smoothbrain coldtakes

Nebulous copyright licenses.

I’M DOING MY PART!

Garuda for gaming and Silverblue for work.

A lot of LD won’t land as much if you don’t really know all the references. I guess it’ll be the opposite of what most of us experience which is the original content and then the references, it’ll still be fun to have all the references show up in LD and then uncover them in live action.

Silverblue rocks, I use it for my mission critical laptop.

For gaming it’s hard to beat Arch, still, because of how much active development is being put in by people like Steam.

The way federation works is that everything is replicated across all federated servers. If an admin team does not want to have to moderate specific kinds of content or users who are deemed detrimental (but not necessarily illegal) they have the ability and right to defederate.

Also, I’ve blocked servers but it doesn’t block users. Defederation does though.

I would personally ban/defed from Monero.town because it’s a scam-ass crypto instance.

Every time I see a “guide” like this it’s always from a monero.town user. The last guy who was posting “reviews” was bitching about how he got stiffed paying for a game or something with crypto, and nobody had any sympathy because when you don’t pay with real money you don’t get the guarantee of a service rendered.

If Google actually made me a hentai waifu bot that would be based.

I wish everything was a bit more standardized between kbin/mbin/Lemmy. It feels like we have these forks of the project that do different things because they emulate different behaviors of other sites, and reaching parity seems difficult without a lot of developer discussion.

I like a few things about kbin but for a while it was the instance causing the most spam on my feed because federated mod actions broke and spam cleaned up locally would not get cleaned on other instances. I saw Ernest back posting again so I guess development has resumed and some of those issues have been banged out.

But it doesn’t bootstrap conversation properly, because some OP on an entire other website is asking for help, and we’re talking to brick walls.

Lemmy is more helpful for Linux help than reddit is anyways, because on reddit they’ll tell you to fuck off and search, while on Lemmy I can still get hands-on support with a willing community.

That’s the problem with federation though, you have 20 servers with 20 communities of the same thing, and there’s not many people redirecting and curating, because everybody wants to be a powermod. When we had the reddit migration it started a chain reaction nightmare of creating an infinite number of dead, useless, redundant communities. I like to use sports as a good example. Fanaticus.social is designed to be the premiere sports instance, yet all the local instances, like .ca or midwest.social, also will have their requisite team pages.

I think it only serves to continue to keep reddit afloat. If our stuff does get crossposted, then we’re effectively just still using reddit. The point was to leave the platform because of the leadership, not kinda continue to half use it by proxy.

It’s a bandage that needs to be ripped off, not re-applied.

I don’t think there are any high quality discussions left to be had with the current suite of redditors.

E: I see you’re getting downvoted and that sucks - I for one appreciate our discussion.

Eliminate all bots.

Crossposts are useless because the communities are not interactive.

The strength of the Lemmy community in my opinion is the high quality of discussion, and there is no discussion to be had on reddit reposts when we are not having our content reposted onto reddit.

I’m so tired of reddit crossposts, they’re fucking useless.

No, I don’t feel foolish for having basically humanity’s entire music library available to me on a service.

When I used to pirate off SoulSeek I was a lot more limited in what I listened to, but Spotify is more than just a music service as it acts as a reliable way to discover new and old music to your liking.

Piracy is a service problem, and Spotify is a good service.

I like talking here more than reddit, because it doesn’t feel like being a drop in the ocean.

I’m sure people recognize me across instances for being a garbage shitposter. A smoothbrain, with cold takes.

I listen to alt rock, classic rock, blues and hip-hop. Definitely similar mixes.

I listen to a mix of classic rock, alt rock, blues and hip-hop and it gave me Bozeman as well.

Bozeman, Montana.

Fine with me, that’s where Zefram Cochrane launched the first human-built warp vessel.

If they were properly curated, they didn’t. It’s not like an admin from any other instance can delete duplicate communities from other instances.

Haha, I love this.

This is fucking hilarious. Installing it immediately.