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The idea is it gives enough time for competition to establish and then everyone completes on an even footing without fettering the original monopoly after it’s no longer a monopoly in that space… arguably it worked as Chrome took over but all that’s happened it it made a new monopoly 🤷🏻‍♂️

Unity - “hold my beer”

Unless I’ve missed something I don’t see how this makes WhatsApp worse…? Just don’t sign up to the people’s channels if you don’t want to 🤷🏻‍♂️

Highlander, as well as being a great fantasy movie, explores these themes a little.

If you haven’t seen it, I’d strongly suggest watching it.

It’s own thing… and it’s definitely trying to not be the same as Lemmy, Reddit etc

Have a read of the stuff here:

https://docs.tildes.net

And see what you think… if it’s for you, you can email admin for an invite (which can take a couple of weeks due to backlog) or find another user with invites left to invite you (I’m out at the moment)

I find Tildes is pretty good for this sort of thing, as long as you take the time to actually write something decent behind the post to show you are asking / debating in good faith and not just being an asshole.

It’s weird with Big Bang Theory, when it first started me and my friend circle loved it, thought it was brilliant but yes it did lose something after a few seasons.

But online everyone just seemed to hate it - could it be because we’re British and it just landed better with us…?

Original Scrubs was one of the best shows ever made in my opinion - great cast and chemistry, genuinely funny whilst also bringing in the drama and tragedy of a hospital and it’s patients, great writing, kept up momentum until the end (the original end not the crap that come after), great acting, one of the most faultless TV shows ever made.

Depends on the communities… quite often they consist of one or two users (or bits) reposting old or current Reddit posts.

And certainly for more niche topics the communities tend to be dead.

Quite often there is little commenting or conversation.

The communities with the most conversation seem to be about Lemmy and the Fediverse…

But yes there are a couple of decent communities in my Home feed, but the whole needs to grow to get it to a tipping point where it provides an active and diverse (in topics and conversation) community.

Take the Keane Reeves approach to having a relaxed life - don’t have any arguments, to paraphrase him “Two plus two equals five? OK great, have a nice day, see you around!”

I’m out of work and slowly burning through the savings so doubling it would give me an extra six months headroom

Doing these things is not easy and may take some practice on your part, but for me it boils down to the following process:

• be honest with yourself and others, and own up to it, don’t try to pretend it was somebody else’s fault. Apologise to those impacted if you need to.

• figure out what you can learn from it - not necessarily the specific details of this mistake but what you can do next time in similar circumstances to avoid making the same sort of error.

• stop wishing for a better past - it won’t happen, so move on.

No international retailers yet grumble

– A Sulky Brit

Edge was my main browser until about six months ago, then they pushed that obnoxious UI change that added a load of buttons to my toolbar that I can’t move or disable, and that irritating sidebar that jumps up whenever it can even when the button is disabled, and I went back to Firefox again.

It says what you CAN say about your spaceship and CAN’T say about your SO

If you ride her through the black hole she’ll moan and complain but probably finish the journey

I like Ivory for Mastodon (it’s by the guys that originally made Tweetbot for Twitter) and I use Voyager for Lemmy (basically it’s Apollo reborn) and am trying out Liftoff as it has a few features I like that Voyager doesn’t (yet) and testing Artemis for Kbin.

I’ll give you one guess…

Is it Mr/Mrs Fart or are we talking a double or triple barrelled name…?