Sincere question: what does “normie” exactly mean in the context of Lemmy? Is it a person that couldn’t get past setting up Lemmy account?

The term sounds like it has kinda elitist connotations. I mean I’ve set up Lemmy, but I don’t feel like I’m god given - maybe I should. 😆 (kidding, of course)

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I’m a developer, and it was a pain picking an instance. You start reading about them, and it turns out one’s censored, the other one’s communist, third one doesn’t cooperate with the other ones so you can’t see anything…

As long as it is like this, I don’t believe mass adoption is feasible. I would’ve given up because it takes a lot of time compared to just registering and off you go, but I was interested to see what’s all the ruckus after reddit started with censorship. Maybe interesting to mention that I was never an active reddit member (not one post there).

So, like totally the same feeling! 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve been using torrents for decades, along with a bunch of friends, and none of us has ever heard the term either. The OP’s assumption that it’s common knowledge is simply wrong.

sh.itjust.works just works with Mullvad VPN. 😉

Exactly this.

https://youtu.be/pPgYLQHI1as

Don’t know if it’s allowed to post links here. If anyone wants it, just ping me in my inbox. 😉

Didn’t know about this one either! 🍻

Exactly this. I’m a developer currently. Before that I had only a vague idea of what open source was, basically that it’s visible to everyone. Didn’t know about github, or any other application of open source outside of pc software and I was kinda advanced tech user with flashing custom roms, trying out Linux etc. Laymen have no idea what’s going on, exceptions aside.

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I’ll check it out as well. Definitely thanks for the customizing CSS idea. 😉

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

This. ⬆️ 😆

Good links can be found in the article.

Exactly! I’m all for it, but why the secrecy instead of transparency from the start? Maybe those 80% of people have some initial advantage.

“Iranian arms dealing pedophile” 😅 🕳 🏃 😆

So, I’m missing hot single women because of uBlock I’m using. 😱 Better turn off adblocker immediately! Wait, no - it was my wife that turned it on. 😅

Thanks for the heads up about Ladybird. Nice to hear about new things on the horizon.