I’m quite happy with Voyager, never used anything else.

Definitely Antichrist material! 👍

This is the first time on Not The Onion I’ve genuinely been flabbergasted that it really wasn’t from The Onion.

I guess they’ve calculated that people will react with similar incredulity and thus brands awareness, but still, wtf.

In Australia you do a visit and stay in the centre to check it out with your child. Next visit is short, and you leave your child for maybe 1 hour. If all good next time usually a half day or two, and then full days. My daughter has been 1 day a week since 3 months old (though is also in sessional Kinder now 3 days a week x 5 hours). Here there is reasonably well funded early learning, but the sector does have some major issues. I’ve been very happy with my centre and my daughter is happy enough there, though she prefers sessional Kinder.

It me!

Absolutely!

It really is bad, I agree completely! The few good things are usually available elsewhere anyway.

I knew this and let my child have YT kids for a while with only content I allowed, but even with that… I noticed a real difference in her behaviour when she had more use of it than ABC Kids. There’s something about the way it is designed that is problematic to young brains. Maybe it’s the same for adults using regular YT though!!​

I got rid of YT kids after she had a rare meltdown, and I think she is much happier overall. If I want any content from YT for her that I think is ok, I use YTDLnis and store a local copy - that’s better anyway as it’s there even if the internet isn’t available.

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This is not glamping.

It’s hard. I am enmeshed in modernity fairly thoroughly but I am trying to do better. I have an EV heat pump and all electric house, I try to find others that are also aware of how bad things are likely to get in future, I am doing National Tree Day every year and also growing veges and fruits and herbs at home, and I am trying to limit exposure to and use of plastics (but that is so damn hard unless plastics become illegal…)

Being aware and using that awareness to try and change behaviour is a big focus. But also, don’t be too hard on yourself. We were born into this mess too, we didn’t create it in one generation, and it is likely to be a slower decline from a human perspective rather than instantaneous, though on geological scale it’s basically a blink of an eye. I was super scared of global warming and nuclear war as a kid, and while risks of both have increased I’m still alive and even with a choice to reduce use of certain things, I think I still have a great life, and my daughter has so far too.

In Melbourne there was one cycleway that was regularly strewn with furniture tacks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulie_Tacker

What if your hairstylist is on the Fediverse, avoids mainstream social media, and spends a lot of their spare time reading scientific papers?

This isn’t a surprise if I heard about it weeks ago.

Don’t forget MZB.

Thanks for this comment! It really explains exactly why Friendica is struggling.

Is a real shame as IMO events (and groups) are really important to get a critical mass of adoption in Fedi. I look at sites like Allevents.in which allow people to submit but most of their event data is scraped from FB. We need Fedi instances which make searching events easy. So many groups and individuals and organisations feel unable to leave FB because they can’t see anywhere else to tell people about events, at the moment that is pretty true. But it needs to be an allrounder site, not an event specialist site.

But not being able to connect to busy Lemmy communities would mean Friendica isn’t an ideal allrounder, and even if the Friendica instance got big and has very busy groups, it would have issues.

I hope that these issues get solved!

Wow. I thought it was bad but it is actually worse than I thought.

Madness.

Very detailed and excellent read.

https://media.tenor.com/E1kedKs8WeYAAAAM/this-thisrighthere.gif

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