i’m a quick learner, i just gotta pick up the UI and i’ll be moving through the ranks quicker than expected.
i suppose the emacs user providing an alternative meta for the meta dialogue is probably expected.
listen i just picked up this hobby ok, i just got started, i’m figuring it out. Give me a few months and i will be dominating the alt meta.
i remember when the earth first formed, nobody was prepared for it to become the most OP planet in the universe.
welp no more lemmy for texas i guess, lmao
there we go
i even included a non political one, though knowing web devs, they’re probably the ones that are downvoting me LMAO.
it’s pronounced the same in both examples, seems fine to me.
it’s weird because i could care less implies that you have a base level of knowledge that you wish you didn’t have. But it also means that you could also just, care less than you currently do now, i hate that phrase.
assuming we’re allowed to get political, the israel/palestine shit, there are people on the left that care way too fucking much, it’s the one issue they complain about and if it took them dissolving the entire US government structure and forced us to all starve they would do that, and then be really fucking bored when they realize they have nothing to be mad about anymore.
Little advice from me to you, doesn’t matter what your opinion is, or what it’s about. You probably care too much about it if you’re getting mad on the internet about it. Stop being mad on the internet about it, it quite literally has almost no effect on your life. You’re allowed to protest, and be unhappy about things, you’re allowed to challenge things in court, that’s all fine, but please stop calling people genocidal zionists, and aggressively insulting them, you’ve created a vile echo chamber not dissimilar to COD and league lobbies, and nobody wants to be compared to a league player.
assuming we’re not allowed to talk about politics, all of web dev, the entire field was a mistake and we should fucking start over, the web browser is literally turning into it’s own OS that runs on top of an OS. Why? I don’t know, great question. Have you ever wanted to run a bare metal operating system, and then run a virtual machine on it, and then run a software container inside that virtual machine, and then launch software inside that container on that virtual machine on that hardware? And then felt like you needed that software to have it’s own containerization and entire OS stack running inside of it? Yeah me neither. Why is that a thing we can do?
aside from that, every web app i have ever used is fucking awful, the networking fucking sucks, it’s all based on subscribing to the modern DNS and reverse proxy meta, which is fucking annoying for testing. And even more annoying if you don’t feel like paying for a fucking domain name if you want to host something privately. It’s super fucking restricted and just doesn’t work half the time? Like firefox and chrome webrtc don’t work together in my experience? It’s so insanely bloated that it’s a fucking nightmare to troubleshoot anything, and fixing certain problems sucks because the web doesn’t fucking want to use http anymore? Like fuck you it’s a static HTML page eat shit.
Mumble is quite literally one of my favorite pieces of software i have used, and it’s client is broken and has a memory leak. It just fucking works, it has it’s own security and cert handling, it runs natively on IPs which means it can also work over proxy networking trivially by just, setting that up separately, like a normal person. Or you could even just, not do that. It’s incredibly flexible and does basically everything you want from a voip app. The server is minimal and quick, bots are trivial to deal with. It’s all around a great platform.
i could see it being useful in an apartment block in a more direct sense, but outside of that im not really sure the utility in it.
ah yes a classic, the rich always get richer, and the poor always get poorer posting, they never get old.
yeah this is definitely a big concern with smaller instances, there are a couple of tricks to this general problem from what i’ve thought/seen of over time.
The obvious one is a democratic vote, literally just ask people in the instance, the second obvious one is to vet people in that instance specifically and personally. And if they cause problems just yeet em. You’re the dictator after all. The most common option is to have a decentralized moderation team made up from the general community, which is extremely common and generally works, though suffers from the opposite problem, ironically.
I think if i had to moderate a lemmy instance i’d probably do a mix of heavier vetting (although most of it would likely be after they initially joined, a vibe check i suppose. As well as just being a literal direct dictator, depending on the size i might have “chaos control” mods, just to keep goofy shit from happening while i’m away, or to provide some support, who knows. And naturally, i’d focus on community votes, i’d be curious what the community instance itself had to say.
at the very least there was discussion around it, like i said i ended up blocking that instance at some point.
checks out i suppose, dbzer0 does have a pretty minor registration check, but it’s not super overwhelming, and it aligns with my interests so meh.
yeah that makes sense, i think the problem with migrating normie users is that there isn’t quote the comprehensive explanation of things needed. A more thorough and complete overview would be required i think.
there are so many insurances that i don’t understand the point of, what am i going to do, accidentally blow up a place i rent? Seems like it’s not my problem.
American friend predictably says there’s a problem with “healthcare literacy” and that you just don’t have to pay the bills and they probably won’t chase it up. I don’t beleive that at all.
healthcare literacy is an understatement and i’m glad you quoted it, you literally have to be a full time lawyer reading through this shit with a career SPECIFICALLY in handling health insurance to be able to understand it. Outside of that you’re literally just guessing that it’ll work.
Maybe someday i or someone else can found a thing like “open healthcare” providing that information for free in a fully publicly accessible manner. Why it isn’t legislated, i don’t know.
idk, maybe im just fucking insane, but like, i can’t run the numbers for insurance to make sense.
Unless the courts are LITERALLY broken, or the entire society will collapse without the presence of insurance, i don’t think it makes much sense.
Healthcare maybe, if it worked, it doesn’t though. Life insurance is fucking stupid unless you work in an dangerous job and have a family, it might be useful then, but only when you die. Car insurance is only legally required because people driving cars can’t accept their own responsibility of owning a fucking car. (you could argue it’s for the public good, but lets be honest, it’s not) home/building insurance might make sense if you live in a suburban home and your contract doesn’t change, or like actually covers what it should.
There are more insurances but i feel like you’d be a fucking dumbass to even consider those. Insurance for your business? My brother in christ this is why we invented LLCs.
judging by your profile you probably know about e621, if not, go there.
Outside of that, i’ve been following comics and rolling archives for a few years now so i’ve done my stint. The tagging system is a huge boon, you just need to know how to correctly utilize it, it’s worth the time investment for image boards honestly.
Once you’ve figured out tagging really the best advice i can give is to find artists that you like, and follow them. There are usually a few artists that you will really enjoy. Images are by far and wide more accessible, that’s just how it goes. Sorting by favorites and upvotes is also generally beneficial.
you should 100% roll your own archive, it takes a long time to build up, but it’s very much worth the effort.
anyway, you know where to find me :) (we’re instance buddies)