Love me some d&d friend. have fun!

I've been on Cachy for almost 2 years now. I don't really see myself moving!

Cachy user reporting in.

If you are willing to talk about it I am genuinely interested where you migrate to - away from google. What services did you use most?

Lemmy does seem to have some insular thinking (just like all social media communities). Feels like you can actually have discussion and at least learn why people hold those views instead of just being chastised.

Cheers,

May want to look into something like redact (or any of the other many scripts out there) that allow you to actually delete your posts from the enshitified web

Welcome! Lemmy has been gaining some steady momentum and it’s a great time to jump in.

The only thing I occasionally jump back into Reddit for are the sports communities, but I’m doing that with specific intent and not a general habit.

Good things are coming here!!

Welcome

One of us!

Not OP, but in progress as well

Email is pretty easy.

Google docs is less easy if you need to collaborate with people professionally, but you can always go back to PDF, email, and openoffice to a point

Android phone is hard, I could go to Apple, but I don't really like them any more than Google. I have drones and cameras that only want to talk through Android/iOS. Losing my Android app purchases is a bit bitter.

Pay-to-tap is hard. I can move to Garmin eventually, but they're really expensive, and there's only like one model that's good for it. I can always just use my credit card to tap through.

Non-Apple/Android Bluetooth watches are underwhelming or expensive AF (Garmin, for example, still requires Apple or Android for the initial setup and is expensive).

OAUTH is a major sticking point. I log in to a LOT of stuff with my Google ID.

I also have a legacy Google Workspace; they host my domain email, my domain OAuth, and my family calendar is all over there. They're all sharing through it.

There's no good replacement for Waze. No crowd-sourced traffic is good at routing you from state to state around large metro areas. There are loads of maps. but nothing dependable for anything other than a short ish trip.

Well good to have you here! Enjoy my friend!

Rookie move, should've gone with Bazzite, all the cool gamer kids such as myself* use it!

*Disclaimer: I am neither cool nor a kid lol.

Welcome and go fuck yourself /s

have you read about graphene OS? its an android replacement. currtly works on pixel phones but motorolla recently announced that they will be actively supporting it

cachy is actually awesome for gaming! only thing that it lacks is basically what every distro lacks which is the anti cheat games. otherwise it's solid!

I know, I only kid. Tbh I'm actually somewhat considering trying it out, I've been on Bazzite for a few months now after distro hopping a bunch, but I've heard good things and I'm curious now lol

I've looked at every last option. Unfortunately, All my crap is on ATT Samsung. I'm waiting for some linux maturity or for google to finish playing their hand before i trade in my very nice camera for privacy

You can still get your account nuked by butthurt admins.

Though again, still far better than Reddit.

Welcome aboard, stranger.

Really? How? I thought instances had the highest level of control? Or are admins a per-instance thing?

This is correct.

Welcome aboard Ranger !

Don't ever forget why you left. If you don't like something, be part of the solution.

Hope you have a great time here!

The admins literally administer the instances. Many of them directly running the instances on hardware they pay for. Even if the API didn't allow it, they could just directly delete your user record from the DB.

I absolutely intend to and thank you for the encouragement

Welcome aboard!

Right, exactly, that's my point. None of them can ban you from the fediverse, just their instance.

Well getting your account that you groomed up for who knows how long nuked is pretty damn close. Especially if you're a main contributor to a comm or two and all that work disappears.

You sound like you've had personal experience with this...

Also, that doesn't change the fact that no instance admins can ban your IP across the whole fediverse, so it's still not as bad as reddit...

Congrats and welcome.

Never said it was as bad as Reddit. I've only said the oposite.

Going back to my first comment on this chain:

And even though mods can ban from communities or instances, no automated admin bots can give you a site-wide ban over petty reasons.

So... what part of that has changed?

I'm very confused about your comment.

a) Is it not okay to use 'big boy' words? Do you disagree with the statement or just with the diction?

b) The second point you make has nothing to do with my comment. I'd have thought you accidentally responded to the wrong comment except for you pointing out 'insular'. Why are these things relevant to the discussion?