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CombatWombat

@ CombatWombat @feddit.online

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In the fediverse since 2017. I mostly talk sports. If something on the internet doesn't spark joy, mute it.

Do not yell at me simply because I am in front of you and the people responsible for the problems are not. It is extremely unpleasant.

  • What's new in the fediverse? Or less known.

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  • Mastodon got collections, which are like bluesky starter packs.

    Loops got big for a second, which is a TikTok lookalike, though I’m not sure they’ve been gaining users as fast as they were when the US acquisition was taking place.

    Piefed’s around now for browsing the threadiverse. Folks like me like it better, but the Lemmy fans are holding out for v1.0 to be even better.

    Wanderer seems to be doing stuff maybe now? I poked around the demo instance and it has real promise but there isn’t an instance near me so I don’t have a lot of insight.

    Funkwhale and Bookwyrm are out there. Bookwyrm’s solid as ever, but I’m not sure there’s really much happening for Funkwhale at this point.

    The big “end-to-end encrypted dms” seems like it’s still just around the corner. Seems the implementation is limited to some new platform called emissary? I’ve kinda lost track a bit, I’m not sure if it’s really happening.

    I think that’s all the developments that I can think of off the top of my head.

  • How do you keep yourself sane and happy while 1) Right wing fascists are getting powerful 2) women rights are getting weaker 3) Inequalities are raising?

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  • I watch soccer, mostly. Some hockey and basketball too.

  • Some say tech peaked in 2013 in terms of pre-enshitification. What year do you think it peaked and why?

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  • The peak of software was handing bundles of 3.5” floppies with shareware on it to your buddies, so probably closer to 1993 than 2013.

  • Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com

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  • There’s a federated version of r/place at fedi.place fwiw

  • Which national flags would you change?

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  • Australia’s official flag is ho-hum, but you already have an incredible flag you could use instead

  • What would you like to see on the Fediverse?

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  • Thank you for your service

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  • There is an easy solution: post yourself

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    We found their kryptonite!

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  • Okay, but the kind of "extremely difficult thing" you could do to remove invasive bamboo is to pave over the affected area and build a data center.

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  • Not sure about other languages, but Russians are more likely to give their name as FIO, familia imya and then ochestvo (family name, given name, and then patronymic), especially in official settings. I'm given to understand the practice was even more common in Soviet and Tsarist Russia.

    And if you'll forgive me for being a little sassy, tautologically, all languages present names from first to last.

  • If I had the verified funniest book ever written and I gave it to you, would you read it? Its your specific brand of humor. Its relevant to current events. It has funny pictures.

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  • Nice try David Foster Wallace

  • Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself

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  • I think the forkiverse was an important step in this direction.

  • Private community here on the fediverse?

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  • You can definitely lock down signup. I’m not sure if you can prevent users from making publicly-visible posts, though — I think they would have to remember to make posts followers-only.

  • [METAPOST] Lazy Feature Request

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  • This feels like exactly the feature op is requesting tbh

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  • omg thank you. I thought there were only predefined topics; I didn't realize I could create my own too

  • Fired by Google for Creating the Google Workspace CLI

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  • There is nothing worse you can do for your career than ship a feature your customers love that management doesn't want to support.

  • [METAPOST] Lazy Feature Request

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  • Once upon a time, the joke was that fedi admins required you to remove your pants when summoned. I guess we really have gone mainstream.

  • Private community here on the fediverse?

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  • If you are looking for safety, your best bet (and I know this sounds bad but stick with me) is to go the Truth Social route and stand up a threadiverse instance and defederate from everyone. There really isn't privacy in fedi, but if you don't federate, it'll limit your exposure to only the admins of your instance.

  • [METAPOST] Lazy Feature Request

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  • Dear Threadiverse devs,

    We want collections, like mastodon has. We want to make multi-communities that gather communities into convenient bundles. We really do. I promise we will use them.

    Love,The users

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  • It’s a piefed instance. One of the coolest things about the fediverse is that you can follow from different kinds of platforms, so some folks follow from a mastodon instance, or a sharkey instance, or a pixelfed instance, but they can still participate the same as people on a lemmy instance. Piefed is basically the same ui as you see, with a few minor differences, but some of them get pretty exotic.