I switched instances just so I could be on one that had downvotes because I passionately believe downvotes give immediate power to of self moderation to the users. However, I'm very light on downvoting. I only downvotevote stuff like the OP was talking about or if something is technically incorrect and damaging to a thread. But again I'm very light on downvoting, as I was on Reddit before. I usually ignore something that I simply don't agree with or think is too silly, etc.

I can’t believe you’ve done this

Even crazier is Apollo had this awesome feature for zooming in on pictures. You could double tap to zoom in, then double tap again to resize to fit the screen. But then you could also double tap and hold on the second tap and drag up or down to zoom in and out like you can in the Maps app. That I used all the time. Also, Apollo would let you zoom in really really close - double tapping would get you to a normal zoom level but then you could just keep pinching to zoom in quite far. Love what you're doing, keep up the great work.

It’s coffee time!

I don’t think you’re far off because obfuscated code usually has less structured variable references.

You have to forgive EndOfLine, he’s from @startrek.website and they take that shit seriously! /s

You paint quite the picture

Yeah I actually end up getting the alerts on Discord

The other day, I started to not be able to comment, only on some replies, without applying a language, which I selected to be English. Other replies, let me keep it Select language/untouched. This is in comments though, not for posts.

Here’s a little more about it from TechHive.

Lol it’s USD. But I have 4 phone lines, 3 watch lines, and 1 iPad line. I think that’s why it’s at $40?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sounds good! I’ll check it out.

🙌

But my balls will be slapping my thighs…

I do love counting in binary!

LFG!!!

I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.

It is what it is, mí hijo

Yes, I tried Mint for a little bit and was very excited but I had poor signal for the short period I tested it. I admittedly did not go everywhere I go for business and travel so it's not a fair review. Around where are you located, do you find good signal? Is it comparable to mainstream carriers?

Lol, that’s funny.

Privacy is a service that you link to your bank account and then you can write virtual cards with custom limits on the fly.

My dude, you have tons of upvotes. You’re doing great! Why so hard on yourself??

(I, for one, do like karma. And…you may want to sit down for this, folks…Lemmy has karma)

It’s crazy, they were doing good. Then, past several months, garbage.

Who’d you switch to?

It is unfortunately real

Awesome! Thank you, thank you.

I’m off to my cabin in the woods

Yep, it's messed up my dude. I'm going to use one of my Privacy virtual numbers.

Lol, nice

Yeah, but I don’t want to pay the extra $40. I use Privacy so I don’t have to give my debit card info.

Scams are fun to analyze, unfortunately, this is legit and not fun at all

Yeah, I hear ya. To be honest, I’ve had AT&T, T-Mobile, then went to Verizon for a year, then back to T-Mobile in the span of about five years (I had AT&T, since they were Cingular before the switch to T-Mobile the first time). Looks like the three choices we have aren’t the greatest in the world…

I know it's negligible, and certainly not covering the $40. It's just the way I like to use my funding, cramping my style, so to speak (and removes choice). But as for the stealing of the credit cards, I know, I hate giving my numbers across the Internet. That's why I started to use Privacy - it’s not credit but at least I don’t have to give my numbers out.

My friend, please, it's been a good day, let's not mention Verizon (there's…history there).

I think I’ve heard of them, I’m gonna check them out, thank you!

I would prefer that, unfortunately, it is real.

Same. I hate giving raw credit card numbers out. That’s why I use Privacy - it links to your bank account and you can generate a credit card number on the fly, with limits.

Someone else was also just saying this. That’s awesome. So it’s working for you?

Exactly. That's why I was saying maybe I'm overreacting because I kind of get it… But still.

I would hope, like you say, those larger instances would naturally realize larger donations with the higher user volume.

But sure, each instance can make the choice to inject ads in their users’ feeds. Larger instances may have promos with companies like video game publishers or movie studios. But I think the natural infrastructure that the Fediverse provides, limits this from the crazy ad levels we see in today's failing mainstream, centralized social media companies.

It's much more cost-effective, for everyone involved, in a decentralized platform. All those big company server costs are broken up into dozens eventually hundreds and thousands of different servers just like World Wide Web itself, with websites for each community, right? Communities chip in to buy Little League shirts for their town baseball teams, we set up websites for our book sales and bake sales, school PTAs are able to accomplish great things because their parent communities can afford to help in smaller circles.

Decentralization doesn't just decentralize the data. It also decentralizes the semantics, the funding, etc.

All this talk about “well, the UX”, “if the servers can”, “but the big companies”, bla, bla, bla. I’m here right now. There is nothing else as far as I’m concerned. Twitter and Reddit are dead to me and I absolutely love Mastodon and Lemmy. I quit Facebook many years ago and never found an alternative for that, outside of starting a shared photo group on iOS with my family.

You better start believing in fediverse alternatives…you’re in one.