Good breakdown. I might end up using it on my next desktop

You had ONE job Dyson 😂

Is this issue still ongoing? I’ve had various threads that I’ve had issues accessing via Jerboa and the pwa on my Chromebook. Can’t figure out if it’s a Lemmy-wide issue or instance-specific… from 404 issues to the website hanging when I submit a post along with pages that only load the header

Second gen. Pixel Watch. Not expecting anything groundbreaking tbh, but skipped the first one and have $$$ burning a hole in my pocket.

Similar content as r/Chicago. Also maybe make a mention of the forum in the comments of one of the main midwest.social welcome posts to attract more eyeballs as people first venture into Lemmy…

We are the most populated city in the midwest, and stand to have the largest userbase but the lack of content means our channel is harder to find, which becomes is a self-reinforcing issue.

I’d say like-minded people is #1 and lots of engagement is #2 (with the catch-22 that if there’s a lack of engagement, then it doesn’t provide the opportunity to meet like-minded people).

I think that once the bare minimum of engagement is achieved though, #1 becomes vastly more important.

For example I’d rather have a thread w/ 20 comments and 80% of the comments are meaningful to me, versus a thread w/ 1,000 comments and 20% of the people have responses that I like. Although the 2nd thread has more meaningful comments overall, I have to sift through a lot of noise to get there.

That’s part of the reason I’m optimistic about lemmy and how it has self-selected similiarly-minded people currently.

Ahhh I was wondering why Lemmur didn’t recognize my instance

Same. I like that it’s on F-Droid too

It’s a great read but a lot to books! Enjoy!

From Chicago. I made the plunge to Mastodon (and here) after the Reddit shenanigans and just seeing the repeated bad-faith policies by Twitter. I have been using redirector and libredirect for the last month or two to actively decide who I give my data to just as a fun experiment into best practices.

I think it’s slowly starting to be clear that this type of setup will be the way forward for the more tech-savvy, privacy-focused users, and hopefully/eventually it hits the mainstream as well, but otherwise, it’s just self-selecting into the type of people I want to be around, which will probably be better for my mental health anyways.

I’m into cycling, trading, sci-fi and FOSS. Currently reading The Expanse and taking a sabbatical year from work

Edit: Just want to encourage people to engage w/ and create content over the next few weeks. Activity and friendly faces are probably the most determining factor in whether someone becomes an active user or just browses for a few minutes