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themadcodger

@themadcodger@kbin.social

Un Dorian Gray sin pasado, ni patria ni bandera.

I'm just a guy in the who likes going on adventures, and playing games with friends.

Three things I love: the Oxford Comma, irony, and missed opportunities.

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I honestly think that has to do with the fact that everyone on the fediverse has the ability to immediately block bad actors and never see them again. If there's enough brigading happening, that server can be defederated. Those same toxic people exist here, they're just shunted to their own inaccessible islands.

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What's the 80/20 rule?

Oregon's first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law faces growing pushback amid fentanyl crisis (apnews.com)

Oregon’s first-in-the-nation law that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine and other illicit drugs in favor of an emphasis on addiction treatment is facing strong headwinds in the progressive state after an explosion of public drug use fueled by the proliferation of fentanyl and a surge in deaths...

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You're going to need to cite your sources that repercussions do anything meaningful for addicts to get clean, as opposed to decriminalized but mandatory treatment (a la Portugal).

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Hey, me too! I was there the same time as you and had pretty much the same plan. I never once thought about my data usage.

Israel intensifies ground and air strikes on nearly cut-off Gaza while UN denounces 'war crimes' in conflict for first time and warns many will soon starve to death (english.elpais.com)

“In the beginning, people could go to the market or to the stores. Now, no more. Stores have empty shelves. People are struggling to get food, but there are already people starving in Gaza,” warns Nebal Farsakh, spokesman for the Palestinian Red Crescent, speaking over the phone....

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It feels this way with every shitty thing we find out about in the last however many years. And the answer always seems to be vote harder!!1!

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I once heard it described that if Democrats found a magic lamp and got three wishes, they'd negotiate it down to one, and wish for something they think the Republicans would want.

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Out of curiosity, what else has he gotten right?

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I named my cat Neko as a teen because of this program!

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That was the idea!

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Firefish and Mastodon are both microblogging platforms (like Twitter) on the fediverse. Kbin and Lemmy are both forum style platforms (like Reddit).

Where Lemmy and Mastodon are for people who prefer a more basic just the necessities experience, kbin and Firefish provide a more stylish experience with more options and customization.

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Check out OwnCast also at @owncast

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Well said.

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As much as I don't like this, they already have my facial data. I have global entry, and when I landed in EWR the lines were massive. Found the Global Entry line, walked up to a kiosk expecting to have to scan my passport. Instead as soon as the camera saw me it instantly spit out a ticket with all my information which I then handed to the guard. Out in about 30 seconds which was nice. But yeah, a bit disconcerting.

And none of that information was obtained from elsewhere, it was just based off the passport photo they already had on file.

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His reelection campaign should quote her.

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You and me both. About the same age and just found out.

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Thanks! Back at ya

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Jokes on you, I like brussel sprouts more than ferrero rocher.

Following Mastodon accounts from Lemmy?

Hey, folks. I’m new to this whole Fediverse thing. One of the things I’ve been most excited try out is the whole cross platform aspect, where you can follow peertube/mastodon/lemmy accounts from the other sites. I have my reddit account mostly switched over. I went through and found (I think) all of the communities I follow...

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You've basically gotten your answer from the other comments, but you happened to pick the one fediverse platform that doesn't really federate well. Lemmy (I believe by design) only federates with kbin and that's about it. Kbin on the other hand federates with both Lemmy and mastodon/firefish (formerly Calckey).

And just a note, with the activitypub protocol, all platforms have the option to federate with every other activitypub platform, but not all choose to, and not everything at that. So while you can follow Mastodon/firefish from, say, Pixelfed, it'll only populate the photos, not the text only posts.

If you really want to follow Masto/firefish, you'd be better off with kbin as I don't believe Lemmy has that on their roadmap. Unfortunately, there isn't a migration option yet, so you'd have to refollow the same communities all over again from kbin.

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I get it. I still flinch when I see I have new messages waiting. But the fediverse is generally a pretty pleasant place and we work hard to keep it that way.

There's nothing wrong with having separate accounts either, I do. But if you're going to check out mastodon, I'd recommend also checking out firefish as well.

They're both the "twitters" of the fediverse, so like kbin and Lemmy here. Mastodon is more for people who want a simple interface with fewer options, whereas Firefish has a sleeker more customizable interface with a lot more options and features. And it has a wonderful onboarding process. They'll both get you the same content, so it's whichever one you like better.

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Do the tips actually go to you and can you see if someone left you one?

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The official app, despite being in beta is really nice. @dansup has done an amazing job of it in a short amount of time.

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Huh 😐

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That emoticon is apropos. But no, it was just a "huh. So that's a thing"

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If kbin.social does defederate from meta, you can migrate to another kbin server that hasn't. That's one of the nice things about the fediverse!

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Yes I did. Good catch

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