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deadcatbounce, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?
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Until I find most of the equivalent Reddit subs on Lemmy, with their emigrated leading lights, you kind of have to. Like you said, only Reddit has the answers. Startpage: “42? site:reddit.com”

I’m too old to enjoy drama.

rf_, in What's the best Android/iPhone app for Lemmy?

Typing this 11 days after the initial question was asked and things have changed a lot since.

I’ve tried two apps: voyager (used to be called wefwef) and memmy.

Voyager has one problem for me on iOS 15.7: When I tap and hold an image no menu shows up, and I have no way of directly sharing an image. I can only share the link, but I don’t want to do that. So if i want to share memes directly with friends and family I can’t do that. I’ve tried to explain the problem in github but it seems like it’s not a high priority and difficult for them to reproduce. I wonder if this is rooted on voyager being a web app.

Memmy on the other hand has made great progress and for me is the winner because it allows to share the images directly like I used to in apollo. They’ve now fixed the swipe to close gesture being too harsh, and thus I have what I need.

Here’s what happens on voyager when I tap and hold an image I want to share: files.catbox.moe/ypz37b.mp4

Crankpork, in What movie did you rewatch most often?

I watch The Thing and The Mummy at least once a year.

obi_one, in do you guys shop on places like aliexpress/Temu and if you do what items have pleasantly surprised you?

I been getting things for my work from temu. Drill bits, router bits, sandpaper, etc and compared to what I get at lowes it’s a great deal.

Rakn, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?

Yes. But instead of spending ever free minute on it I’ll only check it once or maybe twice a day.

Most communities I cared about feel less lively. Except for maybe two or three.

lemminer, in What movie did you rewatch most often?

These are the movies on the top of my head I’ve watched more than 20 times.

  • Batman: Dark knight
  • Orange clockwork, Eyes wide shut, Dr. Strangelove
  • Before sunrise and before sunset. Third one is kinda cringe.
  • Shawshank Redemption
makanimike,

Before sunrise and before sunset. Third one is kinda cringe.

I’m curious if this might change over time/I wonder if you might still be youngish and if your view on it may change as you reach a certain age.

I’ve rewatched Before Sunset the most out of the trilogy, by far. Midnight feels a little tough because it hits home. Then again, maybe that’s what you meant to convey.

lemminer,

You got that right. Before sunset was the one I rewatched alot out of the three. I had a relatable moment in my life which I still cherish.

I didn’t understood your first statement.

makanimike,

I wonder if it’s a movie that might get better as someone ages. I can absolutely imagine that somebody might find it better at age 45 vs at 25.

ada, in Downvotes = “I disagree” or “this is bad and you should feel bad”?
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Downvotes = disabled on my instance

OptimizerPrime,
@OptimizerPrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I feel like this is a good approach. Honestly an invisible voting system might be better cause how many up or down votes something has prevents others from fully forming their own opinion.

maegul,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

Haha yep.

And beehaw too. Wonder how many others.

ablackcatstail, in Can I use Google Play without a Sim card?
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Definitely! All it requires are having a Google Account.

ModernRisk, (edited ) in Lemmy.world is down because of a DDOS attack
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Someone or a group must have some hate towards Lemmy.World. Jeez.

genoxidedev1,
@genoxidedev1@kbin.social avatar

I hate how these types of sad people with excuses for a life actually exist.

I express no sympathy at all towards them because these are the people because of whom we can't have nice things, they are undeserving of sympathy.
If they wanted my sympathy for their sociopathy they should go to therapy instead of wasting their time destroying everything that brings even the slightest amount of joy to others just because they can't feel joy themselves and can't handle other people and communities thriving.

Fuck LMAO and his ilk.

MrJameGumb, in Can I use Google Play without a Sim card?

Yes as long as you have a Gmail account and a payment method you can put on file you can use Google Play without a sim card just over wifi. All a sim card does is connect you to a cellular network, it shouldn’t really affect your ability to set up any Google services

starfleet_reject, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?

I do, but I’m trying to quit

TheInsane42, in If people using Reddit are called Redditors, then what do we call people who use Lemmy?
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Lemmings.

As stated, lemmy is named after 4 sources, with the furry rodent being one of them. (Although the last option)

I love being a furry rodent gnawing away at Reddit. ;)

ValiantHobo, in Those who tried Linux and went back to Windows, what caused you to go back to Windows?

Building WiFi kernel drivers myself where on Windows its a double click, finding a desktop environment that lets you add a 2nd taskbar in the GUI without losing certain important items like the start menu, system clock, or system tray (I always lost something), finding replacements for certain niche Windows programs is frustrating (VoiceMeeter -> PipeWire), or completely absent, as my Oculus Rift and the Adobe Suite (which I need for my job) was unusable, and my Razer, Logitech, TourBox, Xence, and Elsra devices aren’t programmable, missing or bad support for basic features like multiple monitors and HDR, having to manually set AppImages to run as an application and not open like a file (I know it’s a file), but in the end, needing 2 GPU’s to virtualize a Windows machine officially ended my Linux dreams for the near future.

I use Mint, btw

Tb0n3,

Ah yes. Good ol Intel drivers or NDISwrapper. I’ve had zero issues these days, but it was bullshit in the past. Though saying that I think my wifi driver building was more to enable phy mode for messing with wifi hacking. WEP was broken beyond belief.

debounced, in If people using Reddit are called Redditors, then what do we call people who use Lemmy?
@debounced@kbin.run avatar

Motorheads

JohnSmith,

Road crew!

DJDarren,

Before any of the iOS apps were worth a damn, I decided to try and figure out how to make an app myself. I was going to call it Ace, and hope that at least someone knew why.

I didn’t get very far though, because I’ve literally never made an app before.

sunaurus, (edited ) in Downvotes = “I disagree” or “this is bad and you should feel bad”?
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I think voting based on quality of content (and NOT whether you agree with it) is the best approach for healthy discussions. If somebody is a low effort troll, then for sure downvote (and maybe even consider reporting).

OTOH, if somebody makes a well written and thoughtful post about why Totoro is the best Ghibli movie ever, and meanwhile you think Totoro is not even in their top 3, then I would still recommend NOT downvoting 😃

cwagner, (edited )

I see downvoting of comments for stuff that does not require mods, but is still people being assholes or something not belonging. I don’t vote enough on submissions to have an opinion there :D

edit: word order

maegul,
@maegul@lemmy.ml avatar

Yes. This.

Upvoting things you disagree with but are well put and compelling is the litmus test in a way.

Vote for quality = a better platform

Vote for personal appreciation = a toxic platform ?

smashboy,

I’ve upvoted comments that I disagreed with, but were well written an contributed to a good discussion. I only downvote for very low quality, spam or hateful comments.

socsa, (edited )

The problem is that there’s no way to enforce this in practice. All of these conversations about voting culture, with examples and pontificating always just come off as “everyone who drives slower than me is a grandpa, everyone who drives faster than me is a lunatic.”

Downvotes will always be an “I disagree” button no matter what anyone wants or thinks.

positiveWHAT,

This is why the Beehaw way is a good approach. No downvotes only upvotes. Then people actually have to tell why they disagree.

imaqtpie,
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Hmm, that is a good point. I really wish Beehaw would refederate with SJW so we could benefit from their activity and experience more. I don’t agree with every decision they make but they certainly have insightful takes at times

socsa, (edited )

This hasn’t been my experience at all. Especially in lemmy.ml worldnews threads which get constantly brigaded by tankies.

Edit - it seems I replied to the wrong comment

imaqtpie,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

I dont use that community so I haven’t seen that.

Maybe try worldnews@sh.itjust.works instead.

imPastaSyndrome,

I think you meant something else, that’s a person not a community. Perhaps !worldnews wait i thought the ! Was necessary now I’m confused augh

imaqtpie,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

I used a hyperlink. Looks like this without the space (_)

[worldnews@sh.itjust.works]_(sh.itjust.works/c/worldnews)

It’s definitely a community

socsa,

Eh I still like downvotes and find myself just not enjoying beehaw as much without them. I mostly just don’t get the moral panic over having a disagree button more than anything.

positiveWHAT,

Moral panic? What? It’s about healthy community dialogue and slightly how downvotes impacts the psyche.
If someone tells you why they dislike something you like, you’re not doing anyone a favor by downvoting it.

socsa,

You are ignoring how trolls operate in reality though. THey explicitly use “just having an opinion” as cover for shitting up a forum. Look up “sealioning.”

But again, this is my opinion. People are far too concerned about the downvote button. And the fact that the above, completely respectful but seemingly controversial opinion already has downvotes kind of proves my point.

positiveWHAT,

It would be useful if people actually used it to burrow trolls, sealions and irrelevant comments as intended, but as I’ve seen people can’t be trusted with that because as you say: It becomes a “disagree” instead, that targets everything that people disagree with. It gets inane on political topics where useless comments for the right tribe gets immensely upvoted. “Covfefe” Yes, very informative. There could be alternate vote for agreement, funny, or troll mark.

sweetviolentblush,
@sweetviolentblush@sh.itjust.works avatar

There could be alternate vote for agreement, funny, or troll mark.

Yeah I like this, definitely a troll button next to the vote buttons would be really useful for users to self-moderate comments

imaqtpie,
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Most people on Lemmy right now are not using them in that way. As we grow, misuse of downvotes will almost certainly become more common, but right now people are self-policing their behavior for the most part

effingjoe,
@effingjoe@kbin.social avatar

Those of us on kbin can see who up/downvotes. I've noticed, anecdotally, that once this became more wildly known, there have been fewer downvotes that mean "I disagree", with them mostly being used on troll posts or obviously bigoted posts.

imaqtpie,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’m aware of that and I like that behavior.

I’m also wary of potential downsides though. I think in smaller communities it could be a problem because people might start fights with each other when they check who downvoted them. But I’m not sure, at least now we have a good test environment on kbin, and so far it seems to be beneficial based on what you’re saying.

effingjoe,
@effingjoe@kbin.social avatar

I think it's overall good. A vote is no longer an anonymous action-- it's personal, just like leaving a comment supporting or disagreeing would be. While I don't think it would ever be appropriate to harass a person because they up/down voted something, I do think people should have to make the mental calculation about whether they're willing to have any specific up or down vote available for anyone to see.

imaqtpie, (edited )
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

Totally agree. I’m just trying to brainstorm possible issues that may crop up in the future. Many times, the solution to a problem simply introduces a different problem.

Although as I’m considering it, the ease of making alts on this platform mitigates any potential issues, because the whole thing can be sidestepped by downvoting with an alt.

Overall, probably couldn’t hurt to bring that functionality to Lemmy and see how it goes.

harmonea,
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I think it's done more good than harm and don't want to see them anonymized again... but I do have to say I've found myself withholding a downvote that I think was completely justifiable and deserved because I didn't want to be the first and only one and get shit for it.

aaaa,

I guarantee it won’t be long before communities begin using this information.

Remember on Reddit how many subs would prematurely ban any accounts that participated in subs they disliked? That was entirely driven by the users, not the platform. Imagine if they had your voting information too.

I predict we’ll start seeing throwaway accounts for voting, to disassociate your voting records from your posting persona.

ModernRisk,
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This is kind of why, I feel like it is a bad thing. People can’t vote normally or are afraid to do so in a way.

Some won’t use the vote system to avoid possible trouble (arguments, downvoting back etc).

I personally have started to care way less about the upvote and downvote stuff. Reddit made it clear to me that it means nothing.

It just internet points and if something goes wrong, it’s all gone anyway.

TheFriendlyDickhead,

When I joined I rarely saw any down votes. Sadly this already got worse, depending where you are.

HolyHell,

Low effort trolls want downvotes though. You’re better off just ignoring them.

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