it’s ok she has baby

That’s missing from Lemmy. 😞

In my experience, it doesn’t need to be on-campus. Just getting to know other students and working/studying with them is enough.

“accidentally”

Long pressing the Bluetooth tile used to turn off Bluetooth, now it opens the list of devices.

They just changed the DND tile to be a “mode” tile, so it’s harder to turn DND on.

Yeah. I wouldn’t have noticed the upgrade if it wasn’t for the posts about it.

The weird quick tiles changes are annoying, I guess, but I barely use those.

I guess I’m spiteful

your weird brain works just fine

But what I started to see here, is that people like to share the most greedy ad and trackers filled news sources.

Can you provide examples?

Damn! I didn’t realize the radar was so expensive.

I really like that it tracks speed. Being able to tell officials that a significant portion of drivers are speeding seems like a great first step when requesting stop signs or speed bumps.

Ask it about the nets!

put it on our hard drive instead of yours

For the 99% of documents that I never want to see again that’s fine. That’s doubly true for work documents. I’d be fine if they were silently deleted after six months.

My photos on the other hand, I would like to keep.

Tron 2. Daft Punk without lyrics is perfect for me.

But if the only way to do it is to have ads or selling our data etc, then I don’t want that.

Nobody wants that. It’s a bunch of lil features:

• following users in Lemmy,

• allow mods flair users in a community (so subscribers/patrons can show off),

• Make it easier to see popular posts on Lemmy and Mastodon,

Stuff like that.

Agreed, except you’re wrong about your baby. Mine were the good looking ones.

how?

I basically flipped a coin to choose between a couple of universities.

Most of my friendships come from people I met in uni or their friends. Most of my jobs have come from them.

My extended family lived in the town where I ended up. I learned a lot about how adults should behave from one of them, and stuck around to take care of another one of them.

If the coin had landed on the other side, I would have ended up in a lil university town, gotten a completely different friend group, and (probably) ended up in the US.

It’s not just ad-free, it’s actively anti-corporate, anti-advertising, even anti-monetization.

There are upvoted positive posts and comments about

1. the Switch 2 announcement (but not Nintendo’s legal policy),

2. the Framework advertising event last week,

3. Valve/Steam/SteamOS/Steamdeck/Gabe Newell in general,

4. Costco in general,

5. EVs in general (excluding Tesla and Cybertrucks 😂),

6. podcasts that solicit funding and carry advertising,

7. anime and anime adjacent products,

8. Lenovo’s laptops,

9. individuals selling stuff on Redbubble/Etsy/OnlyFans,

10. subscription razor blade delivery (not from Amazon),

11. and “voting with your wallet”.

It’d be cool if the platform made it easier for orgs to build and interact with a following here. Niches of users really like talking about them. That doesn’t mean ads, it means features that would benefit regular users as well.

maybe this place is just not for influencers - not like the corp platforms, anyway

The things people need to build a livelihood on a platform are quality of life features. In a lot of cases, I think it’s small stuff: being able to reward patrons with a tag on a specific community; automatically highlighting popular posts; making it easy to find a user’s monetization page; etc.

I think the fediverse will attract more and more people with its network effects, but probably never all of the people all of the time.

At the moment, Lemmy is an ad-free version of Reddit missing some community and notification features. There are good political reasons to be here, but that hasn’t driven a sustained increase in users.

So we won’t get critical mass for network effects by being a better Reddit.

One to make the platform self-sustaining (or grow) is to give creators a reason to use the platform, which will give people a reason to come and stay.