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Other meaning for USA people in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

it was difficult writing it too...

Other meaning for USA people in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[โ€“] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I'm USAian. (just identifying for this thread, i don't call myself that)

would "gringo" include Black USAians? Asian USAians? Spain-born USAians?

from my understanding of "gringo", that doesn't seem to include non-white USAians. Most English monolingual USAians think that means "white guy".

a lot of gen z USAians might not know the word Yankee as a term for USAians. if speaking to them, you might have to explain it's not the baseball team.

maybe it's better to stick with "USAians". it's never been used but it's easy to figure out. other possible choices are:

  • Statesians
  • USAliens
  • USAmericans
  • Staters
  • Stater Tots (re: tater tots)
  • USticles

better yet, call each of us by the state we're each from. that's the safest bet. you know all our 50 state names right? and their official demonyms? ๐Ÿคฃ kidding

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Gboard safe to use with network permission revoked? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38292767

for English i use heliboard. but i type in other languages also, and there are no practical choices in foss keyboards for those specific languages which also have the mainstream IME/key layout for my language (not qwerty).

fcitx provides some hope for the future but for now, it also doesn't have the IME/key layout for my language (only has qwerty). hopefully it can also have handwriting in the future somehow (if only via user-installed model/blob similar to heliboard glide typing).

anyway, I'm on Graphene OS. so i wondered if revoking network permission and setting gboard permanently to incognito (is permanent possible?) would suffice to cut off data collection?

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Gboard safe to use with network permission revoked? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

for English i use heliboard. but i type in other languages also, and there are no practical choices in foss keyboards for those specific languages which also have the mainstream IME/key layout for my language (not qwerty).

fcitx provides some hope for the future but for now, it also doesn't have the IME/key layout for my language (only has qwerty). hopefully it can also have handwriting in the future somehow (if only via user-installed model/blob similar to heliboard glide typing).

anyway, I'm on Graphene OS. so i wondered if revoking network permission and setting gboard permanently to incognito (is permanent possible?) would suffice to cut off data collection?

I created an instance for a specific community in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[โ€“] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

considering this and @Die4Ever@programming.dev's comment, could it incentivize certain types of prospective Admins to create community only instances, increasing attraction of more users to lemmy overall but disproportionally burden the user management workload on the traditional user+community instances?

What are some things that you appreciate about the modern-day world? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[โ€“] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago

i don't understand any of the words you just said.

(I'm American btw)

Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[โ€“] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So my understanding from reading this (and other threads on Lemmy) is that:

-A majority of Lemmy users would rather the userbase remained small (in comparison to corporate social media and even compared to Mastodon).

-And a small but vocal minority wants to grow Lemmy to the point of being at least one of the choices, if not the de facto preferred alternative, on the mind of most Redditors who are sick of Reddit.

Is that accurate?

edit: formatting