Yeah they can, so my guess would be they just don't check everything that shows up (at least if it's not at the top) and hopefully once this comes to their attention it'll be promptly removed
Strongly agree. Mastodon is alright and I use it a little, but the twitter-type format never really worked for me. I feel like when I have to follow individual people I usually end up either following no one or being forced to follow people who post things that interest me sometimes but a lot of the time post things that really don't. Following particular topics or threads just seems much more natural to me; I can look at exactly what interests me and nothing more.
Does that really make it totally apolitical though?. Like obviously it's not inherently attached to a wide reaching political ideology, but it still is political in the same way that any free software is kind of political.
Don't listen to anything on my phone but definitely agreed, I much prefer having the songs on my computer and using ncmpcpp to play them (and with a cool visualiser too).
I know it had its issues but I was pretty sad that the LG G5 sort of compromise where you got the removable battery while still not "looking cheap" never really went anyway.
Like they're objectively pretty useful but I find the experience of using one to just kinda suck and I avoid it as much as I can. I'd much much rather use a laptop or ideally my desktop if that's at all possible. No idea how some people manage so much time using their phones
I really really want to learn (Standard) Arabic, but I've never really gotten around to it yet because language-wise there's always been another language which is more practical at the time for me to learn (currently Dutch).
Definitely not a thing for everyone but I find conlanging (a conlang is a constructed language) to be pretty fun and it could be for other people who are also somewhat into linguistics. For me it's a good excuse to learn more about linguistics and also to apply it trying things out in my own languages.
Yeah that's understandable. Usually I don't have more than maybe 4 windows open anyway though so I generally feel like the loss of space is relatively minimal (especially on a desktop monitor which is bigger anyway)
I'm more of a window manager person myself (Qtile to be precise), and I imagine that's not really what you're looking for here, but DE-wise from what I've tried I like KDE and XFCE the most
I've tried Mastodon a few times, and that was my first exposure. The first time, which was I don't even remember when, I joined mastodon.social, kinda got lost and never found anyone to follow and ended up just forgetting about it.
The 2nd was in 2020 after cth got banned and I remember someone in the Discord mentioning an instance I thought might be more interesting, so I joined it and it was definitely a better experience but again I just ended up forgetting about it after a while. Also when I came back later to check in on things I found the instance no longer existed.
I joined a third time around this time last year when some of my friends decided to join and I've used it a little more, but it's still pretty on and off, so I think part of the problem is just that I'm not super into the Twitter-like style of things. Having to follow individual people ends up feeling kinda tedious and since almost no one only posts things I find interesting, I end up either following no one or following enough people my feed is largely filled with things that don't interest me.
Aside from Mastodon I haven't really tried any of the others, but Lemmy definitely seems like it works better for me, preferring to follow topics and interests rather than individual people most of the time. I have actually looked at Lemmy before a few times, and liked it, but found it hard to get over the relative lack of activity, so I hope that's changing (and it seems like it might be).
EU4 lol, and by far. At least that's among I have hour counters for. I'd guess I've played more Minecraft because I played that sooo much when I was younger and still sometimes do occasionally.
Yeah they can, so my guess would be they just don't check everything that shows up (at least if it's not at the top) and hopefully once this comes to their attention it'll be promptly removed