It's good because it's lessening the "hardship" of leaving reddit. Imagine leaving reddit and there's literally no alternatives out there that match that format. Imagine if it was just Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube, and whatever else, but nothing else that matched that sort of long stream of post headlines that Reddit has done so well. The others kind of do a similarish thing (post streams), BUT me personally I like this condensed headline format, I don't want to see a ginormous posts that takes up half the page and I have to waste valuable microseconds scrolling past it to get to the next giant post.
I'm an info addict and I want to see twenty posts on a page, briefly scan through them and keep scrolling down, just droves and droves of headlines that I can react to and completely skip past reading the article and go straight into commenting on it like I'm an expert on this thing I didn't even know about 5 minutes ago.
I’m an info addict and I want to see twenty posts on a page, briefly scan through them and keep scrolling down, just droves and droves of headlines that I can react to and completely skip past reading the article and go straight into commenting on it like I’m an expert on this thing I didn’t even know about 5 minutes ago.
I can't speak for everyone. I've been lurking for the past couple weeks and just signed up yesterday. The prevailing attitude I've noticed is that people realize just how much of a toxic hog lagoon reddit has become, and are glad to participate in a community that isn't. It's nice to be somewhere that isn't full of bots and doesn't coddle nazis.
I also think it helps that most of the onboarding literature is frontloaded with "this is how federation works" instead of jumping right in to "here's how you sign up and use lemmy." Effectively scares off the reading-averse.
If considering that to be a plus makes me an elitist, I'm ok with that.
Fair enough. And like you said, if an instance becomes toxic enough, no one will want to federate with them, and users will switch from instances that do to instances that don't.
This is really such a great example for why Fediverse and FOSS in general are the superior and much healthier way for society's social media interactions to go. Hopefully, some day in the near future, unprofitable social media monoliths like Meta, Twitter and Reddit will be so blatantly exploiting of their user base that even normies migrate to free software alternatives and the era of ultra-capitalist mega-corporations in social media encouraging hate and toxicity will finally be over.
Boost is Mastodon's version of Twitter's retweets. It acts as the upvote here, but that's an oversight and going to be changed.
Not sure what boost actually does on kbin other than acting as an upvote though, I just use it as an equivalent to saving a post on Reddit. Maybe it's connected to follows.
It was way back at the beginning when @ernest made the change to make upvotes on kbin more closely aligned to Lemmy, but boosts also bump a thread to the top of the Active list and give it some number of points for it's score in the Hot list.
It does also affect reputation, but ignore that. It's broken, doesn't really affect anything, and Ernest has a lot of other important things to fix/implement before tackling that one.
I too would like to know. I heard an explanation earlier that didn't make sense. That boost gave positive rep and downvotes gave negative, and up votes did nothing(?) yet.
Like a retweet. People that follow you will see what you boost on their feed.
You can subscribe to magazines/communities but and follow users.
Also, upvotes (on kbin) are favorites. And any upvote/downvote will show you did it and federate to other instances. For example go to “more | activity” on your comment and select “favourites” to see what I mean
There were mods minutes after Skyrim’s launch. Unless there’s a drastic change in how the games are set up, there are a set of mods that already exist that will work right out of the box if you install them manually. For instance, carry capacity. It’s just been a specific value on the player character (which uses the same ID for several years), so a mod for Skyrim or Fallout 4 or even Oblivion that increases carry capacity to 9999 will likely just work.
I’ve never been able to successfully sync posts from a kbin Magazine to Lemmy. I also haven’t seen Lemmy users show up in kbin communities so I assumed that subscriptions were unilateral (kbin users have access to Lemmy but not vice versa).
It sows distrust in authority, so that those people will listen to fringe voices. These fringe voices tend to be grifters, scamming the rubes.
Politically it’s a binary issue, no room for compromise. If you’re anti-vax, you’re voting for the Republican candidate, despite what the other guy might be offering. So, this locks in votes and also plays into the long term strategy of having an uneducated underclass incapable of critical thinking. This provides cannon fodder for the politicians, and low paid drones for the fat cats.
As long as I get to cram all those accounts into a single portal or app, that's fine by me. I dislike having to look at multiple places to get slightly different variants of the same content.
You can @ Lemmy communities and it will create posts there (not sure how well images federate)
Which instance you signed up only affects your “Local” feed (no idea if PixelFed has one, haven’t checked). If you’re posting primarily about your miniatures it may make sense to move to a specialized instance rather than a generic one like .social.
PixelFed and Masto federate really well so all you have to do is follow and get followed by people on the tabletop focused instances (which you already may be without realizing) for your things to end up in those communities.
There is also a.gup.pe though I have no clue how it intersects with Lemmy.
Thanks! I just tried testing the @-ing a Lemmy community, Pixelfed treated it as if I tried to find an user and said "no match found". I tried pasting a link to a pixelfed post in the "link" field in Lemmy post creation. It recognised the post/user but the shared media on Lemmy is ant-sized and requires more clicks (or a click on the link to get to pixelfed website).
I have chosen a mainstream instance as I believe it's less likely to be shut down due to e.g. its admin not being able or willing to pay for the server - so for stability. Do you think it's a wrong way of thinking? I'm new in Fediverse, and I'm aware that more small instances is better than a few big ones. But when I want to share something widely having an account on a big one seems reasonable?
Thanks! I just tried testing the @-ing a Lemmy community, Pixelfed treated it as if I tried to find an user and said “no match found”.
Hm, it would try to find a user, because communities are internally “users” that boost all the posts/comments they receive. ActivityPub isn’t as interoperable as it ideally would be, with all the hasty extensions, quirks of particular implementations, and with Lemmy being comparatively new it may make sense for you to open up an issue on the PixelFed GitHub, maybe they’ll look into it for you.
I know that people have been able to do the @ thing from Mastodon. So it may be some incompatibility between PF and Lemmy. The people who actually implemented them would know the details on why it’s not working.
I have chosen a mainstream instance as I believe it’s less likely to be shut down due to e.g. its admin not being able or willing to pay for the server - so for stability. Do you think it’s a wrong way of thinking?
The bigger a server the costlier it is to run. That’s true with every service. Most admins rely on donations on top of paying out of pocket, so as long as the small instance you’re on is tight knit enough that the few people there will occasionally chip in, shutting down won’t be too much of a concern.
But when I want to share something widely having an account on a big one seems reasonable?
As long as even 1 person from “a big one” follows you, your posts end up there, will be indexed by hashtags or what have you. So start following people and get followed back and eventually discoverability will sorta happen.
If there is a warhammer specific a.gup.pe group, consider @ing that as well, since the way it works (boosting all the content it receives to all it’s followers) it will have the same effect.
I remember reading an article that did a deep dive into them once, and I was absolutely astounded by just how much they embodied the "enlightened centrist". I didn't think there were an appreciable number of people who were actually like that.
They continue the trend really of there being no good third party in the US - largely because FPTP makes two large parties preferable.
When you really look at their ideology, "enlightened centrists" are right-wingers who think they're smarter than the usual bigots that group has. This can be seen by the fact that they pretty much always will complain about hate speech being called out, but will not call out the hate speech itself.
We’d probably need to qualify this with “bad compared to what”. I can’t complain, as it does its job, and I’ve been able to tweak what I needed to. As I don’t tinker with it every week, I keep a sticky note rolled up on my desktop, or I quickly use ‘cheat systemd’ to remember some key examples.
I was getting really long start up time earlier this year (like 19 mins before the desktop was fully responding) and after trying everything else I tried ditching BTRFS and reverting my /home drive back to ext4. Turns out BTRFS start and checks was killing my boot times. Now, as fast as anything.
The following have been my saviours though in identifying boot times: journalctl -b -p err systemd-analyze blame --user systemd-analyze blame
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