Including this one, my instance community and my app community, 30. A few are very quiet and some are different instance versions eg, cats world and cats ml

I sort by subscribed and try to interact as much as possible which keeps me busy enough that I no longer use Reddit. So it’s all good.

Excellent point!

As Ben Jordan says, it really is well past the time when we should be making records from stuff that’s regulated.

Go feddit.uk (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤

We should be so lucky.

G+ refugee here. It was amazing for photography. Went there because Flikr didn’t do it for me, particularly the Android app. Ended up at Reddit. Still not really sharing my photos but the photo communities here are pretty good.

And a baby! Yummmm…

Cool icon? iOS users? Surely not!

Only case would be if you work in government, but even then, it’d only be a problem if you’re using an unsecured device that also has Tiktok on it to do secret government stuff on, which would probably get you super-fired and possibly prosecuted in itself…

Ah the good old days, where here in Blitey that would have been the case.

These days that kind of thing gets you promoted to Minister for Digital Communications or even just Prime Minister.

I kid you not.

“It also emerged that all messages on Boris Johnson’s phone were wiped in April 2021, after it emerged his number had been freely available on the internet for 15 years.”

I just did this and it seems to work perfectly! Thanks mate.

“new”

I also listen to music a lot outside so I have to own the digital version too.

Why, are you not able to stream it?

CD is become more rare anyway.

I’m not sure that’s true. Are there numbers you can point to to back that up?

flexibility of digital music locally

I can make Spotify store locally. It’s really weird how fast that is come to think of it. Very useful for patchy data. Easy to skip tracks you don’t want as well.

bring my music everywhere

I use Spotify but I think ITunes does similar. I feel strongly about Apple products though so I’ve no experience.

I’m also not an audiophile

Although this has no impact on streaming or use of temporary downloads, or any relevance to your need for purchasing audio files, I am what many would refer to as an audiophile.

I have worked as an audio engineer in music recording and post production, I own professional audio reproduction equipment and I make my own music as a hobby.

Even so, being able to throw on a favourite album, old or new, while driving or at the beach or a friend’s house, is to me akin to magic.

You know you can still buy CDs?

If you must have digital files there are plenty of ways to get them from a streaming service. But buying digital files of music is imo where the line should be drawn.

I will even buy or rent new film releases from a main platform if I missed it at the cinema, etc.

But owning music is a very personal thing. I have CDs going back to the first days of the format, many of which are very sentimental. Being able to stream them is like magic to me. But there is no reason I can think of to pay for a digital file of them or any music that can be found on CD or streamed.

Each to their own, of course. I just find the concept of digital file purchase for music utterly abhorrent. Once it became apparent that the music industry was going to do this, I vowed never to do it and I think it was a good decision.

The streaming services are a convenience that we have to decide on the value to us as users, despite their many obvious faults. But paying to own a, usually compressed, audio file? I can’t agree that’s good for consumers.

And which we (UK) have opted to not be part of.

Instead, we are making a budget available to our own research facilities.

It will be the utterly enormous, mind-blowingly vast sum of…

…wait for it…

600…

million pounds!

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That is a mess! If they do sort it out it will increase engagement, and that’s no bad thing. Interesting times ahead.

Yeah did ten years on Reddit, nothing else but early FB which I deleted after the algo took over.

They can post here then, I’m fine with that. If they can’t see my comments that’s fine as well. Lemmy is great, I don’t need more.

There’s already some funky interoperability… But it’s not pretty.

I noticed a Masto post in my subscribed feed recently. It looked fine to me but I’m on Jerboa so I don’t know if that makes a difference?

I’ve never understood why anyone wants to follow other people though. Things, hobbies etc? Yes. Individuals? No thank you.

Thanks for replying, much appreciated.

I think a good deal of her internet awareness comes from school. I’m amazed at what they cover and how it’s combined with social safety and inclusiveness.

(the sound of many shocked intakes of breath)

Sir, this is a Wendy’s!

I think she started to find it banal and annoying. Just like a real adult!