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- Comment on Y'all I'm seriously tempted to go back to Reddit. 4 days ago:
Update, having made a new Reddit account after three years, I suddenly remember why I left. On the one hand there’s way less ragebait. People actually talk about the topic of the sub and don’t try to shove a mention of Trump or Palestine in at every opportunity. On the other hand it’s still dangerously addictive to scroll infinitely. I’m already adding firewall rules to block reddit at night to keep me from scrolling instead of sleeping. They’ve also tried to make it addictive on purpose I think. I’m constantly getting notifications, by email and internally, every time a post or comment is upvoted. They have engagement analytics for every post, and encourage you to improve them by cross-posting. It seems gross and cynical, like you’re not having a genuine human interaction but churning out “content” that can be monetized.
And the ads masquerade as normal posts and comments. Granted that was the case when I left, but it’s worse now. I’m not a naive hippie who thinks you can run a massive online platform on sunshine and vibes. I get there are bills to pay, but surely there’s a way to do that that doesn’t compromise the user experience.
So I’m stuck between an awful platform with a nice community and a nice platform with a (mostly) awful community. Of course I could abandon both and stick with old school forums.
- Comment on Y'all I'm seriously tempted to go back to Reddit. 1 week ago:
Does blocking an instance also block users from that instance or just posts from those instances showing up in my feed?
- Comment on Y'all I'm seriously tempted to go back to Reddit. 1 week ago:
I think Reddit still has merit when it comes to niche communities
Yeah, that’s probably what I miss the most. There’s a sub for dogs, but also a sub for Labradors specifically. Not only that, but there’s a sub each for chocolate, black, and yellow labs, and all of them are lively and active. There are active subs that spawned from inside jokes from other subs like TalesFromCaveSupport from TalesFromTechSupport. There are niches within niches within niches.
- Comment on Y'all I'm seriously tempted to go back to Reddit. 1 week ago:
You’re right. I know I’m being hypocritical, joining a platform for ideological reasons, then complaining when everyone else talks about ideology. People who join the fediverse are self-selecting.
But I actually joined Lemmy before I quit Reddit. I made an account on here during the Reddit APIcolypse of 2023, but only deleted my Reddit account that fall after realizing I was addicted to it. In some ways I was expecting a slower drip of content here on Lemmy compared to Reddit, but didn’t expect the quality to be so dubious. I’ve been telling myself I should probably make another Reddit account. I’ve been having issues at work that could probably be solved with a quick post on a relevant subreddit, but I’ve stubbornly refused to go crawling back to the social media I swore I’d rid myself of.
- Comment on Hams: "I can get across the Pacific with 5 watts into my rain gutter." Meanwhile, in CB land: 1 week ago:
It’s probably north of the legal limit of 4 watts for CB, I’m guessing.
- Comment on Y'all I'm seriously tempted to go back to Reddit. 1 week ago:
I know, as do the web regular web frontends. But I can’t overstate how pervasive ideology is on here. And it doesn’t even show up in an organic way, either.
a post about the Israeli Palestinian conflict in an unrelated community
And here’s another one. I just wanted to talk about pokemon :(
- Submitted 1 week ago to lemmy@lemmy.radio | 14 comments
- Hams: "I can get across the Pacific with 5 watts into my rain gutter." Meanwhile, in CB land:youtu.be ↗Submitted 1 week ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 2 comments
- Comment on I finally fixed my hotspot after months of being down, and M17 is now missing. 1 week ago:
Do you think his opinion of them is warranted? What does the community in general think of the project.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 4 comments
- Comment on I 3D printed a caddy for all my HTs 2 weeks ago:
No but that was my principle reason for getting it.
- Comment on Antenna woes 2 months ago:
The ends of the antenna that connect to the terminals were rusted. I sanded them down with a dremel and that seems to have fixed the issue
- Comment on Antenna woes 2 months ago:
- Submitted 2 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 5 comments
- Comment on I 3D printed a caddy for all my HTs 2 months ago:
I’m afraid I’m only good at designing these simple boxes. I also have a bunch of near identical ones used for storing pill bottles.
- Comment on I 3D printed a caddy for all my HTs 2 months ago:
ADHD-fueled impulse purchases for the most part, though the 'Feng is my first ham radio (bought even before my license came through) and the Quansheng was a gift.
- Submitted 2 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 10 comments
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- Comment on Help with Meshtastic on a LILYGO LoRa32 5 months ago:
This seems to have worked thank you.
- Comment on Help with Meshtastic on a LILYGO LoRa32 5 months ago:
I’ve tried holding the RST button but it does the same as a quick press. The on/off switch can’t be held.
- Submitted 5 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 4 comments
- Comment on Eliminating PoE interference 8 months ago:
Cat6 per the listing on Amazon, but I don’t trust it.
- Submitted 8 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 5 comments
- Comment on Seriously? QRP Labs QMX+ 160-6m 8 months ago:
I bought a KX3 as a reward for completing a very difficult certification. I earned that $2500 radio, but dang if I’m not scared to actually take it anywhere because it feels so fragile for how expensive it is. I included the battery compartment when kitting it out, but ended up removing the batteries and relying on an external LiFPO battery because I didn’t like cracking the radio open like a clam every time I needed to change them.
Something like this would make a whole lot more sense for my QRP needs. It’s far, far cheaper and looks a bit more sturdy.
- Submitted 9 months ago to amateur_radio@lemmy.radio | 0 comments
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- Comment on There's Light Houses and Light Ships, Paris, Summits, Forts, Beaches, Museums, Libraries and Islands on the Air. What else has an On The Air moniker? 9 months ago:
I once proposed a “toilets on the air” event where you took a QRP CW rig into a bathroom, sat on the toilet, and texted like it was 1912.
- Comment on Website containing a list of names of abilities, characters, locations, etc. from video games? 11 months ago:
A wiki is probably what you want. I was going to suggest tvtropes, which is great for, say, a list of every superhero with X-ray vision, or every work of fiction containing dwarves, but I’m not sure that fits what you want.
