Thanks for sharing, this made me smile. Also it warms my heart to hear how you are making tech accessible to this kid.

Many of us take it for granted but I remember how my dad used to go over to family friends in his free-time to help with computer stuff. I feel like I was too young to learn but it did set an example for me.

Uh oh… Forgot about that! Please don’t tell Secreta Secretorum officials!!

I played it, enjoyed it, and had no idea what the hell is going on.

It was fun because I went in with the expectation that it’s bizarre and has a certain cult classic reputation.

Sounds like !casualconversation@lemm.ee might be a nice community to post this question to as well :)

Isn’t that very country/culture/field specific?

True, and also it will make it feel less like “lemmy is dead” to new comers (something we have heard time and time again from people who are new to the fediverse) because they accidentally found the one community that was dead. It’s easier to point them to “our version” of a community they are looking for.

Even in moderately popular communities the posting frequency is quite low compared to what some people are used to. For me personally I actually like the activity level of lemmy, but we need more people to account for comings and goings of users to be able to sustain communities on the long run.

I’ve had this discussion before and the conclusion was:

Keep it as general as possible. Lemmy is still growing and small and a niche community looks often dead.

Once the community becomes too big it’s easier to split the community into more specific communities.

For example: we have quite a few communities about learning a specific language and they all seem inactive, so we are keeping a general community up (!languagelearning@sopuli.xyz) but don’t limit the content to anything specific. You can ask generally about languages, learning, or a specific language and you are more likely to get an answer from others than if you go to a language specific community.

Once it’s too big it will be easy for an active group of people to move to, say, !japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz or something.

So, in short: start with a general community :)

I’m sorry I can’t recommend any factful books, but the old fictional “Fahrenheit 451” is kind about that and I can recommend.

In case you don’t know it: It’s about a fictional alternative timeline of US where books have been banned and the protagonist is a guy who is part of the system of eradicating those “remaining, filthy and evil books”. In this timeline the term “Firemen” has become the opposite of what you know as Firemen, although the protocol and equipment is similar.

My absolute all time favourite sci-fi book series is John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War”.

I can’t recommend this book series enough. Kept me up several nights because I couldn’t stop reading (and suffered for it at work).

Scalzi added a lot of humor too and it’s brilliant.

Missing the link in the post :(

Edit: Link is there! Thanks!

I’m not going to say it’s not a me-problem, but disregarding the fact that if it was that simple it would be more widespread amongst people is making it seem as if we don’t try seriously and downplays the effort many like myself put in.

I care about privacy and about my close ones (as many here do) and I explain the issue to them in a nice way so to not come across as a pushy salesman, and they readily admit that they don’t want to put the effort in (effort as in learning something new, upkeeping with multiple apps, etc).

It’s not that I don’t know why they don’t switch immidiately - I know why. It’s simply that they don’t. It’s okay not to switch as long as you know the risks and I’ve explained the risks and they seem to understand it, but it’s not enough to get everyone to switch.

If life was that simple with everyone (I know some switch without hesitation) the world would be completely different.

You can explain to a decent normal person the imminent doom we are facing with climate change and they may understand it very well, but they still wont give up on using their car and switch to public transport immidiately, because it is an inconvenience.

Yup and months of premium instant 24/7 tech support to ensure the slightest thing doesn’t return them to default apps in the beginning !

100% agree with you and I do the same.

You can still download the APK from their repository, install it, and use signals built in censoring-evasion setting as far as I know.

They are even working on self updating app feature IIRC.

This is why I donate to signal. I know there are decentralized alternatives but I can barely get my family and friends to use Signal.

There is a discussion (has been many discussions and for a long time) in lemmy GitHub repository about this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

We even have an official lemmy community for joplin! !joplinapp@sopuli.xyz (it’s linked on their website)

Someone’s account got banned by instance admins for mentioning they are 17. So you are right: no one is going to check!

Edit: it was on lemmy.world and nostupidquestions community IIRC

Tiny Glade. This game is sooo relaxing and fun. Can not recommend enough if you just wanna play something easy, beautiful, and fun after work.

Awwsome! No problem at all. Long live Lemmy indeed!!

That plan sounds good and it should be absolutely no problem to transfer the moderation to you since it is on your instance and the mod has been inactive that long! Indeed go to the support community I mentioned and earlier and ask :)

No problem at all and good luck! Glad to have you in lemmy :)

PS. If you take over the community and want it to grow, here are some communities to get help with growing it: !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !fedigrow@lemm.ee