My bike is the only thing I can say for certain has paid for itself. If I had paid $1 for each trip I’ve taken on it, I would have spent far more than it cost me.

I don’t really think social media actually makes people more social in real life and federated platforms are pretty much the same. I also remember reading once that many tech execs don’t let their kids use social media or phones.

Also here’s a few interesting related things I’ve seen:

• The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? | Kurzgesagt
• Lemmy is making me depressed

I wouldn’t recommend Lemmy to anyone I know. Lemmy feels like a meme aggregator more than a forum or a link aggregator. It probably has it’s own niche of people who like what they can find in it but the people I know seem interested in other things, like local news and sports.

Atheism 1.45K users / month, Religion 9 users / month, religion isn’t gonna fly on Lemmy. You may be as christian as you like but how many times have you been able to talk religion here. And the same goes for any topics that goes against the current group think.

I still use Reddit for niche and polarizing topics. Lemmy feels like groupthink to me, especially about politics — it’s always “Ukraine good, Russia bad” and “Palestine good, Israel bad.” I like hearing both sides, but divergent opinions get smothered here. Imagine an average Christian joining the Fediverse: they’d have to leave many of their beliefs at the door and adapt to the herd, or risk being unwelcome, having posts downvoted to oblivion, and being told to leave. It’s already happened to me a few times with opinions that aren’t welcomed here. It’s a far cry from what Lemmy’s decentralization promised.

I wish that was an option but mainstream media is the only way to get locally relevant news as far as I know.

And with instances blocking each other it may be in an instance I can’t see from this one.

Right now I can see the posts I have already interacted with, for a moment I thought it would be that.

Nah, it didn’t say anything about perplexity it just felt like that to me. It uses Ollama and some of the LLM services from companies but I saw it on an image, and I don’t remember what the title was.

Doesn’t sound familiar. I think it had the word sense in it but I couldn’t find it using that word.

Browsing not choosing. I didn’t say I would necessarily swap, just that I like to see other options.

https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun

That sounds like spam. I’ll report just in case.

That’s pretty much what I’d like. So no idea if there are any clients with that functionality?

AI-made aliens of all kinds and sizes. I wouldn’t mind recreating the cantina scene from the original Star Wars trilogy by walking into a bar and, in real-time, using deepfake technology to transform everyone into a random alien species from Star Wars.

You must have made that up, there’s not even a definition on Urban Dictionary.

Also, is this a hobby or a kink, because it reminds me of kinks like chastity, plapping and such.

The locations, free falling and such.

Extreme Ironing

No? It doesn’t seem to be a use case they target.

The problem is that making a repository private makes users think their data can’t be seen so they may upload that kind of information.

If you want to use git to store sensitive data, you should encrypt it before committing / pushing it.

I’ll look into that.

Wow, I bet they don’t even bother warning their sexual partners about it. I wish I had never learned that.