Why is the curved handle hanging from the fixations? Where it on top and there wouldn’t be the risk of falling due to the screw failing. Right?

I can think of lots of other use cases:

• Do asymmetric pull ups (as long as you compensate by doing the reverse next time)
• Try to do it with one hand (or with the help of the other arm grabbing your wrist)
• Jump from one grip to another
• Sit on top of it to have a better view of the gym
• Hang your coat or your hat
• Fix that to the back of a box with a weal and you have a nice wheelbarrow

Seriously: yes, there are differences. The reason it is easier to do with your palms facing your face is because you have a better help from your biceps, I think. So you’re exercising less your lats. But there is no “form worst to better” - want to train your lats, use supinated grip, not enough strength yet? Do negative, do some with a pronated grip…

Went ahead and watched it. It’s great. Thanks.

It’s a good analogy as well. Others have suggested “home” - it’s a good alternative.

That’s another issue I have: Maybe that could be resolved by implementing something similar to (or exactly) openid.

I feel the software we choose might limits us on the kind of thing we’re interested in, that’s why I have to have a lemmy account - I wouldn’t have a discussion like this one on mastodon, for example - and a mastodon account. Maybe a pixelfed account, a peertube account… what a mess! But that’s a subject for another discussion (this discussion was “Permanently Deleted”?!).

Sorry, I misunderstood you, then. :-)

@julesbl@mastodon.me.uk argues that this has been tried and failed here.

You might be right about being able to do almost anything whatever the instance you choose, as long as you already figured it all out, but having an account at a lemmy server, and two at two different mastodon servers, I do have the feeling that the presence on any of them is a different experience.

Don’t forget that what most people’s experience on the fediverse comes probably via mastodon and that they start by getting most of their content via home and local feeds. Federated comes third, i guess.

I am still struggling to find content on some of my preferred topics…

Thanks for the guide.

And the term would reinforce the need do stick to that entity rules. I agree.

That’s what I was thinking about.

I have to acknowledge the point @otter@lemmy.ca makes about there being a collision with the term “community” in the threadiverse perspective. Maybe “home” or even “tribe” or “people” would be a better fit. But I still do think that “community” encompasses the feeling best, and that collision will be promptly resolved once the user understands what communities really are on that narrower scope.

That’s maybe a compromise we will (have to | want to) make.

Once again - that’s my feeling, but I could be wrong.

The evolution of trust

I’ll try the decline bech press. Lets see…

I did try to pay attention to those details and… no change. Except for the arched back… maybe I should look into that a little bit more.

Thanks

Wasn’t there something already close to this? “OpenId”?..

Just stumbled upon this: https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/social-web-foundation-is-betting-big-on-client-to-server-api/

Let’s just hope…

Couldn’t IpenId fulfill this need? Do we really need to reinvent the wheel?

I wouldn’t mind having my identity just be a hash (of username@domain and some salt, for example) and have all other fediverse servers use that to authenticate and authorize me but display the username, logo, bio, etc that I had registered on that domain.

Maybe let me overide some information for context per site or inherit from the original id provider.

Then I could be known as FatFingersJoe at the guitar players site where I’m learning scales and SenseiJoe at the karate forum for my dojo. :-D

,or maybe I’m just missunderstanding this fediverse thing alltoguether! :-/

What I allways felt we needed was a federated identity system. Then all posts on a platform could just be followed on any other platform.

Now, joe@one.site has to create a separate account on other.site, but joe@other.site is already taken, so he has to go with doe@other.site and resort to solutions like this one to post to several locations at once.

What I whould suggest is to just create some kind of federated identity provider so that Joe can just be joe@joe.site and post on one.site, other.site or whatever.site he wants and have his posts federate magicaly throughout the fediverse.

Of course, moderation would have to be based more on user accounts than on nodes, I gess…

Wasn’t there something already close to this? “OpenId”?..

Getting back just to say: I read the study and it’s probably not what my previous sarcasm was all about.

But the question remains… like @tomkatt@tomkatt@lemmy.world said - it’s very difficult to disentangle causality.

There’s a few on F-Droid.

Let’s just help this guy.

Here’s one I trust: FitNotes

Like @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al said, there are several.

That’s one possibility, yes. My gut feeling goes like this:

If you’ve been training without for as long as you can remenber and having or not having such a device has zero effect, you’re the adult in the room and this is not about you.

There’s allways the guy who liked the colour. That’s not about him either.

If you bought one to help you keep going, I’m afraid it will help you as long it is a novelty, data is a novelty, your “network” is a novelty… Past that and the efect will vanish like hot water cooling. A trick that might help is to get someone you care about to share your progresses and achievements (the data) like a nice training partner or a family member, or someone with the same desiese as you if that’s the unfortunate case.

If you’re really excited about your workouts and bought one to help you even more, I’m afraid you’ll realize the novelty efect will wain down as you get to know your mesurements by heart as well or predict them sometimes more acurately than the device. The exceptions are professionals - those don’t count here.

If your trainer made you buy one but he’s not looking at the weights yout lift or counting the reps and couldn’t care less about the records, but he’s counting very closely and keeping track of how much time you’re spending in that particular hart rate zone or other seemingly weird mesurements, you’re golden. Don’t (or do, rather, in the positive way) question the need for such a thing, never leave that guy (or girl), never miss a session.

All of it. Of course!