I think I get it (I hope)? I’ve had a rough couple days sleep and amn’t firing on all cylinders, apologies xD

From the personal side: I don’t really notice it much, because I’ve never really used social media to keep up with people. Facebook was the one I had the most IRL connections on, and I only used it to talk to 5 or 6 people, never for the social media features. It is harder to keep myself on Friendica, and not let it sit idle though. Admittedly it may well just turn into mostly me auto-posting from my blog’s RSS feed, and checking replies occasionally at some point, but I do still check it pretty regularly.

Getting people to switch: I gave up on that before I even started, especially with Friendica. I could probably convince one of my friends to join Lemmy since it’s pretty easy to say “Search lemmyverse.net, copy the community name, paste it” than however you’re supposed to find people on low-pop traditional activity pub styled servers. Plus I am the techiest person I know by a long shot, and while you don’t need to be techie to be on fedi… A lot of us are, so it’s hard to find people who aren’t talking about it as most of what they post.

From the platform’s perspective: Honestly it’s getting better on the whole. It’s not that different to any other apub server, except in that it has more protocols built in (apub, zot, dfrn, and diaspora, plus you can directly follow RSS feeds if you want), and there are a lot of connectors to socials like Tumblr, and even Facebook from what I saw. There’s people here! It’s just convincing people that’s hard.

Sorry if this didn’t actually answer the question, I did my best with a very soupy brain xD Feel free to ask any questions though!

I have some IRL friends there, but not many. Most of them are people I met through the fediverse. I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “Without the network effect of real people” though?

It’s not necessarily what I come here for, but I think it could be interesting, at least if you can tag things. Not necessarily for content, but for series being able to find the other posts would be nice. Maybe for series you start it off with an editable master post that you link to and edit every time?

I run my own, and it’s not that much time. I’d imagine more users would make it more difficult (I’m effectively the only user on the instance), but not by much more from what I’ve heard, especially if you know all of them.

For messing up: Do regular backups. They’re cheap, usually pretty easy to set up (I use borgbase for it), and if something goes wrong you can usually restore it to a working state minus a few posts.

Friendica also doesn’t update super often, so it’s minimal upkeep beyond the usual “Restart it to fix it” problems, and it’s pretty rare for people to actually care about uptime.

My ONLY gripe is it doesn’t notify you of user moderation reports. I don’t have to care (it’s just me, and I’m not banning myself), but on a higher user instance I can see that mattering more. Maybe ask people to DM you when they send a report or something, and just get into a habit of checking them

I self-host my own instance of Friendica, and there are a few options, since discovery is nigh impossible on low-user instances:

• If you have admin access, you can use relays. (I used to, but they really impacted the server’s performance, so I stopped)
• If you don’t you can see if there are popular groups to follow (fedi.garden, or there is a friendica group directory)
• Also I use fediwall.social to find accounts to follow, just search up some hashtags from the popular servers to follow interesting accounts

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Trumpet, I was pretty good last time I played, but it’s been over 10 years now, so skills have likely faded. I still remember my scales though :D

Piano, but nor much, and not super well. Mostly just to mess around.

You still can, at least on Android, it’s just less straightforward, and a bit less consistent

https://adaway.org/

For anyone curious, makes mobile gaming a whole lot less painful too

I… Don’t know that I’d call Mullvad a good Chrome alternative. It’s the Tor browser for clearnet. Vivaldi yes, Mullvad… I love it, I use it, it is not what people who use Chrome want, largely

Friendica will be the closest, and from my experience Hubzilla is similar enough. I’ve used Friendica extensively (see: @klymilark@coypu.fallcounty.omg.lol), and I’ve toyed with Hubzilla a bit. Friendica is less complicated in a user-facing way, and Hubzilla doesn’t hide its features.

Oh, this is gonna have implications

Since they determined that in-game assets are real property of the player, basically every MMO is gonna need to change their ToS if they operate in the UK, because all of them that I’ve seen (and I’ve seen a lot) have something in there that “All assets are the property of $gameCompany” to stop these kinds of shenanigans. But if all it takes is being able to tie the game dollar to real dollars in a capacity officially supported by the devs… Yeah that’s gonna be some lawsuits

Y’know, given… gestures vaguely, I think that’s not an anarchism problem.

Less surprising the more you know about autism, really

Literally the first day. First thing another student said to me, actually: “Why’re you so white?” Next is the same year, I got in trouble because another kid ran in front of me while I was rolling down a hill

I’ve been playing the sims series since I was about the same age, sims 1 in… 2002? Though I haven’t played it much. The fact that TS4 has been out for that long… Geez. So The Sims series as a whole. Would recommend at least giving S1 a shot if you haven’t, it’s fun in a charming kinda way. I’ve also played a lot of the sims games. All of the main PC ones, The Sims on ps1, The Urbz, Sims 2 on the PS2/GBA/PSP (all VERY different games to each other), sims Unleashed on the PSP, freeplay, the weird mobile app… Yeah. I’d also recommend checking out all of The Sims 2 console ports, because they’re all weird as hell, and the stories in them are hilarious, and they’re all very different to each other, so it’s worth trying all of them if you end up liking one of them.

If we mean same game the whole time, RuneScape. I started in 2007, and have played on and off since, though I haven’t been back since they cancelled pride last year, and don’t plan to go back.

If we mean hours, either Mabinogi or Wurm Online. Mabi is a close second for how long I’ve played (started 2010), and I’ve probably got similar hour counts in Mabi as Wurm, I just can’t confirm Mabi’s playtime. I’ve got… 4500 hours ish in Wurm?

Not anymore, but when collars were first added to clothing it was for comfort. It was in the mid 1400s, and clergy wore really stiff tunics with high necks, so they started wearing collared shirts underneath them for comfort. Shirts were also exclusively undergarments at the time.

After those came the big ruffly Elizabethan collars for wealth/status symbols, then detachable collars (shirts were still underwear!), and then WWI happened, and soldiers were issued soft shirts instead of stiff outer clothes as outerwear since it was more practical. That then leads us to the collared shirts of today because that preference came to civilian life from the war.

Oh that’s gross as shit. Seems they have a general BYOD plan, but I guess that only applies if they have that model of phone.

Didn’t even realize that could be an issue, given I’ve used a PinePhone of all things on my carrier and it worked as fine as one could expect mobile Linux to work

Yeah, I’ve tried finding alternatives, because having a second phone number was helpful, but… Nothin’. It’s still the fake phone number I give out to companies to stop them spamming my phone though

I’ve mostly used new budget phones, personally. My current phone is the most expensive one I’ve owned, and it was $400 xD I probably should do used more, but phones do usually last me a while, and I normally use a wallet case so they’re fairly well protected against drops

I haven’t heard of a carrier that doesn’t, at least personally. Then again, I’ve mostly used smaller carriers. Republic Wireless, FreedomPop, Mint, etc. I did use TMo for a while on a prepaid plan up until I got tired of the texting not working half the time