- switched to a split ergonomic mechanical keyboard
- working on a fork of Lemmy geared toward inventory called “Lemventory”
- moderating multiple Lemmy communities that are basically ghost towns (and I don’t care)
- got rid of my Instagram (and all centralized forms of social media except YouTube) and replaced it with Pixelfed and others
- letting my NixOS flag fly much more regularly now
- hexbear defederation only created a Streisand Effect and piqued my curiosity about Marxism. I’m now much better educated about it have come to conclude that lemmy.world is basically filled with tech bro hive-mind blue maga chuds that have a boner for censorship and American exceptionalism.
Congrats, how good is the lua-language-server in neovim?
I’m not sure since I don’t write any lua. But, I’d recommend tree-sitter if you haven’t used it yet.
I’m both curious and clueless about what “geared towards inventory” could possibly mean
Here’s the gist of my idea so far:
stores (or alliances of stores in similar industries) :: instances
inventory items :: posts
counts :: votes
item categories (or entire stores depend on implementation) :: communities
moderators are only allowed to post items to their own community or instance.
comments can still exist (perhaps as item reviews with the same upvote/downvote mechanic).
No actual transactions would be processed over this protocol. It would be solely for inventory broadcast/aggregation (like Shopify in that it houses the inventory of many vendors except without the transaction ability built-in since pub-sub is horrible for that kind of thing).
Edit: if you have any opinions (even “what a stupid idea!”) I’d be open to them. I haven’t even written a single line of code yet and it’s a fresh idea in my head waiting to be shot down by someone less idealistic than myself.
I don’t really get the idea you’ve explained, but i’m sure its good. I’m generally excited at the prospects of less centralised internet, and so can’t wait to see projects like yours grow.
Flibboard is a social magazine thats jumping into federation. They’re doing a really uplifting podcast. Their conversations might help you clarify your idea. Or even just pump you up when your feeling less motivated.
I like it, i always leave it feeling excited and hopeful about the fediverse. Anyway heres a link, https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/mike-masnick-cuZMZfe9
I’m on my phone less, commenting more, avoiding more ads, and much happier with the content/comments on Lemmy. Reddit chains sometimes felt a little brain-rotty.
I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.
Before the APIcalypse, I was already playing with the thought of quitting Reddit. Spez just sped up that process.
I’ve already moved on. Couldn’t care less about Reddit any more.
This.
But not much has changed, functionally, for me: I still get downvoted when I point out where people can improve their English and surpass my nephew when he was in the third grade. And I still get to debate technical things based on what I know, so that’s really no change. Different pile, is all.
Not here to fight you, but this line of thinking might be why people downvote you for being a language/grammar nazi.
i downvote because 99% af the time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boring
idownvote because 99%afthe time people already know how to write, they just don’t want to bother fixing that single error or just wanted to make a quick comment, also it is boringI* of*
Can I has downvote please?
Correcting someone’s English also almost never adds anything to the conversation at hand, which is the literal purpose of the downvote.
no. it’s a disagree button!
Same lol. Was basically just waiting for something new to pop up, was already using lemmy for a bit before reddit cut third party apps and made the transition that much easier.
The admins made it really easy to quit when they suspended me after RvW for saying that riot police should quit their jobs en masse
But somehow straight up calling for the end of trans people is totally fine and dandy by them
Lemmy is great, it’s active enough for me to really enjoy it now.
I was ready for a fediverse reddit since i had been on mastodon since 2019. The threads here just work better for me than the microblogging style. I used mastodon sometimes and reddit every day. Now i use lemmy every day, mastodon sometimes, and reddit only when i absolutely must.
I comment now.
I comment more again. Used to a lot on reddit 5-7 years ago, less and less the recent years. Now back on Lemmy.
I was very active on reddit until around the 3rd meetup year or so. Thats when I noticed a major change in what had been an amalgamation of communities and while I still visited there was no urge to interact.
Same, never did before!
when you are in a smaller community, read: when you are around a manageable amount of people and even recognize some of them, you are more likely to interact. and your comment wont be buried, and its less likely some random asshole really hates what you said and makes sure you wont bother anymore. oh and less bots and chills whats not to hate.
And we enjoy them!
9 month already ?
Well, I was already active on mastodon, and had a pixelfed account (but not active there) for years. So the reddit fiasco was the right time to move.
Moving to lemmy wasn’t such of a big change as I was familiar with the federation, and the fediverse in general, was already considering it for a while.
I want to actively build community and engage with people here; to make this place home. That’s how it changed me. I’m not a lurker or passive. It has made positive improvements to my reading and cooking, along with bending my language more positively. I’ve also further grown in my appreciation of diversity.
I want to actively build community
That was the key for me. To take one of my favorite communities (“bande dessinée,” i.e. Euro comics) and create a version on Lemmy eight months ago. It’s taken a load of work (usually daily), and sometimes I get really discouraged, but overall it locked me in to the FV.
Also, you might have to burn me at the stake for saying this-- I still visit Reddit because of the far more prolific content, and do have worries & reservations about the tankie founders of Lemmy. But so far, so good. The more the FV grows, the more I’ll have no problem leaving Reddit behind.
What do ya follow for improved cooking?
It’s refreshing to not have so many Trumpers. They’re still around but not as prevalent. Overall this is just so much friendlier.
That said I feel the % of people with *uninformed but fairly extreme in their views” being higher here, but it’s more varied.
Lot more tankies here, that’s for damn sure. This place feels a lot easier to run a social network campaign against fwiw.
Really? When I first got here I noticed way more nasty and dismissive comments.
Comment less, but I’ve enjoyed it much more. There’s so much shit slinging in reddit. Every comment thread eventually devolves into one guy with an out of pocket comment or hot take, or miscommunication even, and then everyone dunking on the guy. So much negativity.
Folks are generally nice here.
The endless trains of people responding that clearly saw the other comments but are commenting as if they didn’t was - and imagine continues to be - maddening over at Reddit.
Spez did manage to understand something real about Reddit: that many people (not all but enough for the sake of his profits, he hoped) want to speak, rather than listen. Never mind about feeling heard or it being worthwhile by adding anything to the conversation, just simply, plainly, shouting your opinions into the void. Like Discord chat except based on topics rather than channels.
Those of us who HATE that about Reddit, and want a greater balance, enjoy it here much more.:-)
It’s a very interesting way of putting it. I’m gonna be chewing on that for a little while. I think you’re definitely hitting at something very important. I’m also loath to admit that I know I have brought some of my nasty Reddit habits here. For instance, sometimes I can get pretty combative in the comments. Not all the time, but sometimes I look back on the way I talk to people and think “jfc I am not actually that nasty of a person,” but something about being online certainly draws it out of me unfortunately, so clearly I’m capable of it.
I get you.
Even toddlers learn to speak first by babbling, and only later to converse and communicate with someone rather than talk at them. Some technological platforms have even evolved to facilitate that - like instead of “^This” and “I also choose this guy’s wife”, what about emoji reactions that do not extend the length that you have to scroll through to find the next substantive comment? Except that - this is the enshittification part - when ads can be placed in-between comments, or even someone hopes that they could be in the future, or more likely they want to purposefully obscure the signal so that “x number of comments appear on this post”, rather than “x number of comments + y number of emoji reactions”, that works against their profit model. (and yeah, there was “awards”, but who even used those, plus they just were not… good, especially for this purpose)
About both that and being combative: fwiw, we all are that way - the good thing is that some of us are honest about it, which gives hope for change.:-) But we all will have bad days when we are cranky and especially when we feel “attacked” we feel the need to strike back, and the feelings at least are not wrong, just how we handle them may not be so productive.
So I get you - I am the same way, though fortunately less and less over time. Leaving Reddit truly has helped me leave a lot of that behind. Over there that is just the “expectation” that people encourage you to do, but the culture is better here.:-)
Appreciate the thoughts, truly. I know this response isn’t as through and thoughtful as yours, but know that I do appreciate it.
I think I was “wordy” - I appreciate your thoughtfulness and conciseness both.:-)
It’s nice to rarely deal with trolls. I say rarely, as I’ve seen a few users recently argue, just to be assholes.
Ironically, both appear to be very heavy Lemmy posters, and one seems to be downvoting he spoke with, still.
That said, I’ve actually met users I run into semi regularly in others posts, which is a nice change.
I don’t work for free and get called names by the business that profits off it, so that’s nice. Also don’t see nearly as many trolls.
I’d scroll for hours on reddit. And while I’d love to see more content here, I’m glad that I don’t spend so much time on mobile as I used to. And when there is more content, I hope I’m already trained to stop if I’d start to be exessive.
Also, got educated on FOSS and privacy, ditched most of google products. Wins all around
I hate the idea that most people have on lemmy that every interaction has to be a positive experience and full of sunshine and rainbows and butterflies. I like to argue.
But whatever. It’s iight. I stuck around.
lmao
Debate me, betch. ;)
I disagree with your comment. Change my mind.
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