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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Omg Lemmy still auto plays videos WITH SOUND :-(, I miss my PieFed account so much right now (Cloudflare issue - it happens sometimes).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Actually the OG is ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ ([email protected]), although we can see the cross-posting chain as well as the true OC attribution in the lower right corner so perhaps no real need to provide such a mention at all?

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

Answer ready: it is 42. Now, would you like to know the question?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

So should I like... downvote this one then? 🤪

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depending on where you are, maybe just "cd".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Except the OP image says .exe so that's not all that came in the package...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (10 children)

And it's not even one creature or even type of creature. Look up rhizobium.

Tbf, as we learn more about our gut microbiomes, it turns out that humans are that way as well. Maybe that's why we have the thoughts in our heads vs. the feelings in our guts... (no that's actually not it at all, except... isn't it though?).

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

So it's a B.A.T. signal detector? 🤪🦇

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

(Account issues so trying again)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I got busy and did not respond sooner, but wanted to say that I think you are correct: it's not merely the listing of Topics, which e.g. an RSS reader could do, but rather their ranking of those topics that was an enormous part of made Reddit so popular.

Although didn't some forums offer that functionality, even if not all?

So as you say it's the Threaded content, ranked by users as to priority order, that people want to see.

This ofc is all justification after the fact for us here - for whatever reason, people decided on that name, whether they should have or not, and I guess now the question is would a better name be worth the pain of switching? :-)

 

Context: I made a poll on PieFed about the new post flairs (so if you are one of the few hundred people who have a PieFed account, follow that link and answer there). Unfortunately Lemmy has neither polls nor post flairs, so this post is to open up the discussion to the wider Fediverse, or rather the subset of it that encompasses Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, which is called... what exactly?

Is Threadiverse too traumatic & tainted by association with Meta's (all but entirely defunct) Threads? Is The Verse too cool/poetic/nerdy (but niche) to be understood? I highly advise against Lemmyverse bc mainstream normal people are far less tolerant of tankies than we who are here are willing to put up with. Simply listing the software available sometimes is the best option - like the Interstellar app supports all of Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, but most support at best 1 or 2 of those - but usually is too long to say and does not roll off the tongue, plus will just keep growing as time goes on. Is Forumverse thus the least bad of the available options, or perhaps you have a better idea? 💡

Anyway, the start to a listing:

  1. Threadiverse
  2. Forumverse
  3. (The) Verse
  4. Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed
  5. Something else?

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- source for image

 

(Not my OC, so thought I'd share, if it works despite the defederation)

 

Not my OC, nor even current, but I hope it makes you smile nonetheless

 

(not my OC nor my OP, just helping spread the message around:-)

 

It's kinda damn cool no matter what! 😎

 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/413830

(the top image is a screenshot of a post that was on Lemmy, but then it was removed.)

 

For me it was only 2 out of at least 3, if I count "hear about" as being more than a casual mention (I wanted the title to be shorter but I actually mean looking up as in reading an article about, to find who / what / why / etc.), and if I ignore the cache of explosives found in Virginia.

For context, the three that I mean were: the driver in New Orleans, the truck explosion in Las Vegas, and the shooting in New York. (Edit: people are saying that the last one is not strictly speaking related to terrorism, at least that we know of. A better title for this post would have been "violent" rather than "terrorist" events.)

Damn, we sure live in "interesting" times! 🙄

 

I am notoriously bad at posting. No, really. Like Really, REALLY bad I mean! :-P

So I try to help the Fediverse grow by commenting. Probably WAY too much. Like not every hour, but definitely multiple times a day.

How about you - what do you feel is appropriate for your situation? Would you like to see more content, or less, or is this just the right amount?

 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/14326001 (so please comment there rather than here?)

It's only ~5 minutes long, and very worth a watch imho.

@4:31: "liberal democracy has been marked by its emphasis on procedures, not outcomes - we honor the process, even when we dislike the outcome; the drive to quickly get what we want even at the cost of bypassing procedures and undermining institutions is deeply dangerous"

 

It's only ~5 minutes long, and very worth a watch imho.

@4:31: "liberal democracy has been marked by its emphasis on procedures, not outcomes - we honor the process, even when we dislike the outcome; the drive to quickly get what we want even at the cost of bypassing procedures and undermining institutions is deeply dangerous"

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