Interesting… I switched away from Samsung and actually hated stock Android!

• I actually preferred One UI to the standard pixel, mainly because Google ruined the quick settings - they made each button unnecessarily big, and turning on/off the wifi requires two taps instead of one now (Internet > Wifi). That’s something I can’t change without rooting.
• Some Samsung stock apps are actually a great alternative to the android ones (I use Samsung Notes a ton). The only downside is they force you to download it through their own app store.
• Samsung doesn’t really have much bloat now, and the few pieces of bloat i found could be uninstalled
• Samsung is still the only phone manufacturer with triple camera setups in a small flagship phone

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not perfect, but the issues I had with Samsung were solvable (e.g. uninstalling bloat is a one-time thing) while the annoyances I’ve had with a Pixel aren’t solvable (quick settings, no third camera).

what are those things?

but I must admit I still don’t participate here as much because the content I’m seeing it’s not as tailored to my interests as I’d like. Searching for communities tends to show a lot of communities with no participation at all, which is useless

yeah that’s the unfortunate thing about a smaller site! but the onus is on all of us to start participating, so even if you see an empty community, just post something in there!

would prefer free market solns where the state has to abide by the rules of the people

you mean like facebook? haha!

you can try selecting “don’t recommend this channel” on some of the more radical ones!

damn, there are more top mods than i thought! I remember stumbling on one “powermod” but it turns out they aren’t even on this list.

hey you’re the guy who didn’t shit, how did that go!

yes, you can! you just have to search for “all” instead of “local” under Communities!

just google actually!

Beans are an excellent source of vegetable protein and minerals such as iron, magnesium and zinc. They are rich in folic acid, an element associated with the reduction of such birth defects as Spina Bifida, and they also protect against heart disease. Beans are also a good source of non-lactic calcium.

I started !workreform@lemmy.world about 2 weeks ago, and now it has an estimated 3.4-4k subscribers (depending on how the subscriber statistics work) and people are posting stuff.

It takes time, and it takes some effort on the part of the creator.

But you’re right, some communities will grow faster than others. I think there’s a balance between creating communities that are too broad vs super-specific communities for now!

reddit has what, 100M users? lemmy only has 1% of that for now. so things will be quieter at the start, but i’ve found that people are more engaged here!

Not a lawyer but I know a little bit!

So the Reddit user agreement (Effective June 19, 2023. Last Revised April 18, 2023) says:

5. Your Content The Services may contain information, text, links, graphics, photos, videos, audio, streams, or other materials (“Content”), including Content created with or submitted to the Services by you or through your Account (“Your Content”). We take no responsibility for and we do not expressly or implicitly endorse, support, or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any of Your Content.

By submitting Your Content to the Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the rights to Your Content contained within these Terms. Because you alone are responsible for Your Content, you may expose yourself to liability if you post or share Content without all necessary rights.

You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content:

When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. This license includes the right for us to make Your Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication by other companies, organizations, or individuals who partner with Reddit. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with Your Content, and you irrevocably waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to Your Content.

What this means (I think) is that while reddit is forever allowed to use whatever you posted in any way, even selling and monetising it, the author retains copyright of their post/comments. So if you copy/paste something over from reddit, the author can claim copyright infringement, but not reddit.

Please don’t treat this as legal advice!

there’s no real “approval” needed, being stuck on “subscribe pending” is a bug with federation, you’ll still get new posts and comments!

I see an error saying I’ve been blocked - i never had that problem with fedisearch!

that looks useless, it just shows me an error saying I’ve been blocked lol!

yes, unfortunately finding, joining and linking to other communities across instances kinda blows now, but given how new lemmy is i think that will improve over time!

beehaw is kind of a weird oddity in the fediverse. Most of the other main instances are federated.

I personally just view beehaw as a separate thing - I block their communities so I don’t accidentally participate, and I use lemmy.world as my home instance to browse everything else. works fine for me. I see you’re on lemm.ee, which is also a low-drama instance that federates with everyone, so you don’t really have any issues there :)

is lemmy already fracturing so I can’t see stuff on beehaw? Doesn’t this kind of defeat the purpose?

I’d say it’s both a feature and a bug of the Fediverse!

Everyone is free to start their own server, just as everyone is free to splinter off. This means no central authority deciding what you can see and can’t see.

In the ideal state, there would be multiple servers with the same discussion topic (eg a few “news” communities would exist on beehaw, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml etc). Each of them will slowly take a different direction. This is already kinda happening on reddit (news, worldnews, neutralnews, etc), but here it should happen across servers.

Beehaw is a bit of a weird animal, they don’t like having so many users all at once because it leads to moderation issues. I think they should have just appointed more mods, but they decided on the last-resort option of splintering off temporarily. They really value having a small,close-knit community - they don’t allow people to start their own communities (the subreddit equivalent), downvotes aren’t allowed, etc, so discussion is only focused on a few main channels.

As a new user, i think it’s fine for you to be on lemmyworld! It has the largest variety of content here, although the pace of new content is still slow because lemmy has 1% of 1% of reddit’s userbase. Feel free to contribute!

The takeaway for now is, you can see beehaw posts but can’t really participate. I personally found it useful to block beehaw communities so I can see the activity elsewhere. The current default lemmy sort isn’t very good - I would try sorting by Hot or New.

It has its uses.