ShittyKopper

joined 1 year ago

.ml disabled community creation. There isn't much you can do except creating an account at a different instance (and creating your community there)

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The hate Americans get for not catering discussion on a US based site to the global community is really what’s strange.

I just want y'all to stop saying shit like "oh xyz is like 20$ right now" like it's just as cheap everywhere else in the world.

This is why I never bother with any "easy install" scripts of any kind. Give me a list of Docker images, a list of environment variables / config files, and some form of reverse proxy configuration and I'll figure out the rest. You don't know how my server works better than I do.

So was 0.18.0. In fact I think the next few releases will all be like this.

(just cheekily testing to make sure federation didn't break between updates)

This is a really tiny thing but can the card dividers be removable? I personally think having the cards themselves is enough separation and the dividers end up as visual clutter.

I'm sure there are people who want them, so could those be made into an option or something?

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm on Matrix and GoToSocial (both selfhosted).

I also made an alt on kbin which is probably where I'll probably end up migrating the "serious" discussion to, so this account will really end up as my shitposting account just like it did back at Reddit.

I also have an account on Tildes under a different name and from a long time ago.

All of these are different enough that I end up checking on all of them quite regularly.

Oh and I have a Discord too but it just feels too overwhelming how fast most guilds (they're not servers and I will die on this hill) move so I really use it to check for updates on shit like Sync's Lemmy port instead of posting memes or whatever.

And finally: YouTube & WhatsApp. both of which are unescapeable. I've tried.

As for the ones I cut off: Facebook around 2015, Instagram since so long ago I forgot, got banned off Twitter several times, and I'm waiting until Reddit gives my GDPR export to bail from there as well.

Edit: Oh, they processed my GDPR export. Brb off to delete my account

Sure why not. Plenty of us have single user instances.

 

As by that point I hope we'll have better inside jokes and things to discuss

This needs to be on the Lemmy issue tracker on GitHub, not here. Someone must've already proposed something similar though.

Also, repeating comments on the same post. Obviously you don’t have to read all the comments if there are already hundreds of them. But if there are too many comments saying the exact same thing it just gets harder to read them all. So it would be nice if people would look whether the point they want to make maybe has been made already. They can increase that comment’s visibility by upvoting. No need to make other people read the same content multiple times and by that make it harder to read different comments.

This may be a little bit of an issue here as small instances (or frequently defederated instances) may not be aware of replies made on older comments. To see the whole reply chain of a comment you need to click the fediverse button (the rainbow star thingy on Lemmy web) and read the source. If people don't do that they may legitimately not know that someone has replied with the exact thing they were about to reply with.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are "questions about sex" and there are "men/women of reddit/lemmy, what's the sexiest sex you ever sexed" being repeated every other day like on r/askreddit. I assume nobody would reject the occasional insightful sex questions.

Yes, the domain to block is "threads.net". Ask your admins to consider doing that.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(Funnily enough, the Cisco in-house messaging and video calling solution we use at my work, through which we also receive landline calls, is still running on XMPP to this day, so I sorta became a XMPP user after all…except I haven’t started this software in 10 months because fuck landline calls and we have better alternatives for chatting.)

XMPP is still chugging along on the backends of stuff like that. I'm not sure but I think WhatsApp has some XMPP in it still.

The most ironic one though is Jitsi, which is what Matrix uses/used (until they started working on Element Calls) to do video calls.

 
 

Also available in non-video form at https://gekk.info/articles/hyperspace.htm

Not entirely sure how well it would fit this community given it's "nerdiness", but here is a hour and a bit long video of a rather interesting explanation of a BIOS vendor committing metaphorical crimes against the ways most computers expect themselves to work -- all for very little gain.

I recommend checking out Cathode Ray Dude's other videos as well, his channel is really good and he just started working full time on it.

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