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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you get notified of replies on lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use FreshRSS on desktop (web client from my self-hosted instance), and Readrops on Android (synced to my FreshRSS). For Lemmy notifications specifically you’ll likely want a dedicated client that is noisy. I was using Brief for this task temporarily, with only one RSS feed loaded and having it set to delete all but the latest message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you get notified of replies on lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The app I use (Eternity) has options for 15/30/60/etc mins. You can theoretically get notifications every second if you set up your own RSS reader to check that quickly (though be considerate of your instance’s resources). Before I settled on my current solution I had an RSS reader check every so often and ding a desktop notification when it found something. I use 30 minutes because if I’m using Lemmy I’ll see the notification alert anyway, and if I’m away from Lemmy I don’t want to be notified potentially every 15 minutes when people keep replying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you get notified of replies on lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Your inbox has an RSS feed that you can hook up to whatever RSS reader you want. Personally I let my Android app watch for notifications every 30 mins, and then KDE Connect will mirror that notification onto my PC when my phone dings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an imagehost like imgur or imgbb that supports avif or jxl files?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Catbox has been operating for at least 8 years and has a clearly defined server cost + donation plan through their FAQ+Patreon, which also notes that they are happy to front any extra costs that the Patreon doesn’t cover. I’m going to guess they’d rather shut the site down than start serving ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an imagehost like imgur or imgbb that supports avif or jxl files?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  catbox.moe should work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not asking to be rich.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ^why is always the furries with the high paying job…^

  My best guess is because furries in general are very into STEM fields and those happen to pay a lot of money. There’s also a high correlation between being a furry and being on the autism spectrum, so if your special interest happens to be STEM-related then it’s cheat codes for big money and being great at your job. Furries have a ton of correlated attributes, e.g. 80%+ of us are queer, and they’re very interesting as a social phenomenon. I hope someone someday figures out what causes furries, because it’s more complicated than nature or nurture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not asking to be rich.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Your specific strawman of how you choose to read what I wrote is what you’re fighting right now. I’ve clarified myself a non-zero number of times, which is more than necessary. If you want to write about this topic start a new post, because it’s not related to what I said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not asking to be rich.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point you are intentionally misreading the word “bad” to mean “bad decision” instead of “bad situation”. I’ve already explicitly explained that’s not what I meant so I don’t know what you want me to reply with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not asking to be rich.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi, the first snippet is in response to the commenter’s quote: “I don’t want to be filthy rich because I think I’d do a lot of dumb things more than I would doing charitable things.”

  To which I replied that being rich doesn’t mean they need to spend all their money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not asking to be rich.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is objectively bad. Spending your whole paycheck means you live month-to-month, and any unexpected expenses can and will sink you and send you into further poverty. It is not financially healthy to live without an emergency fund or investment savings for the future. Just because you do not have enough money to accomplish this doesn’t mean it’s not bad.

  I’m not intending to be “judgmental” while saying this - it’s important to recognize the problems that poverty causes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not asking to be rich.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s why I wrote that.

  Spending your whole paycheck is very bad at any income level, but it turns out when you’re poor you don’t get a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not asking to be rich.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to “spend” all your money. Live frugally, invest the rest, then retire early or donate it or something. Spending your whole paycheck is very bad at any income level, but it turns out when you’re poor you don’t get a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not asking to be rich.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually not sarcasm. I literally was on medication and then I got a good job and I don’t need it anymore. I’m mildly sure I still have depression but I’m much happier in my life and nowhere near risk of self-harm anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not asking to be rich.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be on medication for depression until I got a high-paying job. Turns out being poor was the root to most problems in my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Lemmy change from post/comment score to count?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There has never been an official “global score” for users. If you ever saw one it was being calculated by your app/front-end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve blocked all the news communities for a start. Maybe I’ll let one through eventually, but I’m sick of seeing 13 duplicate posts about how Elon Musk said that penguins can’t be trans or something equally useless.

  As for getting more toxic in general I haven’t noticed anything drastic but my gut feeling is that as Lemmy grows, more people see a post, and as more people see a post, the better the odds that one person is going to start an argument. Even if 99.99% of the Lemmy community is not toxic, it only takes one person to reply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes this website resistant to enshitrification?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Way outside my wheelhouse so take the following with a grain of salt, but TMK the company that “owns” Mastodon is a non-profit LLC named Mastoton gGmbH and probably isn’t technically worth anything by itself. Not that they would ever sell to you, but by purchasing, you wouldn’t own the codebase or any of the instances. The community would immediately fork the codebase, most of the members of the Mastodon gGmbH would leave and reincorporate as a new entity and continue their work on the codebase, and life would go on without much of a hitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes this website resistant to enshitrification?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mastodon and others are FOSS, yes. People either volunteer their hours or are paid by an interested party/company to working on FOSS projects, but in both cases they release their work for free to everyone. Even if they start corrupting their codebase to appease corporate sponsors, the community can fork the project and keep it going without the original developers’ influence. E.g. it doesn’t matter if Eugen gets a railroad spike through the head and decides that putting ads on Mastodon is a good idea, we will fork the project and continue on without them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes this website resistant to enshitrification?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure there are more but here’s a few off the top of my head:

  • The ability to defederate from any instance that tries. truthsocial.com and gab.com are based on Mastodon, and they’re cut off from the Fediverse because they’re “downhill” to put it lightly. If the instance you’re on starts acting funky you can just pack up and leave. If Facebook starts asking for your driver’s license where are you going to go? There is no other Facebook, and your friends wouldn’t be there if there was.

  • The ability/culture for users to donate to their instance admins. Your instance admin should transparently list all their costs and donations, so everyone is aware how much is needed to cover infrastructure. Not counting volunteer hours, it’s very cheap to run these servers as long as the average person kicks in a buck every so often. The amount an average person needs to donate is probably like 5-10 cents a month, which can easily be covered by generous patrons. I personally donate about $10/month to my instance, which is way overkill and probably covers a significant chunk of their operating expenses (not that they need my money, I’m sure).

  • No inherent need for people to use the software. No one is making money from higher site activity time, there’s no need to have black box algorithms that try to keep you engaged by promoting ragebait etc

  • Decentralized nature makes it impossible to “buy it out”. Technically a company could probably coerce an existing Fedi server to sell so they can start causing chaos, but they can’t just drop $44 billion and nonconsensually steal the website from every user. Spread out among the servers and protections will only grow stronger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The trend would be developers that are unwilling or unable to release a new game that is better than the old one (especially in formulaic series like a racing game), or that they intentionally withhold features in order to resell them again. I’m not saying there aren’t sometimes good reasons for it, just that it’s something I’ve personally noticed happening now that developers are leaning harder and harder into DLC, and now that games are stagnating in innovation and reasons to buy the next entry in the series.

  Also for PAYDAY 3 specifically if you don’t have any familiarity with Overkill/Starbreeze I wouldn’t defend them on this one. They have chosen money over their players every single chance they could get, including breaking their promise to never include microtransactions in the game, and then breaking their promise in 2017 that they wouldn’t release any more paid DLC. In 2017 they released the Ultimate Edition with this promise, and in 2019 they went back on it. In 2019, they started releasing DLC again with the mission statement of “hey any money you put into this DLC will help fund PAYDAY 3 development”. The community immediately noticed that the DLC from 2019 onwards was of lower quality and more expensive, and although people frequently brought this up, others would defend it and say “yes, but we need to support Overkill or PAYDAY 3 won’t be made.”

  They started development on PAYDAY 3 in 2016, so they’ve had 7 years to develop it before it released, whereas PAYDAY 2 has been out for 10 years at this point. The moral of the story is they kept releasing mediocre DLC for PAYDAY 2 because it was easy and lucrative, and it became such an addiction that they neglected PAYDAY 3’s development to the point where it released with barely any features or content even after 7 years of development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a trend that I have recently started noticing. PAYDAY 3 came out with basically nothing included after PAYDAY 2 had literally 10 years of continuous content/80 DLCs pumped into it. As another example, The Sims always comes out with a new release that has every feature removed so they can sell you all the same DLC again and again.

  In some cases this would appear to be a (corporate) success, but it seems it’s actually been part of the downfall of recently-released PAYDAY 3. As of this moment in time, the rolling 24-hour peak of player count in PAYDAY 3 is 4,699. The rolling 24-hour peak of PAYDAY 2 is 37,399. Why would players who have a fully finished game with all DLC already available want to play your new barren game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason CEOs want workers to Return To Office is because they want you to quit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The main thing I don’t get is that the top talent at your company are the ones that can easily find another job instead of putting up with your BS. The people that aren’t competent enough to leave on a whim are the ones you’re going to be keeping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a world we live in...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only that, but you would have to print all 50 pages/month to get that “value”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wanting to remove dim theme from twitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Maintaining existing CSS is hard. Luckily, usurping all of social media as an “everything app” will be trivial by comparison.