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Yeah it wouldn’t bother me so much if any of it was actually useful, but they all just read like a lazy student padding out the page count on a college paper

I searched for a comparison between two USB flash drive brands and the top result waffled for multiple paragraphs about the history and definition of “flash memory” before finally recommending: “just get whichever one has the best performance in your price range”. Gee, thanks AI.

It’s tough because I almost feel like I need a whitelist at this point. 90% of the first page of Google results usually read like AI-generated fluff that doesn’t actually even answer my question. There are a handful of websites I trust now to give me real information and not just clickbait SEO nonsense.

I’m at the point where I add “reddit” to the end of every search just to try and find something that was written by a real person. Maybe someday I can start adding “lemmy” instead.

Yeah it’s not that I think they’re above this kind of petty bullshit, but I don’t get why they’d go “fuck this guy in particular”.

That said, even if the guy admitted to running the world’s biggest pirate ring, screw them anyway

There was also a bug where some communities would have @instancename even on their home instance, like lemmy.world/c/asklemmy@lemmy.world. It would continue to work on the home instance but break federation with other instances. I don’t know if it’s still happening on the latest update.

I feel like a bit of a hypocrite, because I’ll complain about almost every aspect of this game until I’m blue in the face, but I still put like 200+ hours into it. Same for Skyrim actually.

On my phone I’ve put the Jerboa icon where the Rif icon used to be and sure enough I now open Lemmy 100 times a day out of pure habit

As a very basic person, I agree

POV: The pizza guy seeing me for the third time in one week and being visibly worried

This seems like a smart way to do it. If mods could make it an automatic one-click thing, and then let users combine those into a single merged feed, it would be a nice way to have a single cohesive community across multiple instances while still enjoying the benefits of federation.

I wish I could say I had principles, but frankly I’m just here out of a combination of spite and the fact that I genuinely hate the official Reddit app too much to ever use it.

I said the same thing at first, but then once I broke the habit of mindlessly opening Reddit is Fun on my phone, I just naturally stopped going to the site on my computer too.

Well, okay I still open it up once every couple of days to check a few small subs that don’t exist here yet, but aside from that I’m FINALLY FREE

God the recommendations based on my shelf are completely worthless. I gave the Fellowship of the Ring five stars and now all my recs are totally clogged up with art books and behind-the-scenes stuff about the movies. Oh yeah, please keep showing me audiobook versions of shit I already read!

In 10 years if I still haven’t paid everything off, the debt will be absolved.

brb going back in my time machine and convincing my parents to move to Canada before I was born