Did they charge you 3.75 for being an LA woman? 😂😂

I connect my MacBook pro to external monitor. The usbc-c cable I use does both charging and HDMI over the single USB c cable, so I don’t need to use a separate port for charging!

Honestly just the fact that the protest gave awareness to viable reddit alternatives is good enough. And the blackout helped in that regard to force users to search for alternatives (like me). Obviously subs will be forced back open, but people have options now with whole communities here that literally did not exist weeks ago.

you’re right, i was just oblivious to it until the blackout showed me how much i rely on reddit to get any useful search results…

I hope we’re also on the cusp of a new era of search… not sure how that would look like but I envision with SEO-optimized AI-generated articles (esp. all those top 10 articles which is so easy to generate with AI), Google is only going to continue going downhill spammed with fake content.

also reddit’s own search kind of sucks, so Google is basically a glorified reddit search engine for me half the time.

in fact, my excitement about lemmy has left me with even less time, the irony

if you’re on Android there is an app for Lemmy called Jerboa which is working well for me (and also just released a new update with a ton of additions/fixes!). You can use the app to connect to any lemmy instance.

😎

Decentralized is the future of the internet

Lurkers (me) are leaving too, hopefully en masse.

if there can be a coordinated migration to the fediverse during blackout, that’d be the dream.

+1 been a Sync user for probably over 10 years… It’s been an app I’ve opened near daily since then too, I’ll miss it.

What’s the difference between the multiple lemmy instances and something else also ActivityPub based like kbin? Is lemmy.ml vs lemmy.world the same as comparing lemmy.world with kbin.social? I have accounts with both Lemmy and Kbin and confused a bit by what I’m seeing, and also Threads vs Magazines vs Microblogs haha. So much to learn about the fediverse!

im going back and forth between lemmy and kbin depending on whatever is not currently hugged to death