atyaz

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[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 8 points 2 years ago

Even if it's good, their long term goal will always be to appease their advertising customers, not you. Google has the ability more than anyone else to make the perfect search engine but they're not spending their time and resources on that because that's not what will increase their revenue. That model is just fundamentally broken.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago

I love kagi. I use it mainly for work, where it gives much better results. It even has a programmer lens so that it shows results that are relevant to programmers. But its image search didn't work that well for me. Not sure if I'm just not formulating the queries right though.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I remember needing to understand some math concept for some reason so I googled it and clicked on the Wikipedia link. When I realized I was too stupid for that I went back and clicked on the "math is fun" link. It explained it perfectly. Thank you math is fun.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago

Hopefully it's not easy to prove someone is a flight risk so they don't just apply that to most people.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Could only make it better tbh

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not that simple. Twitter and email are both just as complicated yet they enjoy mass adoption. You and I run into walls because we're not accustomed to it. When you were new to other tech I'm sure you ran into similar walls.

This meme has to die. Federated services are not some black magic.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Pulseaudio and pipewire are kind of like audio drivers (not exactly but anyway). Let's say you're running spotify and discord. They both send their audio to pipewire. You can then use pipewire to control how loud each one is. It also supports more complex use cases like if you're streaming, you can hook up the spotify output and your microphone mixed together into discord's input so that the mixed audio will be streamed.

Pipewire is newer and basically replaces another system called jack that did the same thing for pulseaudio.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe but I know some former facebook people and it's at least as likely that they're just retarded

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I agree that UX work is important but the current state that mastodon UX is in is ready for the masses. It is simple. It will just take some time for people to wrap their heads around it, just like it took time for people to adopt email, facebook, twitter, etc. UX friction isn't the reason your grandma isn't using mastodon right now. These things don't happen overnight.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But that's how twitter works too, so the concept wouldn't be alien if you've used twitter before. I actually was pretty confused by how you're supposed to use twitter when I first used it (how do you follow a conversation between multiple people, how do you find people in a certain field, etc).

I would argue that mastodon has a huge advantage over either email or twitter since it doesn't bring any new ideas, it's just a combination of things that people have been using for a while. It just "fixes" twitter, it shouldn't have been centralized in the first place.

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah I guess it was hyperbole but I wasn't sure

[–] atyaz@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Is it really that bad? I haven't used it in years so I'm not following it. Do they literally have a built-in keylogger?

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