This.

I use Adguard, if a site blocks me for it, then it goes on a black list of “never visit” sites.

In a few cases, if I use and like/support a specific site a lot and that site is ad supported with no other ad-free option, then I white list it.

But to read the odd crappy article? No I’m not disabling my ad blocker.

I thought Mass Effect had a great soundtrack that really fit the game perfectly. Moody in parts and rousing in others.

Mass Effect 1 Soundtrack

I’m spending way more time!

I didn’t really like the community in Reddit that much. I used it more like a news feed. So I never read ‘all’, I just read my subs for a few minutes here and there, but I didn’t post and comment much.

Since coming here I post and comment a lot more. There seems to be more proper discussion here, despite being much smaller and quieter.

I have both Android and IOS phones. In Australia it is rated as 4.7 on the Apple app store and 2.7 on the Google Play store.

Interestingly on the Play store, I scrolled through the top news apps and the top social apps all the way past number 150 and the Reddit app doesn’t even make the list. Yet other Reddit apps like Boost are still on that list.

But yes, it’s listed as one of the top news apps on the app store. It’s also listed as an app I “might be interested in” 😆

Thanks, that’s great 🙂

To never make any resolutions ever again.

So far it’s going well 👍🏻

How do you filter for English?

I sometimes get a bunch of Dutch and German posts. They seem to come in waves. My high school German from years ago is not up to the task so I’d rather filter them out!

You can pess and hold for thread collapse.

Just had a look,shows as 2.9 for me too.

Lol, sounds like a downgrade 😅

Great discussion.

Because it’s happened gradually I’ve just gotten used to Google being less and less useful.

It’s good to try something else.

This thread made me try Perplexity, Kagi and SearXNG. I’ll give them all a run over the next week or so and see how they go.

What is different about the pro version?

Thanks for the suggestion I hadn’t heard of this.

I just tried it to find some simple info that I struggled finding last night because I had to shovel through so much crap with Google. It definitely did a better job than Google did.

It’s sad how far the Goog had fallen.

An AI Special Operation

I found this diagram useful for picturing the Fediverse vs Reddit:

https://mastodon.online/@binoctdechex/110538120775065728

Yes because:

1. I want to see it take off and want to do my bit
2. It feels like a more chilled environment in which to participate

Some will.

Not sure how big a number that some will be though.

For people that use 3rd party apps, suddenly they won’t work. They’ll try the Reddit app, some won’t be happy when they see how it looks and some of those will look at alternatives.

Quite possibly some users have already heard about something called Lemmy, but haven’t been bothered to leave Reddit. If their app stops working, that might be enough to make them take a look.

There will be a bit of a surge. It won’t suddenly be millions.

Connect for Lemmy. Was using Jerboa until the update made it a bit unstable with lemmy.world (until they update their end, hopefully soon).

Both pretty decent, but as a SyncForReddit refugee, I’m eagerly waiting for SyncForLemmy :)

Lol, watched a lot of Simpsons but had never seen that!

That Dialup sound.

Newsgroups.

The kick I got out of posting up my own crappy page with lots of annoying images and gifs (Geocities ftw!)