Assuming you’re looking for Lemmy/Piefed clients, you might be able to install some of the front ends as PWAs. Photon and Blorp for example
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If looking at a gun with someone else and they assure you it’s not loaded, you can respectfully ask themn to clear it in front of you before you handle it yourself.
Would you have a good video of what that looks like? I don’t think someone should be handling a gun if they’re that unsure, but it still might be helpful to someone
I think some chickens are more likely to lay them than others (due to age, or genetics). After that the eggs are somewhat larger, and you can check by shining a light through it
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•BentoPDF urgent security notice: do not pull or updateEnglish
3·2 days agoThank you!
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•BentoPDF urgent security notice: do not pull or updateEnglish
29·2 days ago@alam@lemmy.world is also on the threadiverse, and may post updates about this as it develops
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link)English
16·3 days agoPredictions
Showerthoughts
I had no idea Reddit invented having deep thoughts in the shower, or making predictions
🙄
Am I the Asshole?
Yea they can keep that one
Otter@lemmy.cato
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Should I switch to Qobuz or Tidal for music streaming?
2·3 days agoNo problem :)
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Should I switch to Qobuz or Tidal for music streaming?
19·3 days agoUse the free trials with both and see what you prefer!
For podcasts, if you’re on android, check out AntennaPod
edit: Adding some more information
- The podcast format was designed to be decentralized and open. Most creators still do direct distribution, so you can follow your favourite podcasts without needing a centralized entity like Spotify to collect it for you
- The exception is the platform exclusive paywalled stuff that Spotify produces themselves. Joe Rogan is one of those iirc, but I don’t think that affects the majority of people here
- If you listen on multiple devices and want to synchronize your listening history, see here: https://antennapod.org/documentation/general/synchronization
Otter@lemmy.cato
Lemmy@lemmy.ml•[Help Design Lemmy] Joinlemmy website and New User OnboardingEnglish
4·5 days agoI appreciate that you are gathering community feedback!
Right now it feels like the website is geared towards the style and content that technical users appreciate. I agree with the other comments that it would be nice to simplify the website down. Technical users are willing to explore for more information while the average user taking a quick look will likely leave.
Taking inspiration from other Fediverse platforms, my favourite landing pages are from Peertube and Mastodon:
How about the instance selection wizard (click “join a server” on the homepage), which lets you select topics and languages to select instances. Do the current options make sense?
This is likely a biased opinion, but could you add ‘region’ as a field, or ‘regional’ as a topic? For our instance, I think that’s how a lot of people are choosing to make an account with us given recent events. It also helps the user find an instance that is nearby (for lower latency), and within a jurisdiction that they are familiar with / can have an influence over through voting or other means.
pangora.socialseems to be down right now, but I recall them having a nice way of organizing thatAnother biased opinion, I agree that it’s better to have large instances near the top since they’re more likely to be up / fixed quickly / on top of moderation. You could include a note saying that larger instances are near the top because of XYZ, and that people can always make more accounts down the road if you change your mind. That way there’s less pressure to pick the “correct” instance.
And the list of apps, what can be done here? For one thing the data is rarely updated, so we would appreciate pull requests.
Could you potentially collaborate with https://lemmyapps.com/ ? It would be easier for users to submit updates to one place (whether it is a PR to you or an update on that site)
If I were to try and critique the site in excessive detail, from top to bottom:
- Could you make the logo have a rectangular / circle background around it? Right now edges look odd over the dark background. The hover effect looks nicer, maybe with different colors
- In the header: News, Docs, & Contact can be collapsed into a dropdown under ‘About’ or something similar, since those are pages that someone would go searching for
- Instead of ‘Join a server’, ‘Donate’ and ‘See all servers’, it might be better to have one massive “Join a Server” button/card on the front page that leads to the instance list page.
Join a serveandSee all serversare very similar for a user that’s not familiar with how this all works, and they end up in the same place. So instead of a popup, could you have it as a responsive widget on the instance’s page? That way users can quickly figure out how the instances are tagged- Since the donate button is already in the header, it might be better to have a large section on donations further down the page.
- The paragraph is a large block of text. I’d prefer something closer to what Peertube did
- The screenshots could be larger and more prominent
- The images give off ‘AI generated’ vibes, even if that wasn’t their origin. Could you have large cards with simple icons, similar to the 3 header cards on our site: https://fedecan.ca/en/
- I like the ‘Create your own discussion platform’ card’s format. It’s a bit hard to read, but otherwise nice
- The ‘more features’ section could be simplified down to the important points, and maybe even combined with what is being done with the screenshots area
On the servers page:
- The community explorer and fediverse observer are external sites, but they look like widgets right now.
- Is every instance under one topic, or would it be possible to let the user select multiple and have instances appear and disappear from the list live?
- I like Pixelfed’s join page since I can quickly narrow down an instance based on what’s important to me: https://pixelfed.org/servers
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your thoughts on the mass implementation of AI?
4·5 days agoWell yeah, what I said was
It’s useful in some contexts while being hot garbage in others. Learning to use it for what it’s good at is fine, trying to shoehorn it into everything is stupid.
Same as relying on it for everything. That’s not adapting, that’s being easily replaceable.
Use it for the few things it’s good at, and ignore their false promises on the rest.
This post was about tech companies trying to shove LLM based “AI” into everything. I’m looking forward to when investors move on from this one specific type of algorithm and we can get back to innovating properly.
Otter@lemmy.cato
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your thoughts on the mass implementation of AI?
3·5 days agoWell duh
How does that add anything to the points above
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your thoughts on the mass implementation of AI?
6·6 days agoSeems like the key word in the post was “mass implementation”
It’s useful in some contexts while being hot garbage in others. Learning to use it for what it’s good at is fine, trying to shoehorn it into everything is stupid.
Same as relying on it for everything. That’s not adapting, that’s being easily replaceable
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Technology@lemmy.world•This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it againEnglish
22·8 days agoSo they could have held paint drying Mondays instead, with the same overall effect
“Every single Monday was called Paint Dry Monday” Vaughan said, with his mandate for staff that they could only watch paint dry. “You couldn’t have customer calls; you couldn’t work on budgets; you had to only watch paint dry.” He said this happened across the board, not just for tech workers, but also for sales, marketing, and everybody else at IgniteTech. “That culture needed to be built. That was the key.”
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Technology@lemmy.world•A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroomEnglish
46·9 days agoI always saw the rules against Wikipedia to be around citations (and accuracy in the early years), rather than it harming learning. It’s not that different from other tertiary sources like textbooks or encyclopedias. It’s good for learning a topic and the interacting pieces, but you need to then search for primary/secondary sources relevant to the topic you are writing about.
Generative AI however
- is a text prediction engine that often generates made up info, and then students learn things wrong
- does the writing for the students, so they don’t actually have to read or understand anything
Otter@lemmy.cato
Cool Guides@lemmy.ca•A cool guide to move away from big tech and discover new and better tools!English
14·9 days agoI like the site, it’s clean and straightforward
I appreciate your work!
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Technology@lemmy.world•An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million usersEnglish
261·9 days agoOh is that what it was 😄
There’s an account that I haven’t used in years, which gets a “Are you trying to log in?” email every few months.
I got 6 emails at once the other day, figured it was the same junk
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Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Over the course of a week, our snowman did a veeeryyy slow bow
5·13 days agoI could have sworn I dropped a button here
Neat! Would love to see more from there if you have more photos 😄











Voyager works, although I don’t think it’s intended for Desktop use