Admin & sysadmin of a Warframe-focused Lemmy instance at https://dormi.zone.

Developer of a UI mod for Vivaldi Browser: https://github.com/HKayn/vivaldi-vh

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  • Not language directly, but rather force of habit.

    It sounds wrong to you because you grew up saying it another way.

    There is no one way that objectively makes more sense than the other, each language simply has its own habits. If everyone in Germany said “drei Punkt eins vier”, it wouldn’t sound awful to you at all.







  • I did it too. Most of my contacts were not willing to switch. My colleagues at work stayed in their WhatsApp group, and many of my close friends did too. I essentially cut myself off from most of my social circles and threw myself into social isolation. Not a good time.

    I ended up rejoining WhatsApp and concluded that in this instance, my mental health is more valuable than the privacy I gain by not participating in WhatsApp.








  • Why was it a hard decision for you?

    Not the person you replied to, but when a few friends of mine tried to migrate off Twitter, mastodon.social had closed sign-ups. So with the “official” instance unavailable, the issue was that there was a choice at all.

    While there’s only one “Twitter” or (presently) only one “BlueSky” to join, on Mastodon you suddenly have to decide which instance is the right one to make your account on. Which instance is most likely to stick around for the next couple years? Which instance is most aligned with your interests? Does the instance happen to (de)federate in any way that is a deal-breaker for you? Is the instance moderated well? You wouldn’t have to think about those if you signed up to BlueSky.

    It’s an issue similar to what Linux has with distributions.