I started following people I found elsewhere, then followed people they boosted until my feed had enough volume. Since I mostly consume content and don’t post much, that has been working for me. It does take some figuring out and blocking people (like some on this thread) who’ll act like you’re not supposed to be there if it isn’t all obvious to you (it really isn’t to anyone). If you like both lemmy and twitter (X) it might be worth giving masto another shot.

I think Nyxt is not Chromium-based. Still too experimental to be used as single/main browser, but has some very interesting concepts.

This one point about the fediverse that I find essential to consider when thinking about reliability. Distributed ownership of servers drastically decreases the chances of the fediverse as a whole going down (not considering differences in the reliability of individual servers). But each individual server has a much higher chance of going down than say an individual subreddit. This is a subject I’d very much like to understand better, but it’s clear it has implications to the chance of any given post getting lost.

As much as I agree with the argument for QWERTY agaist Dvorak or Colemark as a default, alphabetical ordering seems more generally standard than even QWERTY. And in any case, when typing something on the TV the remote seems to be the real bottleneck.

It should help people maintaining servers exactly the same way any sort of ads would, i.e. as a source of revenue to cover costs. Having ads targeted to developers might make the ads more appealing to the public at lemmy, but whether that’s good or bad is a matter in which I take no stance right now. Both Intel and JetBrains are listed on the EthicalAds website as users of this service, so this is not necessarily geared to small developers, except for job opportunities on the ads.

I can see opt-in/opt-out options working outside of the box for server maintainers: I think each server would need to take the initiative to implement EthicalAds in their server. Implementing this option per user seems more complicated, but that’s my perspective from the outside.

I realized recently I started reading books the same way a keep listening to videos on the background. It works for passing the time or unwinding a bit. For retention, mindfulness exercises (silly as it sounds) seem to work: taking a look at my environment and taking a moment to clear out distractions, stoping to think what is it I last read on that book (which is always harder then I expect), reflecting why I’m reading whatever it is I’m reading. Doing these things as little rituals tends to help.