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If the only significance of 240 sterlings is that it weighs a pound, then it seems likely the pound would have been a pound, whatever number of sterlings it happened to be…

So, a few years back, when my kid was 13 or so, I used to send them memes over discord. This was 6 or 7 years ago now. And I thought, I’m a cool mum, 'cause I use discord to talk to my kid, and I send them memes.

And one day, I asked my kid if I’m one of the cool parents, 'cause I send them memes, and they said “You send me old memes”. Their friends thought I was cool but my kid? Nah, not so much…

In all seriousness though, my kid is 20 now, and I have a great relationship with them. Don’t read too much in to it. I don’t think there’s any winning with young teens and pre teens. You’ll never be cool in their eyes, and I think we just have to find our peace with that :)

The format you want is !communityname @ instance.tld

So !eurographicnovels@piefed.social

Make sure you make a sticky post in the old community with the new address before lemm.ee shuts down. That way it will stick at the top of folks feeds, even after the instance is down, and people who find the old community will be able to tell at a glance what the new address is

https://tube.blahaj.zone/w/72HTsLqo5WjBrftSxXBCqq

I use PieFed rather than lemmy as my default these days, but the answer is the same for both. I love that they’re community driven, community hosted federated spaces that let people find the experience they want, and that they’re strongly resistant to corporate takeover and centralisation.

What I don’t like so much is the increase in debate bro type folk that are slowly drifting over from reddit. Of course, they’re at least partly dealt with by the things I mentioned earlier, but still, I wish we could undo some of the in your face debating attitudes that people have been trained to default to by toxic social media

I don’t like there is no way to get notification (subscribe to) a post to see new replies that come in after I’ve read the post for the first time…

I’ve moved to PieFed now as my default instance instead of lemmy, and this is one of the main reasons why! And you can do it at the community level as well, to be notified when a new post is made to a given community

There are better ways of convincing non involved participants than debate, especially it’s an argument around human rights, bigotry, transphobia, racism etc. Getting in to a debate normalises the idea that “both sides” of these arguments have similar validity and value.

Honestly, I like it. I run google and all of its platforms in their own tab containers, without signing in and that’s what my Youtube looks like. It’s great, I can search for the thing I need, and otherwise interact with google ad spam as little as possible

Thanks to the longer focal lengths and brighter light making narrow apertures more viable, it’s not something I’ve needed for my birds.

But I’ve definitely felt the pain of the reduced DoF the few times I’ve tried macro

I really should. My cameras all stack in camera, but it’s not something I’ve really tried to play around with much. There’s not much use for it taking photos of birds :p

Honestly, I think they’re worse than people say. There might be the odd good news story to come out of them, but they are designed to get you to fork out cash, and stay around and keep forking out cash, so their whole goal is to feed you hope, without ever causing you to be successful enough to leave.

As you wish!!!

I imagine it’s a little different in photography circles since there’s probably no good way to build new lenses with solder,

Those photographers shoot film, and develop their own images in a hastily thrown together darkroom in their home :)

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That’s a lot of words to say “Things were better when I was young”.

It’s a clickbait article, showing the same distress at younger generations that every generation before has complained about

The airport “Marriott” in Santiago de Chile. That place was a hole, and a tiny one at that.

If it we weren’t Google, I’d be ok with paying too. As it is, the content creators will have to get by with their individual sponsorships, rather than getting ad revenue from me.

There is no tolerable amount of ads, because not only are they an awful experience, they explicitly drive user hostile growth and decisions in the future (ie enshitification).

I used to pay for YouTube to avoid ads, before I got sick of Google and refused to give them any more money. Now I use a pihole and a browser based adblocker, as well as 3rd party front ends, because fuck Google. I don’t give a shit if I’m denying them income.

There’s no one size fits all answer. Sometimes yes, sometimes no.