Zero22xx

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)

Nice, thank you very much! I'll definitely be checking it out. As long as I can access these forums or something similar with decent activity and users, I'll be happy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago) (3 children)

Yeah I chose the most populated instance there to create an account and check things out. But the app kind of stopped my exploration dead. It's a little barebones right now for my tastes right now, especially as far as customisation goes. And I'd be spending more time there than in front of my laptop.

Right now I think the only features that I'm really missing here on Lemmy itself are posting to your own profile and multicommunities.

And it would be great if instances like Blåhaj could enforce their own rules regarding things like downvotes properly, so that they could be disabled there for EVERYONE but enabled in places that still allow downvotes (this should go for individual communities too). The current implementation seems a little like an afterthought on the Lemmy devs' part.

Edit: the biggest problem that I can see so far with excluding Blåhaj users from even seeing downvotes is that it gives an incorrect perception of things. If a bigot gets 2 upvotes and 20 downvotes, I'll only see the 2 upvotes.

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Mbin support? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

I hope this isn't a question that's already been asked to death, in app search for "mbin" isn't all that helpful.

I'm still in the stages of looking for a permanent home here in the fediverse. So far mbin has really caught my eye because it's basically Lemmy+ for all intents and purposes (at least for mine). I'm not all that happy with what looks like the only Android app though.

So I was wondering if there were any plans to add mbin functionality to any existing Lemmy apps? Even if I used a Lemmy app solely for the 'Threads' or Lemmy section of mbin, then used the web page or only mbin app for everything else, I would be fine with that.

I tried to see if I could sign in with the app that I'm currently using (Eternity), with the kbin.earth instance and no luck. So obviously the API is just that much different.

Are any devs here thinking of expanding their apps in future? Or is there one I've missed? I've seen more than one app with the description "For Lemmy and the Fediverse", but what exactly is meant by "and the Fediverse" is unclear.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Next step: political adverts that quiz you on what you've just heard and repeat each segment if you get the answer wrong.

Just kidding though (or am I). This is truly some dystopian shit. My first reaction was what the actual fuck. And I bet you that their numbers aren't really going to hurt that much because of this. Mark my words.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Doesn't have the same vibes though. To me 'normie' has always been a little bit of an insult on top of just describing the 'average person'. "Average person" is for when you're describing statistics. "Normie" is for when you're describing people that clutch their pearls and their bible when a goth walks past.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Haven't watched yet but just want to say fuck TNA emails. Ages ago I looked into whatever their streaming service was at the time and since then I've been getting emails that I'm too lazy to unsubscribe from. Well this morning, I didn't even have to open the email because it was the first two sentences that showed up in my notifications saying "New Champion: do you believe?" So I guess I don't have to watch the main event anymore, thanks TNA.

Even if I wanted to emails and excitedly read every one of them, it's a bit fucked to be sending out spoilers literally hours after the show, especially when half their viewers are spread out in different timezones across the world. If I was a TNA+ subscriber, I would want these emails. And then I'd be really fucking pissed for spending my money just to have these idiots emailing me the results before I've even watched.

Anyway, I'll probably be back here later to drop my thoughts. Thankfully I'm not that interested in the world title scene right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I use "normie" occasionally and it kinda makes me feel like le edgy teen. But the problem is that I'm not sure if there's another word that quite replaces it either. Sometimes it's the only word that works in a particular context.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

I'm a few days late for this AMA, I apologize. I actually asked on the Reddit sub ages ago if SubSimGPT2Interactive was going to be here (and it would've been a deciding factor in me coming here sooner at that point). At that point I got a maybe but don't remember ever seeing any announcement.

Anyway, I got banned from Reddit and can now join that Hall of Fame along with the likes of AgentSmithGPT2 and PabloBot. I was pretty excited when I saw the sub / community here, then sad and disappointed when I saw that it's kinda dead. Probably moving to mbin soon but will still definitely subscribe to it from there, just in case.

And for anyone passing by that doesn't know SubSimGPT2Interactive on Reddit, these aren't the evil type of GPT bot, these are just cute and demented and primitive and fun, and usually require a degree of roleplaying to make sense of in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Apologies for the second reply. Just wanted to say that I checked out mbin and it's probably more up my alley personally.

But, I still have a barely used Facebook account because a lot of people in my country are still on it. And I'm going to see if the rumours are true and try to spread the news about Friendica there, hopefully without my post getting removed or account being banned.

And if / when people from there give Friendica a shot, then I'll give it a proper shot too with them. It'll just be used for different things than what I use Lemmy for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Basically I would be spending much more time in Lemmy communities, and I thought Friendica could be something extra on top to supplement it.

So I would like to be able to browse instances and communities and choose what I want to see and participate in. Either by subscribing or curating a feed or two. I don't see an obvious way to do this from Friendica yet. It seems like here I need to scroll through a pre existing feed and curate it from there.

But please bear in mind, I haven't explored extensively yet or read the link you shared earlier, although I have saved that post so that I can get back to it later in my day.

And another small thing for me (that can be easily fixed by styles and apps) is no apparent dark mode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (5 children)

Made a quick account there to check things out and not sure if it's entirely the right fit for the particular use case I had in mind. It's very much inspired by Facebook obviously, which I was expecting but from what I can tell from a quick look, not the kind of Lemmy integration I was hoping for or imagining.

I'm going to keep an eye on this place though, so that I can start encouraging friends and family to join once it's easy and attractive (in terms of content) for anyone to join.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (9 children)

Maybe I should ask here. The reason I'm here is because I'm looking for answers to this. As far as the integration with Lemmy goes, how does it work? Is there a 'Friendica' instance that anyone using that platform would be posting and interacting from? And in that case, does it play nicely with the other instances?

I'm pretty new here, probably moving to another instance at some point anyway. And I've been thinking of looking into these multi purpose platforms that play nicely with others. Because why not have more features and tools to play with, even if I don't use half of them. It might also fill in nicely for features that are missing here like multicommunities and posting to your own profile.

Also heard of mbin, although an in app search for something like "mbin" seems pretty useless here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

~~You just made me check a post I made yesterday for the app I'm using, to report a couple of bugs. Looking at the page for the Eternity app in a signed out lemmy.world instance and sorting by new, my post appears to not be there indeed.~~

Edit: resolved super quickly

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Editing and changing this entire post because that was a bit much, even for an anonymous account on a really cool and friendly server. And I'm sorry to anyone I cursed with my story. That was my first time really opening the flood gates and letting it all out but now that I got that out my system, there's a time and place.

I've decided that my online home is probably going to end up being an mbin server. I'm liking the idea of the microblogging section as a space to put my random thoughts that don't have a place anywhere in any communities out into the universe. I used to use posting to my own profile on Reddit for this purpose.

Probably going to finally retire my online handle and go with another as well. But I'll definitely be subscribed and spending a lot of time lurking at the very least in Blåhaj communities. So I just hope that there's no trouble between any mbin servers and lemmy servers and that I choose wisely.

Edit: the only problem with this idea so far is that the Android app, apparently the only Android app, kinda sucks. Bad enough to make me reconsider this and keep looking.

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