I mean, I mentioned that my experience with Pixelfed has not been the best, since it lacks content and discoverability. I wouldn’t sign up again to Instagram (I deleted my accounts years ago), but it’s obvious that it has orders of magnitude more content, and maybe the recommendation algorithm can be useful sometimes.
Personally, even if I don’t want to, I have to use WhatsApp since everyone in my country uses it, even government offices.
Yes, that’s exactly it: the discoverability. I joined a small to medium server, and I thought that Pixelfed’s search would be like the one in Mastodon: search for a hashtag and get results from all of the other federated servers, but no. The search function doesn’t seem to work with hashtags, so subscribing to one is a pain.
And the available apps are not very good. And the official one hasn’t been released yet.
Besides Lemmy, I have a Mastodon account. I’m not very active, though. I’m also on BlueSky, but because most of the post where uninteresting to me I uninstalled the app months ago and hadn’t logged in since. And I’m exploring Pixelfed, but my experience hasn’t been so good.
Something like this Firefox theme, but with some violet mixed in.
“Updated README”
But people in the 90s were doing their work just fine, with that same UX paradigm. What’s the difference now?
Just to be clear, I’m not saying that software’s UI and UX doesn’t need to evolve. But it bothers me that a perfectly usable UI gets criticized only because it’s “old” and doesn’t look “modern” (tf is a “modern UI”, btw?).
So, the problem is that people doesn’t have a working memory anymore, is that so?
What’s wrong with the 90s UX? It lets you do your work without being intrusive or annoying, so what’s wrong with it?
Melodysheep moment. Their content is simply amazing.
(Copying my comment from another thread in !linuxmemes@lemmy.world)
Last September I installed Debian 12 in my laptop with an encrypted LVM. Then I tried to add a secondary SSD, also as an encrypted volume, by following some random tutorial I found (spare me, it was my first time fiddling around with an encrypted installation). The next thing I remember is that I was in an initramfs shell trying to fix the boot process 😅🤣. Since I was running low on patience (and it was like 3 AM) I simply decided to nuke the install and start again. Eventually I was able to configure the SSD correctly, but this event reminded me how easily is to brick your system if you’re not careful enough. Fun times.
I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong, but I have a secondary SSD in my laptop that I mount on
/mnt/elyssaand in every DE and distro I tried it appeared as a removable drive with the “eject” button. Right now I use Fedora with Gnome and if I install this extension or enable the removable drives option in Dash to Dock, it shows me that drive. Maybe some mount option in Gnome Disks, but since it’s not that big of a problem, I haven’t looked too much into it.