goddamn you 😂

bitcrushed wilhelm scream

StartAllBack is good but I personally use and prefer Start11

Hmm interesting, it probably just needs to be updated

Probably just depends on how websites or apps handle it? I’m using Liftoff and that’s not a link for me

How is that Google’s fault?

If this is the case then what’s actually the point of it?

Nah not just one company. Reddit, Twitter, basically every social media, streaming services, every site adding stupid ads and auto playing videos, etc. It all adds up

Meh, while I totally get what you’re saying I think there’s something to be said about these stepping stones between dying closed source platforms and developing FOSS platforms. Especially since most content people are used to and want to engage with is on said platforms. Not everyone wants to jump onto new platforms with learning curves, but this is an in-between for the people gaining awareness.

That, and having a fundamental disagreement with the way a platform is run or what telemetry they harvest doesn’t mean I don’t like the content there. Social media has been a constant battle between the owners, the content creators, and the regular users. At the end of the day people use it for community and connection, even if venture capitalists are hell bent on destroying their product.

Big L

I had that issue with Jerboa a lot so I switched to Liftoff, it’s much smoother!

The irony of this comment duplicating 😅 but yeah you’re right, there needs to be a lot of streamlining first

Lmao that’s great. Which one?

It does in fact exist!

https://adnauseam.io/

Ah okay that makes sense

how the hell did you and the person you’re replying to get your names to look like that

It does kinda feel like a porn site! Dirty and guilty almost, useful in the moment and then you realize you don’t really wanna spend any more time there than you have to haha. It makes me a little sad though because I feel like I’ve learned so many interesting things there, found so many niche hobbies and communities over the years. But like you said it’s just a website and at the end of the day it’s the humans who make the communities. Doesn’t matter who’s hosting it, I think we’ll always find a way to gather and share cool things with each other. I’m hopeful in that way for the future of the fediverse.

And yeah, finding something better to do with my time other than feeding my addiction to information via infinite scrolling is definitely a good thing. Data paralysis, info stasis, whatever you wanna call it, is numbing and and I think so many people use it as a crutch and vice because life is hard and inaction is easier.

The apps I’ve been using have been glitchy, or at least lemmy.world’s performance is, so I keep going back to Boost just because it’s such a great app experience. I haven’t been going to it as much though, it feels a bit ruined for me. Like there are still great people and communities, but I feel like I can’t engage now because it gives data to the admins. And the quality of content overall has gone down between some subs still being dark, other subs protesting by pivoting to joke and NSFW content, and a lot of high quality users moving to Lemmy.

For the most part I avoid negative content, but I was on a lot of subs that had to engage with it (r/LGBT, trans subs, etc) Plus I like to be kept aware about what’s going on with legislation regarding human rights in the US so that can be a bummer I guess but I don’t blame the platform for being the messenger. So I haven’t really noticed a mental health shift but I have been trying to move away from reddit and do other things I enjoy, so I guess that counts? I’ve been reading and playing video games a bit more which is really nice.

I just used PowerDeleteSuite to overwrite and delete my messages. I’ve also been using reddit for about 11 years. It feels sad in a way, like I’m losing a friend. The communities could be really great sometimes, and it’ll take a while for the fediverse to truly catch up in terms of growth and features. I left my account active so I don’t lose my saved posts but it might as well be dead, the app is garbage and the site is dying.