JavaScript off by default ftw

I’m in the same boat. But as time passes I figure if I keep telling myself it’s too late instead of just doing it, I’ll regret it so much later on life. Because what I’ll gain from it at this age, I will be so proud of when it’s all said and done

Never say never, maybe a scout is watching us to recruit us as we speak. Then we will finally know

Just one, I’m glad I’m able to interact with all instances from this account, I think if I felt I had to make so many accounts I’d get overwhelmed and quit lemmy

Other day a cashier rang me up and instead of saying thank you I said "no problem’s ._.

I convinced my girlfriend to get telegram, not my preference but much better than anything Facebook related

I honestly love Lemmy and the fediverse in general right now. Ever since I watched The Social Dillema or whatever on Netflix I hate doing anything on big tech social media. I feel like I’m being manipulated all the time and it makes me not wanna use the sites. But here, I just love reading everyone’s post knowing that these are things I subscribed to see and is not some part of an algorithm to keep my attention as long as possible so the site can make money off of me

It’s honestly heartbreaking considering how much work it must be to write a book and how scary it is especially with so many influencers and celebrities in the market now already making it harder for real authors to get noticed

Ive used AdBlock for about 15+ years, at first because YouTube was getting a little overboard with their ads. Now I’ve kinda became a privacy nut and still use stuff like UBlock Origin but more for stopping weird trackers and cookies that invade my privacy and sell my data

EDIT: I’ve since learned to allow just ads for certain cites to support others as long as it’s for content creators or small business. I also enjoy donating to FOSS creators when I can afford it, which is something we should all consider doing to help support FOSS that doesn’t really on our data to pay the bills.

Cereal goes before milk

I was a straight up lurker on reddit, I feel like this environment makes me wanna be more active, reminds me of the old days before websites were a cash grab and there was true communities

Meta is that annoying little sibling that wants to be a part of everything when nobody wants them around. Except instead of a sibling, it’s more of a disease.

Thank you!

Yeah I feel you there, I thought about trying /e/ OS on murena but I really can’t leave GrapheneOS, microG doesn’t feel as secure as they claim it to be

Have you looked into the teracuve and fairphone smartphones? They actually allow that and are designed for you to easily replace pretty much any part of the phone

I’ve reread so many pages and chapters because of this, sometimes even restarted books entirely