Nepenthe

Nepenthe, hace 11 meses

Someone advised me half an hour ago to award them to comments talking about other platforms, and I think I'm gonna go with that one for myself

Nepenthe, hace 11 meses

Oh, I don't know if you've heard the rumors that they may be planning to move to an irl cash system to reward high karma earners, but the genitals are next.

Nepenthe, hace 11 meses

I'll give it to spez if he says the line first

Nepenthe, hace 11 meses

"Site I only still care about to laugh at thinks I am going to give it my tax information." I'll have to think real hard about that one.

Investors should themselves have a good think about how the CEO that self-reported making zero profit in over a decade as one of the most popular social media sites — a site whose ad revenue has stuttered in the face of what is officially a month long protest — can afford to be handing out money to shitposting bot farms now.

Nepenthe, hace 11 meses

I just saw someone mentioning that on mastodon maybe ten minutes ago, and then it instantly made sense. How innovative he is. Even when he can see the fallout before engaging in it

Nepenthe, hace 11 meses

I just consistently mention it because it's a huge topic atm and it's to everyone's benefit to clarify. If I'm over here talking about how I'm SO glad I can mute instances willy-nilly as I please but don't mention I'm doing that from kbin, that's going to send a lot of frustrated lemmings scrambling through their settings.

Generic is "(the) fedi/fediverse." But where I'm specifically from may carry connotations in UI or culture for those here, and those not here would maybe prefer a platform name they can actually look up, as has already happened to me once.

I do think the "Blaaah, we got X amount of users and we're the biggest in the fedi!" posts are borderline odd, because yeah, we're not going head to head anymore. The tribalism we've had drilled into us for decades, we have no need of now and I don't wanna see any of the platform politics that's always been in the past. Thankfully, it seems to be stemming from genuine enjoyment instead of elitist gloating, and it keeps itself to a minimum.

Nepenthe, hace 11 meses

I think just Lemmy, kbin, mastodon, etc. naturally implies the platform-specific -verse, doesn't it? I think "Hey, Lemmy--" posts addressing the entire fediverse are being accidentally myopic, but "Hey, Lemmy [users]" would be understandable, given a need to discuss our UI differences. The former is fairly common atm, though, which I admit is faintly annoying to see on my kbin feed. I feel so left out.

Nepenthe, hace 11 meses

But if everyone leaves reddit, who will be left to have a tantrum at? What's left for this poor user? Sitting with their own thoughts?

Nepenthe, hace 11 meses

That won't go well either, in the long run. Advertisers will catch on to how many "people" are viewing their ads without ever clicking on anything and put their funds elsewhere.

Nepenthe, hace 11 meses

@HandsHurtLoL (lmfao at the fitting username)

I'm sure neither of you will mind if I plug crochet@lemmy.ca here as well. It seems they're finally beginning to work out their federating problems again and I've only not posted yet because I haven't quite finished my projects yet. Like you, I'm sorely missing it, but that's just gonna make me contribute all I can

Nepenthe, hace 11 meses

There's a few directory searches I know of.

One is over on feddit.de. It only searches lemmy instances atm, though, and idk how or how well it's updated as things are made. It seems to go by community name, so for example "drawing" does not return sketching subs and the first result under "art" is Star Trek.

The other is lemmyverse.net, which seems to parse searches FAR better. With the drawback that neither of those recognizes anything on kbin yet.

It's helped me here and there and apart from the drawbacks like the first one's behavior, I wonder if my (and @Treedrake 's) trouble is a combination of my own interests being niche and most of the people engaging in those interests being on mastodon instead of here. Fediverse Party and Fedi Directory both tell me there are sizable resources for what I'm looking for, just not through a forum.

This severely limits lemmy as it can't interface with mastodon tweets/microblogs, and hinders me as well until I have the ability to follow tags and see them in a dedicated feed.

This is one of those circumstances where forum and blogging culture don't really mesh well. The audience is present but already busy with their own thing, and we're expecting a different form of interaction than they are.

Nepenthe, hace 1 año

Honestly, if he'd ever had any intent of changing, that AMA would have actually bothered to be an AMA, and there was no reason he would have refused an offer to buy out and integrate any of what were clearly beloved apps.

It is funny to see how many feet he can fit in his mouth whenever he has to say anything at all to the press, though

Nepenthe, hace 1 año

Yeahhh... Out of all those I tried, that was by far my favorite. So much so that I didn't even remember how unintuitive the regular website was til I had to shoot someone a quick message, fumbled uselessly through my chats, and realized I really had to google how to find my inbox on a site I've used every day for four years.

Despite his stated disinterest, there's apparently been talk about the dev re-releasing it for Lemmy instead and I can't tell if there's truth to that or not. The app store listing seems like some unnecessary work for just a placeholder.

......but I don't use lemmy, so I'll just have to see what Artemis is about.

Nepenthe, hace 1 año

Sup and welcome from an ex-Boost enjoyer! Things are still extremely young here, so I'd ask some forgiveness while our fantastic dev works himself to the bone to set everything in order. There is only one of him, he did not think his pet project was going to be on the radar, and he only took on helpers a few days ago.

Minor bugs aside, it's surprisingly nice here and I hope you and any others in the comments enjoy yourselves. If there's anything you need help with, just ask around. 99.9% of us only just learned the ropes ourselves, so we won't judge. Getting used to the fediverse is super weird

Nepenthe, hace 1 año

Well, because obviously they see the progress being promised as unnecessary. If I genuinely believed (or even suspected) that only the act of keeping a hair band on your wrist or enjoying the color green were the keys to Immortality, of course I'd be against scientific immortality because they'd be visibly wandering in the wrong direction like idiots.

I'm actually not religious and I am having trouble with that question. My personal views tend toward Alan Watts' weirdly perfect mashup of science-with-buddhist-elements, i.e. the you cannot kill me in a way that matters mushroom meme, and how one answers that also depends on how they define death and immortality in the first place.

If it's the soul, you're probably religious and the answer is no, because keeping a soul where it isn't meant to stay would be abhorrent to you.

If it's the body, you probably love the idea because you're terrified of nonexistence.

But to not believe in a "soul" and also recognize that matter is indestructible leaves me unable to answer that in a satisfying way. Because, to me, it seems a given that I'm already immortal.

I can physically die, sure, that kid in the ocean exploded. He's not doing too great. But then all the atoms that are me right now will just reform into plants or a bear or something. In Zhuangzi's dream of the butterfly, the answer is both. Or, if you're not the reading type, this quote from a TV sitcom.

Parts of me will be conscious again eventually, and none of me is going anywhere. If you and your family aren't strict vegans, the bones in your leg used to be grass, and now that's alive again.

One could argue (very effectively) that a person is the sum of their memories and that they die when their brain dies, but this does suggest I've died several times now as I form new memories and forget old ones. As I live longer and mainly seem to fuck up more, I have to admit it's an excellent point that doesn't make me less tired.

How do I answer whether an obvious law of the universe is desirable? From my viewpoint, this research is idealogically unnecessary for me, and being forced to spend multiple eternities in only one form, unable to let go of anything that's happened, would be a horrifying trap.

Nepenthe, hace 1 año

I'm torn between that and fledditor tbh

Nepenthe, hace 1 año

If your question in this scenario is can a defederated Lemmy.3's posts reach Lemmy.1 if they're posted to a neutral intermediary (Lemmy.2), then no, instances that are defederated from each other don't trade information. Doesn't matter how far the post/comment spreads if your instance is ignoring it based on point of origin.

If both users subbed to a mutually federating instance's community, they would both be able to interact with Lemmy.2 users, but they wouldn't even be able to see each other.

As for bots......I fear there logically is no good way to tackle this because of the nature of the fediverse itself, short of blacklisting every baby instance and manually approving users. At the very minimum, asking for verified email and never auto-suggesting usernames, which is far from airtight but could slow them down.

Ideally, one could write their own bot to evaluate users for brigading behavior, copied posts and comments, etc., but that seems a little sci-fi when some instances barely have a working search bar right now

Nepenthe, hace 1 año

I think this is really what it is. I've spent a lot of my time here enamored with the quality of conversation, and when I joined it reminded me of the sort of discussion I used to scroll through on forums when I was a kid.

I hadn't seen it since, and I'd gotten so used to the bullshit that I barely remembered the difference. I'd really just chalked up the civility to the forum in question being several dozen regulars who knew each other too well to be dicks.

We need more content, but it's making me kind of averse to pushing so hard to get the rest over here, lest they just bring the shit behavior with them

Nepenthe, hace 1 año

I know, it was deliciously scathing. This kind of integrity is how you get new readers, I think. Wonder what things would have been like had spez attended that day of kindergarten

Nepenthe, hace 1 año

Idk, I acknowledge it must be a pain in the ass to know whether you can call someone the equivalent of "dude" or not, but I feel like that one's fair. When you recognize something utterly mundane is a high insult in someone else's culture, you kinda stop using it towards them unless you intend the insult.

I sure as shit wouldn't just drop the honorifics with a middle eastern/asian stranger or walk around their house in street shoes just because doing so is unremarkable where I'm from.