Is that the reason the other guy is now a former coworker?

I wasn’t even aware the dealership I got my car from automatically reported to Carfax until I started receiving reminders for oil changes, inspections, and registration renewals. I just went ahead and created an account and it’s great to have an automatic record there in case I lose my receipts.

I finally joined the club and got a 34” curved monitor this month. Pretty good so far. It has also cleared up space on my desk instead several monitors taking up most of it. I still use my laptop as an extra screen to the side though.

Unless you’re in the EU, your data is unfortunately still there. You just can’t access it.

Lol same. I also use it for time critical stuff where you don’t want to risk a site breaking, like when trying to get tickets for good seats on a concert when sale opens.

Wait, there was developer drama? I just saw a comment from the Mlem dev yesterday thanking the Memmy dev for helping with getting their app through some testflight issues.

There are tons of people (legally) working and paying taxes in the US and aren’t citizens. I get what you mean, but…

One of my happiest purchases in the last few years was an airfyer. lol

I just want to say I love the friendly “competition” between you guys. It just results in better and better products. I have both and I use them equally. Great work on Mlem, and thanks for opening up the beta signup when I asked a couple of days ago. lol

I have both Memmy and Mlem and I switch between them every time one releases an update to see who’s better.

It’s the people who make work their personality and them circlejerking each other. Don’t get me wrong, there are experts in my field who post valuable stuff on there, but it’s about topics in our field, not about working itself.

Top from the past 6 or 12 hours works better than Hot IMO. It feels more like the traditional reddit front page.

This is a good point and got me thinking of something that would be a better example. I understand the point that it’s because they don’t really care about some corporation without a face collecting their info, which is different from you who they personally know asking them to unlock their phone and give it to you.

Maybe a good example would be their baby monitor or home camera? Let them know that anyone on the internet can tap into their camera feed because those companies don’t lock them down. Not that anyone is looking at it, but anyone could if they wanted to. Would that be a more convincing argument to ask if they are fine with that since they have nothing to hide?

Federation works a little differently. Having said that, it’s not too far from reddit either. For example on reddit, as a basketball fan, I visit r/nba often. But then there are also other subs like r/nbadiscussion, r/nbatalk, and other subs that have overlapping content as r/nba. That’s the same case here, except they are on different instances rather than subreddits. You can do the same as what you do on reddit and subscribe to the most popular instance community and that’s it. Eventually as time goes by, the most popular community will become the “default” so you won’t really miss out on content. If you really have FOMO, then subscribe to all of them; same as what you would do on reddit; but obviously you don’t do that right?

I was aware of mlmym but not alexandrite. This is cool, thanks! I’ll try it out today.

I spend most of my waking hours on a laptop because of work, so I browse reddit/lemmy on a desktop browser more than my phone.

It’s funny how when there’s no algorithm to dictate what you see, it’s furries and gay porn (for mastodon) that show up.

I select “No tip”, avoid eye contact, and hope for the best that they don’t mess with my food/drink.

As a teenager or young adult, maybe. But as you grow older less so. Adding someone on social media has never really been brought up in my current social circles. Sure the occasional linkedin invite if it’s in a professional setting, but my current group of acquaintances hasn’t really thought about adding each other on every social media platform or exchanged contacts other than phone numbers.

Yup, and they’ll say the same if extraterrestrial life is discovered - that god created them, because he created the universe.

Keepass. Bitwarden for more convenience.