cwagner

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cwagner,

They phrased it weirdly, but Bangs (same before that for free when I was a DDG user for years) are a killer feature. I don’t need the indirection if I know where I’m searching for something. !caniuse, !mdn, !imdb, whatever. I’d not use a search engine without bangs again, and if Kagi didn’t support all the DDG bangs, I’d never have even tested them.

cwagner,

Thing is, they have to pay Google/Bing (they use their APIs in addition to smaller indexes) for every search, so there is only so much elasticity.

My monthly search usage is 700-800, which means I’m comfortably in the mid-tier plan and pay $10/month.

cwagner,

and a few other engines

Bing, and the founder’s non-commercial search engine’s index IIRC

cwagner,
  • Personal taste, but I think the user interface is far superior to Lemmy. Even with scripts to help Lemmy, kbin still looks better.
  • Politics. Some might have issues with the political positions of the Lemmy devs, no matter if they influence the software or not
  • It doesn’t matter that much. They are both federating with each other, you can subscribe to magazines from Lemmy, and to communities from kbin.
cwagner,

Yeah, I keep forgetting about that because I care about as much about Mastodon as I care about Twitter ;)

A side effect of it, that I do care about and sorely miss on Lemmy: Tags for posts. Like flairs for Reddit, but you can have multiple.

cwagner,

connect to the same user

What?

And no, kbin and Lemmy both federate with each other, but are otherwise different apps, so you can’t use the same mobile app for both unless it explicitly supports both.

cwagner,

It mostly is, just not 100% ;)

cwagner,

What specifically is different regarding how political discussions are handled over there?

Absolutely nothing. But the devs (or at least one, not sure), have strong political views that a lot of people take offense with. Search Lemmy & tankie if you want to know more.

cwagner,

Why shouldn’t people be able to opt out? I

Because you’ll be dead.

cwagner,

I would.

cwagner,

No, because it’s not them any more. It’s just remains. I still respect them the same way as before, the remains simply have no real relation.

cwagner,

being fluent without visiting an English speaking country is quite an accomplishment.

It helps if at the age of ~16 you start consuming only English media (books, movies, TV-shows), and are in many English online communities ;)

I would also like to thank the people who laughed at me and my friend for having German MtG cards when we were 10 years old, that was one huge boost to my vocabulary :D

cwagner,

I’d say somewhere between 2 and 3.

The first option would also result in the weird situation that most South Africans (11 official languages), who use English in everyday life, would not count as bilingual because there’s still a bit of a difference to fully native speakers. My wife grew up with Sesotho, but started learning English from 1st grade on and all her classes in school and university have been in English. Her English is better than mine (5th grade, and all but English-classes in German), but worse than that of my USA or British friends.

born in a bilingual country / completely indifferent to native, educated speakers of the language

While we are on the topic, you wouldn’t normally use “indifferent” like that. A better word would be “indistinguishable”.

cwagner,

It was clear what you meant. But while this might be used in very rare cases like indistinguishable, it almost never is. If it’s not distinguishable, you can’t get stronger ;)

cwagner,

what?

Bugs and performance issues are their focus for now. Lemmy was tiny until recently, that means a lot of features weren’t needed, and a lot of issues never arose.

Now it’s big, and we want multi communities, flairs, and many other things, but for now the focus is on not having federation from lemmy.world take 2 hours, and for custom emojis not being able to take over instances and stuff ;)

cwagner,

You are stating that you only want it for NSFW, and then explain as if that’s true for everyone. It’s not.

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