Just wanted to add me .2c here since I have some real-world experience with this and no dog in this fight. We’re a small computer engineering company with 1 mechanical engineer on the team. We had designed a custom chassis for one of our products (first time we had ever done this), and were looking for quotations to build a prototype. After some research and recommendations, we narrowed it down to 3 companies: A German, American and a Canadian company; all were highly reputable. We were given quotes of $15,000 - $20,000 USD, and told our CAD files need to be heavily modified because some parts of our design were ‘impossible’. We were also told it would take approx. 3 months to receive the prototype. Out of curiosity, we sent the CAD files to our PCB manufacturer in China and asked if they knew anyone who could build the chassis. They quoted us $300 and said it would take a week. We paid them, and honestly, we expected to receive garbage - it wasn’t. We had minor complaints but overall, esp. for $300 and a week, it was excellent.

same

Switzerland…?

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. So far very powerful writing. Just finished reading “Tuesday’s with Morrie” which is fantastic.

A few years ago I downloaded a browser extension to stop showing me recommended videos, both on the homepage and on the side of videos. I can only watch what I’m subscribed to and what I search for - you’d think its a big sacrifice because you can’t discover as many videos, but in reality I’ve gained so much more of my time back and control over what I actually want to watch.

Also been using this for several years and can concur, simple, easy-to-use, never let me down.

MacOS with a tiling window manager for work, Win10 on PC for gaming and Linux on all servers. I would run Linux for work if Office, Adobe and esp. Outlook ran on it, MacOS with Yabai + SKHD is the closest I can get to a Linux experience while still being functional for work.

Agree with this, sunk 3k hours into that game before i finally quit a couple years ago. It’s gotten progressively worse over time, what a shame.

“Woo-sah”

Its crazy seeing how much engagement there is on posts, I really like lemmy, even before the reddit influx, so far so good.

I think that, as humans always choose the path of least resistance, implementing any sort of algorithm is the fastest way to a ‘dopamine kick’, and as such the attention that new or lengthy information provides suffers. One thing I love about the current Fediverse (and I’ve heard this term used before, too), is that it is very reminiscent of the early internet - when everything was random and interesting, different view-points, things you’d never heard of, etc., If people had the option between algorithm or no algorithm, if it were a simple toggle, I’d have to imagine most people would choose the algorithm, which would be a real shame.

Same! That first line, “make the net weird again” sums up all my hopes for the future of the fediverse

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I see, so you can view Lemmy posts and comment from Mastodon, but cannot view Mastodon posts and comment from Lemmy?

Very interesting, and thank you for the excellent explanation. I think I understand a little bit more now: so they are different services but because of the shared protocol it allows for some interoperability between services, and the unique part about the Fediverse is that it isn’t simply an API, but all federated services (lemmy, mastodon, friendica, etc.,) are all literally interconnected, but the exact functionality depends on the service itself. Did I get that right?

All of the above

Can somebody ELI5 what the difference is between Lemmy and Mastodon? Is it just a different front-end to the same thing?

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EDIT: nvm, for some reason my browser was adding some strings to the end of the link