Case in point.

It’s ok. I’ll take that pesky $1,000,000 and earn that paltry $75,000 in annual interest for doing nothing. It’s ok. I’ll allieviate you from the stress of thinking how worthless it is to you. Yes, I’ll allow that.

Careful though. If you rely on google for everything, you might meet Lorenzo Von Matterhorn

Dammit…I was going to make that joke! And collect that sweet sweet karma points!

But then where will all the old people go to do acid and drink margaritas in the nude playing minigolf while their cats do bath salts??? Where will the alligators go to fuck on peoples front yards?

My gaming set up:

Nintendo 64

Old ass CRT.

Nothing goes wrong:

“Man, what do I even pay these IT guys for???”

Everything goes wrong:

“Man, what do I even pay these IT guys for???”

Everette True is such a crazy ahead of his time genius.

Is everything relatable because nothing ever changes with humans? Or is it because all of lifes problrms have ALWAYS been solvable with violence?

Milksteaks.

Wasabi.

Kind of getting the sense the theme here is “OP is always thinking about food”

Which is good, because I’ve had cats that wished I would think about food more often. Like…they wish I’d never stop feeding them.

No no no…you have them compete on the mid-90s gv show American Gladiators.

…look man, I just really like that show. I want to bring it back. And if I get to see trump fall 20 feet after being knocked off the ledge in Joust by a big jacked steroid monster named Ice, even better!

Fuck 'em. They want to do this, let Facebook, and Reddit, and Instagram, and TikTok and the fediverse, and any others that I’m forgetting refuse to serve connections to Texas.

Make Texas the ONE PLACE where the internet is just yahoo and thehampsterdance.com

And then when Texans go elsewhere, they realize all they did was punish themselves. The rest of the world moves on without them.

Kind of like Hitler saying “We kill all non-Blonde haired blue eye’d Aryan Germans” and then the Japanese were like “May we join in?”

If Hitler had won, there would have been a Nazi/German War sometime in the 60s, after he sent all the Russians to concentration camps, and taken over all of Russia.

Granted, I’m veering off into alternate history, but you can see my point, right?

More like if their team win EVERYONE loses.

Ivan the terrible.

Putin the humiliated.

Trump the illegal.

No, no. Blame them. It’s ok to realize that it’s not your fault. As children, we’re placed in the safe and lovkng hands of those that raise us.

And when those hands are not only unsafe, but also incompetent, it’s perfectly natural to feel cheated at life.knowing that YOU are not the problem. Society picking those people to raise you is the problem.

It’s the reason I don’t have kids. I don’t feel like I’d raise kids the right way. I don’t want to ruin my kids life.

But it has historically over the past 50 years been dominated by franchised chains. Which is to say…terrible.

Man. I was hoping it would play out like pro wrestling. Then Tom from Myspace outta nowhere with the steel chair on both their asses.

I like the topics tag, but I think it should be implemented slightly differently as I use it for a different purpose. It’s GOOD at finding and discovering content and communities you didn’t know existed. THAT’S GREAT, because the fediverse as a whole is an absolute dumpster fire for discovering new things.

But as far as aggrigating your subscribed content, no. That is not a good purpose for those. I’d also like to see “View Account” right up top. Not hidden under the Account tab. It could replace Home, and Home could be accessed by clicking the PieFed logo in the upper left.

I love that this platform has someone who is listening to the userbase. I just fear that I’m going to overwhelm you…but if I DO manage to overwhelm you, I can honestly imagine this place becoming the default people think of when they think of PieFed.

So Social is the domain, and Mastodon/Piefed are the instances in my example?

If that’s the case, why not make everything (instance).com?

I’d also like to see the voting be more like Lemmy in the sense that if a comment has 4 likes, and 1 dislike, you can see that it has 4 likes, 1 dislike, and an overall score of 3. Whereas now, you’re using reddit style of showing the likes. Which is just the 3.

Although, speaking of reddit, the one thing I do like is that they have overall karma. Post and comment scores in the profile. THAT I like.

I’d also like to do away with this grey box that minimizes the comment until you click to expand. Or maybe an option to just always expand everything.

I’m going to either be your favorite user with requests in the short term, or your hair pulling out frustrating user. It just depends on how much is on your plate, and how easy these fixes are. As I have no idea if I’m asking you to push a button, or write 17,000 pages of code by hand. It’s probably somewhere in between. But I have no context for how difficult it would be for you to get rid of the grey box, or make an option to do so.

Previously I went from newborn baby to elderly man on earth…or we’ll call that reddit. Who in 2022 was in the 1% of karma for the entire site of reddit. Then I became a newborn baby crawling 4 months ago on Lemmy. We’ll call that the moon. I got somewhat of a grasp on the fediverse as a whole. I may not be an expert, but I know enough to figure out some basic things.

Then I heard that you guys are able to integrate with peer-tube, and I could use one account here on piefed for Lemmy, Peer-tube, Pixelfed, Mastodon, probably a few others I forget. And so now I’m like a new born baby crawling again here…on mars. Ok, my planetary analogy doesn’t quite work, but you get the jist.

So yeah, I’ll be pointing out things that are like the rough edges, without any context for how difficult that is to fix. I’ll also be posting with questions for things that I may just be niave on how to do the thing, and piefed is very very undocumented on search engines. So I can’t just search it. And I’m sure as I look into peer-tube, and mastodon integration, I’m sure I’ll have questions.

OH! And I have ideas. Like you know how you can sort by “Local” and “All” and “Subscribed”? Well what if each user can create lists of things to sort by. Like a pulldown menu. And things could be named whatever we want. And you could put things in multiple lists.

For example, Maybe Nintendo just had a Direct at 11am eastern for whatever reason. And I’m at work. I don’t want to come into contact with anything Nintendo related. Well, seeing as I know that’s an issue on a recurring basis, I’ve created lists to sort by. I have one list called “Subscribed”, and it’s just as it sounds. Then I have another list “Subscribed - Nintendo” (as in Subscribed minus Nintendo). And I’ve already added every single community in my subscribed list EXCEPT for anything Technology, or Video Games, or Nintendo related. So when I scroll by Subscribed - Nintendo, I can see pictures of cats. I can see news stories. I can see comic strips…but I’ve excluded any communities I think will lead to spoilers. And since it’s user based, each individual user can set it up for themselves in their settings to cater to their interests and needs.

Maybe I just want to focus on the war in Ukraine. Maybe I have 8 or 9 communities I follow from across the fediverse. Well if I click the list I’ve created with JUST the Ukraine communites, that’s all I’ll see until I switch to a different sorting list.

Do you think this is possible?