I like to ask people if they have a hyperbolic self-pity phrase they repeat to themselves for pleasure and comfort. One writer told me his phrase is, “You’re minor.” Another...
I am still learning this whole thing and I ended up creating accounts here and on Mastodon. Is that necessary or do I automatically have a Mastodon username with my Lemmy? I used the same stuff on both accounts, can I merge them or something?
I keep them separate -- I don't like a single point of failure, and we're all so early on the fediverse stuff that I'm sure a few servers and services will implode in the near future before things settle down. Would be a real hassle to have everything attached to a single account.
Solipsism in particular, and radically skeptical positions generally, are almost universally rejected by experts in the field and professional philosophers.
I'm pessimistic that this will actually change much, or drive users to Mastodon. Just like, as much as I've been loving my time with Kbin/Lemmy, I don't think people are ever going to leave Reddit. Most people appear to have a way, WAY higher bullshit tolerance than I do. It's sad. The old guard are unusable, and the new options are withering on the vine.
Data on search engine market share is available, but I wonder what that looks like for Lemmy users in particular, who I would assume lean more technical than the average user, so probably use DuckDuckGo and alternates more than Google....
I'm also a Kagi user, and it's completely replaced Google for me for everything except the occasional image search. It's awesome, and I consider it worth the price.
I think this post is the most important thing that all these "Why would you block Meta?! They're a huge source of potential growth!!" people don't understand -- who cares about growth? This "growth and user counts are the only metric that matter" mindset is exactly why we all fucking loathe Facebook/Meta/etc. That exact attitude is what makes them so despicable.
My reading of the poem has generally been that the speaker is looking over a river at night under the full moon, and remembering happier times spent there some time in the past — the “laughter of dead showers” are part of the “passionate pale-lit hours” that encompass wood and lea. Perhaps the dead showers (dead because they are in an unrecoverable past moment) are laughing as part of a cheerful memory of being caught in the rain with someone else.
In the second stanza, the tone turns colder, and the excited, anticipatory, summer-like imagery gives way to a bleak and silent December as the dawn comes. It seems to be a “times were happier once, but all that is gone now” poem.
This matches up with the context in which the poem was written — this is a war poem by a young man who died in the trenches of France during WWI, and he may have been looking out over a river that he’d once visited before in better days.
The 90s Developer Starter Pack (retrocoding.net)
On Self-Pity: Go Eat Worms by Elisa Gabbert | Poetry Magazine (www.poetryfoundation.org)
I like to ask people if they have a hyperbolic self-pity phrase they repeat to themselves for pleasure and comfort. One writer told me his phrase is, “You’re minor.” Another...
Should I have separate Lemmy and Mastodon accounts?
I am still learning this whole thing and I ended up creating accounts here and on Mastodon. Is that necessary or do I automatically have a Mastodon username with my Lemmy? I used the same stuff on both accounts, can I merge them or something?
TIL about the philosophical concept of Solipsism: the only thing you can be truly sure exists is the Self. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
It's an extreme view, and not many professionals endorse it, but it is an interesting thought!
The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so (www.theverge.com)
Twitter content now behind login wall?
What's going on?
What search engine do you use?
Data on search engine market share is available, but I wonder what that looks like for Lemmy users in particular, who I would assume lean more technical than the average user, so probably use DuckDuckGo and alternates more than Google....
FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform (wedistribute.org)
Best news aggregator? Where do you get your news?
I used to use flipboard, then once I got hooked on Reddit I got lazy and just started getting all my news from there....
I Take Your T-Shirt to Bed Again by Amy Lemmon
And by now it has almost lost its scent---...
The Afterlife by Lynn Sharon Schwartz
I think about this one a lot....
Clair de Lune by Roland Leighton
Hard to say what the best way is to typeset this in markdown -- but below is a poem I dearly love, by World War I poet Roland Leighton as a test....