The standard web UI also needs major improvements. Nobody logs in through an app for their first time and first impressions are critical. It needs to be easier to navigate and use without downloading an app so people will stick around long enough to get involved and have a good time.
In the meantime there are some apps that “block” instances. Connect has it, but it doesn’t fully block the instance, more like it shows up in the feed with a content warning that the message is from a blocked instance and you can choose to view it if you want. I also do think lemm.ee will defederate from hexbear pretty soon. The admin has had personally horrendous experiences with their users and that meta thread about it was a dumpster fire of hexbear users making unrelated political comments and blocking the actual instance users from having a discussion. It got locked at almost 2000 comments so I’m sure he’s still digging through that toxic waste to make his decision.
LoglineAn accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the USS Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact other ships—allies and enemies alike....
I thought it was hilarious and works with their dishonor but I also wouldn’t have loved if they had been head banging to metal or going to town on some Klingon opera.
As heat waves get worse, air conditioning has come to feel like a must-have even in parts of the U.S. that historically haven’t needed it. Those who live in public housing are especially vulnerable to the heat — they’re not just low-income, but also disproportionately older, people of color, chronically ill and often...
The actual AC issue aside, I feel that this is a good argument for some urban redevelopment to plant more area/climate appropriate trees. It would provide shade and provide some offset for the CO2 emissions. Getting shade between the sun and the buildings would help make the heat more tolerable and getting some shade over the roadways and parking lots would help decrease urban heat bubble effects.
Oh no please anything but starting questions with Lemmings of Lemmy!
So I went hiking by myself on an old abandoned logging road once and got a little bit up there, pretty far away from the main road. I hadn’t noticed anything like bear poo but you have to always be on guard. Well eventually I got to a point where an animal didn’t like me being up there and started huffing and snorting at me. I turned and left because whatever it was, it was not happy. I never saw the animal but given the location and the noises I’m pretty sure it was a moose, and you definitely don’t want to get into it with an angry moose.
That link needs to be edited to add a ! To the beginning. It didn’t work as written and goes to an empty profile, but I will say I got a good laugh when I clicked on it because it has “null comments”
Interesting. Unless the community is actually totally empty and I’m misunderstanding what I’m seeing it doesn’t seem to be going to the right place for me but I’m trying it in the connect app.
Why does this have upvotes whilst the literal exact same comment immediately above it in my feed posted by another account has downvotes? I mean, come on. Also, like the replies to the other comment said, you can post links to important news if you would like to spread awareness. But I don’t think you will because you just want to complain about the libs owning MTG.
Edit: wait I just realized this is a reply to that comment and more I’m even more confused.
This both sides stuff is so disingenuous. One side is populated by centrists who generally want to mostly do the right thing, occasionally being cruddy because they’re too conservative to do the hard things to improve the world. The other side is populated by white supremacist terrorists. That isn’t the same.
The issue here is that your wife bought this thinking it’s an ac when it’s an evaporative cooler aka swamp cooler. They do work if you have low humidity. If you are in a humid area this definitely won’t work. Since the unit is small it won’t cool the entire room but she should feel nice and cool about 3 to 5 feet in front of it. She will need to make sure the wicking action is working to get the pads nice and wet, otherwise she will have to manually remove them to wet them.
Edit: I wanted to add that I have had a similar small unit before which is why I know that she needs to be 3 to 5 feet in front of it to hit the little target cool zone.
I have most of the Fediverse-based account and seem to have just gravitated towards Lemmy over Kbin as found it very confusing, What makes you prefer Kbin over Lemmy or any other Fediverse instances?
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If they do federate and can’t use the majority of Lemmy’s content to their advantage in any way then it at least would (hopefully) deter them from adding a communities feature to their platform, kind of like how kbin has both.
Kbin has a microblogging feature and that puts them at immediate risk. And if their one dude or however many people are on their development team can put together something that combines both, do we really think that we won’t wake up to meta’s new community feature a month or 2 from now?
In this case there is ample evidence to prove them guilty. Just because they haven’t done the same things in this space that they’ve done in every other space they’ve occupied doesn’t mean they won’t. This definitely isn’t some startup that we need to feel out. They have a reputation and they have it for a reason.
In terms of the issue of losing content if meta is allowed to control that much content, that is one reason why I support preemptive defederation. You can’t lose something you never had.
I can’t speak exactly to your question but kbin has features like mastodon/Twitter and features like Lemmy/reddit. So there’s no reason to think mta couldn’t implement communities like Lemmy has and push people and content over that way.
Choose wisely (lemmy.world)
Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)
Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:...
Donald Trump mugshot released after former US president surrenders at Fulton jail over election charges – live (www.theguardian.com)
There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k) (lemmy.fediverse.observer)
It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping....
Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x09 "Subspace Rhapsody"
LoglineAn accident with an experimental quantum probability field causes everyone on the USS Enterprise to break uncontrollably into song, but the real danger is that the field is expanding and beginning to impact other ships—allies and enemies alike....
Withering heat is more common, but getting AC is still a struggle in public housing (www.npr.org)
As heat waves get worse, air conditioning has come to feel like a must-have even in parts of the U.S. that historically haven’t needed it. Those who live in public housing are especially vulnerable to the heat — they’re not just low-income, but also disproportionately older, people of color, chronically ill and often...
Ancient Iran had air conditioning (lemmy.world)
Lemmings of Lemmy, what is the scariest situation in the outdoors that you have experienced?
Plz I miss my reddit scary threads
Rules of Use for Bots
As we see more and more bots on Lemmy World every day, it’s about time we publish a set of rules for bots and bot-owners....
Biden video mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene speech hit more than 30M views in 12 hours (thehill.com)
Desktop A/C unit. This can't possibly work! Prove me wrong? (lemmy.world)
Prove me wrong, please?...
So why do you perfer Kbin over Lemmy?
I have most of the Fediverse-based account and seem to have just gravitated towards Lemmy over Kbin as found it very confusing, What makes you prefer Kbin over Lemmy or any other Fediverse instances?
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