Yes I forgot about the vertical too. I guess it’s because the video isn’t worth the effort to turn the phone horizontal.

How does this work? You watch 100’s of ~10 second videos in a row for hours? Trying to understand because this seems to be a common thing these days.

I have never tried tiktok and only saw some YouTube shorts. I see one or two and it annoys me because it’s clipped badly, gives bad information, or just shows something meaningless. Random loud music. The same video keeps playing on a loop as I try to think.

Even if it was great content, my brain just couldn’t stay focused beyond a couple videos. The constant changes to a new video would be exhausting for me. There’s also no time to think about what you just saw.

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Boss forced everyone to come into work because she was tired of using tech. Wanted people to come in and eat ice cream while brainstorming with post it notes. Said anyone not there is fired.

Well she didn’t put any effort into planning it, and it was very inefficient so everyone ended up using their computers like they had been doing at home. Just with more distractions and needing to commute. Not much work got done so everyone needed to work from home that night after hours to meet deadlines.

Well it turns out the guy passing out icecream was also passing out covid. Every single person on the team got sick. None of the projects were completed by the deadlines and the entire department was shut down. Everyone lost their jobs.

The boss herself is still unemployed over a year later because she is now disabled with long covid. Has a heart problem from it where she can pass out at random times. Can no longer taste ice cream.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Graham

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This is surprising to me, I actually experienced the opposite. Reddit had a lot of teens but Lemmy seems to have older posters who are more thoughtful about what they post. In my 30’s myself and wasn’t able to get anyone younger than 34 to join.

It could just be the communities you subscribed to?

Here is what I found:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-is-baloney-spelled-bologna_n_5bd88319e4b07427610be221

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So kind of like K Mart?

I have no watch history on my account and it kept recommending me Trump and anti lgbt videos. I never watched anything like that before and definitely don’t subscribe.

I once was suspended from middle school for skipping school. Told the principal that it was funny the punishment for skipping school is that now I can’t go to school even if I wanted to.

Found out a month later they created detention classes for people skipping school. Never told friends it was my fault just agreed with their complaints lol.

I am also on iOS and in the past 6 weeks that I have had it there haven’t been any crashes, freezing or problems opening a message. Maybe it has been fixed recently or is your phone older?

You actually can change what swiping does left or right to your preferences. It has to be done through the app settings. Swipe all the way down the sidebar, settings then click swipe actions.

The rest are good points. I haven’t had enough time with it to need detailed searches yet or get much spam so that’s good to keep in mind.

The one thing that bothers me the most is that there is no ability to forward emails automatically. I am not sure if they plan to add that or if it is locked down for security.

I did get a custom email address so I can switch easily to another provider if I want later. I recommend that so you never feel locked in to any email service. Been happy so far and purchased for two years so will reevaluate then.

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