I’ve been wanting a replacement for ages now. The problem is that Discord does everything it does very well (with a few exceptions), way better than any of its competitors. It’s incredibly hard to replace, because no other product really matches it in any category. Cost, ease of use, feature set, cross-app API support… Nobody else comes close; even if you paid a ton of money for premium services to replace Discord, you’re still likely going to downgrade your overall experience.

I really want to see more competition in this space.

HI I’M NICOLE BUT YOU CAN CALL ME THE FEDIVERSE CHICK

I’m pretty sure that just doing “quick searches” is exactly how he ended up with AI answers to begin with.

Potholes are just inverted speed bumps.

Sounds like bi-curious, to me.

Can confirm. I used to fidget with the charger on an old laptop of mine by just spinning it in place in the port. Over time, it loosened up the connections to the point where I had to duct tape the plug into the port.

Which is an outcome I actually worry about, if they implemented this feature in Funkwhale. A fascist fork of the app existing and having a userbase gives it legitimacy. It immediately sells itself to those people: “Come to our free speech music platform” will bring in a lot of new users, very easily.

“Man who works 10 hours per year tells underlings to work 60 hours per week.”

Thanks for this, I had no idea this was added! Gonna tweak my settings now.

you take out one of your 13 guns that are just on your person for no reason

My man just had his phone stolen and you think there’s not a reason for 13 guns? He needs at least 20, if anything!

I’m a bit torn on the idea, myself. On one hand, fuck fascists, don’t let ‘em have an inch. But on the other hand, this does kinda take away a users’ freedoms with the software.

Honestly, I think it’s fine if it’s a plugin or something that you can install at your own discretion or something. Or if it’s baked-in, it should be an opt-in setting. I’m of the opinion that the actual software, itself, should be apolitical. It’s something I can respect the Lemmy devs for, after all; even though I disagree with their politics, the actual Lemmy code is politically agnostic, and I think that’s for the best.

They’re very useful, but just for certain things. The problem is that every corpo idiot out there thinks they’re useful for everything, which they’re most certainly not.

I’d remove those from your backups. There was a situation a while back where a guy has his Google account shut down because he sent pictures of his child’s skin rash to his doctor, and the photos were flagged as CSAM when he uploaded them.

Edit: A bit late, but here’s an article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-csam-account-blocked

Dang, there went all my legitimate plans for signal jamming.

I’m pretty sure they’re talking an ice apple.

I believe the later Pixel models have longer support periods. But I’m in a similar boat with my old Pixels; my P1 still works just fine, and I’d love to use it as a makeshift security cam, but it’s so far out of date that it’s probably not wise to have it on the network at all.

Dammit, Bobby!

Please see OP’s history before providing advice. They are not receptive to feedback, and seem to be more concerned with being heard than hearing others.

Private personal security firms exist, and are often used by celebrities, CEOs, and the like. Generally speaking, what you get with those services is just an armed dude who will follow you around and make sure that people keep a safe distance from you. He’ll get between you and anybody who may be approaching too aggressively, and will mostly just serve as a physical barrier, more than anything.

They will not take a bullet for you, though. While there’s an inherent risk of being attacked as part of the job, they’re not going to “get down Mr President” you. While they will do what they can to protect you, they’re not going to intentionally sacrifice themselves for you.

Oh that makes sense, thanks!