Minor suggestion: write your time zones like UTC+2 and not CEST. I’m pretty sure most people outside Europe don’t know what the time zone CEST is. Yes, you provided a link that helpfully converts the time to the users’ local time zone, but sometimes it’s nicer to be able to know something without having to click into a link.
The “John Smith” in Chinese is 王小明 (pinyin: wang2 xiao3 ming2), the 王 being the family name and 小明 being the given name. The 王 is a very common family name (like Smith), 小, small, is a diminutive prefix often added to nicknames, and 明, bright, is a commonly used character in given name. I should note that this is only used for males and there isn’t really a “Jane Smith” for females.
I believe the 0, 1, 1+ reply counts is a setting available to your instance admins. Mine actually does count.
Taiwan actually. They banned anything other than Mandarin.
banning local languages was also done by my local government around 50ish years ago. in every school. take a wild guess at where I’m from?
(no, I’m not dutch despite being on feddit.nl)
this is exactly what I did to my mother
(this sentence sounds so scary out of context)
Sorry, I think my comment was worded poorly. What I tried to say was simply that Lemmy is indeed a lot more leftist than the average social network. Not that this is bad.
I agree. As a person who considers himself left-leaning, being on reddit makes me feel like a right winger
r/savethirdpartyapps is banned. r/save3rdparty apps is not.
source: just checked it myself
2023-07-21 14:10 (UTC)
paging received! thanks
edit: Just did my part!
I also felt like something similar happened to ChatGPT. A few days ago I asked it to rewrite some Korean text with Hanja, retried many times, but it kept spitting out the same text without changing a thing. After several frustrating attempts, it finally spat out something with Hanja, which according to my deduction with the help of Google Translate, was only partially correct. A few months ago though, it could come up with something that’s mostly correct. Sad.
PS: Before anyone replies to me in Korean, I should note that I don’t speak Korean at all. I just happened to have stumbled upon this Wikipedia article about Korean Mixed Script.
I love Matrix. Just started using it like 5 days ago, and I’ve already been enjoying it.
They’ve promised to not remove old.reddit ("old.reddit isn’t going anywhere), but who knows whether they’ll keep their promise. At the end of the day, if it actually is removed, it’ll likely draw even more people to Lemmy
Yeah it is more similar to discord. If I were to group chatting apps/services into two groups, I would do this:
Well, due to the nature of the Fediverse, no one can reliably list all the server in existence. They can merely list the most popular ones, much like how you can’t list all the Lemmy instances. A list I used to pick my server is https://joinmatrix.org/servers/ , though you might want to look up the server’s reputation before joining. Please do check it out! I believe that someone on Lemmy has a much higher probability of liking Matrix.
By the way, if you join an instance without these bridges, you could always search for bridges on other servers
I don’t think Matrix feels slow because the app is slow. In my experience, I have tried 3 homeservers (community.rs, matrix.im, and mozilla.org (hosted by modular), and there was a really really big performance gap. I’m not gonna say which one is which, but sending message on one (the time between you hit send and the circled checkmark appears) usually takes less than 1 seconds, another averages at maybe 1.5 seconds, the other often takes more than 5 seconds. Choosing a performant homeserver could really impact your experience with Matrix, and it’s sad that people can’t really know how performant a server is unless they create an account on it and try it out themselves.
Yeah! In my experience, when two accounts on averagely-performant servers send each other a message, there is often a 10 second delay.
Wow, you actually changed it! I was kind of shocked when I came back to my feed seeing UTC+2 in the title. Thanks! :D