As in, they’re gonna stop making redundant bullshit proprietary memory cards in formats no one else uses?

Great. Glad to hear it. Good riddance. Don’t let the casket lid hit you on your way out.

Well if he woke up obviously the first stab didn’t kill him so I’d stab him again.

On the surface, that works. Problem is, to use the Fediverse you have to get a bit deeper into it than with email.

Email is designed to evoke the UX of the physical post office. To use the post office, or email, you need to know your address, and your recipients address. You need to know where to put outgoing letters, and where to get incoming letters. Even if you’re vaguely aware of Grumman LLVs and letter sorting machines and trucks and trains and whatnot, you can still get away with conceptualizing it as, you put a letter in a box, it is then “In the mail” until it is delivered to the recipient. Email presents itself to the end user as exactly that.

ActivityPub might be “just another protocol” like smtp or pop3 or whatever but the user experience is vastly different in ways people really haven’t had to deal with before. Lemmy isn’t lke the post office, it’s like Reddit, except there’s 90 little Reddits each with their own slightly different rules and a complex web of which will communicate with what. The format of the electronic communique is of no consequence to the end user.

On Reddit, if I write a post in a subreddit and click Post, it is stored on Reddit’s servers, and anyone with a Reddit account can access Reddit’s servers and see it because we’re accessing the same monolithic system. On Lemmy, I’m currently posting to lemmy.world from a sh.itjust.works account in response to an account from programming.dev. On which of those three independent platforms will this message be stored? How could someone from, say, piefed.social see it? I genuinely don’t understand this fully msyself and I’ve been on Lemmy for a couple years now.

The several apps thing I don’t see as much of a barrier to Redditors; most are already used to the platform’s official app being garbagepuke and going with something else so they’ll figure that out relatively quickly.

I haven’t yet seen the “Pick an instance to sign up with. It doesn’t matter, well actually it does, for reasons we’re not explaining right now” problem really addressed in a meaningful way. Those lists of instances to join when you go to Lemmy or pixelfed or whoever’s website? Most of them don’t get filled out correctly by instance admins; so they’re either the default boiler plate, or they’re the first two-thirds of the first sentence of a paragraph about what Lemmy is.

Lemmy.world

Lemmy is an open source, federated link aggregator platform powered by ActivityPub, the fastest growing…

Reminds me of a joke, A Texan and a Carolinian rancher meet in a bar. The Texan says “Yessir, it takes me two days to drive my pickup truck across my ranch.” The Carolinian says “Yeah I had a truck like that, but I got it fixed.”

I live in Suburban North Carolina, I haven’t locked my house in years.

For me? Have a reason to tie a knot. Then you’ll tie that knot, learn why you tie that knot, and then you’ll be able to tie that knot.

Some fans of Lexx.

It might be why I’m like this.

I drained an entire airplane’s fuel tank onto the hangar floor once. Wasn’t really ready to mop up 26 gallons of avgas.

Bottom center looks like a Fisher Price Fish-N-Reel toy circa 1995.

The Boombox appears to be a Lennox Sound CT-731, That listing features a picture of the bottom of its box bearing a copyright date of 2000.

Don’t buy the product. Don’t give them the sale.

Televisions aren’t mandatory, you can do without.

MORTAL HOUSE KAT!

Come over to my house, I’ll set you to work pulling the kudzu down out of the trees.

One of the skeletons has meat on it.

The earliest game I remember hiding loading screens was Wind Waker on the Gamecube. It’s the entire reason the game was set on an ocean, they could load and unload assets between islands while the player is in control sailing.

No, in a world full of legitimate evil this is merely bullshit.

Why I will never join a gym. I can do pushups in my living room.

No it couldn’t, because Windows 8.1 was.