Mane25

@Mane25@feddit.uk

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Mane25,

Is it not disgraceful that you have to use a trick so some third party company doesn’t install software you don’t want on your hardware? I think that’s appalling!

Mane25,

No judgement but here in the UK this is more like what we’d call a flan than a pizza or a pie. So instead of arguing about pizzas and pies, why not embrace a third category?

Mane25,

You can call anything a pizza if you want. It becomes a useful term if it’s commonly understood by your audience.

Mane25,

I’m more of a pizza than that bloody flan! :P

Mane25, (edited )

I would say a quiche /ˈkiːʃ/ requires eggs whereas a tart doesn’t (necessarily), and I have no idea what a key-tch-zah is, we don’t have them in the UK. A quiche is a type of tart though, yes.

Mane25,

I feel like I gently warned about this during the process, relying on an inactive admin always seemed like a bad idea. I hoped it was taken care of and that somebody else was assigned console access but no assurance was provided, no explanation as to what the actual situation was, so I left here for another instance. Turns out my fears were true and I’m glad I didn’t waste any more time here.

I have no idea why folk were so eager for Tom to turn back up again, why that was a source of any delay, or any reason to change plans for “Quackhouse” once they were in advanced stages.

I feel like all this has really crushed what was a promising UK community on Lemmy, a double-blow now, and I hope any new instance that appears is well and truly distanced from this one.

Mane25,

Unfortunately, in case you’re unfamiliar with UK politics, making life as miserable as possible is the whole government’s thing at the moment and the majority don’t support them. Please do not call us stupid fucks though, we are their victims, perhaps figure out how to send help, get us invaded, anything to get rid of them.

Mane25,

Do we have to only do it one day a year?

Mane25,

How could Brexit have gone better? Open borders, customs union, staying in the single market.

Mane25,

Yes. I never claimed it was better than staying, I said right there “brexit was a bad idea but” - it was always going to be worse than staying but it didn’t need to be the unmitigated disaster that it was - that was the government’s fault.

Mane25,

Hmm, I have mixed feelings about this, honestly, I’m not going to grumble too much because I’m not the one putting in the work - but it felt like a bit of a let-down that all this happened in the first place, and it felt like a fresh start was needed to move on.

Mane25,

I already moved 25 days ago when it became clear it was abandoned. The decision is whether to come back, I hoped I would despite my small complaint, but your comment isn’t exactly making me feel any warmer here…

Mane25, (edited )

I don’t want to say anything inflammatory since something terrible might have happened to Tom that we don’t know - but it’s definitely not OK to start a community like this, get everyone on-board and established, then fail to appoint admins and disappear without explanation (even if busy) leaving other people to pick up the pieces, unless there’s a very good reason.

And to be honest I’m surprised I seem to be the only one saying that - maybe an explanation from him (if appropriate to share) would smooth things over. I was genuinely excited about the new instance as an opportunity for the UK communities on Lemmy to put a bad situation behind us and move on.

Mane25,

It’s also not best security practice to leave an inactive user with admin powers which still seems to be the case here.

Fedxit: Migrating to a new instance

Sooo if you skim the previous posts on here, you’ll know that Feddit.uk’s only Admin (@tom) has been missing for a couple of months and in that time we were defederated by lemmy.world (although we’re back now) and we are one upgrade behind (just a minor fix) with one much bigger one whistling down the pipeline that may...

Mane25,

Thanks to all the people working on saving the day! I’ve taken a break from the instance for the time being because of the uncertainty but looking forward to, hopefully, joining you on wave 3.

Mane25,

Oh really, for no apparent reason?

I’m 100% on board with instances blocking who they like, but I really think it should be more transparent than that. If we’re blocked, we should at least get a message that we’re blocked when trying to post…

Mane25,

It’s not an ad-blocker, it’s a wide-spectrum content blocker which is necessary for security.

Mane25,

If you’re talking ethics, I think the most important thing is that the user controls what their software does. YouTube videos are hosted on the web, and fundamentally people can choose how to display web sites on their own computer. Of course, if YouTube doesn’t like this it’s their prerogative to not host their content like that.

Mane25,

If it were a new platform and somebody wanted to try that I’d at least watch what happens, but Musk has burned through too much credability.

Mane25,

Almost nobody, it’s not meant to be a daily meal, more like once a week or so as a treat.

Mane25,

I don’t agree with you that small instances lead to poorer quality, if anything there’s a better sence of community in a small forum.

I’d rather have more in common with old style unfederated forums than big social media.

Mane25,

Just be sure to verify that source because it makes up sources as well.

Mane25,

You don’t have to reveal your gender on here.

Mane25,

What does “cloudflare so who cares lol” mean exactly?

Cloudflare is so good that you don’t even have to care about your privacy because they’ve got it covered?

or

Nobody who uses Cloudflare would care about privacy, and for some reason that’s worthy of a “lol”?

or what?

Mane25,

Not exactly, no, but a website can’t reasonably be expected to cover everything and that wouldn’t be desirable either.

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