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Pamasich

@ Pamasich @kbin.earth

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  • Shame there's still only one for Mbin after all this time.

  • Can you draw us a beautiful picture?

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  • People aren't looking for skill here, this isn't an art community. Don't let your lack of skills stop you from trying. Even a stick figure is good enough.

  • Can you draw us a beautiful picture?

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  • I'm the same as you, haven't really improved at drawing since I was a little kid. But this is Lemmy, not Reddit. People here aren't looking for perfection, your drawing skills are more than enough for this thread.

    It's of course fine to not want to draw something, but don't hold back just because you think your skills aren't good enough.

  • Where do you draw the line regarding windows?

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  • My red line is when the user experience becomes worse for me on Windows than on Linux. Not saying that Linux is bad, it's definitely not, but it seems to use a completely different paradigm from Windows which is much less aligned with what I want out of an OS than Windows is. So fundamentally my user experience on Windows is better, the enshittification is just adding trade offs until they eventually outweight having to go with a paradigm I don't agree with. And that point hasn't been reached yet. Though we're definitely getting close.

    I wish there was an actual alternative that was just an opensource Windows without enshittification. I'd switch to that immediately if it existed. But with Linux, Windows will have to do some more enshittifying to get me there.

  • Where do you draw the line regarding windows?

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  • Thank you for mentioning that, wasn't aware it was doing that. Disabled it now.

  • Can you draw us a beautiful picture?

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  • I'm terrible at drawing, so I in fact cannot.

    But I'll take this as an opportunity to experiment.

  • The Votely Political Quiz - Most Accurate 3D Political Compass

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  • the nordic countries are single-branch

    According to this official government page Norway at least does have separation of powers into multiple branches. I haven't looked into the other nordic countries, but it's hard to believe that they don't at least separate out the judiciary (courts) from the rest.

    Power in Norway is divided into three branches:

    • the Storting – the legislative branch
    • the Government – the executive branch
    • the courts – the judicial branch
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    List of RSS feeds distributed by each software on Fediverse

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  • we need more users

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  • AFAIK, content-centric networks are only lemmy and piefed as of today, modeled after Reddit.

    There's also Mbin, which I'm using. And NodeBB and Discourse if we go beyond Reddit-inspired and include forums.

  • Would you play a slow game today?

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  • I tried playing some MyHordes a while ago, the community-owned successor to Motion Twin's old Die2Nite (english name) collaborative zombie survival browser game. A bunch of players try to survive as many days as possible through a zombie apocalypse, searching the wasteland for supplies, and building up their defenses, while taking care of their needs.

    I loved the game back when I would play it constantly, and I still love it today, but I just don't have the time anymore. The AP system might seem like it makes the game quick, but the collaborative aspect means you have to talk to your fellow survivors, strategize, coordinate, communicate... for which I'm just not free enough.

    I don't think I can see myself enjoy a singleplayer or competitve game like this. With the AP mechanic I mean. I've tried a few other games back in the day which used it, but it's always felt like too much of a limitation. An obstacle to actually having fun with the game. Die2Nite was the only exception, because it kept you busy otherwise throughout the day and turned the AP into an actual dynamic resource mechanic you had to strategize with, not just a limiter.

  • What are your top 5 anime shows?

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  • This is a tough one to answer. I think Kyousougiga, Madoka Magica, and Wixoss (the first two seasons) are definitely there. In no particular order. But I'm not sure about the other two. I currently have 33 favorites on my Anilist, and while certainly not all of them are equal, I can't single out two more that stand out from all the others. Fate/Zero, Parasyte, Sakura Trick, Kill la Kill, Asobi Asobase, Dorohedoro, Flip Flappers, Die Neue These, Healer Girl, Dekiru Neko, Delico's Nursery, To Be Hero X, and City all qualify equally imo.

  • What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?

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  • I do think that some direct democracy would be good, but there's a reason why Switzerland still has representatives too.

    Having to vote on every single moderation action would be a pain to deal with. Not just in terms of fatigueing users and causing only few to actually participate, but also because it'll slow down the process and empower bad actors to cause more damage.

    What should be a thing imo is what Switzerland has: the ability for regular users to propose new rules and then vote on approving them, and the ability to undo any moderation action through a democratic vote. Both of those being binding.

    Also of course the ability to vote a mod out if they're abusing their power. That's something we're lacking IRL too.

    Edit: On your other point:

    It gets a bit tricky with technology. Ideally we could do things like democratically decide to have a voice chat (if that's what people want) and somehow 3 months later the platform has a voice chat... But it's not that easy, software development doesn't work this way.

    I think one thing that's possible is to copy the GOG model. Have a wishlist of features that people can add to and vote on. The highest voted features you prioritize in development.

  • Is posting from #Mastodon to a #Lemmy community a good idea or will this just confuse everyone?

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  • I think posting to a group (like a lemmy community) is a good idea because they act like relays. On Mastodon, your posts are only sent to your followers and people you mention. If you're not followed by anyone and don't mention anyone, your post won't be federated anywhere. Lemmy communities however will share your post with all their followers, allowing it to reach a larger audience. So unless you already have a huge audience, I think microblogging users that want to be heard can benefit greatly from interacting with groups.

    To make microblog posts more appealing to Lemmy users, do consider separating out a plaintext line at the start to act as a title. Lemmy iirc takes the first paragraph of the body as the title if there's no actual title given, and that can look awkward when that first paragraph is your entire post. This title pragraph shouldn't include formatting or mentions or hashtags.

  • In a place without access to US apps and online services, how would you use the Internet?

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  • This question looks odd on the fediverse. It seems to assume there's no european alternatives to the sites mentioned here, which for most of them isn't true. Or that there are only giant tech alternatives.

    You do realized piefed.social isn't giant tech, right?

    I think with a world without access to US apps and online services, the biggest loss to humanity would be Wikipedia. If we narrow it to just giant tech, I think it's easily doable. It would be a shame to lose the wealth of content on Youtube, but it's something we can manage with.

    In that world, what would you use the Internet for? How would you use it? And how much time do you think you would spend online, compared to now?

    About the same as now? I mean, again, hobbyist social media exists, it's not just giant tech. We're literally using it. In such a hypothetical world, stuff like the fediverse would be much more popular.

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  • They don’t just use office from the web, via Linux? You can access excel, word, …, all of that in a browser.

    Web office has barely any features compared to the desktop thing, iirc.

  • Rule 6?

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  • I assume it's to preserve the community's identity. The fear might be that if US politics was allowed, then questions on that topic would oversaturate the questions in the community, turning it into a de facto politics discussion community.

    The reason why it's specifically US politics is then one about whether politics from other countries would lead to the same effect. Which the mods probably deemed unlikely.

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  • ActivityPub (the model that the fediverse uses for federation) is publishing-based, as the name implies. Like email, you're sending messages to a list of recipients. Usually that's your followers, people you mention, and the person you're replying to.If the recipient list is empty, then your message won't leave your instance.

    Threadiverse users don't really have to worry about this too much because communities act as relays, sending your posts to all of the community's followers as well. But microblogging instances don't have that luxury. If they don't have any followers, aren't writing a reply, and don't mention anyone... their post isn't federated anywhere.

    It's also worth considering that only public data is federated. For example I wouldn't be able to recover my bookmarks from another instance, and it doesn't seem like Lemmy federates your list of subscriptions. Your posts may still exist elsewhere even when your instance goes down, but that's not necessarily the data people want to be able to recover.

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  • Oh, and the instance actually does return an error page saying "This instance is under maintenance.", so it's remotely possible that this Friendica message is based on misinformation, and that the instance being "down" may be only temporary? (I have no idea)

    For some reason Piefed is removing the title of the post, which links to a Reddit thread as a source. That thread clarifies: "I emailed the address given on the page and was told the instance service was cancelled by the instance owner and it's unknown whether there was a plan to migrate or just shut down completely".

    Looking at the under maintenance page myself, the email seems to be the server host's, so this isn't the instance owner being unsure about their future plans yet, it means the hosting relationship is cancelled and the host doesn't know about things beyond that.

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  • This is the fediverse, where many different software intersect. You should expect the possibility of incompatibilities with users from instances other than your own. When a post looks like something is missing, always open it on its origin instance before complaining. It's likely your own instance is at fault for the issue, not the author.

    In this case it looks like Piefed deleted the post's title.