ToxicWaste

@ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i guess there is pixelfed. but i would compare it more to instagram. many lemmy instances allow uploading pictures directly, so you dont necessarily need a separate host.

  but where i see the biggest caveat, is costs. cloud storage is not cheap and pictures are extremely large compared to text. therefore some lemmy instances only keep uploaded pics for a certain amount of time.

  I dont know whether imgur is keeping pictures for ever or not… so i am not sure if it federated imgur would solve the ‘amnesia issue’ of some lemmy instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  easy self-check for these things:

  is it OK for group A to do X? is it OK for group B to do X? …

  if the answer is not the same for all the groups you can reasonably think of, something about your morals is off.

  not everyone will agree whether X is OK to do. but at least you can detect, whether you are biased yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i partially agree with you. but most social media is carefully designed to make you keep interacting with it. because of phones, you can bring a nearly endless stream of distractions everywhere you go. the newspaper you can read a maxim of once.

  it was impossible to get more than a “Mmh” out of my grandfather, while he was reading his newspaper. so i know what you mean. but when he was done with it, he was done with it. after his 0.5 h per day of newspaper, he was an amazing conversationalist and always had time for whoever wanted something. so i would say there is a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i guess i am getting old. but i really think it is sad, when a group goes to the restaurant/coffee/bar and everyone is staring at their individual screen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My brain is acting like a junkie who hasn't had their anger fix⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i think you are right: it is time to walk away.

  when i switched to lemmy, many communities i was into at reddit, did not exist or have very little posts. over time i discovered other communities and am less online in general. it is a getting used to it, but overall a net positive.

  lemmy has a lot of the same look and feel. but they are not the same.