I would use it. Anything to not have to use public transportation or fly in an airplane ever again.

UK here. Most people I work with will have Signal or Telegram. However my kids and the parents groups and schools all use WhatsApp.

None of them could get their friends to switch from WhatsApp. Nobody gives a shit at all about Meta and their dodgy data practices. Convenience is king. "aLL mY frIEnDs aRE oN WHatSaPp!"

They will literally be excluded if they don't use it.

Super-frustrating and makes me feel pretty helpless tbh.

I was primarily interested in r/soapmaking, r/instantpot and r/breadmachines. Also some true crime ones - I've joined the ones I could find here but there's hardly anyone in them.

Yes totally. I originally used Reddit because I was subscribed to some super-niche hobby communities. I never doom-scrolled the front page or anything. These communities don't yet exist in Lemmy yet so I'm kind of hanging around to see what happens. And yes, everything is negative. But to be fair, I didn't sign up expecting to read uplifting stories and people (or bots) are just posting clickbait garbage that the internet is already awash in anyways.

I prefer more discussion forum type communities rather than link aggregators. I just need to keep looking for what I like and subscribing to those so I can filter out the crap.

Dealt with by simply rinsing it afterwards

I'm not up to speed on the environmental impact of cotton farming, but it would be pretty cool if this technology could be applied to stuff like the oil palm, which only grows in tropical areas.

Someone please make it stop.

TikTok and its ilk should come with those warnings like you get with cigarettes and alcohol. "May cause lowering of IQ and inhibit the development of critical thinking skills."

Great, now it will be even easier to post endlessly about it.

My kid's school here in the UK banned them, but the kids all take them in anyways and the teachers don't care.

I had banned YouTube in the house, but then the school started assigning homework to watch YouTube videos.

The dependence of our infrastructure on private social media companies is shocking and needs to be stopped immediately.

Kind of. Father has turned into a religious right Trump supporting nutjob. COVID is bs, vaccine 'changed your DNA', etc. He's 80 now, and the sad part is he used to be a science teacher.

And then he got leukemia. Because of his BS rhetoric, my mother and brother who live with him couldn't visit him in the hospital because they all refused to get the vaccine. My brother almost lost his job over it.

Anyways get this: my dad got COVID while he was in the middle of chemo with zero white blood cell count, and recovered in like 3 days! And .. is in remission from leukemia and has stopped chemo.

So I mean he's really damned lucky, but this all just reinforces his view that COVID was nothing and he made the right choice. Meanwhile he spams my inbox with alt right bullshit all day. The fact I live in a different country and only see him once a year keeps things cordial I think.

Yep. If it's a video it gets a hard pass from me. They can get their 'views' from someone else.

I mean through the Jerboa app though. What you're suggesting is through the web UI right?