For some reason I don’t count youtube as social media - If I went to reddit and read comments without voting that would count, but youtube is just a video delivery platform (and I don’t read the comments). Not sure if that’s a real distinction I can make
Hackernews is a link-based message board, Ars is a article-based website
Both used to be just tech, but have started being a bit more general or tech-adjacent
Ars has specialist professional journalists, Hackernews links heavily favour tech industry professionals and deep dives
Lemmy + Hackernews + Arstechnica
What more is there to know?
Exactly the same, except the reason is that the eggs at the back can freeze if the carton is pushed back in the fridge, so I work from the far end to near
Your options are building from source, downloading dev apks, or using an app store. If you can’t trust anyone, then you need to build from source
Fdroid is the best of the app stores, they are always trying to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to privacy, security, and trust
Reproducible builds are the standard for FOSS trust, see this article for an overview. They close the gap between app stores and dev apks
Fdroid are constantly working to increase the prevalence of reproducible builds, and to enable you to verify more so you have to rely less on trust
NTA yet. You’re not an asshole if you think that way, but you could be depending on how you act
If you suggested a kid free meetup and they said they would bring the kids anyway then the conversation is over - if you tell them you don’t want anything to do with their kids then they will think YTA and you won’t catchup, which is worse than now where you just won’t catchup
Maybe just tell them you’re going somewhere kids can’t come like a bar, and politely decline any offers to meetup elsewhere
It tells you right there in the log: “DRDY”
The reason I would call reddit social media is that I don’t agree with any of those rules
The closest I would agree with is 2, and not based on lack of anonymity but instead on persistence of identity, and that being core to the experience
I was part of subreddits where users knew each other as distinct personalities, and could converse across different threads across time, and occasionally IRL from various meetups
When a website doesn’t have a lively and persistent ‘local’ community (maybe geographic, maybe subject etc) it can’t really be social