I’m also using connect. I find the searching for communities to be terrible and a couple of other issues, but the bread and butter of reading posts, comments, commenting is very comfortable. I’d recommend it too right now.
Comfortable is the best way to describe it. I think it’s very similar in function and design to sync, which makes it very easy to use while waiting for Sync for Lemmy
Yeah, searching/ subscribing is a pain. I also would like a feature to be able to copy just a link on long press like there was with RiF. I really, badly miss RiF.
Connect has some good features, like subscription Favorites, Filters (excluding posts containing filter words), Sort defaults for comments and posts, Text size for comments and posts, and Comment dividers. The developer is active and responsive on the lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect community. The app is available on Google Play, and is not currently Open Source.
Why would shitposting on Lemmy, get people to switch back to Reddit, a site famous for shitposting?
Beanposting seems to be a pretty organic meme rising out of the fact that Lemmy is pretty new and people don’t really mind shitposts yet because there is such good content on Lemmy since the community hasn’t grown too large yet
"Such good content"? I see zero content for what I like.
I never saw a single shitpost on the subs I followed, and their equivalents on the Fediverse are either completely empty, or having it’s own moderator post every single thread on the magazine with zero engagement from the 20 or so subscribers.
They're opening their mouths. That's enough. Be the change doesn't mean anything if shitposting to death about that particular day's meme is the thing everyone else is into.
But everyone isn't into that. I certainly aren't. So I suppose there's hope for me and Enttropy.
Also, I noticed that I spent less time here when the front page was full of beans and then meta discussions about Lemmy/kbin/Reddit with pretty noticeable whiff folks being up their own ass about this place being better than Reddit.
Also, what some people here don't understand (@OpenStars did), is that the Fediverse is not this huge global revolution that they assume it is. At this point, the Fediverse caters to a VERY specific demographic, and trying to make a "Mezcal" or "Trip Hop" community on the Fediverse is just like trying to create a Board Game Design community on Subaru's Post-sales forum.
Case and point: soloRPG on the Fediverse has existed for over a year, and amongst all the Fediverse instances, the interest and demand for this community is so small, that 99% of its contents have been posted by a single dude.
And regarding shitposting and cringe circlejerking, I don't know about other instances, but since the latest update, the default landing page of Kbin is whatever you set as "homepage" in your profile's settings. Also, blocking magazines and users is pretty easy and does wonders to stay away from shit you don't want to see.
Just for the sake of argument: it is different here, than there. Like here if you sub to something, at least on kbin.social I get every single new post as a "notification", rather than simply seeing more of that on the home page like you might expect. I keep forgetting, subscribing, then having to unsubscribe when already the next day there are 30+ notifications from a single account or magazine posting a flood of stuff.
And having to visit the specific magazine - not the user, not the thread, not clicking the link or expanding the picture - to unsubscribe first is somewhat counter-intuitive I suppose. All the more so when you continually have to keep doing it for every non-English magazine from an instance that doesn't mark each magazine since the entire instance is that way (and I've heard people say that about non-NSFW too? although on kbin.social I hardly ever see NSFW content to begin with).
So if someone has a need or desire to simply be taken care of without having to lift a finger to do stuff themselves, atm Reddit legit does that better than here. Fuck spez and all that, I'm just saying that the collective weight of all that effort from all those programmers and such have made it a more "polished" environment than here. You sell your soul to him, and he looks after you, up to a point.
Those of us who come here now don't care - I mean more polish would be nice but we think it's better here even without that - but those who simply want to be taken care of and can't be bothered to e.g. read instructions or search for those, would do better to return there. imho at least, for now, until the software catches up.
The notifications are flooding you because you turned them on or were on by default. If you go to your Kbin’s settings at the bottom of the page there are two checkboxes for subscribed magazines’ notifications. Just turn those off.
Also, make sure you set your homepage to your subscribed magazines and you’ll be good to go.
And about the other stuff, it’s not just about having a desire to be taken care of without having to lift a finger. I don’t care about having to learn how all of this fediverse stuff works because it’s fun for me, but that isn’t the case for the overwhelming majority of internet users that genuinely have zero problems with the platforms they use, and barely use. For example, my 70 year old parents barely know how to use YouTube and that’s the place they use to consume and discuss the topics they care about. I tried to teach them about Reddit and other forums, but it’s simply unnecessary when the reliable and easier thing already exists.
Same thing when you expect someone who uses their computer because of 2 or 3 applications, to ditch MacOS and all their neatly integrated hardware, to then spend hours and months on end to craft themselves an OS with Linux in which none of their specialized hardware works anymore.
Also, a ton of teenager to middle aged people will think the same about the Fediverse, when Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and other websites already provide them the platforms they need to express themselves and are "too casual" on those, to genuinely not have an issue with the platform itself. All of those users have valuable inputs and content to offer to the platform, and we’re not going to have them here, just because of how complex this platform is not only on paper, but in infrastructure ie: search engines are going to have a terrible time indexing the Fediverse, the content is mirrored in some instances but not EVERY piece of content is, and not amongst all instances, etc.
Re: notifications - thank you! I've read several guides including that latest one, but did not go deep enough to find out about subscriptions, and it was definitely my fault for not putting in sufficient attention to make it work how I wanted. You definitely just improved my future experiences on this platform immensely:-).
Re: ease of use - I would also argue that TONS of attention has been put into making YouTube easy to use, down to extreme tinkering of the icons so that you know how to play/pause or fast-forward or whatever, and their intuitive nature makes it so that you don't even have to read a manual or guide or book or even watch a tutorial video in order to start. Instead, they "just work". Admittedly, Lemmy/Kbin aren't quite "there" yet, at that level:-). e.g., often you can click the image icon and things will show up, but not always, and also I see where some people are including pictures directly into their comments, but they seem to only be those that are hosted internally on kbin - so e.g. not working when pasting a URL - and also I noticed that the "From url" image option as you write a comment seems to be buggy, as it seems to do nothing (in Chrome on Mac OSX). Those kinds of things aren't enough to drive me away, but I can see for others how it would be.
Re: entitlement - I've found that older people are among the most entitled on the entire planet. Someone who is 70 or even 60 (or 50?) will attempt to use an argument like "why bother learning something when I'll only live for like 20 more years anyway", as if that somehow entirely negates the second law of themodynamics that things don't just happen without effort. Plus, if you learn one thing, that makes learning subsequent things easier. That said, Linux isn't for everybody, and I get that too:-). I gotta say that's one beautiful thing about Mac OSX (not iOS): it is Unix with a pretty candy shell, and it really has had a ton of effort lovingly poured into it in the past. Anyway, yeah then younger people inherit those attitudes, and tbf YouTube and Reddit and such have encouraged them further along those lines, so without thinking they have been molded into sheep. For those people, I honestly think that Reddit may be a better place for them? Things will "just work", there is more content still there, and like if they don't want to learn how to use this place, then they won't, so I guess then... just don't? There's a famous saying that you cannot fix stupid, but actually, YOU CAN - ignorance is easily curable merely by sharing knowledge, and there are whole entire classes offered by the likes of MIT, Harvard, Yale etc. entirely for free. What you cannot fix, I think, is obstinacy: if someone is flat-out opposed to doing something, then I have yet to find a way to get around that kind of a block, short of little-child antics like distraction or tricking them into it. Anyway, if they don't like this place, or linux or whatever, then nobody's trying to force anything onto them, we're just building up something that WE enjoy, and we're doing it at the pace that we as content creators and contributors and early adopters are comfortable with. If they want more, but are unwilling to build it themselves, that's entirely on them?
Speaking of, I might switch back to more lurking than contributing, if it keeps going this new direction where everyone simply whines that the fediverse is not identical to Reddit in every way. I cannot help them, but I can help myself to maintain my own sanity. Though for a little bit at least I'll try to offer rebuttals (like this one), and I'm so happy that as I do I get to converse with people like you who actually try to help others, have deeper thoughts, and make Lemmy/Kbin actually worthwhile for me to visit. :-)
Then you lucked out on good subs over there, and the reverse for here. It's definitely new, and definitely a different experience. Lemmy/Kbin is not for everyone - for instance in the very recent past at least it has leaned more towards technically-minded people so many of those needs are covered, and also early adopter mindsets who are comfortable to watch things grow & evolve rather than looking for an already-established setup, but depending on where YOUR particular communities of choice are, that's where you'll need to be.
I would say to BE part of the change that you want to see in the world, but yeah, if it's just you and a moderator here then that's not much of a "community". Feel free to do whatever is best for you!
Also remember that you can curate your experience here - like if you did not like the shitpost community, then you have to first visit it by clicking its name, and then click the "no" circle with line through it, and from then on you won't see posts from it on the main/all page. I've been doing that for all the foreign-language magazines, but people can do it for whatever - nsfw, memes, tech, shitposts, showethoughts, anything.
Thanks! Yeah, I've already blocked a bunch of topics and users, and I'm still playing whack-a-mole with loose ends on my start page.
And you're completely right. The Fediverse is still very much a niche thing and, by nature, not the best place to expect living communities for certain topics when it's already hard to find them in much more popular, casual, and easy to find websites.
Me either, so I started a community for a subject I’m interested in and follow on reddit and I’m populating it with new content as the news comes in so new people can catch up. Be the change you want to see. Interact with that content and post more of it. Don’t just complain that it’s not being fed to you.
ETA: I might add that I have no intention whatsoever of moderating that community in the long term. If/when Lemmy grows, if that community picks up, I’ll be looking for someone to take it over.
Yeah, that's exemplary and very inspirational, but we're on completely different pages. I never complained, nor I'm expecting any change or have content being fed to me.
The reality is that the demographic of this site (a tiny niche of Reddit, which on itself is already a niche) + the terrible time search engines are having, and will have to index the Fediverse, just makes communities for non tech-savvy / internet culture people, virtually impossible to grow.
Like, good luck forming a Fediverse community about Paella, Bubble Tea, Mezcal, or your neighbourhood, in which John and Jane Doe who barely ever use the internet, join. Communities of a ton of topics are already incredibly small in first-place search result sites such as Twitter or Reddit, and are going to be impossible to have on the Fediverse, until the day you can ask the corner shop grandma about the Fediverse magazines she's subscribed to, and you get an answer other than "What the hell are you talking about?"
Start following the main boards on your instance. Make the community yourself and start a topic about that subject on a general/main board and add a link to your community. The niche subs on Reddit didn’t come out of nowhere either.
There are a lot of communities across the fediverse based off of r/196, where the only rule is that you have to post something before leaving. I ended up blocking most of those communities because of the spam.
enjoy your sex trip and I wish you happy bottoming! if you’re not going to be doing too much physical labor during this time I recommend going full bottom mode: the week ahead of it start eating very lightly, initially a high fiber diet with added psyllium husk or metamucil. your body might be different but mine would say no dairy during this time. for the day before or even two, switch to a meatless and somewhat low fiber diet - ramen noodles is a classic, cookies, soup, other carbs. before you leave for the trip, clean out with an enema bulb (or store bought enemas if your ass is bougie or inexperienced). the combination of low fiber and low food throughput should keep you from having to poop and whatever poop is still in your tract will get largely removed by the enema.
while you’re out at your fuck-tent, consume most of your calories from simple carbs as much as your body will handle so as to give your microbiome less to work with - applesauce is kinda nice, fruit snacks, white bread. eat like a twink!
remember to stay hydrated!! I know you’re not trying to pee either but it’s important to hydrate even if it means suffering whatever penalty your dom is giving you when you ask to be let out to pee
Uh, no. The khan from the steppe had no way to learn about these things before. Rogan, on the other hand, is wilfully ignorant. Also, it’s all just an act to spread his far right propaganda by dressing it up as looking at both sides.
Yeah, the “he just wants to learn” crowd is so incredibly disingenous, and completely ignores the very real political and commercial aspect of his show.
It’s fine, she said in an interview afterwards that her next career move is fulfilling a lifetime ambition of joining the circus. So the spot is still open.
From the about page it looks like it’s a non profit that does not enforse or support candidates or parties, they claim to only try and work on erasing the barriers between voters and the act of voting
In the political side for nonprofits, there are clear rules of what you can do or not do. So a nonprofit with the goal of getting people to vote should not lean left or right.
In the one I volunteered at a decade ago for gay rights, each volunteer had to sign that they are simply pushing the issue forward, not promoting a particular politician or party. It was pretty freaking clear what party we were aligned with, but we couldn’t actively tell people to go vote for X or Y, only that here’s what party X has shared about the issue, while party Y hasn’t given us any comment about it.
Domains can expire, be sold, have their hosting (nameservers) changed…etc it’s very conceivable given the current climate that it could be a malicious site used for data exfiltration from prospective voters. The security posture, if any, of the owner are also unknown, meaning it may be unknowingly compromised.
Especially when you have people willing to drop tens of millions of dollars on voter suppression.
Plain and simple, don’t enter your personal information into a 3rd party site. Use your official government provided ones for this purpose.
If you don’t want to give a random site your information (good practice), scroll down and select your state from the drop down menu and it’ll direct you to your state government’s official website to check your registration. I actually had to enter less info than vote.org was asking for to check mine, lol.
search for your state’s Secretary of State website or go to your state’s official website if you are concerned. An official government website will generally have a .gov address or a .state.StateLetterAbriviation.us or some permutation.
This will take everyone to nass dot org/can-I-vote in Step 1, but I like sending people through a dot gov first so there’s no bamboozle concern. Feels right.
Thanks for spreading the word 😎 Checked mine when someone posted a recommendation Texans check their status the other day.
Edit: for “register or update [or check status]”, the fed provides:
It’s gotten to the point that I buy games without looking them up first. I’ve been running Linux as my daily driver for over a decade, and buying a game used to take research. Is there a native version (probably not but it happens once in a while)? What it scoring on ProtonDB? What have the Lutris folks figured out?
Now I just buy the game and play it. Granted I don’t tend to play competitive multiplayer games so I don’t run into cheat prevention system nightmares.
This has been the best part of how it’s developed the past few years. I’ve recently bought lies of p, baldur’s gate 3, and sons of the forest (at 1.0) without needing to look up anything. All three simply installed and ran great. So nice not having to fiddle with launch options and stuff.
It’s gotten to the point that I buy games without looking them up first.
Same here. That was how I knew things had changed.
Let’s also not forget that while Elden Ring was waiting for a patch on release day to avoid stuttering on Windows, it never stuttered on Linux due to shader precaching in Proton. I try and tell that story to people on the fence about switching. A lot of people have this idea that Linux is “catching up” – in some sense, it is the opposite, in that I can sometimes get better performance on Linux vs Windows even with Windows binaries.
They provide services to ALL people. So tired of reading that only the poor use the library. My kids are always begging to be taken there to get books and do activities. We just used the color printer/copier at ours the other day and the first 3 copies were free. Libraries are an amazing community resource for EVERYONE.
The post clearly says that they also provide services to poor people and just adds it at the very end. I get that you are primed to reading this wrong but in this case it actually isn’t wrong…
The three big branches around me have well stocked maker spaces. I see young classes in there all the time.
Some have seed selections for gardeners. Many assist with tax preparation. I’ve heard of a few who lend music equipment (think mixers, PAs, synths) for musicians who can’t justify going all in getting their own gear.
Nazi’s are just a byproduct of an eroding standard of living. When things are good and getting better, there just isn’t the fertile ground for that kind of ideology, even among the idiots.
When standard of living is on the decline? Anyone who gives a simple answer and a simple solution gets the attention of idiots.
It reminds me of and I don’t know where I read it at but there was this guy who was trying to sell his pet rock in Africa. And told the buyer it keeps lions away. The buyer asked how does it work. The seller simply told him you do not see any lions do you and the buyer bought it.
Years ago I saw a show where a teacher gave a slow learner a business card sized piece of paper with a small rectangle cut out of the center. Instead of having to look at an entire page of print at once, the card let the student cut it down to one word at a time so they wouldn’t feel so intimidated.
Whenever I start to read a quote from Trump I want that little card, so I’m not overwhelmed by his sheer intelligence.
If you happen to see your post response here later on as a reply to a non-related post, but the idea is the same, it was me. This is one of the greatest replies I have seen on Lemmy and probably Reddit back in the day. It tells so much in so little and I identify with it.
I never knew how to express how intellectually insecure I feel listening to Trump speak and reading text of what he says. No I know what to do. Thank you, friend!
No, summer and winter are reversed in the southern hemisphere.
But more than that, the seasons aren’t even consistent within each hemisphere—the exact beginning and ending dates of each season vary from region to region depending on the local climate.
As an example, where I live near the equator we have seasons that are only a few weeks long. We alternate between “summer” and “winter”. The quotes are because the only real difference in our seasons is how much rain falls since neither the temperature nor the amount of daylight changes much. Winter seasons are cloudy and wet and summer seasons are sunny and dry.
So was that a comment from an Austrian thinking the Australian posts was about Austria? Or was that an Australian who misspelled their country’s name? Or was that an Austrian who knew the post was about Australia, but they just wanted to talk about Austria?
The concept of 4 seasons itself is very Eurocentric, and leads to the inaccurate belief that the seasons/climate are messy and unpredictable in Australia.
The native aboriginal peoples have their own season system for each region, which much more accurately describes the weather. For example, the aboriginal calendar identifies 7* seasons in Victoria.
*Edit for previously incorrect info which stated there were 6 seasons (different area of Australia)
found it the webpage it appears to have originally come from described it as being the Noongar 6 season calendar so the names on this chart are Noongar words from South Western Australia not from Victoria which is the South East, so maybe theirs are different.
Is some good ones, but it only covers one small part of the country.
Each mob basically has its own calendar, so you’re looking at tens or hundreds for the country. That one above for Victoria is different to my part of Victoria.
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