I use safari with an adblocker extension (AdGuard) on ios

youtube works just fine in a browser, the youtube app sucks anyway

man, so many old school internet references will go unnoticed on lemmy :(

holds up spork

just ordered a nice OTA antenna so I can watch my local channels, anything else needed will be purchased for exactly 1 month and then cancelled

I’ve also started looking at smaller streaming services like CuriosityStream and MagellanTV cause I’m more interested in documentaries and such instead of the latest weekly tv dramas

yep

I’ll take my lower salary to sit in my home office with central air

I wouldn’t last a day as a driver with their expectations and the need to move/lift heavy packages in the heat

stack overflow is great if you want to be berated, given an irrelevant solution, and then have your question closed as a duplicate incorrectly

the sorting algorithms definitely need some work, I try to use ‘Hot’ but it constantly shows me posts from 1+ year ago

and multi-reddits were the only way I used that site once the feature was created so that would be a very welcome addition to lemmy!

anytime I saw a thread on reddit with 1,000+ comments I didn’t even bother to add my own view

I do like how pretty much any thread here on the fediverse is small enough that I feel like I can make a comment and participate

some communities do feel quite active, but I think sports as well as some niche interests could use a boost in activity here

according to that same website, kbin activity has been dropping

down from ~57,000 average at the beginning of July to about ~32,500 active users now

https://kbin.fediverse.observer/dailystats

I know I’ve been having issues with federation from kbin magazines to my lemmy instance, so I wonder if this is part of it?

I’m not sure if all of your points are covered, but this page has fediverse tips and an active mastodon account where you might be able to ask for the remaining scenarios to be covered

https://fedi.tips/

https://mstdn.social/@feditips

that makes sense

federation between kbin.social and my instance lemmy.sdf.org seems to be awful and I couldn’t tell where the breakdown was occurring because the issue is intermittent/partial federation

I’m not a web developer so I can’t really say what solutions are best, but I have faith there are people smarter than me working on robust solutions

I haven’t looked at the specs but it is similar to UDP vs TCP?

quoting posts unlike Mastodon

what happens when a Firefish user quotes a post and it federates to Mastodon? Is the quote lost?

I’ll be honest, I have no idea how secure the firefox passwords are stored… maybe I should actually research this some more

but I would hope Mozilla has a reasonably secure method in place

I just use firefox to remember my passwords

is there an advantage to switching to some third party app like bitwarden?

I feel like firefox is good enough and very easy to view/manage my passwords, but open to arguments why others are worth switching to

cool I’ll check them out, thanks!

I completely stopped using reddit but that old.reddit.com interface is still the best imo

most themes look like from early 2000’s

I thought that was a major selling point 😭

I’m assuming you’d need an account specifically on endlesstalk.org to use these frontend?

I’m already moderating a few communities so completely migrating to a new instance is probably not worth it for me (and I’d prefer to keep my sdf.org connections)

I’d love it if these alternative sites could use a login from a different instance somehow, basically operating in the same way a mobile app does

there are definitely federation issues with kbin.social

I’m on lemmy.sdf.org and my subscriptions to kbin magazines are extremely flaky and sometimes don’t work at all

I’ve tried posting about it on both my lemmy community and kbinmeta on kbin.social but never got much traction on why federation is hit-or-miss

I’ve been fighting kudzu for years that keeps encroaching my property from the neighbor’s yard

by far the fastest growing plant matter I’ve ever seen

the way it can grow underground and then pop up 10 feet away it’s like those whack-a-mole games but far less fun

not to mention it wraps around any thing it finds so it can quickly choke out a tree