Best controllers ever, in my opinion.

I think you’re right then, and honestly I can’t say I’ve noticed.

I’ve never heard of sugarcoating pills, is it a US thing maybe?

Beehaw is my favourite instance, if it left I would stay with it but and also use a different instance to use Lemmy.

I would worry that Beehaw couldn’t sustain itself outside of federation though, it needs to be either bigger or fill more of a niche and it doesn’t do either. I would give it some time to grow more first if it were up to me.

Because anything truly outside of our senses (or ability to measure) is non-falsifiable, so if it can’t impact us it’s essentially meaningless. If it can impact us then it can be measured and become science.

It’s just occurred to me that that would be difficult to do on Lemmy, since not everyone’s federated to the same instances.

Funnily enough I’ve also noticed that my comments on Lemmy.ml have only been getting 1 point in the last week. Probably because they’re not interesting enough but since you mentioned it…

Posting from a Beehaw account I think does have a psychological effect on me that causes me to naturally tone things down a bit. I think it’s been good for me.

Only issue is I recently opened another account because theyre leaving lemmy eventually and currently my posts dont federate and all my subscriptions are pending.

Nothing’s concrete yet. I have accounts on several instances for their various advantages, but Beehaw is what I’ve settled on as my main “default” for now. The Subscribe Pending is a bug, I don’t think it affects your posts federating so they’re separate issues if that’s the case.

Beehaw is a quieter experience than most because it has narrower federation, but you do tend to get a better signal to noise ratio since you miss the spammier instances - I like it.

Beehaw also doesn’t federate downvotes which I think is an improvement.

Saluton!

For power users, I recommend to use a plugin like NoScript though, to block Google/CookieLaw’s hidden JS spyware on the site (they’re on 2/3th of the web tho).

https://noscript.net

Beware, NoScript will break some sites, and will require you to manually enable/whitelist JS (JavaScript) sources for sites + CDNs to fix this again.

Can you not use uBlock Origin to block 3rd party scripts? Enable advanced mode and add * * 3p-script block to My Rules.

I ask because I want to keep the number of extensions to a minimum.

I was playing a degree of devil’s advocacy there because I was interested in how the person I replied to would respond.

I don’t think it needs to be as intensive as that, I think a small amount of education would go a long way. Like teaching school classes how to install an operating system on a blank machine as a basic entry point - that would do wonders for gaining a basic appreciation for ownership over computing.

Given the importance of computers in our time, isn’t it only proportionally justified to spend an enormous amount of time and dedication in teaching it properly?

I guess I just unsubscribe from communities where there are a lot of low-effort memes?

But seeing it here is fine, it’s started some discussion.

Completely agree. Now my hot take for this thread:

If governments some time in the 90s had decided from the start to ban computer hardware from being sold with pre-installed software then we wouldn’t have this problem. If everyone had to install their own operating system from scratch, which like you say isn’t hard if it’s taught, it would have killed the mystery around computing and people would feel ownership over their computers and computing.

It’s the first time I’ve seen it.

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That’s not true of all of the rest of the world though, you will get great tea in other tea-consuming areas, France is quite low down on that list.

I think steeping is the American English for what in Britain we would call brewing. (S)he is saying you’re brewing it too long.