Another traveler of the wireways.
For what it’s worth on the newer versions of Lemmy with the ability to import settings files, you can create and share json files of blocked instances/communities without overwriting other user settings. Not as streamlined as what you’re describing, but it’s an option given current circumstances.
E.g.
blocklist.json
{"blocked_communities":["https://lemmy.site/c/meh","https://lemmy.site/c/mehbutmoremeh"],"blocked_instances":["unpleasantlemmy.site","lemming.mean"]}
Some other thread had me trying to remember this the other day, so cheers on posting it. Might be worth adding to a pinned thread/sidebar as a resource (alongside various newcommunities and promo communities).
Huh, first time coming across this community. Thanks for the links to the notes!
Then they were able to take that game away from me and replace it with something I liked far less. This is inevitable for any live service game; if not replacing the game you liked with something else, then its removal altogether so that no one can play it anymore in any form. It sucks.
This is a good, concise way to describe one of the subtler problems with these types of game. At least with some of them, if they’re sold without DRM, you can keep the version you like, but more often than not, those are few and far between.
I honestly can’t say I know who social media is even for at this point. There is so much content promoting unhealthy ways of thinking just haphazardly strewn about everywhere. I don’t know how anyone can avoid it all. I don’t know if the benefits can outweigh the costs. Even the most harmless content is forgettable and eats up valuable time that could be used for something more meaningful.
Sometimes I think about how we never see any posts from the happiest people alive. They don’t need social media validation, their positivity wouldn’t generate clicks, and the negativity of social media platforms probably scared them off long ago. As a result of their absence, negativity and unhealthy thought patterns have proliferated unchallenged.
I think you’ve found the larger part of the Internet you don’t relate to anymore with this. Not necessarily the Internet as a whole, but the subset of social media, and the subset within that of the many expressing how bummed they are with things (to put it lightly).
When you shift or fine-tune your focus to use the Internet as it was originally built for (sharing info, collaborative research/creative work), you’ll find it more useful and maybe more pleasant. This is more or less what I’ve tried to do more and more after fumbling about with social media stuff for awhile and experiencing my own growing disinterest in the bummer parts of it.
Speaking of books btw, if you’re into public domain work and ebooks, give Standard Ebooks a look! Similar to Project Gutenberg (also great) with more attention to nicer formatting.
Finished the first season of Hell’s Paradise awhile ago and it wasn’t too bad. The start is pretty rough, giving some major edgelord vibes, and it’s very much in the tradition of bloody splatfests with conflicted protagonists, but the later setting and creature designs kind of help compensate for that.
If you’re into the edgy vibe with bloody fights and some random nudity, it might click with you a lot. For me it had just enough weird/mystery to it to keep me watching.
Is there some context that could help clarify what’s led to this change?
Similarly, could you provide clearer examples, and how this is intended to fit into the existing Terms of Service/Rules? Despite the length of the post, the way in which it’s written leaves this change too ambiguous to be easily understood, which I think is evident both from the voting and commenting patterns.
In my opinion, my questions should have already been addressed in the post, and I think may have helped reception of this change (supposing at minimum it’s to curtail some abusive moderation practices).
For more in that spirit, check out Devilman Crybaby.
To be honest, I don’t know a lot about this craft so I don’t think it’s a clarity problem on your part, so much as ignorance on mine.
That said, on both points I agree, and was trying to say I think having some more fabric past the drawstring would look good, but in what way, I don’t know what to suggest either.
Print is by Boss Dog. OP’s version is of the sticker variant.
They also have this shirt that goes hard:
Interesting find, and some really striking photos included in the article. Thanks!
Saw some chatter coming up again encouraging people to make their own websites which is fun. Somewhere in the process also found someone mentioning the Ooh Directory, which is such a great url.
Shared another of my finds the other day to !vocaloid@ani.social of the Yameii - Synesthesia music video. It’s definitely a niche within a niche, but if you like vocaloids, bright gaudy colors and surreal 3D animation, you might like it.
That’s always a relief, but also awkward feeling. “But…Up-to-date thing you’re supposed to work with the rest, wtf are you doing breaking things??”
My “favorite” is when drivers do this. Go from visuals fine to, “What do you mean you want your game to render?”
It’s a bit of both in my opinion. You only market/suggest Lemmy (as forum/link aggregator software) to those with the tech knowledge to build with it, but to everyone else you mention a community site to join and don’t bother mentioning what it’s built with, as they won’t care anyway.
Would you edit the OP to rephrase your last line? No pics/no sexual stuff would be better, as it currently reads as having some prejudice against homosexuality, but the no pics part suggests you mean no sexual stuff more broadly.
Thanks in advance
If we remain in our current comfort space, Lemmy will likely continue to stagnate as a niche platform.
I follow what you’re getting at here, but I think this line of thinking, of Lemmy as a platform, also contributes to the issues in drawing more people to this network of communities/sites.
As Kichae said in your other thread:
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“Lemmy” doesn’t exist like Reddit does. It’s not a place people can go to talk about shit. It’s a website engine. It exists like WordPress does. One of its features just happens to be “can pull content from other websites”.If we want this space to grow, we need to focus on building community websites that stand on their own. Then we can market it as “hey, you love it here on MyInterest.social, but did you know you can also talk to people from SomethingElse.social? Pretty cool, huh??!?” Nobody seems to want to do that, though. That means we’re totally at the mercy of places like Twitter and Reddit, waiting for them to fuck up badly again and hoping more people just kind of land here, in some cheap and uncanny knockoff of where they really wanted to be.
On one hand I agree that the interface, and in turn the user experience, is worth focusing on to help get people to participate around here. On the other, I think you also need what Kichae describes at the end of their comment. Communities that can stand on their own with their own distinct identities and interests that also happen to let you talk with and see stuff from other distinct communities.
At some point I’d like to move to a little more focused sort of community like that built with Lemmy (or Piefed, or Mbin), but haven’t had luck finding any that fit so far since many are broader in scope instead.
New version’s visible now! Seems the remote account was the issue after all, but good to see you got things sorted out.
I don’t love the default Lemmy web UI, but I agree with the sentiment of preferring a lighter, faster UI…Which makes me surprised to read that you love it.
I don’t know why, but it occasionally slows way down for me when signed in and browsing. It’s nearly driven me to switching interfaces to see if they’re any better with performance.
I finally got around to testing this and found that it doesn’t overwrite existing blocks, merely adds them to your existing list. I made sure that the import file only contained new blocks and not duplicates to verify. You have to refresh the page to see the changes, and may take a few seconds depending on list length/instance performance, but it works.