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It’s the fediverse version of Instagram. Pixelfed.org.
Which are your go-to apps for social media? Right now I’m only on Lemmy, Mastodon, Matrix, and Pixelfed. All in on that fediverse life.
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I’m obsessed with birds. How precious. ❤️❤️❤️
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I always laugh at the term "far left" or "left extremism." Like oh no stop it with all the equality and rights. No no anything but those.
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It’s not implemented well because it adds it to your account immediately without needing to confirm the code. This means if the user doesn’t know what they’re doing they could add 2FA and not copy the code correctly to their password manager resulting in a lockout.
I've gotten away from Discord, so I'm looking for some active Matrix groups. Anyone have links/recommendations? Right now I'm in the Mlem app matrix group which is pretty active and lovely, but I'd like some more! Thank you!!
If you go into your account settings you'll see a shiny new 2FA setup option. Once you check the box and reload there will be a button to there link your default 2FA application. Now for Safari users on macOS who don't use Apple Keychain for your 2FA but rather a 3rd party app like 1Password or Bitwarden things are a little tricky. In order to get around linking it directly to Keychain you can right click the 2FA link and choose "inspect element." Scroll down slightly and you'll see that element highlighted in the new element window. Right click the highlighted area and select "copy link." That's the 2FA code which you can then paste in any 3rd party password manager.
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I'm not seeing much at all of that currently. A week ago? Sure. Now it's been consolidated to a mega thread.
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Are* and god I hope so. Protections from nazis are precisely why I came to beehaw.
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What if I told you we don't need to compete with them?
African_Grey
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The biggest issue is normies are stupid. That’s basically the gist.
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I won’t touch anything with Dorsey’s name attached. Yuck.
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Before algorithms we all used hashtags. Hashtags were very important to Twitter in the before times. That’s how you find topics on mastodon. I have columns set with specific hashtag sets so I can quickly glance at toots about horror movies, birds, retrogaming, etc…
You can also follow hashtags directly in your home feed just like Twitter topics.
It’s really not a difficult thing at all, but people are so addicted to Twitter they always give a halfassed attempt at switching before throwing up their hands.
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You’re talking about Lemmy, right? Sorting by anything but new gives you the same posts for days on end.
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Umm what the actual fuck? Did Florida just lowkey ban all trans people from their state? How is this constitutional? How do you even say someone is trans when they have an updated birth certificate ffs? This is pure insanity.
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Just delete the account a make it on another instance? What’s the issue?
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Everyone always saying “rip Twitter” but y’all never leave, so…
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Musk started it with the extreme monetizing of Twitter. Cutting off api access, charging premium subs for reach, selling verified… and he got away with it. All the brainless Twitter users are still there using his platform and bitching instead of leaving.
Musk proved you can piss all over your userbase and they won’t leave. Now all tech companies are doing it. Meta is charging for verification. YouTube cutting adblock. Google looking to stop supporting adblock in chrome. Even Reddit CEO citing Musk as his inspiration going forward.
LEAVE these platforms, people. The CEOs are literally laughing at your stupidity while cashing checks.
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Trying it now. Thunder is really good but it feels like it’s designed for Android not iOS. Very “material you” feeling.
I’m not sure if you’ve tried this PWA called Wefwef but it feels like a fully featured Apollo client for Lemmy already. You just go to the site and add it to your home screen. No beta to sign up for. No TestFlight link. Just add the PWA. It’s good. It’s really really good.
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Eh. I used to be a YouTube junkie but honestly I’ve gone back to live TV, Hulu, Netflix, etc… I’m kinda over the whole YouTube thing.
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I’m so glad I signed up on Beehaw where I can flip my app to local only and makes these dog whistling conservative bigots disappear. It’s wonderful. I also never see any downvotes.
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Mastodon is better anyway. I deleted Twitter ages ago when Musk took over. It's amazing how many people have stayed there despite how much he's shit all over the userbase. He makes Spez look like a saint.
No shot those Fritos are still crunchy. Why on earth would you put the Fritos in at all? This completely ruins the entire point of the walking taco which is to use a small bag of Fritos as the container for the toppings themselves. This makes me irrationally angry.
Literally says he wants to return to the 1940s.
I was looking at reddit today, and the front-page felt like nothing happened. I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled and clicked into comments. Everything is popping off buzzing with activity. All the subreddits I was subscribed to that went dark are now back up and business as usual. I knew we were a minority, but I didn't expect this level of apathy. It feels like Spez was 100% right and this **did** in fact blow over. What's your take on it it? I didn't expect Reddit to immediately be a failure, but man I guess I expected a bigger impact than that.
This is what passes for poutine in America (as seen in the SanFrancisco airport).
Nintendo Wii: Sold like gangbusters. 64bit Processors: The computing standard. Battlestar Galactica: Considered one of the greatest sci-fi series of all time. Facebook: Continues to be the world’s leading social media platform by literally BILLIONS of users. High Definition: HD only got even more HD. iPhone: Set the standard for mobile smartphone form factor and function to this day 16 years later.
Affirmative Action has now ended in the United States.
Honestly I didn't quite believe it. I had to look it up on wikipedia to realize 1998 was that long ago. I getting old. Really old. Not even a meme old. Like *real actual* old.
Sure, the very first iPhone released today, but does anyone remember the first Android smartphone? In October of 2008 HTC’s T-Mobile G1, or HTC Dream as it’s known outside the U.S would launch being the first phone with the Android OS. The G1 was priced at $179 — which was pretty affordable even in those days — and featured top-of-the-line specs including a Qualcomm MSM7201A processor, 192MB of RAM, and 256MB of internal storage (expandable up to 16GB). It also stocked a 3.15MP rear camera, and a 1,150mAh battery.
Apparently there were angry men in the comments saying "they were just complimenting her." Disgusting.
For better or worse the iPhone hit the market today 16 years ago changing the world forever.
*boing boing*
The always wonderful Bill Gates DooM video promoting Windows 95 and DirectX.
Today was huge. I’ve separated myself enough from Google with Proton applications/services combined with other more privacy focused software and hardware to be able to completely delete my Google account. It feels great to FINALLY be free of them. I’ve had an account there for decades.