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[–] [email protected] 22 points 20 hours ago

That's the corporate web: sterile, intrusive, manipulative, endless list of negative descriptors.

It's why you gotta take whatever's of value from it and put it elsewhere so you can get away from it as much as possible. Then spend more of your time using the public web intentionally for things that you enjoy and interest you, instead of allowing the corporate web to use you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

These look nice! The fifth one to the right of the tallest walking stick is surprisingly straight. Almost looks like it could double as a fighting staff.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

OpenRSS is a cool site that aims to produce RSS feeds for sites without them at no cost (some conditions apply, e.g. no account-walled/paywalled sites may be requested).

There's also the Feedbro add-on for Firefox (and other browsers) that can be used to check if a website has a RSS feed buried somewhere to add to your reader.

If you'd like to keep up with some non-commercial music, you could check out the Editor's Picks from ccMixter. Here's the direct feed link.

In case of follow-up questions:

  • Mobile Apps: personally I'm mostly using Feeder on Android these days. I like to be able to see a lot of feed entries at once and this works best for me. I've tried apps like Read You and Nunti, but they weren't showing as much as I wanted.
    • Worth noting though, Nunti may be worth trying for its unique feature that tries to adjust your feeds to surface articles/entries that may be of more interest to you with offline systems.
  • Desktop/laptop: I'm still sort of searching on this one. For the moment I use Thunderbird, but it's not RSS-focused so it's more than I want from a reader.
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not bad at all! If you enjoyed it you should keep at it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Huh, that's cool! Thanks!

p.s. I meant a digital widget/thing, but it's cool to know this tool exists!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Was thinking the same and you can.

Minimal fucking around needed too, just pkg install imagemagick then navigate filesystem to images ya want to adjust and magick however desired to reduce the file size.

 

Typing into a little box and quietly erasing it all just doesn't scratch that same itch, y'know?

i did look for oneand didn't find one, but i did find a desktop shark

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The balcony lives!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

My problem with them is this and YouTube's aggressive pushing of them in general and in the wrong places, like any device with a horizontal display (like when using a PC/laptop).

In my opinion vertical videos are better viewed on a vertical display (like a phone) and nowhere else, because everywhere else they look worse. Now that I'm thinking more of this though...I should see if any shmup people are showing off via shorts, 'cause that'd be a good fit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I hope more resources are put toward restoring and preserving their environments so they don't go extinct. Fascinating as hell creatures, and who knows if there's anything else like them out there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Also didn’t include this one in the skeets but it’s included in my blog post write up:

~~Err, is there a separate blog with all the posts and links all in one? Or what you've linked is what you're referring to? In any case I appreciate the effort, although I'd sort of have preferred a reformat for here (i.e. copy each microblog post into one large post here).~~

My bad, posted before I finished skimming to the bottom to see the blog post.

Also neither here nor there, but personally I'd just call them a series of Bluesky posts. "Skeeting" feels as much of an awkward effort to normalize a word's use as "tooting" was on Mastodon.

Edit:
That's an interesting deep dive of a blog post. Appreciate the timeline to track what was what with some of the policy decisions.

 

It's about a lesbian entomologist down in the dumps from a breakup, as her ex couldn't deal with her fondness for and keeping of bugs as pets. One day she receives a mystery bug in the mail and, before she has time to bring it in to the lab to examine, she finds herself going on a date with someone new and nervously brings her home.

Unfortunately the mystery bug has gotten out, and sneaks a lovebite on her new girlfriend and everything gets weird from there.

It's such a strange episode. On one hand it's sort of heartwarming (it's a somewhat positive portrayal of lesbians!), and on the other it's a heaping dose of, what the fuck.

If you want a nice story about a couple anxious lesbians getting to know each other, watch maybe around the first half or so and stop there. If you want some classic horror monster stuff then watch the rest.

 

Although ActivityPub does a lot to help share content across federated sites, it goes without saying it doesn't always go smoothly for a variety of reasons. Different post formatting, different overall focus and structure of other software, and so on.

With that in mind, it's as important to create different local accounts both on the same software (at times) and on other software to help polish up the content sharing.

As an immediately obvious example in the case of Lemmy: creating other accounts to help moderate a remote community due to issues of cross-site moderation.

However, it can go beyond that. Due to the minimal algorithmic design of a lot of federated software, many across these sites may not even be aware of some of the others. Some using Mastodon or a *key variant may have no idea of Lemmy, Mbin, or Piefed and vice versa, so may still be using corporate alternatives.

This means that it may also be beneficial for those trying to grow these respective communities to create accounts on Mastodon, *key, etc. sites and share links from Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed there, or vice versa. It's by no means ideal, but it's the reality of the situation at the moment.


Speaking of multiple accounts, it's important to try to correct misconceptions of only needing one account for this very reason.

For the moment, if you want to participate on federated forums, it's better to make an account on whichever site software supports it (like Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed), largely the same with federated microblogs (like Akkoma/*key/Mastodon), and so on.


Ultimately despite some of the inconveniences, taking this approach may at least be less of an uphill battle than navigating the increasingly closed corporate networks trying to keep people trapped there. Across the federated sites one may find more receptive audiences to checking out other open social networks that they may have completely overlooked.

p.s.also maybe you're just a software sicko like me and you enjoy checking out other software from time to time and seeing what different approaches people are trying.

if you consider checking out microblogging i highly recommend the *key variants (e.g. Sharkey or the like) 'cause they're a much different vibe from the more Twitter-like stuff like Mastodon

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Also if it's not that, it may be related to account language settings. Same deal, go into settings under profile/account and check that you have undetermined selected along with any other languages you want to be able to see.

Edit:
Almost forgot, to select multiple languages you'll have to hold Ctrl and click each one in the Web UI (I think probably Photon as well).

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...Was definitely about the first half, though I've enjoyed the latter portion as well. It sort of put me in the mind of a few of the calmer moments of classic anime like Cowboy Bebop or The Big O, or the anime Bartender in general.

It was interesting seeing them lightly explore the perspective of an elderly character, even if they're a practically unaging being.

Minor spoilers below:

piqued curiosityThe later introduction of a couple other elves with their different views certainly has me interested to see where the story may go with them.

Although the way Serie is presented doesn't have me as interested as Kraft, unless Serie sees some interesting turns in character development.

 

The Match Game is your standard ghost story gone awry tale, with a few young people breaking into the neighborhood spooky house to scare one another by making up a story together.

Unfortunately for them, this time around things become genuinely terrifying.

Although this setup isn't all that original, it's still a good time in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, sorry. To put it in your terms Lemmy would be a "platform" like how you describe Mastodon/Pixelfed.

The reason I suggested mentioning feddit.org instead is because it's what you're using and where someone else could sign up and join easily.

Mentioning Lemmy (or Mastodon/Pixelfed) doesn't tell people any site to sign up on, just what tech they're built with.

 

It's an episode from the Masters of Horror anthology about a desperate man hired by a rich eccentric film collector to find a notorious rare film called La Fin Absolue du Monde said to have caused a violent riot during its initial showing.

Takes a little while to get going, but once going it gets increasingly gruesome.

You can currently watch it on a few different free streaming services, or I'm sure someone's sharing it.

 

p.s. check out [email protected]

 

Link, may not be available in all regions because corporations like to leave money on the table squabbling over who gets the most money from their agreements.

Twin Peaks is a surreal mystery series that aired in the '90s created by Mark Frost and David Lynch. A young woman is killed in the small town of Twin Peaks and the upbeat and unusual FBI agent Dale Cooper is tasked with aiding in solving the mystery of her murder.

However Twin Peaks is a small town full of its own oddities that are gradually revealed throughout the show.

 

smolsmall pencils surrounded by multi-color golf balls and tees

yes i do not play golf so this was my TIL

 

Remembered there was documentation, and understood it a little better this time around!

TwoLineJoy explainerdecided to try out this idea of tagging posts here with potential community idea to test the waters and put to practice using General as an incubator/launchpad for other communities.

also TwoLineJoy is a spin off of TwoSentenceHorror, including how posts may be pleasant mini-fictions. Join in if you like and maybe someone could try making it into a new community!

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