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Cake day: July 26th, 2024

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  • Yikes, this god damn timeline.

    Needless to say, you’re literally better off coming to the fediverse and talking to us than talking to an AI about thoughts of suicide. He had a therapist, he should have trusted them over some snake oil sold for the investment class. If you, yourself, need help, make sure to treat yourself well and find someone real to talk to instead of fake bots.

    Bah, the fact that the AI helped push him toward suicide instead of away from it shows just how misanthropic this whole tech space is. Needless deaths, needless thefts and an immeasurable pile of grief as we walk a circuit guided path to a dark inhumane future. RIP


  • I’ve not see anything but hand wavy “add a layer of clear coat” for sealing.

    Hmm, maybe I’m mistaken but is this not pretty sound advice? Or is the implication that you want this paint job to be matte and coarse (in which case, clear coat to start and perhaps sanding after a few paint coats?)

    Otherwise, I wish I could help, I don’t have much experience printing PLA.


  • The amount of furry / anime content on the front page might be putting off some new users

    I don’t see this on mine. Isn’t NSFW enabled by default?

    This is why I don’t generally believe in all being a good “starting” view for new users. Local would probably make more sense until the user has subscriptions, and then defaulting to subscriptions once the user has joined communities. This would mean an always active feed to start, prioritizing the “local” community for users to participate in the instance they belong to, while also not bombarding them with content from the firehose.

    My 2 cents, probably easier to say what to do than to do it though, being a programmer myself. 😎


  • Needing more users is fine. Sure, we could always use more friends (or enemies, I guess)

    But, ultimately, just having people come here first and then whatever hellhole corpo-media second is at least a step in the right direction. I feel like user activity increasing is a good sign that there’s a lot of people out there investing time in the fediverse instead of the corporate hell-loop social media.



  • While LOLA is great, I’d really love an established handshake mechanism for having two accounts on two bespoke services represent the same user.

    For example, I want to have a pixel fed and mastodon presence that can be authored between the two. However, you currently can’t make two accounts that are effectively linked to each other. I feel like this linking is important for further decentralizing the fediverse (by effectively decentralizing the user itself)







  • Active is basically like old forum logic, where new comments will bump it up back to the top. Scaled is my go to view first as it does a pretty good job balancing out communities of widely different sizes, so smaller communities that you’re subbed to have a chance of having their post be seen if it’s new and larger in upvoter count.


  • Hot take: the biggest issue is actually ever entering a community and seeing zero comments. Most reddit addiction stems from wanting to read comments, so I think people should add a comment to something if they’re upvoting and they see that the thread has zero comments.

    Nothing eliminates enthusiasm like seeing 0 comments on every post in a community, especially if that community is driven by bots.