Jody Rosen, [email protected] could be invited to participate. Seems to be a great way to encourage more people to read and more people to subscribe to the sub.

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Allowed/blocked instances, import list? (lemmy.ml)
 

I have an instance running (blitzen.org), and right now just two other instances are in my white list (lemmy.ml, lemmy.ca). If I wanted to mirror, say, lemmy.ca's white and black lists, is there a way to export/import such a list?

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Choosing instances (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
11 comments fedilink
 

I heard once that the case for which instance (for any federated app, be it Lemmy or Mastodon etc) on which to sign up is to choose based on "administration" not subject. That is to say, it is better to experience the fediverse through moderation and other administrative decisions than it is to do so on a server that is "subject based." Thoughts?

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How do we deal with similar communities on different Lemmy instances? (lemmy.ml)
 

Say what you will about reddit, at least an established subreddit was the place to gather on the topic, ie r/technology etc.

With Lemmy, doesn't it follow that similar communities on different instances will simply dilute the userbase, for example [email protected] and [email protected]. How do we best use lemmy as a (small c) community when a topic can be split amongst many (large C) Communities?

This is an earnest question, in no way am I suggesting lemmy is inferior to reddit. I'm quite enjoying myself here.

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