Classic Chesterton’s fence principle.

Reddit is already blocking some Proton VPN IPs…

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This is actually not a good advice, from my experience. If we don’t monitor, refactor, or improve the code, the software will rot, sooner or later. “Don’t touch” doesn’t mean we don’t ever think about the code, but we make the conscious choice not to modify it.

This + org-mode are enough for me to switch to Emacs.

It was VPN issue for me. Some IPs in Proton VPN doesn’t work. When I tried a different IP or turned the IP off, I could access again.

Well, but most of the time I don’t care enough to go in.

Better learn COBOL now.

This is the real problem.

Ehm… Elliot uses Gnome.

https://youtu.be/ishgn7-NLlU?si=ox06KyNHHk35XlDL

The different servers, having to remember other people’s instances along with their username.

This is just like email, I see no problem here.

I think the problem is about the mindset and the onboarding experience. We’ve used too much proprietary products and prefer something easy and not too much diverge from the norms. Recently, I tried to advertise Mastodon and Lemmy to my non-techie friends, which are using X and Reddit. Some did try but gave up. They said they didn’t understand the concept, and didn’t want to bother with choosing an instance in the first place, because they didn’t understand the federation concept. It’s just hard to explain the benefits of the fediverse to non-techie people.

The type of people that the fediverse attracts are FOSS users.

I have the same observation as your view. Current fediverse communities are heavily towards tech. Some of my friends joined but gradually left because they had a few to no interactions or no interesting people in their interested areas to follow.

Unpopular opinion: just type “Massive Win”. What’s wrong with it?

That’s interesting to know. Maybe that’s why add-ons don’t work in Firefox iOS or iPad OS.

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Default Brave blocks ads more aggressively than default Firefox. Of course you can achieve that with Firefox + uBlock Origin, but add-ons are not available on iOS and iPad OS.

That’s just my experience. I still use Firefox + Firefox Focus BTW. To block more aggressively, I also use VPN + Adguard Home.

I actually prefer that—a simple messenger without gifs and stickers, just plain text.

I’m not promoting WhatsApp in this case though. It’s one thing it’s done right, besides end-to-end encryption.

Yes, you can filter by almost any country in the world.

When you learn to do something, you love it more.

Nowadays, we’re mostly given something and we don’t value it.

Not OC, but I’m using Kagi and super happy. Before I use Kagi, I didn’t realise how bad Google result is. Its results are poisoned by ads and SEO nowadays.

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

DUPLICATED, CLOSED, etc.

Joke aside, for an open question I’d prefer posting on Reddit/Lemmy/forums to have an open answer.

SO is too strict on its policy.