And then you do it in a web browser and open developer mode

Does logging in work for you all? I’m on my phone with desktop mode on and it redirects to a blank page after logging in

Does no one remember the Ellen Pao era

I think there’s a difference between typos and the grammar of someone learning the language.

Meaning that you can usually differentiate between a native speaker of your language typing hastily and not bothering to correct themselves of clean up, vs a new person learning your language speaking in a generally broken manner. I think by typos OP was referring to the first case, and was probably not accusing ESL learners for having imperfect grammar.

To add to that, searching isn’t as simple as “best laptops reddit” if the knowledge is spread across the fediverse. That’s something I’d be interested to see

we’ve had calendar apps for years. I hated how that would litter comment threads.

Thanks! Ima check it out

Eh. You never know. People leave breadcrumbs of useful info in what they deem not useful. Further, things that you might not think twice about (ex: casually mentioning what car you drive, a coffee shop you went to that day) might reveal a lot of information (eg: your political leaning, rough geographic info etc). If you still have access to an old account, dig through your comments pretending to be a spy (or marketing agent) trying to learn as much about you as possible, with 0 prior knowledge - you might be surprised how much you learn.

Well think about it with this crude kind of inaccurate analogy.

You have a windows laptop. Your friend has a windows laptop. When you’re logged in to your laptop you can send your friend email. And see his emails to you.

But just because your laptop is windows and his laptop is windows doesn’t mean your windows log-in would work on his right? Lemmy works more like that. Reddit is kind of like one large windows laptop and everyone gets their own keyboard. Your log in works no matter which keyboard you use.

You may notice that Lemmy communities have the @ symbol like an email. So tech@lemmy.world is different from tech@lemmy.ml (just like how robert@yahoo.com is not the same account as robert@gmail.com). They MAY be made by the same Robert but there’s no guarantee.

You really just need one account. So in the communities tab from your instance (Lemmy.world) you can search for the community on the other instance (Lemmy.ml) for example tech@lemmy.ml.

Your account let’s you post and comment on @lemmy.ml posts

I wonder how legal that is, and if there’s grounds for a class action

https://Lemmy.world/c/general https://Lemmy.world/c/reddit

I believe that’s a Lemmy bug requiring an instance restart

Its so weird visiting such an old looking site and getting the GDPR Cookie notification!

Honestly, the balance I’ve struck is that Reddit is purely for research now, like Wikipedia. I refuse to engage with it on a daily basis or use it for my social interaction needs but I decided to not avoid its massive database of useful info just because continued daily interaction is a pain

It sucks man. I’ve had similar experiences with my dad. There comes a point in life where you realize that not sharing a close passion or hobby with the people you love is OK. The love from the community is just as good. Yes it’s great if you can bond over the same things but at the end of the day it’s totally OK to NOT share a passion too.

And who knows, if Reddit gets worse he might switch or get more interested - this is just the beginning. For me, I just learned not to push the topic if my dad wasn’t interested. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.

I’d just do me own thing and if he ever comes to me later with questions I’m happy to chat and show him the ropes.

For example he wasn’t too interested in the Right to Repair talk, but I got him a Framework Laptop and he had to replace the Keyboard and found it so easy. I think he gets it now. But for 20+ years he was hardcore ThinkPad.

Give it time. If your dad never switches that’s OK too. Just share memes and content and don’t worry too much about the platform.

Like NewPipe for YouTube. It pulls YouTube videos but also other PeerTube federated instances

I’m trying to help the Lemmy.world chat community take off. Come introduce yourself!

https://lemmy.world/post/211799?scrollToComments=true

Come introduce yourself!

Subscribed! I’ve only been once and it ended with a concussion so I’ll vicariously live through you guys

I made an introduction thread over in !chat (https://Lemmy.world/c/chat) if you’re feeling bored