Ce să vă zic, mă, bine ați venit? bine ați venit, rău ați nimerit. La locu’ ăsta îi zice șerpărie, de la șerpii care umblă pe-aicea. Dracu’ știe cum au ajuns…
@Skyline Lime had it (probably still has it). I used to rent a Lime scooter just by choosing “try app”. I would then enter the scooter code manually, and I could freely ride how much I wanted. It worked all the time. I’m no longer using this feature, as I have a new phone with a bigger storage, where I installed the Uber app, so whenever I would try the same way it would prompt me to use the Uber app to unlock the scooter.
I quit Meta because of tech bro fascism, and hated Twitter even before it was X because, let’s face it - nobody has ever changed their opinion on anything because of a Twitter conversation (I know I’m exaggerating, to get my point across). I was in Reddit for a few weeks […]
I’m assuming you previously used Facebook mostly, right? If so, there’s also a Facebook alternative called Friendica, with pretty much the same core functionality as Facebook (sans Marketplace). Besides that, you can also format your posts and comments, add titles to them, get a dislike button and customize your experience more than you could do there. Plus you can also follow Lemmy communities straight from there, as well as Mastodon accounts, Flipboard publications etc.
Check out friendica.world to try it out.
@Ulrich Yeah, but then you’ll have normies complain like where are the DMs? where are the DMs?
Just like it was on Mastodon where DMs were actually a thing, but were not something so straightforward (usually just create a regular post with only the person that you wanted to talk with tagged in there).
The enshitification is so damn real.
@ruud I created a megathread, over at https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2167-82af-600d-9ea129892452
There will also be a web version of it coming sometime in the future (when I’ll have more spare time at hand). Feel free to steal any info you might want from it :D
@Teknevra https://ourspace.lat/
(seems like it’s currently down though)
@RizzRustbolt Very good question. Here’s how to figure it out:
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/adriancinenaticuniverse/images/9/97/90_degree_half_heil.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20230329101954
@Zero22xx No worries! Whatever fits you best! :D I’m happy you found a place around here!
Hope Zuck doesn’t create another streisand with this one, like he did with Pixelfed (or maybe I hope he does, idk)
I’ll have a shot with you too. Or maybe two shots. Or maybe whatever gets me to hospital in coma (jk).
@Zero22xx Friendica is more personal so to say… idk how to put it. It is more like Facebook :D You’ll likely find your way.
And another small thing for me (that can be easily fixed by styles and apps) is no apparent dark mode.
Go to Settings>Display>Custom theme settings, then click the drop-down on appearance (should be the second item).
If you’re using the Vier theme instead of Frio, scroll down to Theme settings and select the drop down next to “set style”.
@Zero22xx It depends. What use case did you have in mind?
@Zero22xx There are multiple Friendica instances. You can check them in the Friendica Directory (in the servers section) or other more global lists of Fediverse servers like the-federation.info, FediDB etc. Friendica has groups too, but besides the !helpers@forum.friendi.ca (or probably even the !fediversenews@venera.social one) they’re pretty much lacking activity (you’re still free to post anyway, there are plenty of them).
If you need some help, you can also post on the former one by creating a regular post and mentioning the group with “!” or “@”. I have also created a megathread with various resources and a small Q&A (it’s actually vice-versa tbh, since the Q&A took the most space on it, but I digress) in order to get yourself started: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2167-82af-600d-9ea129892452
@anticurrent @petrescatraian@libranet.de Fortunately, Friendica is flexible enough. All servers can set a default theme, and much of what people dislike about Friendica can just be fixed by swapping the Frio theme (which is default to many of the servers) with this one. In fact, there’s already a server who did just that: loma.ml
@Blaze too many seem hyped about microblogging, though…
@Blaze @morrowind Unpopular opinion: Facebook until around 2016 or so (whenever it added stories for the 1st time) was the best social network in terms of UI and concept. It’s just Zuck that decided to just copy everyone, every single feature, cram everything in a single website and gobble all user data (and now he’s also supporting Trump and free speech). Oh, and the ads. The stupid ads getting you everywhere.
@sith As others said, Friendica is clearly a better alternative to Facebook. It has an interface that took cues from it, groups, pages, a calendar where you can create or join events etc.
@fxomt No worries. Thing is, on a serious note, that it doesn’t federate with Friendica, but rather Friendica federates with it (through diaspora’s own protocol). That means that you can follow Mastodon accounts along with diaspora accounts on Friendica, but you cannot follow Mastodon accounts on Diaspora (nor vice-versa). So if you want to keep tabs with the world, Friendica is the better option.
@autonomoususer and that fact justifies vitriol and behaviors like this in which way?
@macattack yeah, but people (on Mastodon at least) are very opinionated so to say, and they will go out of their way to call people out for scraping their data without consent. They even go ahead and send you death threats, doxx you or even upload CSAM on your platform just to take it down.
@superkret You mean who is going to support who in the runoff? Well, by the looks of it, it looks like all the democratic forces will either back Ciolacu or nobody. Simion and Georgescu will likely back each other, whoever comes in second, so it will basically look like Germany, sure.
If Lasconi gets in the 2nd round instead, I’m expecting most of the other candidates to back her. Including the whole right (democratic or far-right - just to spite PSD, but there can be surprises as well).
Just to get an idea, PSD never really lost a single election in its entire history. In the last (soon to be) 35 years since the 1989 Revolution, it spent the biggest time in power.
PSD is the direct descendant of the former Communist Party, so it has a huge apparatus all over the country. There’s basically not a single village where PSD is not present. This is why in the 2000 elections it got a landslide result against far-right Corneliu Vadim Tudor. And this scenario might happen again.
@pugnaciousfarter Not exactly anymore. I’ll scroll through my community list once my main server becomes active again, but I remember there were some communities that were pretty much abandoned (mainly on lemm.ee). Now they just receive a lower amount of activity.