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Mereo
Mereo @ Mereo @lemmy.ca
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Lemmy upgraded to 0.18.2

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  • Please continue!

    • UI updated to 0.18.2-rc1

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  • Thank you admin team!

    • Plan on getting a Linux laptop: any suggestions?

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  • Oooooh yeah. I currently have an AMD video card and it's heaven. No drivers problems, KDE Wayland works perfectly, it's just absolutely awesome.

    • Merger talks between Postmedia and Toronto Star owner fall apart | CBC News

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  • WOOHOO! That's good news!

    • Would appreciate if some people helped put some load on my instance

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  • After vlemmy.net went bust, I suspect that users will increasingly choose well-established instances:

      1. Is your instance hosted on a computer in your home or at a hosting company?
      1. As I understand from your description, your host will act as a "mirror", so no communities will be hosted on the server. Is that why your instance doesn't have any clearly written rules or values?

    • Self-checkout theft causing problems for retailers — and shoppers who despise receipt checks

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  • I noticed this at my local Loblaws. At first they only had one to two lines open and they were extremely long. Now they have several lines open and it's very fluid.

    • Self-checkout theft causing problems for retailers — and shoppers who despise receipt checks

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  • What I do is deliberately go to a cashier, even if the line is extremely long, and I see more and more people doing the same. This forces more lines to open. One time they asked if I could use the self-checkout to speed up the process. I replied that if the items were cheaper at the self-checkout, sure, otherwise I'd stay in line.

    • Lemmy just had its first major hack. What happens next:

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  • Look, Lemmy.world takes the rational way where it says there is no use to panic. Let's be rational and analyze the situation rationally and go from there.

    I support Lemmy.world. Let's see how the situation develops and let's make a rational decision with cool heads.

    • @fediverse Vlemmy refugees logging in from elsewhere, how's it working?

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  • Indeed. Karma was simply gamification. It made conversations superficial.

    • Isn’t it a bit of an annoying having repeat communities across various Lemmy instances?

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    • How should we deal with similarly named communities?

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    • Are you replacing Reddit with Lenny?

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  • It will. Reddit took more than 18 years to get the 500 million monthly users it has right now.

    • Wayland is pretty good, actually

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  • On my system, Wayland KDE works perfectly while KDE X11 is buggy (Manjaro).

    • Does it feel like the fediverse is exclusively used by older tech nerds?

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    1. Yes, in my late 30s.
    2. I was a computer scientist, but now I have done a complete 180. But I'm still a nerd at heart.
    3. Yup, I'm a Linux user.

    But we have to understand that Lemmy/Kbin are still babies, they've just started. And I really believe that it will continue to grow and get better at accommodating users who are not tech nerds. But it will be an organic process.

    The more Reddit gets worse (no more moderation bots, no good moderation tools from Reddit, etc.), the more people will migrate to Lemmy/Kbin. This migration will force the community to adapt and make it easier and easier for users to integrate.

    • Now that you've all tried it ... ChatGPT web traffic falls 10%

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  • GPT-4 isn't fast yet so if it will frustrate people if they do that.

    • Lemmy.ca now upgraded to 0.18.1

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  • This is what I like about open-source, team work! And thank you for this instance.

    • What is keeping you on reddit?

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  • I still go on my city's subreddit to get the latest news about my city.

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  • My migration to Lemmy.ca was a pain but it is doable. I put my Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ca side by side and started subscribing to communities I was following on Lemmy.world.

    • Threads to reportedly allow account migration from Threads

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  • I agree with you. I just showed what Mastodon's response was.

    • Threads to reportedly allow account migration from Threads

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  • This is Eugene Rochko's answer (CEO of Mastodon) regarding the question:

    Will Meta embrace-extend-extinguish the ActivityPub protocol?

    There are comparisons to be made between Meta adopting ActivityPub for its new social media platform and Meta adopting XMPP for its Messenger service a decade ago. There was a time when users of Facebook and users of Google Talk were able to chat with each other and with people from self-hosted XMPP servers, before each platform was locked down into the silos we know today. What would stop that from repeating? Well, even if Threads abandoned ActivityPub down the line, where we would end up is exactly where we are now. XMPP did not exist on its own outside of nerd circles, while ActivityPub enjoys the support and brand recognition of Mastodon.

    Source: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/