I don’t know much about statista, but yeah the steam numbers linux users love to cite regularly fluctuate by like 25% and windows usage has been shown to basically depend on how active the chinese market is.

I mean it’s one thing when you bring together a bunch of services that have no interest in being compatible, verses a bunch that are all conforming to the same standard.

I think admins choose, but tbh reddit is also pretty algorithmic these days

People have been using email since they were five and all modern lives depend on it. If they don’t understand federation they will just be confused why they can’t see the content and leave. “I didn’t understand it and it didn’t work” is one of the more commons reasons I’ve seen on Reddit for failing lemmy

As a younger tech person, I definitely don’t get a lot about email. It’s old and weird and arcane and half it’s features that match newer services seem to be built on top of hacks that are enforced through convention alone that will break if I decide I like to format my titles a little differently. Third party clients work, but the main providers, Gmail outlook use some proprietary api to make sure their own works well while everyone else gets stuck with shitty imap. There’s endless little incompatibilities. It all just feels like delerict tower held together with miles of duct tape. Oh and I still haven’t found a good answer to why calendars are so tied up with email.

Any IDE worth a damn will manage that for you.

Yeah in like 10% of cases. I’m copying something from a pdf my prof gave. The only ones able fix spacing now are me and God

Little too programming focused though, not much tech news

That is absolutely not a critical part. One of the primary examples doctorow uses is an online marketplace like Amazon. The missing part is the specific steps the business takes of first trapping consumers, then sellers, and finally raking in that cash.

The article says that was for 15 and 15.1 blocks them entirely

Does anyone not use ffmpeg at this point?

Til this is a thing

Alongside what the other guy said, Opera definitely does have search engine deals, idk about brave since they launched their own. But brave has their own private advertising system

Damn bro, you didn’t have to roast yourself that hard

Water also isn’t a liquid if I randomly change the definition of liquid

This might encourage them. According to romance books, teenage girls are really into creatures that bite their neck

It may be a little overly negative, I use mastodon, I just don’t find it useful to publish my stuff on

It’s like two 2 js functions, I can dm you the code if you want

Hey I’m the coship guy (coshipmate?). I also found out the hard way the lemmy api doesn’t respond if you’re missing some parameters. Actually the most helpful thing was opening up photon and just seeing the network requests it sent.

I’ve used a few platforms in my life and am currently mainly on Mastodon and Pixelfed, but Reddit, the role model for Lemmy, was never one of them. It seemed very confusing and complex to me and I had the same feeling with Lemmy. It’s all a bit different from Mastodon, but that’s mainly because you have to deal with another level here, the communities.

Yeah funny how that works. I find twitter, and thus mastodon very confusing. There’s no organization or discoverability except what’s added on by hashtags (very inconsistent) or algorithms (don’t exist on mastodon).

Lemmy doesn’t care about users, only communities. You can’t even follow them (which can be quite annoying when things like wordpress join the fediverse, but make blogs “users” even though they can have multiple authors, and now you can’t follow them through lemmy)

Most of the world doesn’t know how to use game controllers, because they’re not used outside of consoles

Dude this is 10x simpler than WordPress