This isn’t a tier list tier list. Its clearly a tier list tier tier list.

Honestly, I forgot Mbin was a seperate piece of software. I was too focused trying to think of non-Fediverse alternatives. How is Mbin? I hear so little about it nowadays.

Is there any alternatives other than PieFed and Lemmy? Given that even Lemmy still lacks the content to serve as a suitable Reddit alternative for most people, I can’t imagine that theres anything else short of a bunch of disconnected, dedicated, niche interest forums.

Correction: asked my friend, and shoes off is the normal expectation in Nigeria. Slippers are just a personal preference, so the chart is just wrong.

Although not sure about Nigeria, are slippers and flip flops like expected to be worn or just available?

In my (limitted) experience, its expected. When I visited a friend who was Nigerian, they offered me slippers to wear in the house, and they felt uncomfortable going barefoot in my (Canadian) house.

Edit: Talked to my Nigerian friend, shoes off is expected, and slippers are just a personal preference. The map is just wrong.

It might be in including having slippers or “indoor shoes”. Nigeria is there as a shoes on, but from my understanding, its only slippers/flip flops specificly for indoors, that are normal.

Edit: Talked to my Nigerian friend, shoes off is expected, and slippers are just a personal preference. The map is just wrong.

Even outside of the content being viewed, there may be a huge difference in effect depending on who is viewing it. Almost all of the current studies are on University students, probably western demographic most able to socialize with others due to need, proximity, and free time. Debatably, they’re also among the most impressionable groups as well, given that they’re still not fully grown and are in the middle of trying to figure out and plan their lives. Intuitively, this would mean they’re more able to take advantage of their time off social media, and more impacted by their time on it.

This begs the question of if the effects will be the same in other populations. For example, in populations that are less able to socialize, does social media help reduce the burden, and if so, what platforms or elements have this effect versus more negative effects.

I think social media probably isn’t great, but the data also isn’t particularly conclusive, and much of it is very broad and unhelpful. For example, in the first study you linked, it had a sample of 143 University students accross three different social media sites, measured only using app battery usage. While it isn’t to be completely discounted, esspecially alongside the larger body of work, it’s sample size is tiny, and the data collected isn’t esspecially representitve of what is supposed to be measured, as it includes non-social-media tools like Facebook Marketplace while excluding social media accessed via the browser (among other flaws). The vast majority of studies on the topic, regardless of findings, have similar flaws.

IMO, social media as a whole is too varied to meaningfully lump together, and a lot of the impacts that are commonly attributed to social media are better attributed to deeper causes regarding lack of sociatal trust and support. Tracking the impacts of social media is hard enough, nonetheless the impacts of something like the lack of third places, and impacts of economic inequality on mental health.

Have they? Beyond, small, local measures, I haven’t noticed much difference. We still are trying to buy the F-35, we’re just as committed to American software and financial institutions and have no plans nor initiatives to transfer away, we’re doubling down on fossil fuels, much of which will go to the US, and we don’t really even (accurately) label which products are Canadian or not. I don’t know of a single government-led or funded initiative to reduce reliance on the US.

Spotify for my partner. Anyone know any good alternatives for those who like listening to a constant stream of new music?

I believe its a mix of the fact that Google favours large websites, and the fact that so much of the Fediverse is hostile to bots/crawling, which also tends to exclude search engines.

The biggest thing for me is searchability. After a post is off the feed, it may as well be deleted. God help you if you’re looking for something new, like a guide or help post. Most of the Fediverse is unindexed by search engines, and the built-in Lemmy search makes Reddit search look like Google in it’s prime. I know PieFed has helpped a bit by adding flairs, so you can at least sort by that, but to my knowledge thats about as far as anyone has gone trying to address this.

Xfrgolszzzxy - pronounced “Surf-goal-see”, not “ex-frogs-ly”

I’ve tried Mastrodon and PeerTube, but bounced off both due to a lack of quality content. On Mastrodon, the only person I found worth following was Technology Connections, and on PeerTube, I didn’t find any of the more scripted and/or well-editted videos that I normally enjoy.

I haven’t tried PieFed yet, but might consider switching at some point given Lemmy’s idology, and increasingly present shortcomings.

I’ve having trouble even telling what he’s trying to say or achive. Like, at first, it seems like complaining about mass downvotes from /all, which is reasonable enough, but then it just deteriorates into nonsense.

Edit: Looks like thats all it is. Just very, very immaturely and incoherently. Nothing particularly mental, just a kid (or someone of similar maturity) salty about downvotes.

Its a Russian propaganda/tankie website anyway. They have no interest in spreading reliable information.

I believe Lemmy itself is shrinking. Last I checked Fediverse Observer, it was on a downward trend (although not drastically). That said, that excludes PieFed. I think when including PieFed we’re probably growing (very) slowly.

Nope, voting counts too, so a lot of lurkers are included.

Erm, it looks to me that there is a project to make them work on Linux: https://openrazer.github.io/.

It only covers the absolute basics. Not even button rebinding.

Also… TBH if a mouse doesn’t work on Linux that kind of makes it a bad mouse, IMO. I would just get a different mouse if it was an actual issue. It’s not like it’s a mechanical keyboard or something.

I mean, even ignoring that, its pretty bad. Doesn’t even have on-board memory. Unfortunately, its what I’m stuck with, given that I can’t afford a new one.