What’s the number of Threads users compared to Lemmy? If the number of Threads users greatly outweigh the number of Lemmy users, then we’d simply be drowned out by all the Threads posts. That’s part one of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Extend adds functionality to Threads that Lemmy either can’t support or won’t support for a while due to development time. People migrate to Threads because Lemmy is “missing” functionality. Plus, though I’m not clear on the exact legal specifications, proprietary code can be added to open-source code, and the proprietary code would be copyrighted. In other words, Lemmy devs would have to figure out a way to interact with and mimic Threads’ proprietary code using open-source code.

Extinguish is when Threads’ support of Lemmy is eventually dropped. The users left on Lemmy have suddenly lost a huge amount of content, and they’re left with fewer users than before Threads enabled federation.

The only reason Switch emulation is as far along as it is is because they made a mistake with the hardware in the Switch’s 2017 model. As long as they don’t make a mistake like that again, they’ll probably be fine.

Step 6: (non-)profit.

Adam Savage had the team that does CT Scans of various products

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Have you followed the instructions in the devs’ Reddit thread? (At the bottom of the thread, they also have a section of instructions for people who’ve already gone through the process of purging their filters before.)

Also, make sure nothing else (ex. another adblocker, including your browser’s built-in adblocker) is causing issues.

Same here. I tried loading the same 13-second video on Piped and YouTube. YouTube played it instantly. Piped took several seconds (probably longer than the video lasted) to start playing.

You’re linking to one instance where it partially fixed the issue amidst a sea of people saying updating filters did work for them (or saying that they didn’t have to do anything at all).

Or just use uBlock Origin? It blocks YouTube’s ads (and their adblocker-blockers) right out of the gate. It’s also available on Firefox for Android.

Basically any show on PBS Kids. I used to watch back when Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood aired regularly on it. Other shows I watched included Zoboomafoo (with the Kratt brothers!), Clifford, Arthur (was sad when I heard it’d aired its final new episode recently), Cyberchase, and Clifford’s Puppy Days. My parents didn’t have cable until I was a teenager, so I was pretty much raised on nothing but PBS Kids (as far as TV shows I could watch).

Another show I used to watch when I was really young, though, was Disney’s House of Mouse on ABC Saturday Mornings. I was devastated when they stopped airing it. We didn’t have a TV guide or anything, so, when it simply didn’t come on one morning, it caught me by complete surprise. On a less sad note, I think I actually still have Snowed In at the House of Mouse on VHS.

For me, that moment was in Kingdom Hearts 2. I hadn’t played the first game (or the second game) and didn’t really understand the concept of sequels that continued a story. My parents had gotten me the game probably because it had Disney characters in it. But this moment stuck with me nonetheless.

It was the game’s first boss fight, the Twilight Thorn. Everything leading up to it and the fight itself was just utter cinematography to my young eyes. I wasn’t even able to actually beat the fight (and I was the older brother, so I didn’t have anyone to help). But it stuck with me for years. I ended up getting a PS4, the first console I bought with my own money, for the sole reason of playing the Kingdom Hearts collections.

Looks like you may be right. Most requests came from api.twitter.com (and variations of that, such as api-33-0-0.twitter.com). The only different one was from global.albtls.t.co, and it was already blocked thanks to Peter Lowe’s Blocklist.

Any idea how to block ads in the Twitter Android app? Or, rather, which sites to block? I’m using AdGuard to block ads on all apps, but it doesn’t seem to affect the Twitter app. Either the Twitter app runs ads differently or the ads aren’t part of any of the blocklists.

Because there’s no viable replacement.

Before you or someone else mentions Mastodon (and probably compare it to the Reddit migration to Lemmy; I’ve been through this conversation before): Both Twitter and Mastodon are built on the concept of following people. If those people don’t migrate to another platform, then the people following them won’t migrate, either.

But Reddit and Lemmy are built on the concept of following ideas. It doesn’t matter if one person who, for example, enjoys anime, only stays on Reddit. Others who who enjoy anime may move to Lemmy and become part of one or more of the anime communities on Lemmy instead.

Basically, the comparison isn’t 1-to-1.

But then I’d have that terrible X logo on my phone instead of the much-less-terrible bird logo.

I have yet to update to any version of the app that uses that logo.

People in “select countries” will still have a toggle.

Boost! So glad it’s back as a Lemmy app!

I only use it once a week on a specific niche subreddit that hasn’t migrated elsewhere. I may very occasionally browse a post or two if I’m bored, but I don’t comment on or upvote anything outside that one niche subreddit. So I haven’t 100% stopped using it, but my usage has dropped by a lot.

76F in the summer, 72F during the day in the winter, 68F at night in the winter.

Reddit, for reasons I’m sure everybody here knows. I do make two exceptions: first, there is one single small community on Reddit that “meets” once a week. I comment on those posts. Second, I’ll allow myself to comment on posts about or related to boycotting Reddit.

Google’s Android. While I don’t currently want to completely switch to another Android OS, that doesn’t mean I won’t in the future. Currently, though, I do try to modify the OS as much as possible to protect my privacy to a reasonable extent. I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone. I run an adblocker app 24/7 on my phone. And I trusted, modified versions of apps where possible, such as ReVanced. I also recently disabled the Google Play Store and started using the Aurora Store as my default.

I guess you could call these “soft” boycotts.

I would boycott Apple, but I like Android and its ability to install apps from outside their app store way more, and Windows just makes more sense to me than a Mac, so I honestly have no need for Apple.

As for modifying Windows (like I’m doing with Android) or boycotting it, I’m sure that’ll happen in time with the way things are going. I’ve only just recently started looking into stuff like ShutUp10 and other similar stuff, but I want to make sure I know what I’m doing since a Windows OS can be a bit more fragile than an Android OS.

Cars = getting a job to pay for the gas, the taxes, the repairs, the taxes, the annual state inspection, the taxes, the (usually) annual registration fees, and the taxes!

(Although, you are still able to go places further away without having to get a ride from someone else. In that sense, you are still more free.)