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I guess so. Or at least for a long time - back when I signed up it was sold as a way of broadcasting SMS messages, and nobody really knew what it was good for. At least now we know it's good for nothing.

A disturbing thing about the UK riots to me is that it seems that, between the crypto scams and the porn bots that are mixed together with Musk's incoherent ramblings on Twitter, there is still real humans in between the bullshit.

I have a Twitter account that's been dormant for 16 years or so (and never really active at all). I signed in to it today for the first time in a few months - the last time it was just to delete what was left of personal information and change my user name to something offensive to fascists.

Anyway, the content on my feed was:
- Musk tweets about Kamala losing ground
- A bunch of tweets with the same optical illusion, "can you read this number". One had a picture of a panda. Three of them were from Musk parody accounts using his profile picture, promising a million dollars or whatever to whoever could see it.
- X bitching about Brazil. Musk bitching about Brazil.
- Porn. So much porn. Hardcore porn, amateur porn, only fans promotions or what looked like it. Generally not marked NSFW, just people being pounded directly in the feed.
- Barack Obama for some reason
- A video of a young woman farting
- Video of Trump and a black woman who didn't look like anyone in particular AI'd into a sunset together
- A bunch of bitcoin spam
- One guy plotting up his master plan for how people could go about to leave Twitter, despite it being so irreplaceable and all. Obviously an ageing white man who considers himself some sort of public intellectual.

Why are there still people left in this mess? Do they not realize there is porn available elsewhere?

To be fair to these weirdos, it's not all that obvious that they're opposed to murder.

I really like the user experience as well, and @[email protected] is great at including the community in its development and keeping an open dialogue. It's a great project.

Mbin is very community oriented in it's development, collective decision-making and all that. Lemmy is more subject to the ideas of it's creators, for better or for worse.

I prefer being on instances with fewer users anyway - it feels a bit more personal. So more users on the larger Lemmy instances is not really an argument in my book.

I like the user experience on Lemmy and Mbin more. Another thing I like about Mbin is being able to boost posts and interact with the greater Fediverse more.

I like the performance of PieFed. It also works without JavaScript, which is nice some times.

What I like about this place is that we can all be on different platforms if we want to - there's no such thing as there not being enough people around to support all the platforms, as they're not competing for users. I'm happy whatever platform the people I interact with use - the important thing is that I can interact with them. :)

Sometimes it seems to know that the paths are not the best, and I really force it to take the path I choose instead of more convenient ones. So it only suggests the rugged paths when I insist it goes "there, but via there there and there". Generally I can make it through, and how overgrown a path is can change by the season, so it's a bit tricky. At one point in Italy though I ended up at a Via Ferrata, at which point I obviously had to turn back.

I have Street Complete installed, so I've started leaving notes using that whenever I notice any issues. And to make contributions now and then, of course. :)

Organic Maps is fantastic. I particularly use it for hiking, and it's fantastic. It finds some amazing trails that I would otherwise never have gone to. Sometimes they can be challenging or overgrown, so you have to know what you're doing and be prepared to turn back if necessary, but I owe a lot of truly incredible experiences to this app.

It originates as a fork of Maps.me, from when Maps.me changed to closed source. Since then Organic Maps has grown to become a lot better than the project it originates from, at least according to my preferences.

Now we're talking!!

Great idea!

Would be cool if the database could somehow be federated in a way that spreads well to other platforms like Mastodon as well.

Also Lemmy in the name might limit the reach a bit.

One probably awful idea: A closed Lemmy community, with microblog style posts (that read well from Mastodon) with a standardized format constitutes the entries.

It would allow for a discussion of each entry, and possible boosts etc., perhaps increasing the potential reach of the project. But excel tables would of course still have other advantages.

"Thanks Obama" became a meme, now "Thank you Joe" is becoming a chant?

Has something like this happened to any other president as they're preparing to leave office?

I guess you're also a different person when you're younger than 25 and playing in a punk band with no money, compared to a few years later when you cash in on old glory and gradually develop into more of an old fart with every passing day.

You grow up and you calm down and workin' for the clampdown.