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g8phcon2,
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You'll see the most on the original community's instance, but even that won't show everything due to how activity Pub works and some platforms allowing "anonymous follow" and the like.

weston, to random
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Trying to move my data to , apparently it will take no more than a month to export from Goodreads…. This is exceptional engineering.

g8phcon2,
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@weston May usually means "it won't take nearly this long, but probably longer than you think, and we dont' want tyou to contact us to bother us about it"

Imgur links suck

Most Fediverse software supports image uploads, so there's no reason to use Imgur for image hosting. Hell, even on my small single-user server (atomicpoet.org), image hosting is easy peasy. Not only is Imgur not needed, they're an annoyance for those of us who are used to seeing images natively on the Fediverse....

g8phcon2,
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use a web browser....even on your phone....

g8phcon2,
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on a related note, hosting images on your server for users on other servers, eats up a lot of resources too. I know some instances have stopped allowing saving of images.

g8phcon2,
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Thers's plenty of other good reasons not to use non-free closed source "SaaS" like reddit.

petrichor, to threads
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If anyone wants to learn more about , the best place to start is probably the original trilogy, starting with Dragonflight (first published in 1968). https://bookwyrm.social/book/61702/s/dragonflight

Anne McCaffrey's worldbuilding is incredible, and the background hints about the world that slowly build over the course of the series are wonderfully well done.

g8phcon2,
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@petrichor take your upvote you hoser.

g8phcon2,
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@petrichor I've been using Librarything.com to keep trackign of my reading for years, but what I was really hoping was that I could find a better solution for my "to read" than a random spreadsheet. Of course the list will always be growing more quickly than my "read and reviewed" list. My local library used to have a "book queue" built into their catolog which I kept it at, then I exported it just before they shut that down, I tried to import to Bookwyrm and got a bunch of mush and never took more than a few minutes to try to massage teh data to fit....

@oct2pus

Mastodon's Founder & CEO Gives His Thoughts on Meta's Threads (blog.joinmastodon.org)

Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

g8phcon2,
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if they do, you can just folow them for here right? Or does lemmy.world have less features than kbin.social?

g8phcon2,
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Something something drink till the 4th of July

g8phcon2,
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no you shouldn't. Outside of leftist circles it has no meaning.

g8phcon2, (edited )
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actually it came from when the USSR sent tanks to Hungary to keep down a workets revolution against the Soviet backed regime in the mid-twentieth century. Origanally it was used as a description for divisions in the British communist party between those who felt a global [Soviet backed] communist plan, versus those who supported independent worker collectives democratically deciding their own direction.

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Now-a-days it is used to describe anyone who supports leftists authoritarian regimes, whether it be China, or people who act like Russia is secretly Communists, etc. Or just an insult from one leftist against anothet leftist. Like one U.S. southerner insulting another by calling him a liberal.

g8phcon2,
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Many fedizens refer to lemmygrad.ml as a tankie instance, for example.

g8phcon2,
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Do you have a public git for this?

g8phcon2,
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how can one enjoy working close source? You are welcome to keep your devlopment private, rather than putting it on an open source development protal like GitHub, and just release it under the GPL so the rest of us can learn from your work, without you having to put up with annoying "developers" on the internet.

g8phcon2,
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welcome to the Midwestern United States. both of those are common, and like they said, 0 means it's too cold to play outside and 100 means it's too hot to play outside, other than that you're good to go.

g8phcon2,
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yeah, but they all want to be together. For other examples look at shitposter.club noagendasocial.com etc.

g8phcon2,
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and its certainly part of the reason gab.com decided to deactivate federation from their implementation of mastodon.

g8phcon2, to kbinDesign
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why the choice to call the groups magazines?

g8phcon2,
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@ernest well now if you were to change it, you'd need to come up with something else that starts with m or links get confusing. I see no problem with it at all, I was just interested in the reasoning. I think it's fun, and we need more of that on the internet, and particularly the 'verse, these days. Eugune changing TOOTS to POSTS to sound more professional was a sad sad change. I was glad to learn some folks like @valere chose to exercise their rights under the AGPL and continue to call it TOOTS on their instance.

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