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yote_zip, 5 months ago

The real problem is that everyone is using the “All” tab as a content feed. Ideally everyone would subscribe to communities and then they wouldn’t have to worry about seeing things they don’t want to see. Lemmy needs to be bigger before we can break that anti-pattern.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

Thanks to Wander as well, especially for trying to get conversation going at the start (and then probably burning out). It’s a bit dead on Lemmy, and I’m not super happy that the furry section isn’t doing well compared to Mastodon. TBH, I wouldn’t really even consider myself part of the “furry community” given I don’t exist anywhere else - I’m just active because no one else is. Sooner or later I hope Lemmy gets a little bit more crowded so it’s more effortless.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

I feel like it would be better as a toggle in the settings? I wonder if they envision it as something that’s always enabled for everyone in the future.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

No tokens this time, but I’ve been going through my bookmarks and almost all of them are freeload, even those that have more than 3 seeds. Not sure if this is because more people snatched them after the event began, but I’m taking advantage either way. This is a good time to increase your seedbase size if you struggle with ratio on RED.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

That cheetah knows something.

https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/64dc872d-9354-48d4-bf2f-455109407ab2.jpeg

yote_zip, 5 months ago

Semi-related, can these automations really be relied upon for quality, or is there a system to help find the best copy? When I’m downloading books I do it manually through Anna’s Archive and I always download as many unique versions of a book that I see, then open them all and compare their internals to see which one I keep. Often not many ebooks are suitable for using my own font and layouts with Koreader.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

Looks good. I’m opinionated on the asset allocations but it makes sense not to put some of those biases in for an overview. I’m very surprised that the Bogleheads wiki glosses over bond allocation with “age in bonds” and a small note that this is “conservative”, which is quite an understatement - starting your investment plan with 20% bonds at age 20 is throwing money away.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

Not just any typhlosion that looks to be the coolest motherfucker I’ve ever seen.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

Arch should be fine for university stuff. The main problem with Arch is not Arch itself, but all the software it tracks being very fresh. You’ll be pulling updates as they come down the line, and that may result in temporary bugs or day-to-day workflow changes - caused by the software developers themselves. I don’t think an Arch system is unusually unstable or prone to breaking, but last year they did brick everyone’s GRUB loaders by pushing an update too early (post-mortem here). It’s up to you, but if you want to err on the side of system/software stability I would go for Mint/OpenSUSE Tumbleweed/Debian.

I don’t have any practical experience with EndeavourOS but TMK it’s just preconfigured Arch and it uses the default repos, so that sounds good to me. Vanilla Arch is not inherently better or worse, it’s just a more minimal starting point.

yote_zip, 5 months ago

I don’t remember exactly. I read a lot of books about dragons and werewolves as a kid, and I eventually found the VCL board through internet osmosis. I imagine nowadays it’s a lot less confusing to get started.

yote_zip, 6 months ago

Your inbox has an RSS feed that you can hook up to whatever RSS reader you want. Personally I let my Android app watch for notifications every 30 mins, and then KDE Connect will mirror that notification onto my PC when my phone dings.

yote_zip, 6 months ago

The app I use (Eternity) has options for 15/30/60/etc mins. You can theoretically get notifications every second if you set up your own RSS reader to check that quickly (though be considerate of your instance’s resources). Before I settled on my current solution I had an RSS reader check every so often and ding a desktop notification when it found something. I use 30 minutes because if I’m using Lemmy I’ll see the notification alert anyway, and if I’m away from Lemmy I don’t want to be notified potentially every 15 minutes when people keep replying.

yote_zip, 6 months ago

I use FreshRSS on desktop (web client from my self-hosted instance), and Readrops on Android (synced to my FreshRSS). For Lemmy notifications specifically you’ll likely want a dedicated client that is noisy. I was using Brief for this task temporarily, with only one RSS feed loaded and having it set to delete all but the latest message.

yote_zip, 6 months ago

Not very surprising to lose users after the big intake from June. If that were the only intake we’d ever get I would be worried but we all know that Reddit will continue to do user-hostile things. Lemmy now exists as a permanent lifeboat for those who get fed up with Reddit over time, and the next time something big happens we’ll be better prepared.

yote_zip, 6 months ago

These will probably need to grow naturally again. We have enough techy users to carry tech-related discussions, but we probably don’t have enough users to carry niche communities yet. By gaining more users of any kind, techy or otherwise, we have better odds of gaining people with a secondary interest in those niche communities. It’ll take some time, but the Fediverse is much more permanent, and investments here will pay off theoretically forever. Even if another open platform supersedes Lemmy, it will be easy to port our community over to it.

yote_zip, 6 months ago

This actually happens a lot. It’s sort of an inside joke in the fandom as a result. Anti-furry people spend a lot of time consuming fandom material to get e.g. cringe compilation material, and prolonged exposure eventually gets them interested or dulls their prejudice.

yote_zip, 6 months ago

The readme links to this one. It will automatically update after manual installation.

yote_zip, 6 months ago

Well it’s an interesting idea. People already are animals just as giraffes or elephants, we’re just a different species - but still we are part of the Animal kingdom. So in a way, people ARE furry from birth, in having intrinsic animal-like qualities.

I think the draw is a lot deeper especially when contrasted against people who don’t consider themselves furry. The idea that a person “doesn’t feel like they had a choice in the matter of being furry” is actually very common, and I can vouch for that feeling as well. Luckily I don’t mind that part of me. I wonder how people that reject it feel about themselves - I suspect a lot of the loudest anti-furry people fall into this category, similar to the self-hating LGBTQ+ right-wing.

It’s odd that most furry costumes basically look alike - I mean, basically with big eyes and ears and big mouths

This is mostly a matter of practicality and logistics from my understanding. Even with giant eyes it’s difficult to see out of them, and the big mouths probably need to be matched to the eye size so it doesn’t look bizarre. The full head itself also needs to be big enough to fit over a regular human head. I don’t think everyone intentionally wants the costumes to look like they do, but there’s probably a handful of factors preventing more realistic costumes from being common, like cost increases for custom designs. I’m not really into the fursuiting part (many aren’t), so this is just secondhand info.

It looks like fun - except aren’t the costumes kind of hot after awhile?

From my understanding, they get very very hot. I think the main reason people get them is to have fun goofing off at cons or doing photo op stuff. They cost upwards of 3-4k IIRC and they’re handmade, so it’s probably something you have to wear carefully.