southsamurai

Project mayhem needs to take his balls

The stats are irrelevant, imo. What matters is how useful lemmy is both to average users and specialty users.

Right now, the more niche the hobby/interest is, the less useful lemmy is unless it fits into the handful of subjects that lemmites grok.

That being said, for general use, lemmy is great. Plenty of memes, plenty discussion about subjects of general interest, and plenty of posts for casual scrolling on the john. In that regard, it’s better than bigger forums because you don’t have to scroll through a dozen fake posts to find things that interested a fellow human.

I can usually, on bad days when I’m not very mobile, spend an hour or so on lemmy before I get back to where I had previously left off. That’s about the sweet spot, imo.

Hey, I appreciate the work. No bullshit, it’s a great idea, and the way you implemented it as its own C/ is perfect.

That being said, it’s too much. It was essentially a wall of nothing but the bot for me. I’m not sure if that’s because there was just that much for it to scrape with it being new, if it needs a rate limitation to keep it from flooding, or maybe the list of sources needs to pared down.

But it definitely interfered with accessing human posts by sheer volume. Which is the bad thing about bots.

I don’t know Jack shit about how bots work under the hood, but it definitely needs some kind of change to how much it’s posting.

Again, I think the idea is great and I was initially happy about it. Thanks for doing something to help us all stay updated.

Eh, going back at least as far as his real world days, he’s always been about being edgy and asinine. I’ve never heard of him directly fucking people over, but I can’t call him nice just because he uses a degree of manners in public.

It isn’t about his political views, idgaf about that as far as this subject goes. Until you get into actual extremists, the kind of right or left wing folks that make up the bulk of things tend to not be assholes in their day to day behavior. They don’t often pound their pulpit non stop, or publicly and directly bash any given group. Theo is like that, in that regard. It’s about him generally behaving as though he has some need to stir shit to feel like he’s funny.

Well, you’ve got great points.

And, here in the US, they’re points that require extra scrutiny of any such situation.

That being said, Norway has done this kind of thing with incredible success, and not just remote work either. So the idea itself is most definitely one that merits a real attempt here too

Considering how damn low their recidivism rates are, that’s a hell yes

That is pretty much the most chill chicken ever.

My hen? You put her on your shoulder and walk fast, she’s squawking in your ear to slow down, you maniac.

Had a typo in there. It’s eschew

Yo, your lexicon is making my malarkey happy

Oh, the service itself is decent, up to great depending on your criteria. Pretty much never down, works well enough, etc.

It’s the privacy and bullshit behind the service that’s hated. Well, usually, some people hate the layout, and others hate the fact that it’s the default for so many people that it’s difficult to avoid.

No worries, happens to simply everyone eventually :)

And, again, since you had nothing to contribute, maybe scrolling past would have been better than being a dick about it.

Just saying, it’s an option. The post didn’t do anything to inconvenience you any more than any other random post. OP didn’t name you in specific to give a response, no matter what it might be.

That’s what it comes down to.

It’s Wheaton’s law. Don’t be a dick.

So, apply it. Be better. We can all use improvement in how we treat people, right? I mean, you’re making some kind of reaction to being told your words were dickish. Anyone would. So, don’t double down. Don’t make excuses. Just use it in the future.

That’s horseshit. Google has gone downhill, for one thing.

For another, the vomit of inaccurate and/or outright wrong “ai” generated drek has taken over every search provider.

For another, there’s a lot of benefit in asking other people that have followed a guide about their experiences in using them

And, for the last, it’s just a dick move. Don’t want to give a real answer, scroll on, scroll on.

I mean, they’re correct.

But fuck McDonald’s.

Yeah, that .bat works really well. Makes pretty much any network access so much easier to set up and use.

Jfc, that trustpilot page is hilarious

Blahaj is a shark.

More specifically a stuffed shark plushie sold by IKEA.

The word supposedly means blue shark, or shark in Swedish, but I don’t speak the language, so take that as you will.

Also supposedly, the shark being a rather gentle pastel blue and pink, which matches the trans flag, it became a favorite symbol within segments of the trans community, a sort of mascot. While I can’t guarantee that’s why it became a symbol, it is definitely popular among the trans community. Enough so that I don’t know any trans people irl that don’t partake in the knowledge and joke of it, and we’re half a day’s drive from the nearest IKEA store.

It’s a fairly popular gift for trans folks that are coming out, or making a significant step in transition, or even just because.

Sure. There’s a rather vibrant writers’ community, plenty of visual artists (including photography that isn’t just cats and hiking), and the endless political shit.

You don’t get as much of the random people running their mouths though.

The key to Mastodon is the # curation over time. Search your interests, use the hashtags to set up your feed, and only use the full federated feed to find terms you didn’t think to search for, or that aren’t obviously connected to your interests.

As an example, if you’re a writer, you’ll obviously follow something lunge #writing, but you might not find #pennedpossibilities, or #writerscoffeeclub by searching, despite them being active prompt based groups that end up having a lot of good interactions between writers (casual, amateurs, and pros).

Tbh, the least represented segment is the typically nerdy stuff. Much more prevalent on lemmy. There’s plenty there, it just isn’t as common as other segments.

It’s easy when you use the same password for encoding everything.

This is why I’ll never buy anything Nintendo again. They’ve made too much of a habit of fucking over people.