meggied90

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meggied90,

I’ve never used Instagram before but I would like to start posting photos, however the vibe I’m getting from Pixelfed is this is a medium for photography art. I’m learning to facet gemstones and thought it would be cool to do photos of my gems that I cut to show my talent progress. Would that kind of non-photography art fit in on Pixelfed?

meggied90,

Thank you! You’re soothing my nervousness quite a bit lol, I’ll take the plunge and start posting as soon as I have my equipment!

meggied90,

Garnets are my favorite stone 😍 I’m really excited to facet a whole bunch of them when my machine arrives - probably going to be one of my first stones!

meggied90,

Some clever coding genius should host an instance for a bot they make that stays federated with everyone, and the entire point of the bot is to crawl across posts and anyone posting from Threads gets a nice public reply about why Threads is a toxic instance and they should switch to a non-Meta one immediately.

meggied90,

Looks like I need to buy me some cute devil horns to wear when I go vote.

meggied90,

The article is behind a paywall. Can you share the text?

meggied90,

Sauce? I’m in Texas and I just tried to access it hoping to collect a screenshot of the blocked message to share with you all, but instead I now need eye bleach.

Edit: OP your comment is misinformed. PornHub just blocked Mississippi and Virginia. Texas will be blocked on September 1, and Montana in January, but they are not blocked right now. Hopefully this info saves others from surprise penis.

meggied90,

Mlem and Memmy are genuinely both awesome. I recommend you get both and try them out. I’m currently leaning towards Memmy but Mlem still gets some attention from me too.

Each still has their little bugs and quirks to work out, and the creators are very receptive to feedback and suggestions. Please feel free to check out their respective community and post your feedback when you have it!

Yes, Honey, I have fired up the grill [kitchen disasters #5,309] (beehaw.org)

I thought it was enough to put my cedar plank over aluminum foil and the burners to the lowest setting... luckily, I had the temperature probe in the salmon, so I noticed the flare up right away and it came out not much darker than in the picture....

meggied90,

Hey, smoked salmon has its place in the culinary world too!

I learned the hard way that baked potatoes can explode if you don’t poke holes in them. I must’ve baked a hundred before I learned this lesson, I guess I was lucky?

meggied90,

And they said they’d be introducing better mod tools and accessibility in their app.

Golly there’s a lot of things they said they’d do that aren’t actually manifest yet.

meggied90,

It’s purely subjective but I’ve seen a noticeable increase in bot prevalence. My lurker account has recently had multiple porn bots suddenly start to follow it which has never happened before.

What I wouldn’t give to have stats on what % of the active Reddit community is actually organic vs bot.

Hot take: 18 years of user contributions to reddit will serve as a base model for an AI that generates content and conversations. the reddit experience continues as a simulation, to harvest clicks, sales and ad revenue.

most of the time you'll be talking to a bot there without even realizing. they're gonna feed you products and ads interwoven into conversations, and the AI can be controlled so its output reflects corporate interests. advertisers are gonna be able to buy access and run campaigns. based on their input, the AI can generate...

meggied90,

This isn’t going to happen in the future.

It’s happening right now.

Bots are already engaging with users and pushing narratives. The percentage of Reddit that is inorganic is probably higher than most people would expect.

meggied90,

How utterly depressing.

Does the Fediverse have a similar feature, where communities/magazines can be private and only allow users to view/subscribe to them with mod approval?

I know this is possible with instances, but that seems impractical since the account would be defederated from the entire Fediverse to maintain privacy.

Will there really be a big influx of users on the 30th?

I’ve seen many comments and posts regarding the API fiasco on Reddit, with the claim that there will be a huge influx of users when that happens. I’m all for it, but I find it hard to believe that the average or even above average user will make the effort to switch.

meggied90,

This is exactly what I think. We might see a fraction of a spike from the few holding out until the very end, but it won’t be this mass exodus people keep proclaiming it to be.

Apollo has published many blatant warnings to the app about the shutdown, you literally can’t use the app without seeing them. Nobody using Apollo is going to be surprised at being cut off.

I assume the other apps are doing something similar to warn their users.

Those who care are already finding their way over here. Those who don’t care are using the Reddit app. Those who are somehow still ignorant of what’s happening probably don’t use Reddit enough to know the difference.

meggied90,

Maybe more of a sunk cost fallacy? They've invested hours of labor in maintaining their community, to suddenly give that up and let some bootlicker take over feels like admitting all that work was for nothing.

That kind of dedication would be welcome over here though! I hope they find their way here.

meggied90,

Honestly the speed at which you create and implement and fix these things is incredible - and mildly alarming. Do you sleep? Is your blood at least 10% caffeine by now?

ARE YOU A ROBOT IN DISGUISE???

But for real, thank you for all you do and a huge kudos for how freakishly efficient you are. 😄

meggied90,

I wish I could upvote this response a hundred times. 🤣🤣🤣

If Reddit phased out 3rd party apps gradually and tactfully, do you think this would have gone the way it has? The Reddit app is terrible, but is it any worse than navigating and learning the fediverse so far? Be honest.

I've been thinking a lot about why I decided to come here and I know it started off as a "they can't make me use their shitty app!" while simultaneously using test apps that crash and navigating less content than Reddit. What is the primary motivation for all of this anymore? Is anger enough of a motivation to keep people away...

meggied90,

For me it's not about the immediate abilities to use Reddit/Lemmy, is about my projected ability.

Yeah the Reddit app sucks and it's slightly better than the iOS apps for Lemmy... for now.

Reddit has had years to improve their app and has not made much, if any effort to do so.

Meanwhile I've had two updates today to my beta iOS app for Lemmy, fixing bugs before I've even had a chance to find them and enabling new features literally every day.

The future only looks promising for one of these platforms, and that's why I'd rather weather Lemmy's growing pains instead of endure Reddit's stagnant state.

meggied90,

That depends heavily on what you plan on serving them with. If it's being served with something that would pair with a cooked and softly charred onion, hell yes.

If you're just planning on eating a whole grilled onion by itself though, you're off your rocker.

meggied90,

Probably a troll. Anyone who actually read the post would have comprehended this mod was actively working to make the sub better (or at least help it survive) by revamping their bots/automod. That's not something a lazy powermod would ever do nor worthy of ire and disrespect.

They're just trying to get a rise out of the lemmings. Best to leave the troll under the bridge.

meggied90,

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

It was an assigned reading in 11th grade. When I finally finished it, I remember feeling like my skin was crawling, and my thoughts were a jumbled mess - I was questioning everything, how I viewed others and how they viewed me, was it right or wrong, how would I have behaved in those situations...

I remember l just staring out my bedroom window into the pitch black night for an hour just digesting it all. I also remember sleeping with the lights on because I was a little creeped out.

Being an impressionable teen probably helped, but that book left a profound impact on my way of thinking about how I interact with the world and the people in it.

It was also my gateway book to classic literature and how good it can actually be!

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