@otter@lemmy.ca

otter

@otter@lemmy.ca

I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)

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otter,

Happy to share the resources :)

otter,

Good to know, I don’t think I’ve ever really seen it

otter,

Same

Although our instances give that away

otter, (edited )

Same with Reddit, FB Messenger, Instagram, TikTok… Some of them are harder to spot, like how Reddit now goes reddit.com/r/example/s/8913y4h93

Would be nice if social networks and messengers would automatically strip these parameters.

I started using URLCheck on Android and SO MANY links have some kind of tracker that you can drop and not lose any functionality. Things like Signal (and even Lemmy/Mastodon) could do something similar and throw up a little warning when it encounters a known tracker, then offer to clean the URL for you.

Another advantage is that the clean URLs are a lot more descriptive

otter,

For example, see the link in the post body here:

reddit.com/…/whats_going_on_with_kim_kardashian_a…

otter,

Oh that’s nice! Hopefully more apps integrate that function

otter, (edited )

I think intent plays a role here. If the goal is to incite a reaction or to hurt a population by publicly burning something that they care about, it’s probably not a great to do

One of those things where you know when you see it, but it’s hard to define explicitly.

If anything, it might help as a temporary measure to reduce tensions and inflammatory incidents

otter, (edited )

The core issue here is instances disappearing, and That goes into the discussion of the structure of the fediverse right now vs. the fediverse in the future

A dozen big instances feel better now, and I personally wouldn’t make a community on a smaller instance unless I know it is likely to stay up. If it was run by an existing organization for example.

Long term though, I trust existing organizations to set up stable instances that won’t be shut down easily. If a government, school, game company etc. makes an instance it’s not likely to go down. Having lots of instances will look more normal then.

Ultimately we don’t need to do anything differently, I recommend new people join a big instance and then make a new account once they know what instance they like.

note to everyone: please don’t downvote good faith questions

OP asked a pretty reasonable open ended question. There are other people who may be thinking the same, and reading the discussions here might change their minds. Save downvoting for rule breaking / content that’s bad for the community

otter,

!misleadingthumbnails

What phone do you sugest for your grandparents?

I got a task to buy a smart phone for my grandparents, they are not techsavy but they know how to use basic functions. Iam looking for an andoid because it has language pack i need. I dont need it to have lots of functions, onley a good camera and a big screen. Bonus points if it can be flashed with some kind of simplefied...

otter, (edited )

The problem is that other people will be unfamiliar with it. Unless OP can be the support person all the time, the grandparents may want to get help from someone else.

Keeping things stock is helpful for that, and I feel like Google Pixel is already simple enough. Just disable things like assistant during setup or in settings.

otter,

That’s a great point, uBlock Origin helps a lot with scams on desktop.

I agree to disagree

I should also point out that I haven’t tried GrapheneOS and can’t judge what the differences might be, so I’ll go with your experience on this :)

otter,

Also in the future, consider using one of the linked communities in the sidebar instead of this one.

ex. !newToLemmy

otter,

On boost I swipe from the right side of the screen when on a community

On connect I hit the 3 dots and go “About community”

otter,

This works, but the formats are ancient

If it could pull from knowyourmeme or imgflip.com/memetemplates?sort=top-new, with an API of some kind, that would help a lot

The user can download the format they want

otter,

You joke but a doctor recently got her license revoked for it

washingtonpost.com/…/tiktok-plastic-surgeon-dr-ro…

otter,

Easier to just report it

otter,

Ohh

I’d probably remove it but it’s pretty borderline

otter,

Can also ask in

!patientgamers

!patientgamers

otter,

People have said that the new scaled sort coming with Lemmy v0.19 should help with that

otter,

Please don’t use asklemmy as a support community, it fills it with spam

Try !newtolemmy or !lemmy, or one of the other links in the sidebar

Is "Error rate limit" a Lemmy or a Connect or an instance thing?

I’m trying to make posts. I’ve got an image hosted on catbox, so I’m posting only text and links. Most days I can make about 4 before I get that error. (I save my posts for when I have time.) Today, I got it after the first one. Is this a Lemmy thing, or Connect, or my instance or the instance I’m posting on?...

otter,

Possibly instance? I post a LOT of stuff in a short amount of time, usually I sit down and post a set of links / text posts and it’s fine.

Could you make an account on another instance and try to post the same way?

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