Does anybody here still wish the Fediverse just had more people?
  • matengor matengor 6d ago 100%

    Yes, I wish there would be more. But I am okay with the state it's in. The engagement is good enough, and I discover interesting things every other day. You can't force it anyway.

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  • What's the coolest thing your library has available to check out?
  • matengor matengor 7d ago 100%

    That's cool. What was your latest find?

    We are going for board games all the time. My son is six and he loves them

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  • What's the coolest thing your library has available to check out?
  • matengor matengor 7d ago 100%

    A robot set for children. The robot is called Dash. It can be programmed with a tablet or laptop using special apps with a neat UI. We had one for two weeks and it was a lot of fun.

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  • Why is Mastodon struggling to survive?
  • matengor matengor 1w ago 83%

    While I agree with the article and a lot of comments, I am still active on my Mastodon account and I am enjoying it more than ever.

    Disclaimer: I'm a white male westerner working in IT. 😉

    A friend of mine works in linguistics and education. He was an avid Twitter user and has since migrated to Bluesky and Mastodon. He says, Mastodon is quite complex and clunky but on Bluesky there's not much happening in his bubble.

    For me, the quality of the conversation and the regional character of my local instance is a big plus on Madison. On Lemmy, I read a lot on international and tech topics, but on Mastodon, the conversation is related more to my countries politics and my region.

    So, maybe they lost a lot of users. But the 14% that stayed are a good start for quite a vivid community.

    If anyone has questions on how to get something out of Mastodon, ask away or follow me here: mateng@nrw.social.

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  • Warum AfD und die Wagenknecht-Partei BSW einander noch brauchen
  • matengor matengor 2w ago 100%

    Dass die beiden immer wieder solche Prime Time Aufmerksamkeit bekommen, ist doch das eigentliche Problem.

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  • Would you agree that this is a good list to stop ads on the internet?
  • matengor matengor 2w ago 100%

    I use "Self Destructing Cookies" in addition to uBlock, so I can be relatively generous with exceptions as I know cookies will be deleted when I close the browser or after a defined period anyway.

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  • Nepalese teenager has broken the world record for the youngest mountaineer to summit Earth’s 14 highest peaks
  • matengor matengor 2w ago 100%

    Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, climbed each peak with his climbing partner, Pasang Nurbu Sherpa.

    Standing atop Mount Shishapangma on Wednesday morning, though, another life ambition was front of mind for the 18-year-old: to subvert the stereotype of Sherpas as mere helpers who assist foreign climbers on their ascents.

    Although the word 'Sherpa' is commonly used to describe someone who is a mountain guide or porter working in the Everest area, it is in fact the name of an ethnic group of people who live in the mountains of Nepal.

    This is the uplifting part here for me 👍

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  • Mobile network not available
  • matengor matengor 2w ago 66%

    Do that first 👍

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  • Steeped
  • matengor matengor 2w ago 100%

    No errors in the text. Amazing..

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  • how's your week going Beehaw
  • matengor matengor 3w ago 100%

    Working on an IT project, too. A website relaunch for a local waste disposal company. We are running behind with coding, but so is the customer with adding content. But it's gonna be a nice, beautiful site with lots of api connections and nifty tools for the end customer. It's fun for me.

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  • Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning
  • matengor matengor 4w ago 100%

    "I woke up and saw this new antivirus system on my desktop and I tried opening kaspersky but it was gone. So I had to look up what happened because I was literally having a mini heart attack that my desktop somehow had a virus which uninstalled kaspersky somehow," one user said.

    To make things worse, while some users could uninstall UltraAV using the software’s uninstaller, those who tried removing it using uninstall apps saw it reinstalled after a reboot, causing further concerns about a potential malware infection.

    Oh my!

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  • news
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    'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians
  • matengor matengor 1mo ago 95%

    To be honest, although it was dumb, it was also unfortunate. There is no way we will get a hold on viral fake news because there will always be that one unlucky or stupid bastard posting something silly.

    Don't eat the pets, people!

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  • For the first time in almost 2 years, the European Union imported more gas from Russia than from the US
  • matengor matengor 2mo ago 100%

    Why is that so? Have the sanctions run out or do we get russian gas from third parties?

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    ‘Dangerous and un-American’: new recording of JD Vance’s dark vision of women and immigration
  • matengor matengor 2mo ago 100%

    I guess it's just necessary to keep the white population in the majority. /s

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    ‘Dangerous and un-American’: new recording of JD Vance’s dark vision of women and immigration
  • matengor matengor 2mo ago 100%

    Yes, using "Soy Boy" in a political speech as a moniker for the liberal male youth is pathetic. This should be a major red flag for all voters.

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    Lemmy Wish list matengor 1y ago 100%
    Hide post feature

    I'd like to see a button that hides a post from my timeline and fills up the slot with the next interesting thing. Well, yes, just like Reddits *hide post* feature.

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    Lemmy Support matengor 1y ago 100%
    Is there or will there be anything like multireddits in Lemmy?

    I had my subreddits neatly organized into different categories with several multis. Is there a feature (planned) in Lemmy that can recreate this?

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    Lemmy Support matengor 1y ago 100%
    Desktop notifications in Firefox / Mac not clickable.

    I activated desktop notifications in my settings: Settings > Show Notifications for New Posts. They appear as a bubble in MacOs, but I can't do anything with them. There is no link that opens. Can I do something about that?

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    I'm trying to search for communities or keywords like on the Lemmy browser version. I'm probably just missing something.

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