kopper [they/them]

epic megapost

(talking about microblog fedi here, Lemmy/threadiverse is it’s own thing)

don’t do hashtags. hashtags (especially common ones like #memes) are overrun by repost bots and low quality garbage.

the trick is to be on a small-to-medium instance you vibe with (1k active users seems to be the sweet spot. anything larger than 2k I’d avoid. do NOT join any flagship instances like mastodon.social), follow fun people from your local timeline, and see who they boost. and follow up the boost chain until your timeline is sufficiently fun.

so, are you paying for it?

git commit -m $(date)

I’m mildly worried I know (as in, am aware of their existence, thankfully not having interacted with them) who you’re talking about

well I just checked and while “sync contacts” did not turn itself on, “allow contacts to add me” did. there’s definitely something going on

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

TLDR of linked gist: wayland is not X therefore it is bad. end of.

Wayland breaks Xclip: As you said it yourself, Xclip is an X11 application, so it doesn’t work on Wayland. Of course it wouldn’t work on Wayland. With Wayland, we’re trying to prevent what happened with Xorg from happening again, or am I wrong?

also, https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard. perhaps all OP (of gist) needs is a simple shim that can convert calls to xclip to wl-copy/paste? that doesn’t seem too hard to make compared to keeping X.org alive I’d say (perhaps they should try making it if it’s that much of a problem)

Wayland breaks screensavers: Yeah, that seems to be the case.

from the dev of xscreensaver at https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/ :

[…] Adding screen savers to Wayland is not simply a matter of “port the XScreenSaver daemon”, because under the Wayland model, screen blanking and locking should not be a third-party user-space app; much of the logic must be embedded into the display manager itself. This is a good thing! It is a better model than what we have under X11. […]

[…] Under X11, you run XScreenSaver, which is a user-space program that tries really hard to keep the screen locked and never crash. It is very good at this, but that it needs to try so hard in the first place is a fundamental design flaw of X11. […]

other people can comment on the parts they know about, these are two i know of off the top of my head

I imagine infinite scrolling would be much easier on the server (and overall less janky with less repeated posts) and therefore more likely to be added after 0.19.x due to the switch to cursor-based pagination. That said Lemmy devs may or may not be against something like that on the default frontend due to well being reasons (unsure on where they stand on this tbf)

That said, custom frontends do exist and I assume there has to be at least one out there that already supports it (and isn’t mobile only)

I swear fossbros lose reading comprehension skills faster than Tumblr once you ask for any kind of software recommendations

In Logseq, everything is a nested list. This feels like a limitation, but I’ve been preferring it. The decision is made for you: you’re going to jot this information down as a list. So then you just start writing it.

Oh - this sounds interesting.

Whenever I needed to jot down any notes I've been finding myself just writing plain .txt files with bullet points, and trying tools like Obsidian or TiddlyWiki I always ended up being overwhelmed with the amount of stuff I could do (and with all the customization options) that I never got around to actually writing things down. I'm definitely gonna look into how Logseq works.

(Although I have to say, their website does look a bit "too hype-y" for my liking. IDK how to explain it, just a gut feeling. Still, at least it's FOSS so it can't be too bad)

Oh no it'll federate alright.

The thing about ATProto is that unlike AP they don't seem to expect each instance to have it's own community with it's own rules and vibes. They seem to be using federation just as a way to "scale up".

If they can get any non-bluesky-the-company folk to create instances then that's just scaling they don't have to pay for and a convenient legal scapegoat for the inevitable consequences of their lax moderation. Why wouldn't they federate?

I imagine the most “ideal” outcome would be “whatever link the default webui shows as the fediverse link (the colorful icon on all posts / comments)”, as that’s the “canonical” link (technically, the ActivityPub ID, which is I think required to be a link as per the spec) of that specific post or comment.

It’d be the most accurate in terms of visibility (could be deleted by OP and the delete might not reach your instance), latest edits, vote counts, and replies for that specific thing, that said it’s definitely not as convenient as just copying the link in your URL bar and pasting it to wherever.

Also depending on the exact software running on an instance, that link may not point to a human readable page, but that’s a pretty rare edge case that even the most incomplete real life implementations I’m aware of handle reasonably well (even if it ends up doing a redirect)

Everyone complaining about only getting cringy content is really telling on themselves here lol

even in the deepest, darkest, secret-est parts of my soul i have no interest in any content (a) in Arabic and (b) of imams. i can’t even understand a word of Arabic and am not religious, yet apparently that was the most up to date profile tiktok had on me the last time i tried it out. (which was the 3rd time or so) and i even made an account and signed in.

the politics bullshit and lame facebook-grade memes were the “best” it could muster. as in, the only things i understood.

maybe it works better in an english speaking and not-religious-asf country.

idk why but i never got tiktok. the all-powerful mystical algorithm that hijacks your brain just didn’t work on me. it’s all politics bullshit and lame facebook memes.

hell, the fedi (both lemmy and the microblog-verse) has “wasted” more of my lifespan overall than tiktok.

those are custom emojis and for some godforsaken reason they’re implemented as inline markdown images and not as actual custom emojis the rest of the fedi had a standards extension/convention for years ago

I remember looking into it back when lemmynsfw was brand new and flooding all with un-nsfw’d porn and the devs seemed to be explicitly against giving mods the ability to edit posts, which NSFW tagging kinda falls under.

It should. However moving things around is difficult and will cause synchronization issues.

In most cases starting from scratch on a fresh subdomain is the best solution. ActivityPub is really finicky unfortunately.

You may be able to use images on the sidebar (not sure on the exact limitations of the sidebar markdown parser, but custom emoji work and they are treated as inline images)

including calligraphic alphanumerics.

Which will not cooperate with screen readers. Consider sticking with emoji.