A new #Minecraft snapshot 24w14potato appeared, adding an entire new dimension, blocks, mobs, paintings and many more. All of them, poisonous 🥔 themed.
Are poisonous potatoes the best Minecraft food? Who exactly is Potatolord of the Fried Legion? We may or may not learn answers to these questions with this very snapshot.
@MinecraftWikiEN I really hope it's a new dimension. They've played around with new dimensions in a couple April Fools snapshots now, so I'm really hoping we get that floating island dimension soon!
I've just discovered that my monitor of the last 2 years (HP X27q) supports HDR 400. Not great, but an improvement over SDR nonetheless, I'd say. Only problem is, when I enable it, the monitor begins to emit a very high pitch whining noise. It's incredibly quiet, so quiet I didn't notice it for a few days. But now that I know it's there, it's definitely there and I can't go back to not hearing it. What in the world is going on with the HDR setting?
@Bandicoot_Academic Good to know that it's safe, but it is incredibly annoying. Do you know of anything I can do to make it stop short of disabling HDR?
@ayo I believe kbin's magazines function exactly like this, where each one has it's own separate timeline of microblog posts. Posts can be made directly to a magazine from kbin or collected from elsewhere in the fediverse based on a list of hashtags the magazine's moderator curates.
The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.
@sour I'm not so sure it is. I can't see that type of dependency on Threads content or features forming. If Threads decides to abandon the ActivityPub protocol one day and defederates, why would the people here leave? It would betray the reasons everyone came here in the first place if they left just to go where the majority of the content is. How could threads meaningfully accomplish the "Extend" part of EEE anyway? As a microblogging platform, what features could Threads add that ActivityPub doesn't already provide the ability to do? It's a very flexible protocol after all. Just look at services like Peertube, Pixelfed, Lemmy, or kbin to see how adaptable it is.
@sour But why would the people who are here now leave to find more content when we already left the sites with all the content to come here? If lemmy.world were to defederate, we would be much worse off than we are now, but if Threads defederates, we'd just be back to the current state of things with all our current users. It'd be much worse for the threadiverse if lemmy.world went away than if Threads were to come and go again.
@sour The way I'm seeing it is that we are all already here and enjoying it just fine with the current amount of content we have. I assume the majority of us have experience with the amount of content we could already be getting if we were to just go back to using Twitter or Reddit or anything else. If that hasn't pulled us away yet, why would losing Threads' content?
As for the Lemmy side of things, the threadiverse specifically is incredibly small compared to the wider fediverse and it's very possible that the loss of the largest Lemmy instance would remove enough users from the equation to make things unsustainable. The rest of the threadiverse has arguably formed around lemmy.world. I don't think the same could be said for Threads though, because even without Thread's users here right now, there is a healthy amount of activity. A better Mastodon/microblog equivalent to losing lemmy.world would be the loss of mastodon.social, but I don't think even losing them would be the end of Mastodon because there are enough users on other instances for things to continue without it.