• ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukM
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    8 hours ago

    Perhaps the Fediverse needs a helpful paperclip like mascot to help with on-boarding.

    “Hi, I’m Freddy Verse your friendly guide to the Fediverse, let me help you pick your new home. Please answer these questions:”

    What type of service are you looking for?

    • Micro-blogging
    • Blogging
    • Image sharing
    • Long-form video
    • Short-form video
    • Social network
    • Jack-of-all-trades
    • Dick pics

    Where do you live?

    • America, fuck yeah!
    • UK
    • German speaking countries
    • France
    • Australia

    What are you interested in?

    • Books
    • Films
    • Gaming
    • Star Wars
    • Star Trek
    • Harry Potter
    • Porn
    • Just the dick pics
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    14 hours ago

    What would Threads be in this analogy, maybe Edge browser?

    Always being shoved in your face, an artificially high “user count”, but after a while people don’t really use it?

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      11 hours ago

      Threads has much much much more active content than Lemmy.

      Edge is also a fantastic browser and has tons of actual users. Most folks I know use it more than chrome these days.

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          9 hours ago

          Oh wow it’s it? 🙄

          Gotta love when some redditor/lemmy explains irrelevant common knowledge.

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            9 hours ago

            Are you arguing with me or you at this point?

            Explain to me in detail how that is irrelevant without telling me it has everything to do with what you and I just said.

            Y’all need to go back to Reddit with this shitty argue with everyone attitude, this was a beautiful place at one point.

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        10 hours ago

        Might depend on where you are in the world, it’s not really the case where I am

        Twitter, Bluesky, and Mastodon are most common for that format, and Chrome/Safari for browsers. I see more Firefox than Edge, with the exception being locked down work computers

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      12 hours ago

      I’d say anyone who has ever tried to use it hates it a little, even if they also love it

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      10 hours ago

      It has a learning curve and it is better suited for technical work IMO. I wouldn’t tell a grandparent to write a letter using LaTeX for example.

      I WOULD trust a grandparent to be able to download Mastodon and make an account, but still I think the analogy works nicely lol

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      12 hours ago

      I wouldn’t say hater, more like “each tool for its job”

      LaTeX can be quite cumbersome for certain tasks, same as Word is cumbersome for other tasks. It all depends what the tool is made for, and what you try to use it for.