You can download lossless with Apple Music and listen to it with no data connection.

Unfortunately the communities that I’m interested in didn’t really move. I tried very hard to just quit Reddit cold turkey, but instead I’ve dialed it back to only 4-5 core topics that I’m interested in. For general doomscrolling I mostly use Apple News now. I check Lemmy every day or two but it’s hard to get stuck in when the discussions I’m interested in aren’t really flourishing here. Hopefully it grows over time.

The fact that the login UI has username, password, and 2FA code all on one screen means this immediately wins. I hate this new trend of “put in your email, now go to another screen, put in your password, now go to another screen…” Ugh. My password manager can autofill more than one box at a time, you know!

yep i have been a sodium citrate convert since i watched an adam ragusea video on the topic. https://piped.video/watch?v=KcM_MZoJWOo

i picked up a bag off amazon for cheap and it really is magic.

i’ve got a max size phone… can’t one hand it.

iPhone didn’t have native swipe keyboard until 2019. I’m guessing a lot of people had iPhones for years without having a native swipe option so they just never bothered with it. I’m definitely in that category. Honestly I totally forgot it was even a thing until reading this post just now. After years of practice I’m crazy fast with two thumb typing, I can only imagine swipe would slow me down to the point of irritation.

The whole point of federation is that you don’t have to pick just one place. You can add communities from nsfw instances, communities from nerd tv instances, communities from your geographic locality, etc…

No. I’ve got a bunch of friends who are just as techy and nerdy as I am, and they won’t move. “Yeah, Reddit sucks, but I’m not going to change.”

They didn’t go to Mastodon either, just Bluesky, which infuriates me, as it’s just another walled garden.

I commented on reddit a lot, many times a day for many years. After the latest bullshit I had no qualms about dropping it like a hot potato. Bye bye, not going back. The future of social media is decentralized.

Same here. Lemmy is rising quickly though, I have no doubt it will be a sufficient Reddit replacement soon enough. I’ve been using Apple News as my “read over breakfast” app. I already pay for the sub anyway, and once I set it up with a bunch of sources/topics I was interested in, it became a pretty good reading experience.

it’s a standardized protocol for creating decentralized social networks. basically if everybody who wanted to create a social network agreed to use activitypub, they’d all be able to talk to each other, just like anyone can send email to anyone else, even if they aren’t on the same email server.

this is why i’m against bluesky even though a lot of my friends are on it… it’s just another walled off single-entity-controlled property. didn’t we learn anything from twitter and now reddit!?