I'm going to wait one year before I do anything but these projects do look satisfying.

This will upset a lot of creators. I know they can't just up and leave but I do wish more video creators just uploaded their content to other platforms (peertube would be nice!) the same way musicians upload to every streaming service. At least offer viewers a choice!

Thanks I'm really just looking for the easiest way to use KOreader and Calibre Web Companion so an Android ereader seems the way to go. If the charging port is iffy I may just try one of those wireless charging adapters. Appreciate the feedback.

Nice! How's the build quality? I enjoyed how the Oasis was metal and only 3mm.

Yeah I agree with that. I think ideally the real "balance" is going to swing in wildly different directions depending on the instance and what kind of experience it wants to provide.

Yeah I fully agree re: blocking at an individual level, but I'm just saying I also understand why someone may encounter the fediverse and be turned away at the prospect of putting in so much work just to even see if they like it. Admins need to step up too.

Totally but in practice they're not, and that's the issue, imo. We're halfway to being Voat with a trans-flag colored paint job

Hah well.... for starters I would say emotionally mature people don't tend to make demands of the people they're replying to.

I know a handful of people that tried Lemmy at my insistence but found the overall culture even more insufferable than reddit and honestly I don't even blame them. I fear that a lot of folks here are so desperate to "beat reddit" that they are willing to tolerate the most repulsive behaviors and it's only going to push the mature people away.

I hope I'm wrong, but for someone who doesn't care about decentralization, being "not reddit" is really all I can see that we have going for us.

I'm convinced this is true. Ever since the big redesign in 2018 (holy shit was it really eight years ago?) that kind of homogenized the whole platform, it became clear that the people reddit was trying to attract was not the communities but the mindless scrollers.

But the paradox was that some person had to want to post the content and make it feel alive, but that person is not needed anymore.

Facebook is entirely slop, scams, and bottom of the barrel memes but they make billions from attracting the dumbest users who will click on ads and that's where reddit wants to be.

I was all ready to make a Kobayashi Maru joke in the comments, but uh, I guess I'll see myself out.

This is interesting but oddly difficult to parse, ironically the writing style has LLM vibes with all the fluffy generic statements and overall lack of density.