Trying to shift over towards the Fediverse.
Secondary/backup accounts on the lemm.ee instance and Divisions by zero
Find me also on https://mastodon.social/@PolymathGirl and https://mstdn.social/@Polymath
Oh dang! I've seen the "Matrix User" in the Profile settings and been wondering what that was, and by virtue of it being Lemmy-associated I totally assumed that it was fediverse!
Thank you for explaining that it's apparently not!
Now I gotta make sense of what the heck it is, versus what it's not, and what role it plays in these Profile spots we can fill out
Hehe, "fedithings." Hehe, I love it. I think I'll adopt that term into my fedivocabulary, lol
Relevant/important watch for everyone who's not already familiar: https://youtu.be/AHX6tHdQGiQ "Ink Cartridges Are A Scam"
He talks about basically the computer coding "bricking" the system if you try to do anything other than spend more money on their racketeering; their "razor and blade cartridges" profit model of selling the one item for cheap then price-gouging the fuck out of a required component to keep it working
So how many years of service is that, that it has been going alright and not giving you issues??
And are you US-based, and with which provider?
It looks like it was released it like 2015... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairphone_2
As I have learned more about the Fediverse, and begun exploring all its depths, I have similarly thought about that paradox between, as @[email protected] mentioned,
just the internet as it was designed to be. A network, not a broadcasting medium. A place for connecting people
versus the fragmentation we're all seeing
It sucks, but as I see it it's just kinda like the "growing pains" as we shift towards Web 3.0 and Decentralization, away from corporate overlords, figuring it all out communally, the balance between ourselves being monetized like the whole "If something is free, you are the product." line gets at
Fairphone 5 - release date and US support??
At Fairphone we believe a fairer electronics industry is possible. By making change from the inside, we’re giving a voice to people who care.
Ever since I learned about the Fairphone, I keep trying to figure out when they'll release the Fairphone 5.
Further, I keep wondering whether it'll be usable easily and realistically by Verizon, since there's some complications with Fairphone being based in the Netherlands, but I believe generally supported across Europe since so much of their website is in English.
Just about anything I find over on Reddit seems to be outdated, speculating and guessing, or otherwise unreliable.
Anybody know many details about when it might come out, and whether it'll be supported here in the US??
"Growing pains"
It's to be expected in this transitional time and period away from corporate social media, towards federated. It sucks, but it's really not the end of the world. Cool your jets, salty
It's reasons like these that I like to create 2-4 different accounts on different instances for all around the fediverse , so that if one fails I've got a backup, but also so I can "pick and choose" which pros and cons of each instance I like.
It's obviously more to keep track of, but I encourage others to do the same: create like 3 different accounts on different instances, and toggle through them whenever you need something that one offers that another doesn't.
OMG, I even have Google's "Wallet" on my phone! I just didn't know about that feature, since I rarely deal with tickets or Ticketmaster or anything. We're headed back again soon, so I gotta look into how to get Ticketmaster and Wallet to "talk to each other" to save us that hassle!
Thanks for that suggestion!
Ticketmaster tickets hard to access amidst tower congestion
An unforeseen event we ran into when we showed up over the weekend, was that that actually accessing the tickets we had pre-purchased through the State Fair's connection with Ticketmaster's app was incredibly difficult, due to barely any ability to access a worthwhile connection or signal over the towers.
It appears from celmapper.net that there's about three Verizon towers, three Sprint towers, three AT&T towers, and only two T-Mobile towers
At about an average of 80,000 people per day, (as calculated by the 2015 numbers of 982,305 over 12 days (so divided by 12), and "over 812,000 since 2010" according to Statehouse News Bureau it makes sense that the towers would be next to impossible to get a worthwhile connection with for any data, but it's just something we hadn't really thought ahead about when we approached the gate and tried to start loading the Ticketmaster app for the QR codes.
Not sure what the solution is other than just waiting the 5-10 minutes for it to load, but OOF I wish I had thought ahead to try to load them up some other way, since Ticketmaster restricting screenshots (fraud/theft? Transfer from one person to another easily? IDK why) limits other ways to do it.
What's the solution for this, since we live in a digital and smartphone age, but congested events like the Ohio State Fair, any major sporting event or concert, etc. clog up the towers and networks so much?