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MHLoppy

@ MHLoppy @fedia.io

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Currently studying CS and some other stuff. Best known for previously being top 50 (OCE) in LoL, expert RoN modder, and creator of RoN:EE's community patch (CBP). He/him.

(header photo by Brian Maffitt)

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    Is it possible to add a deleted user account to a block list?

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  • No worries, easy mistake to make just based on naming. Hope you find an answer!

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    1. This is not a support community.

    It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.

    The !support@lemmy.world suggestion isn't that helpful here because that's intended for .world only, but you could try !techsupport@lemmy.world, !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml (if you're federated), or maybe the lemmy GitHub?

  • Standardize the sort icons!

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  • They say spaced repetition helps the brain remember things, so here you go:

    Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published

  • Fedi On Fire

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  • The feeling is that simply having it be public isn't an automatic license to re-use or "re-appropriate" the content outside of what's required for normal network functionality. From that perspective, federating a post to a normal Mastodon / fediverse server = OK, viewing that post in your browser = OK, but many other uses = not OK.

    This subset of the userbase want the norm for "extracurricular uses" of people's posts to be opt-in only, even for public posts. I kind of envy the idea in some ways (aggressive requirement of consent), though in the world we currently live in, it does seem unrealistic without a team of lawyers behind it.

  • Fedi On Fire

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  • There's a pretty strong no-scraping (and scraping-adjacent) sentiment within Mastodon

  • Zuckerberg calls for "repopulation" of "cultural elite class"

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  • Maybe the person playing The Sims on their PC let their younger sibling play and now the simulation is getting fucked up sideways?

  • Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES

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  • RIGHT THERE OFFICER, THAT'S THE ONE

  • Fedi On Fire

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  • Well, not to shit on the idea too much, but right now as of posting, looking at ~100 posts in the feed and the majority are bots, automated posts, or otherwise "brand" posts, not just regular people, and a few are Threads users or bridged Bluesky/Xitter accounts.

    Doing a quick label:

    That's getting close to the 5k character limit, but you get the idea. This has actually negatively influenced my opinion on fediverse activity. I didn't realize that such a high share of the activity wasn't actually just "normal users".

  • If you could Thanos snap one person, thing, or event from history...what would you choose?

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  • Greed or dishonesty are other abstract ones to consider. Worried that removing dishonesty could cause some harms, but I guess anything in the thread probably could.

  • What is a human behaviour you've never understood?

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  • Real life incremental game!

  • Discord sued by users claiming Nitro subscription is too difficult to cancel

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  • The process described and shown by the screenshots does seem a bit much for a cancellation. Suing feels disproportionate when I first hear it, but are there many other recourses to force it to become more user friendly?

  • ‘Missing’ GOP congresswoman not seen for six months finally found living at dementia care home

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  • ‘Missing’ GOP congresswoman not seen for six months finally found living at dementia care home

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  • The sum of all human knowledge isn't Wikipedia, it's the combination of two books:

    • What They Teach You at Harvard Business School
    • What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School

  • Is there a single place that lists instance ideologies?

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  • The decentralization is good if you can get the numbers high enough for the individual communities to be useful, but having them concentrated creates a mini network effect, where each user is automatically exposed to all of the local communities, which would be harder to seek out and find individually. So I think there's tradeoffs, and mostly-centralized and mostly-decentralized community-instance pairing both have pros and cons.

  • Is there a single place that lists instance ideologies?

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  • Afaik lemmyverse gets the descriptions from the instances themselves? Publishing any "curated" description and having everyone agree on it would be.. challenging for some instances.

  • Is there a single place that lists instance ideologies?

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  • Instance does affect moderation policy though. For example, someone who likes the vibe of specific "controversial" instances like hexbear would likely find many instances to be dissatisfactory because many instances are defederated with it. Someone may also have strong preferences about "free speech vs safe space" kind of moderation.

    General-purpose medium-sized instance is probably "good enough" (especially if picking your first instance, with a willingness to migrate later if needed), but someone will feel more at home if their preferences more closely align with the instance they're on. For example, beehaw users generally seem to love being on there from what I've seen, and I think they would feel less at home on most other instances.

    There's also value in making use of an instance's local feed in some cases (less so for most general-purpose instances though!). I participate in aussie.zone regularly, and at times it's a pain to use from a remote instance. For example, if I want to submit a new post, I have to manually check several loosely-related communities to make sure it hasn't already been posted to the instance (cross-posting intra-instance is not ideal imo). If I were a local instance user, I could just check the local feed, which most of the time I just end up doing anyway because it's faster than checking several communities manually. It would definitely be easier for me in that regard if I just migrated there or had started there to begin with.

  • 'Stop sticking googly eyes on sculptures' - US city tells residents

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  • For those that didn't read the 9-sentence (plus title/captions) article, the biggest issue is damage risk from adhesives rather than anti-fun:

    The council also said that in the past other decorations like Santa hats and wreaths have been added but that this was different.

    "While we don't condone the wreaths... and Santa hats, let's stay away from adhesives, graffiti and all things that can damage the art" it said on it's social post.

    The council leader has explained that while they want the community to engage with the art and have fun, they also don't want things to be damaged.

    So stick the googly eyes onto a headband or something first I guess?

  • Corporate Social Media is Junk Food

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  • organic food for your brain

    High quality, positive content boosts mental health

    Browsing shallow memes and political outrage here is basically just home-made junk food instead of store-bought junk food. Likely less unhealthy, but that's not exactly eating a bowl of vegetables lol - that would perhaps be reading a book or something. Not a great fit for the comparison imo.

    (as an aside, it seems plausible that junk food in small quantities as part of a balanced diet might boost mental health vs strictly never indulging)

  • Trump Gives Elon Musk’s Buddy Total Control Over NASA

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  • ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

    The problem is that the opposite of the headline would be the surprising one. If it was "Trump refuses to give Elon Musk's buddy total control over NASA, citing <X/Y/Z valid reasons>", that would be the current Onion-level headline.