Yep, I’m in Sweden, 30 and both know how to and do drive a manual car.

My last phone I kept for about 5 years. I had two issues:

• software support had ended
• the battery was severely degraded

fortunately there was a local shop who’d replace the battery (it wasn’t a fairphone so I couldn’t do it myself). If it wasn’t for the software support I’d have gone that route and would be still using it now. It worked perfectly well for my use case. Unfortunately, I ended up retiring the phone and getting a new one.

I’ve found this too. Generally if I’m okay waiting for the answer I’ll try and find the relevant lemmy community and ask that question there instead of clicking the reddit links. There are times though I simply need the answer and so of course I do click the reddit link.

Even so, if we all try and ask the questions we have here Lemmy will eventually be the place you find this information

I used it a lot, not through Google’s gchat stuff, I ran my own XMPP server. It worked really well, I used the OTR encryption plugin in pidgeon. My work also used to use xmpp for internal chat within the company, however they switched to matrix like 5-6 years ago. Something I’ve since done personally too.

I like XMPP a lot, it worked well, including it being federated.

Reddit is nothing without users posting and upvoting posts and comments. If all, or a large proportion of the users stopped using the site, reddit would have to listen or they’d stop being useful. I think there are two problems:

1. As you said, users don’t realize the power they have. It’s a bit more nuanced than that, they do realize the power of the collective, but don’t think the collective will exercise that power, and thus won’t act individually. It’s the same as “my vote doesn’t matter, it’s just one vote”. This is obviously a self-fulfilling prophecy because they are making it happen, they simply need to follow what they think is right.

2. A lot of users don’t care. Again, a bit more nuanced than that, most users probably have a preference reddit listens to their users, keeps the 3rd party app access, etc. But they don’t care enough to do anything about it, which in effect means in any practical way, they don’t care. I’m guessing that to them this feels a bit of a “niche” problem and will use the official app. There are a small amount of users, like me and probably you reading this who’ve left reddit and won’t go back.

The protests have worked. They’ve moved a motivated minority over to lemmy and we’re creating communities, posts and comments, contributing to apps and running instances. We’ll spend our time and effort improving the tools and communities for the fediverse ready. Hopefully, with enough of reddit being reddit causing more waves of people in the future to seek another platform, the fediverse will grow and reddit will dwindle. That’s my hope anyway.

I don’t really read news in English anymore, but when I did, I subscribed to the economist. I found most other news sites were too biased and ignored most of the world.

Kmail on desktop and the native sailfish email client on my phone.

I just want to say that I really love this app, thank you for you’re great work.

Yeah, I use ublock origin. I don’t like the ad model and many ads on the web are privacy invasive. I’m not averse paying for content (something I’m doing for some of it) but I won’t watch ads to fund creators.

I live in Sweden. Yeah, the tap water is clean and can be drank straight from the tap without boiling, filtering, or treatment in the whole country.

I use Sailfish OS on the Sony Xperia 10 III.

I choose the OS because I wanted a phone OS which would get updates for a long time, which sailfish has a good track record of and I wanted one which ran linux so that I had the normal things I’m used to on the desktop like systemd, pulseaudio, bash, rpm, etc. I did need it to run android for a couple of banking apps and sailfish provide a pretty decent android support layer. It’s worked really well, the biggest drawback I’d say is that parts of it are not open source and they’re kind of doing their own stuff so while some things do work like KDE apps, other apps would take a lot more effort to get working (gtk apps for example).> Fairphone

I use SMS and Matrix. I’d love to see something like Briar become more popular, or maybe XMPP make a resurgence as it’s been a great federated chat protocol for a long while.

I think I disagree. I have heard this a lot on Reddit and I’ve heard it about Twitter, Google Plus and a bunch of other social networks and I’ve been on small ones and huge ones alike. Honestly, to me, when a social network is large it includes both nuanced discussion and there more casual posting. I don’t see why both can’t exist on the same site and I feel like it often does exist on the same site.

I also think people have a huge range of interests, some of which might be quite niche and having a large user base means these niche communities can thrive. When I’ve used smaller social networks, this typically has been the problem. They often have their tech communities covered and they often have other large common hobbies and interests covered, but if you take for example learning welsh or theremin music or something else, then you typically only get communities about those things on larger networks.

I’ve signed, this is really important. Trains are vital for domestic travel, but also really important for international travel, about once a year I’ll need to go to another EU country and look for a rail option, often it’s not feasible. I really hope this succeeds, flying is unsustainable.

Short: No

Long: Theoretically yes, but they’d need to completely change leadership and also give up any notion of going public and instead transition to a non-profit. I dont think they can be working for the community while chasing profits. They have been trying to exploit users for profit rather than work with them.

That reddit could see me return, but at that point it’d be a very different situation and a very different reddit. I don’t think we’ll ever see it happen.

Just looked it up since I was sure I had read they had their own. On their wikipedia article it says:

In its early days on the Internet, the Qwant search engine relied on Bing to provide more relevant results. In 2016, Qwant claimed to be increasingly using its own results from its own exploration robots. It is still at the status of hybrid engine.[89] In 2020, Qwant claimed to have exceeded 50% of independent results for web searches, and 70% for all researchs

so I guess it’s both bing and their own thing.

Agreed, it feels like it’s a strong signal they don’t take privacy seriously.

I think Qwant does too, right?

Does anyone have more information about this? I took a look but there doesn’t seem to be much info in the readmes

That’s quite the neighborhood spat