Dave

Dave, 16 days ago

The beautiful thing about decentralisation is that if an instance tries to as ads, then you can go to a different instance and see the same content.

If an instance creates as posts, your instance admin can block the whole instance.

Interestingly, the big instances seem to easily get enough donations to cover costs. I think that’s the great thing about this model, people are willing to donate when they know it’s not some big corporate making profit for shareholders.

Dave, 16 days ago

Yes this is what I do currently, however, there are two issues with this.

First, sure it will wake me up on Tuesday. But it will also wake me up the following Tuesday, and the one after that.

But secondly, the main problem is that I can’t set an alarm for Tuesday the 3rd of September, when I have something important that I don’t forget and that justifies a screaming alarm, but it’s not within the next week so choosing to repeat each Tuesday doesn’t work.

Dave, 16 days ago

It’s funny, this stuff was normal before smart phones. If you forgot to charge your phone (because you only had to do it every week or so, so you didn’t have a routine) then the alarm would still go off even if the battery died in the night.

We have some awesome new things that smart phones give us, but it’s not without compromise.

Dave, 16 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

I’m not OP and not trying to get things added to the list so don’t mind suggestions that don’t meet OP’s criteria, but I would prefer something open source if possible.

But now you mention it, I think I may have bought Sleep as Android many years ago, so I might still consider it. Thanks for the suggestion!

Dave, 15 days ago

Oh I remember those gestures when I had a Oneplus, I think it was a 3T.

For the clock, if I open my clock app and go to the clock screen it shows me the time with seconds. Or are you meaning in the notifications bar or lock screen?

Dave, 16 days ago

I had the same first impression! But unfortunately if you check the distribution map on the side of the wikipedia page, they basically only live on islands.

There’s also this snippet:

During routine maintenance work at Zealandia in late 2008, a tuatara nest was uncovered,[21] with a hatchling found the following autumn.[22] This is thought to be the first case of tuatara successfully breeding in the wild on New Zealand’s North Island in over 200 years.[21]

Since Zealandia is a fenced reserve (that has a specific tuatara enclosure within that reserve), it seems they are not very common on the mainland at all.

Dave, 15 days ago

Kbin still has that bug. Lemmy.world is actively throttling the number of activities it accepts from Kbin as if they don’t, they then federate these out to other servers and it impacts on the ability of those servers to keep up with the genuine Lemmy.world content.

Even with this throttling some are struggling to keep up.

Dave, 15 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

I like the idea of Sublinks for this reason. They wanted to create a Lemmy alternative, but they are maintaining Lemmy API compatibility. That way they build one piece at a time. The Lemmy frontend Tesseract was forked from Photon, and then became the Sublinks front end. But it’s still also a Lemmy frontend because they work with the same API structure.

In addition, Lemmy apps all work with Sublinks as well.

This way, they could focus on just the backend component, and rely on Lemmy components for the other pieces until they are able to get everything in house. Though they have a plan to keep Lemmy API compatibility, so there will always be this big pile of apps and web frontends that can be used with both.

Dave, 16 days ago

I’d guess it’s because unicycles are used in a much narrower range of circumstances. Few people are being hit by cars commuting to work on a unicycle, nor are there many mountain-unicyclists getting injured.

Dave, 16 days ago

You joke (I think?), but the people I know that do unicycling (including mountain-bike style unicycling, and unicycling Himalayan trails, and crazy stuff like that) do do an insane amount of training 😆

Dave, 15 days ago

This is probably another reason why unicycles are less dangerous. People I know that do mountain biking end up in hospital from time to time from coming off at speed, speed on most unicycles is probably a lot lower. Though I thought geared unicycles existed?

Dave, 16 days ago

Disappointing. Do they have a rescheduled time and date?

Dave, 16 days ago

Ah right, that makes sense. Thanks for the update 🙂

Dave, 15 days ago

Thanks! Also thanks to @d3Xt3r for the idea of doing a recap of the past year.

Dave, 15 days ago

Thanks! Coming to a cinema near you, just as soon as I can find a distributor 🙂

Dave, 15 days ago

Thanks for being here! It’s nice when people who joined in the first week or two are still around 🙂

Dave, 15 days ago

Thanks! Honestly, there is a lot of relying on other instance admins and tool developers to keep it all working. Without those connections there’s no way I would have been able to keep things working! Everything from the automod and the spam defence chat for letting other instances know about spam accounts, through to the federation batcher that handles issues with lemmy.world federation, and the cache cleaner that keeps the hard drive space managable, there is so much we rely on outside of Lemmy itself that I could never have developed myself!

I hope that others haven’t really noticed the spam. A significant portion is removed within a few minutes, I get occasional spam reports but only a small number compared to the amount of spam we (Lemmy as a whole) get.

Dave, 15 days ago

Thanks for being here, almost since the beginning!

Dave, 15 days ago

Thanks for being here!

Dave, 15 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

I think growing is both good and bad. As we (Lemmy as a whole) grows, the culture will inevitably change. The interesting thing will be to see if it starts to feel like mainstream platforms, or if it changes in new ways (good or bad).

But of course growth is needed so that we can support all the niche communities that everyone is missing. Plus it’s a little greedy if we hog the platforms that aren’t exploiting us all for ourselves.

It also didn’t take long for spammers to find it worth their while to have real people spamming on Lemmy. Current tools do OK, but they aren’t on the level of the tools the reddit and other mainstream sites have. I can’t imagine what it will be like if the number of spammers grows exponentially with the number of users, we will definitely need new tools.

Dave, 15 days ago

1 year really goes by fast, thanks Dave for keeping it going!

Thanks for being here!

I also enjoyed the effort we put in on the pixel canvas thing, I think we punched above our weight for the size of our userbase

For sure! The Canvas dev is hard at work on getting ready for a 2024 version as well, so we should see it again. No word on a date yet, but they promise at least 30 days notice to help spread the word, as last time it all came up quite quickly and many people across Lemmy didn’t realise it was happening.

Dave, 15 days ago

Oh shit I knew there was something I was supposed to do. Better get onto it this week.

Dave, 16 days ago

It’s a bit complicated, but Wikipedia covers it pretty decently.

Dave, 15 days ago

Unfortunately they don’t take requests for new subreddits anymore. In addition, they don’t mirror comments so in terms of answers to questions it’s probably not that helpful.