bnaur

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Shpongle, when the walls melt.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It's a russian Margolin, or some variant. So yes, a .22LR.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yep, once anyone can download an app on their phone and do something like this without any effort in realtime it's going to lose its (shock) value fast. It would be like sketching a crude boobs and vagina on someones photo with MS Paint and trying to use that for blackmail or shaming. It would just seem sad and childish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Practical, but not really equivalent though because of nil punning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The locking down started with the original MacIntosh (or actually with the Lisa I guess). ISTR they had at least one bit more open period after that, but those have always been the exception.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Wouldn't it be more correct to say that most Americans also use a messaging app (iMessage). The rest are just stuck with SMS to have compatibility with the iPhone users.

As the iPhone was (is?) not as popular in the Europe as it was (is) in the States that might also be one of the reasons why people here ditched SMS so fast once smartphones got popular.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Join and recommend smaller general instances like lemm.ee, vlemmy.net, and lemmy.one at random instead. Smaller servers have been upgraded for the surge of users too you know

That was basically my logic when I joined lemmy.world a few weeks ago. Oh well...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's actually cool and a bit like what I had in mind. But it doesn't seem to offer an actual hierarchical view of the lemmyverse.

It would be nice to have a forum style clear treeview of the forums (instances) and their subforums (communities) with activity indicators etc to make browsing and discovering content straight forward. Then if you subscribe to a community it would also show in it's own treeview that the user could arrange to their liking.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You are not alone, and I'm starting to feel that treating Lemmy like a federation of web forums instead of Reddit replacement would fit the underlying model better.