

Yeah, why do considerate mods like OP have to wade in and tell others they can just block you? Wotta revoltin’ development. /s
I used to make comics. I know that because strangers would look at my work and immediately share their most excruciatingly banal experiences with me:
— that time a motorised wheelchair cut in front of them in the line at the supermarket;
— when the dentist pulled the wrong tooth and they tried to get a discount;
— eating off an apple and finding half a worm in it;
every anecdote rounded of with a triumphant “You should make a comic about that!”
Then I would take my 300 pages graphic novel out of their hands, both of us knowing full well they weren’t going to buy it, and I’d smile politely, “Yeah, sure. Someday.”
“Don’t try to cheat me out of my royalties when you publish it,” they would guffaw and walk away to grant comics creator status onto their next victim.
Nowadays I make work that feels even more truly like comics to me than that almost twenty years old graphic novel. Collage-y, abstract stuff that breaks all the rules just begging to be broken. Linear narrative is ashes settling in my trails, montage stretched thin and warping in new, interesting directions.
I teach comics techniques at a university level based in my current work. I even make an infrequent podcast talking to other avantgarde artists about their work in the same field.
Still, sometimes at night my subconscious whispers the truth in my ear: Nobody ever insists I turn their inane bullshit nonevents into comics these days, and while I am a happier, more balanced person as a result of that, I guess that means I don’t make comics any longer after all.
Yeah, why do considerate mods like OP have to wade in and tell others they can just block you? Wotta revoltin’ development. /s
I’d add “report” to that advice. If somebody is outright being jerks, that is probably against your instance’s rules — and if it isn’t, there are plenty others to choose from.
Blocking helps you, but reporting people (or instances) that are just here to troll will help others.
I’d completely forgotten about those. Can we bring back “the right to air gap”?
+1 re WiFi. As I recall, with older laptops you may have to dig around to find some WiFi drivers for Debian — but they’re most likely there, just not in the default repo.
Something speciesist Flipper jokes something.
On a good day he’ll just redirect it to X. If he’s off his rocker on ketamine he might have it display a deepfake porn video of himself performing oral sex.
Because “Musk sucks”. That guy loves a dumb pun à la “let that sink in”.
FFS, our first verbal contact with nonhuman persons is going to cause a diplomatic crisis 🤦
Well, you can use/link a mastodon account if you already have one.
Yeah, that’s what I did. I meant the feature set gave me more possibilities than I could handle 😄
According to their documentation:
login with other Fediverse identity and import social graph
- supported servers: Mastodon/Pleroma/Firefish/GoToSocial/Pixelfed/friendica/Takahē
It’s pretty cool in that it allows cataloguing more media types than just books, so that’s a leg up over Bookwyrm. IIRC it also pulls item information from relevant (open API) databases, so you get the synopsis etc filled in?
For me starting a new account that also made it kind of overwhelming. I’ve never catalogued my books anywhere, so the possibility of doing that, and input watched film, TV shows, etc — suddenly my media habits turned into a bit of a chore 🙂
Oh, never actually tried Bookwyrm, but I’d expected it would have a social aspect as well? That seems like a lost opportunity.
[Edited to add:] Have you had a look at NeoDb? Also a tracker, but apparently with more social aspects —
users can share their collections, publish microblogs, and engage with others in the Fediverse
I only had superficial experience with NeoDb, so can’t say with certainty if a Lemmy community and threads for individual books may be better for you.
Yeah, I don’t know anything about the state of open Reddit endpoints. Seems they’re intent on closing down non-Google/Gemini access to some of them? 🤷
But if the /.rss
“hack” helps setting up a Lemmy bot or at least track the communities with a feed reader, that’s a small victory I guess?
You’d probably have to jump through several hoops to make that happen. Libreddit doesn’t offer any ActivityPub API to follow directly, or even RSS feeds that might be used by a bot to post updates to Lemmy.
What I take away from these testimonies is that, again, the people in charge show that they have little understanding of and zero respect for the skills and craft of creatives — and in this case also programmers. We always knew that, but it is next level offensiveness to demand that skilled professionals use a subpar technology to “generate” ideas, designs and code.
The art director who forgets all his learned process of idea development and instead just prompts Midjourney until he sees something he likes (but which his staff will have to backward engineer to make sense of) is a terrifying image of things to come. Fortunately I’m long out of the corporate creative treadmill.
[Edited to spell “Midjourney” as one word. This is my organic human accreditation 😄]
There truly is no spoon wrong thread 😂
Curated circlejerk 🧐
Lemmy won’t be tumblr, it will just federate with it 🙂 So I guess c/curatedtumblr will work even smoother when it becomes possible to just cross post over ActivityPub.
So, on the plus side that means they’ll be on the Fediverse soon.
On the negative, by now I fully expect Matt Mullenweg to flip out over some perceived slight or rivalry and ruin Tumblr for everybody 🤷
we’re trying to make a federated bittorrent tracker, in the short term as an emergency information preservation vessel to avoid a fascist memoryhole, in the long term as a merger between the lessons of the federated and pirate web:
- web: https://sciop.net/
- code: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop
- in re: @SafeguardingResearch@fedihum.org : https://safeguar.de/
- Safeguarding forum: https://forum.safeguar.de/
Dunno about you all, but I think “the lessons of the federated and pirate web” sounds intriguing at least.
Oh? 🤦 I’m sorry, I don’t see the error in Mbin (mobile browser view). Please let me know how I can fix it for other platforms.
Not really. They give some lip service to communist dogma, but they really only have a big hard on for totalitarianism.
It’s pretty absurd in 2025 to get high on late 1980s Comintern propaganda, but here they are 🤷