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it deletes it from my phone to clear space, keeping only the cloud backup

One copy of of anything isn’t a backup, it’s a move. Yes, in this case, Google is doing its own backups but you’re giving them all the trust and control.

Bangs are the reason I moved to DuckDuckGo after Neeva shut down

@feditips@mstdn.social is a must follow for me.

Beyond that let finding people happen organically. Focus on finding hastags and groups to follow, then the interesting people will start to bubble up in your feed naturally. See also.

And if you’re on a niche/topical server don’t forget to get an eye on your local feed. It gets swamped on big instances but can be a great discovery tool on smaller ones.

And chrome is repeating history with that browser share too. I have to use chrome at work and it used to be that I used Firefox at home because of tab containers and a couple other extensions. Now I use it because it’s better.

Sometime over the pandemic it shifted. Now chrome is the thing bogging down and Firefox is snappy with a smaller memory footprint.

If this is IE all over again we’ve got a good 5+ years of slow attrition to look forward to.

Wine + Wayland for sure. It’s time to let X11 rest, it’s earned it.

The benefit to finding a Mastodon server with a community that you find interesting is that you get a local feed that is somewhat relevant to your interests. If’s far from necessary but it ads one more dimension to surfacing content.

There are servers that do this. You get a whole bunch of mostly terrible content (with not votes to rise good stuff to the top) and no way to interact with the original poster or commenters. It’s not great.

If the Fediverse can’t survive Threads is can’t survive period, and we should all just move on now.

I’m old enough to remember the quasi-religious arguments over 24 (film) vs 25 (PAL), vs 29.97 (NTSC), vs 30 (monitors)

I only recently got a screen that goes above 60. I’m not sure I can tell there’s a difference (but 4k is nice).