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People say mastodon is too hard to explain to non-technical people, but I explained it the other day to someone extremely non-technical by just saying "it's decentralised. so instead of being run by one company, it's run by whoever wants to run their own version of it. This way there's no profit incentive, no algorithm and no ads" and she immediately understood what I meant, and why that would be a good thing.

You don't really need to explain federation and all the underlying tech to explain people what it is. Even federation is simple to explain. "anyone can run their own version of it - but they can all still talk to each other"

Kaliah 21h ago

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Nat 2d ago

AND WHAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH MATTERS TOO.

It does not have to be a life or death situation to be important.

And even the less important issues deserve care and attention.

Yep—even in the midst of large-scale tragedy, your "personal problems" are worthy of being honored and witnessed.

That doesn't mean you have to fix everything going on in your life before you can take action and help others.

It does mean that being emotionally held is something we ALL need.

Kaliah 22h ago

Anon Opin 22h ago

When rating something, or someone out of 5, clearly 5/5 should be reserved for exceptional service that goes above and beyond. 4/5 should be they did well anything less than that then something's wrong. But companies will never understand that logic, 5/5 is the only way to go.

Kaliah 1d ago

Bailey J🐦1d ago

Hey guys, I have a question. So i just got a new iPhone 13 and I'm trying to set up personalized voice. The create voice button is dimmed, and it gives me the message of "you can create up to 3 personal voices" however, when I try to find sessions in progress to delete them in the personal voice settings, there appears to be no saved sessions. Does anyone know what I can do at that point so I can create my personal voice?

Kaliah 1d ago

Lynn I 🗽5d ago

There's apparently an Apple approval notice phishing scam going around again saying your Apple ID and Apple pay were used to purchase something ($x) at a specific location preauthorized. So be careful. Looks pretty legitimate also. I don't use Apple Pay, but I know a lot of people do, so thought I'd post about it. Stay safe!

Kaliah 2d ago

This is so random, but I really, desperately wish I could use the ios bedtime wakeup tones for other alarms, ringtones, timers ETC. They're so peaceful and I like them a lot. Why can I not use these?

Kaliah 2d ago

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Monty Icenogle 2d ago

@BorrisInABox Any place regardless of company that offers ads, it should be required to have a no ad option. Not everybody needs ads in their face at every turn. Ads have absolutely gotten totally out of control, and there needs to be a way to permanently opt out of them by law! It's not like we aren't paying for Internet access after all, these companies need to realize that ads are not something we need shoved in our faces every single second of every single day! You want to provide a free service, fine do advertising, but also provide paid options for people who are just simply tired of advertising all the time! And again that goes for any app or service that does this, I'm not singling out one particular company here

Kaliah 2d ago

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Kaliah 2d ago

@FreakyFwoof @freya Fun fact, this synth is where I got the pronunciation of my name. It pronounced it wrong, at least in terms of the commonly accepted pronunciation of Kaliah, but I liked its pronunciation better. So I just went with it, as I was using it at the time I chose this name. Lol

Kaliah 2d ago

Just got the update dialog for NVDA 2025.1, and don't think I want to take it just yet. I don't know if my preferred voices are compatible with it in any way yet.

Kaliah 2d ago

Andre Louis 3d ago

Did you find a post from a follower that you really liked? If so, just boost it. That way other people have the opportunity to like it too.
It's such a simple thing and many gloss over it.
With non-algorithmic posts here, it's the only way it will show up for new people as there's no promotion or advertising.

Like it, boost it, pass it on.
So simple. So Fedi.

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