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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I kept getting random lemmynsfw posts showing up in my subscribed feeds despite not being subscribed to the instance or the communities, some of which were really… specific.

    My workaround was blocking the instance Edit: Whelp, that didn’t work. Guess I’m not browsing Lemmy on the bus today. Edit 2: Setting my default view away from and back to subscribed sems to have solved it. Edit 3: It was not solved, i found out on the bus…

    As I’m browsing Lemmy on public transport to and from work I’m not interested in this type of content showing up in my feed, and even if I was I was not the target audience for the communities showing up.


  • While I agree with this sentiment, some places are easier to just avoid, be it Reddit, x, or wherever.

    If you go on a tankie instance to discuss the finer points of day trading, you’re gonna have a bad time, and might be better off going somewhere else, provided they don’t ban you.

    Personally I just block annoyances and move on, no point in me getting upset at people spamming in German in English communities, and I’ve got no interest in interacting with it.





  • I only show communities I’m subscribed to explicitly in my feed. I also block users like it’s going out of fashion.

    Anyone spamming things I don’t care for in my feed, trolls, rage baters, or just people posting shit I have no desire to interact with our think about on the regular.

    I’m using Lemmy mainly as an aggregator for memes, cat pictures, sci-fi, comics, and the likes, and like to be able to browse it on the bus or similar without worrying about what might show up.

    If it’s not for me, I’m most likely in the wrong community. If that’s not the case I just block the poster. Nothing personal, it just doesn’t jive with my desired experience for any number of reasons, so I just block it, ignore it, and move on.

    Lemmy is for everyone, and I can’t expect all of them to want the same out of it as me, so I can’t, won’t, and shouldn’t do anything else about it.



  • Some games require more than just the files on disk, at least with older games, they set some properties in the registry or some such. How gog or heroic get around it I don’t know, but ah actual installer is guaranteed to give the same result every time.

    For most people with stable internet and using the launcher this isn’t really an issue, but I imagine someone rural, on the ISS, part of the Atlantis expedition, or what have you, would enjoy to have a surefire way of getting their heroes 3 up and running

    Not a use case for everyone, but for some it’s invaluable.