This is not a personal account, it’s one for a site I’m building. I know many won’t like that as it might come as spammy, corporate or whatever, but I have decided to use Lemmy as a place for discussion -in a related community- and Mastodon as the one for news and updates (together with old good RSS) and I have done it because I believe in a federated web.

I’m tired of walled gardens and billionaire-run feuds -and every web loading endless MBs of scripts from a dozen of third-parties (I mean, sometimes it can be justified, like on very complex sites… but not on a damn text blog, come on!)- or not working with my OS/browser of choice… and I want the Fediverse to keep growing and become not only a viable alternative but -and here I’m just daydreaming, I know- the default.

And to this point this post made me realize that it won’t happen on its own -not the way most people are, anyway- and that we/I need to put more effort on it. I’m culprit of just signing up and… well, waiting. And that won’t work. So thank you from bringing this matter to me, and I’ll try to do my part from now on, if not with this account with a personal one.

Techmoan, if you are interested in old or weird tech.

WOW! This has it all! I mean, all I care about myself anyway: 42 keys, trackpad AND trackball (though I could do with just one of them) and 2 rotaries, and at the right place. Looks aren’t what I’d go for, but that’s a matter of personal taste, and yet it still is a well made and beautiful one. Congrats and enjoy!

Same. But it looks weird when a product has 2 different types of plastic and one yellows but the other doesn’t. I don’t think that’s too common though.

And of course it loads content from Google! :( Well, it tried, because I block all that stuff, but how sad anyway. There are very few “independent” sites out there these days, all of them depend on third-parties, sometimes for a valid reason, but many others not.

“modern design sensibilities”

How I dislike laptops not having trackpad buttons! No matter how good modern trackpads are, I still just want buttons. And lots of keys, and switches… and screws. Don’t care how clean and sleek modern laptops look, they are a tool for me.

• Bonus points for the trackpoint!

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The first image link doesn’t work, but this one does:

https://media.piefed.social/posts/dR/Ew/dREwBXGL4ZKlZlx.jpg

Now that you said ghost town… There is this sub I really liked that had around 500 000 members but with close to zero activity, like one or two posts a month and barely any comment. Now, with the changes, last time I checked it said it had less than 1000 active users!

I don’t know if this change is good or bad for Reddit, but you can bet it was bad for mods, because they are complaining about those drastic reductions in member counts. I understand that there is no point in counting members if they are long gone, just like it doesn’t make sense for a city to count their deceased for a population estimation.

Anyway, as usual mods there complain and complain but won’t leave the site. I’m trapped there because of a few niche subs I can’t find good replacements for, but I hope all these changes move more people out.

hiding total sub member count with a rolling view count

Wouldn’t that be worse? I’ve seen a sub that had close to 5 million members and the new metric showed today 98 000 weekly users. r/gaming had what? 30 millions? Now it’s 2.4. This makes it look worse, doesn’t it? Or am I missing something?

But I agree with anything else you said.

I’ve seen kids with Nirvana t-shirts who knew nothing about the band. This might be similar.

Not even unique I’d argue. He was lucky Digg killed itself at the right moment.

Glad I’m not the only one! :D

surf-club I’m making it a habit to hit that “random” link daily. Already spent quite some time at a few sites. Even when they are no longer being updated all of them are interesting in their own ways and, funnily, refreshing (given the current modern web). Thank you!

WTF??? That’s amazing! Thank you for wasting my time -a lot of it- in the best possible way ;)

Message aside, the site is cool, love that you can change the style, and the icon animation on the last one is brilliant. Also: a webring! It’s been a long time since I saw one. I need more of this web and I’m happy to rediscover it.

As annoying as she was, Fi from Skyward Sword almost made me cry at the end of the game. Well, a couple of tears.

I’m on 141.0.3

Same, yet I don’t see any AI stuff (thankfully!). Maybe I’m missing something. Anyway, yes, screw any opt-out feature. I feel your pain.

How come I don’t see any of that AI stuff on my install? It’s a regional thing? OS-based?

Those were my thoughts. Now I’m also thinking of making it mandatory to include a piece of paper or whatever with the username written on it and have it show by the artwork on the progress photos. That could add a layer of complexity for the fakers.

The sad part is that all these will make the submitting process slower and more tedious, but that’s the world we live in. But I guess artists will understand.