Before you may have seen the new dark theme, I've updated the default theme to the new light theme.

Did you know in your user preferences, you can change which theme you use?

Which do you prefer? Which should be the default for the site?

I think the light should be the default for accessibility. Those that want dark can change it.

Let me know!

I feel like it could become a double KO situation

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/764388

All these companies are just ruining what drew people to them in the first place.

It's like they are trying to irritate people into canceling their accounts.

Imo, this one might actually be worse than the account sharing and cause people to quit. As soon as you have people messing around with their subscription version, it's all too easy to just say "nah, I actually don't want this anymore".

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/technology@beehaw.org/t/83649

A warning and a perspective from an insider who has been through this before.

I’ve been using Lemmy a lot over the past two weeks. I’ve come to understand it and the fediverse. I understand the pros and cons. I kno how I want to improve it and I know what keeps people away.

How do you all feel about it? I wonder how many people create accounts not knowing what it is and then just abandon them.

Is anyone having trouble finding a community they fit well in? Or just trouble in general finding communities?

I think there are a lot of tools that can be added to help improve discovery and navigation. Thankfully, we are very close to a new release of Lemmy. I think the devs have v0.18 in testing. It has a much better UI and other tools.

Thinks will get better. But I would say I’m pretty happy with it as it is.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/165022

hariette@tech.lgbt - #kbin + #lemmy app is coming along. Here's a preview of the upcoming beta. This is less than a week’s worth of work,  so it’s only up from here 😉

Based on polls, looks like Artemis is winning for the name. Which is a great tribute to #ApolloApp 🙏

Stalk my work and suggest ideas in the app's Discord server (link in bio).

#kmoon #kbinapp #ios #android #Threadiverse

How will we able to tell when AI has became conscious when we can't even come to an agreement on this topic?

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/587517

How do they even plan on enforcing this? What would possibly be the consequences for either parent or child if they violate?

Mlem just released a new beta version of their app for iOS.

You can sign up for the beta here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

More about Mlem on their community page: !mlemapp@lemmy.ml

If you're not testing it out, you should be! Check it out. They're doing an excellent job!

They told me that they jumped from 2 to 20 people quickly in response to community demand. Please, give them some love!

Things are getting spicy!

This is hilarious

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/541500

The steps to deleting your Reddit account

I’ve been on Reddit for too long. It’s so good at just eating away at the most precious resource we have. Time.

However, for all its faults it has been the absolute best platform for getting “help” on the internet. I put that in quotes to specifically generalize it. Not degrade it. One of my hobbies is 3d printing, both FDM and SLA. I am terrible at it! I have problems all the time. If I am struggling and needed support I rarely went to discord. I went to Reddit. Discord is a never ending stream of thoughts. It wasn’t organized. I can’t easily search it for answers. And if someone helped me or I help someone else, on Reddit it would persist and be indexed. On Reddit people were there to help me make sense of all this insane technology.

I can extend this to finding trustworthy service providers in my area, or career advice, or a place to help me walk back from the ledge when it’s 12:30pm on a Sunday and my dog just threw up…

The thing that made Reddit great, to me, was the smaller communities where you could find genuine people who wanted to help you.

So how will that sense of community survive in a federated world where anyone can spin up their own node.

On hacker news, since the protest started, I have seen so many posts by people promoting their Reddit alternative projects. And they are commendable. But I’m just worried. Everything is fracturing.

If 5-10% of redditors got to Lemmy. And maybe 0.05% go to each of the random Reddit alternatives… will any of them reach that critical mass of passionate helpful experts?

This is what I’m afraid of losing by turning off Reddit.

Anyway Apollo forever. Screw u/spez

We need to explore the depths more... apparently more complicated than space travel.

Trump is getting arrested for some of the crimes he committed. Think much will come of it?