I still remember when Facebook was actually cool and useful, these days it's only kept around for communication between family abroad otherwise I'd have deleted the account years ago.
Twitter has always been borderline shit from the start but whether Mastadon is a viable replacement I don't know.
But like you I do think I'm pretty much done with traditional social media, back to forums and trying Lemmy.
Is journalism biased because it doesn’t agree with your worldview? That’s one hell of an authoritarian take.
Really feels like we are in that sort of a world these days where if something comes from someone you don't like or agree with it must automatically be fake.
The legacy of 2016
the impact on battery life relative to other apps out of the box is pretty atrocious. Reddit was always the app draining the most or near the most battery regardless of whether I was using it a lot cause it phones home constantly. That is already enough of a problem but then add in the fact that you had sponsored posts ( Adverts ) made to look like real posts that were 1 in every 5 it kind of grates on you.
Then there are the issues around the inbuilt video player that was barely functional at times on mobile for the longest time, it seems to be better now but it used to bug out and not play items properly and constant buffer issues regardless of internet connection speed.
Those were my biggest gripes and using Lemmy with Liftoff it's very noticeable how much battery life I'm saving daily and no I don't have an old phone an iPhone 14 pro
One of the first things I made sure of
100% get 2 providers 2 indexers and setup the Arr stack and never touch it again
Yeah that's a no go mate, I couldn't even do my job if I had a £100 phone it would end up being a cluster fuck as I need to constantly look at spreadsheets, and multiple email inboxes and work through a web Ui portal and none of that is gonna be a good experience on a phone at that price.
I've used enough of those cheap £100 phones be they new or second hand to know for someone who's actually using their phone to do work they are completely unsuitable.
All I can take away from this is people are weird.
this is me also, I've used transmission for over a decade across three operating systems it's incredibly simple to get going but relatively powerful if you need it to be.
Yeah it does seem the apps are currently limited in that regard, hopefully development pace will continue and we'll be up to a point where we can do that in the next few weeks.
Once the apps are in a good state we can see how viable this will be long term.
Honestly, the only one I still catch from time to time is Sean on Trek culture because all the other ones got absurdly hostile the last few years when it came to Discovery & Picard and it ended up with people quoting some truly insane alt right sources like midnights edge.
I find it better to just enjoy the shows and discuss on reddit(now lemmy) than watch these influencers.
TMP Era is just the best looking classic Star Trek experience some of the designs in my opinion were in things like Starfleet Command the video game like the Akula class, but I have a soft spot for the DS9/First Contact/Star Trek Armada period.
I'm reserving judgement on the total story just yet but some of it is definitely a bit aha we retconned this for the sake of it.
I definitely agree tho the acting has been top notch so far.