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Kristell

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  • [CLOSED] what fediverse services do you recommend?

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  • Diaspora isn't, and I'm not sure if it has activity pub support at all? Most other things are. APub is turned on for Friendica (DFRN protocol) by default, and Hubzilla (Zot protocol) allows you to enable it pretty easily.

    My line gets drawn based on what they're made for. Friendica, Mastodon, GoToSocial, all of the *key forks, are all similar enough that I just have one account for all of them. They're for microblogging.

    Lemmy isn't for microblogging, it's a link aggregator/community forum-adjacent thing. It's different enough in function that I want a different account/client for it, especially if we're talking mastodon because Lemmy floods mastodon feeds.

    If I cared about Bookwyrm, I'd have another account, same with PeerTube, etc. They feel different enough to the microblogs that I just prefer having accounts specific to them.

  • Say we succeed in bringing down Capitalism. Then what?

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  • Even with people using more than they need we still overproduce by an alarming amount. Also someone wearing 5 shirts a day doesn't contribute that much to consumption, just extra laundry detergent, which is a resource that can be stockpiled for a long time.

    There are a lot of ways that we do over consume, though many of them just... Do kind of go away when we're not run ragged constantly. Don't need to buy shinies to numb the pain when the pain is gone, y'know?

    A lot of overconsumption is fueled by industries doing it on purpose, too, clothing being a prime example of that. Clothes used to last, but that's not as profitable as making things without enough seam allowance to alter them, and making them out of cloth so bad it falls apart if you even think of wearing it anyway.

    Some of it is definitely personal choice, but I'd wager that most of it is down to the second one, with a runner-up being the first.

  • Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

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  • Not too far off of how a lot of AIs function, unfortunately

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  • Facebook messenger. I was afraid people wouldn't want to deal with using other chat apps, etc. DM'd everyone I knew with "Hey I'm leaving Facebook, I have XMPP, Signal, texting, and email, lemme know which one you want" and most people were fine giving me their phone number.

    Turns out most people don't care.

  • Is there a way to "self-post" on Lemmy like there is on Reddit?

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  • You can't on Lemmy, but can on mbin. I saw someone else mention just post, which will work for it, but I also just have a second account on a microblogging fedi platform for that, and that's what I'd actually recommend for it. "You don't need multiple accounts on the fediverse" yada yards, but there are certain instances where it's helpful to have multiple, like this one xD

  • Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook Server

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  • Yep, though with calibre in particular you want to kind of make sure it's locked down real good. People sniff for the ports it uses, so open calibre-web libraries get found quickly, and then will usually have some attempts at cracking.

    I had mine set up as a local-only thing (could only access from my home WiFi), but from experiences with other apps that have similar crawlers, it takes about a week for them to be found. Just make sure everyone's passwords are decent, or just share one account if it's people you trust.

  • Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook Server

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  • I need to look into calibre-web more. I definitely tried it, but I remember it being awkward. Might give it another go to see

  • YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it

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  • I... Honestly don't even think about my adblocker enough to even think to disable certain websites in it. Generally if I like a site enough to disable ads, I'll also generally like them enough to pay them more money than they would have gotten from me turning ads off for a year

  • Community feedback request regarding Rule 6: "No Politics"

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  • I'd say 8 would be better, just because they can have a second term. Usually those are consecutive, but still

  • Community feedback request regarding Rule 6: "No Politics"

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  • So. In my experience, places with a generic "No politics" rule tend to become Nazi bars very quickly. That's not the case here, partly (I think) because it specifies US politics. Makes it more clear that this isn't a place where the only genders are "Male" and "Political," even if that kind of is the case in the US.

    I think something akin to "Nothing about any current or former politician, or government entity" could be a way to allow discussions about certain parts of politics without others. In the communities (non-lemmy) I've run that's the usual rule I have alongside some others that aren't relevant here.

    I would mention that word filters exist, but this post is a great example of why those don't work very well in a lot of cases. "The daft orange lardsack" is a case where self-censorship ends up leading to word filters being less effective. It's also a great way to showcase that you think body shaming is fine in certain circumstances. I, personally, disagree, and think that we can talk about his actions without mentioning his weight, but y'know. What do I know

  • What's the most interesting/strange thing you've found when visiting other users' profiles on Lemmy or anywhere else?

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  • He also has Pounded in the Butt by my own Podcast, a podcast where he gets people to read his stories. Hasn't been updated in forever, but it's still around.

    Interspecies doesn't even begin to describe it, though. When COVID first hit he released a few short stories for free, and one of them was "The Physical Manifestation of Washing my Hands Gets me Off"

  • Lonely people of the internet, What are your thoughts on valentimes day?

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  • Ehh, it's a Christian holiday that got commercialized to sell shit. Much like with Christmas (though that has roots in... Just about every religion that came before it, and early Christians didn't celebrate birthdays anyway). AFAIK Valentine's day is an original Christian holiday to commemorate St. Valentino.

  • Leaving spotify, offline music options?

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  • Syncthing? Personally I just use my nextcloud server. Autosyncs every 15 or so minutes to my phone, and from PC it's automatic.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • This is the other part. Idk if it's me, or my equipment, but like... I listen to music for the music. I might like certain genres (noise music comes to mind) more on higher end equipment, because that's the point, but also... Eh? Not why I'm here.

  • Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism

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  • Where in my comment did I mention my stance on LLM usage? All I said was I knew people would be annoying about Torvalds using LLMs to generate code, and that there was an instance of that here.

  • What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love

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  • Maybe, but it did happen earlier on before I'd started, so I think the filters are just kinda not great to start

  • Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism

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  • Gods. The second I saw that Torvalds used an LLM to generate any amount of code I knew people would be annoying as shit about it. And here we are with people being annoying as shit about it.

  • What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love

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  • At the same time, many users half-ass using them

    Honestly the way a lot of the Tinder-style ones (swiping) are designed it almost feels like they're meant to be half-assed? You can't filter by likes, just exclude by dislikes (ex. Don't include people who don't want kids, don't include smokers, etc) because there's no search anymore. They just show you a profile, and you swipe.

    When I was using them I very quickly stopped reading bios before they matched back. I just swiped right on everyone, checked daily for new matches, read those profiles and blocked/messaged people based on what was in their profile.

    Speaking on filters, though: They don't even work. I had men filtered out, and I ended up getting about 25% of profiles being men. Like, the only gender tag they had was "Man," which lead to a lot of the "Idk why they even showed me to you I have men filtered out" message being sent.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • Or wet mud

    Does dry mud exist? I'm pretty sure we just call that dirt xD

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Kristell @herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol

    Any way to make nextcloud more like Google Photos? (Solved!)

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Why do people who try to convince others to switch to metric focus so much on the conversions?

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    One Million Cannibal Ants Trapped in Soviet Nuclear Bunker Have Escaped

    www.newsweek.com /cannibal-ants-soviet-nuclear-bunker-1469573
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Trump withdraws U.S. from 66 “woke” international organizations & treaties

    www.lgbtqnation.com /2026/01/withdraws-u-s-from-66-woke-international-organizations-treaties/
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    Kristell @herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol

    Trump hosts “furry party” at Mar-a-Lago with dancers wearing bizarre dog heads

    www.lgbtqnation.com /2026/01/hosts-furry-party-at-mar-a-lago-with-dancers-wearing-bizarre-dog-heads/