Cris_Color
@Cris_Color@lemmy.world
Hello, my name is Cris. :)
- Comment on Lemmy,Mbin, piefed, what even are those? 3 minutes ago:
By the way, it’s ActivityPub, like activity publication, or public activity :)
- Comment on Lemmy,Mbin, piefed, what even are those? 4 minutes ago:
Lemmy, piefed, and mbin are all similar pieces of software that run on a server.
They are each capable of hosting a small social network with a similar reddit-like format. They all also support the activity pub standard, which means that they can be linked together, so that when you go to one of those social media sites (lemmy.world for example) you can see any other site that they’re “federated” with, even if that social media site is powered by a different software that supports activitypub (I’m on lemmy.world but I can see communities and posts from piefed.social)
I generally call lemmy, mbin and piefed “fediverse platforms” because they’re each a platform that you can make a fediverse account on, but that usage is a bit imperfect, since each individual site could also be described as a platform, and is where your account is actually hosted. You could be more specific and call them “fediverse/federated link aggregators” if you wanted to specifically refer to the ones with a similar format to reddit.
They’re different because different pieces of software are built in different ways (different languages and underlying structure), have different priorities, and as software projects are run in different ways with different leadership, all of which is how you get differences in features and implementation. Lemmy is the oldest of these similar platforms, and as such is the most established. In the open source world it’s very easy and common to end up with a lot of fragmented similar projects. Its both a blessing and a curse.
There isn’t perfect language for all these things because in the grand scheme of things, it’s a rather new way for social media platforms to work, so the language around how to describe or refer to these things hasn’t really “settled”
- Comment on 17 minutes ago:
It can federate with lemmy, essentially just being another type of node in the same web of individual websites.
Some of those sites are hosted with lemmy, some are hosted with piefed, some are hosted with mbin.
Each of those (lemmy, piefed, mbin) is a piece of software that can run as a “server” for a social media site, and can use the activitypub protocol to talk to other sites that are federated together making the contents of other sites visible. They can federate regardless of whether the software powering the site is the same or not.
- Comment on Shooter dev "gaslights" players about fake Space Whales for seven years, then sneaks them into the game 16 hours ago:
Lol, what a fun read
- Comment on Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass. 6 days ago:
At some point I will but I’m not currently ready to make that transition. My friend and I are using Duolingo together and the social aspect plus the familiarity of the structure have been really helpful
They walked back the ai thing (at least that’s my understanding about it, I think there was a statement about it, not that that means much) but it’s very clear it wont be something that’s likely to work for me long term
But for the time being the structure that it provides and its format has helped me build a routine and actually stay pretty consistent, and I don’t think I’m at a place yet where I can transition away from it
But I have checked out the Foss options and there were some neat supplemental tools on f-droid, and at some point I’ll go through the play store and try out direct alternatives
- Comment on Framasoft, the devs of PeerTube and other projects, are doing an AMA over on !opensource@lemmy.ml - check it out! 6 days ago:
Thank you! 😊
- Comment on Framasoft, the devs of PeerTube and other projects, are doing an AMA over on !opensource@lemmy.ml - check it out! 6 days ago:
Thank you! 😊
- Comment on Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass. 6 days ago:
This seems like it’ll break things like revanced, which honestly makes me sad mostly for Duolingo :(
Really hope folks find a way of spoofing this too. I’m hoping to switch to a custom ROM in the future and this doesn’t bode super well
- Comment on Framasoft, the devs of PeerTube and other projects, are doing an AMA over on !opensource@lemmy.ml - check it out! 6 days ago:
Any chance we could get a normal link too? My client doesn’t like the Lemmyverse redirect link
- Comment on The Daily Wire is now trying to pass off AI slop as actual footage from Palestine. 1 week ago:
I think the feeling weird might just be that the depth of field is narrow and keeps changing. It creates a really strange look. No idea I’d thats a common thing in AI video but it seems like it could just be a quirk of how they chose to film…
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 2 weeks ago:
For clarity, thats never been protected speech
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 2 weeks ago:
From the text of their original post it sounds like you’re still allowed to say that. It’s worth reading the post text itself (not saying that to change your stance, I have complicated feelings about this choice by them, but knowing what they’re actually saying is worthwhile)
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 3 weeks ago:
That’s very fair, that’s a consequence of using a shader based artstyle I really hadn’t considered
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 3 weeks ago:
The whole man is insufficient Data, I love Data so much 🥹
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 3 weeks ago:
I fuckin love the floppotron! 🥰
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 3 weeks ago:
Dithering is so fucking cool. At some point I wanna check out that game that uses a ton of really sylized dithering - return of the obra djin I think?
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 3 weeks ago:
Unironically I love that so much lol
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
Thank you! You too 😊
- Comment on Missed WIP Wed: welcome back to jellies! 1 month ago:
I had the same thought- go look at their post history, they’re beautiful
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
I’m very familiar with and agree with the Nazi bar metaphor. At no point have I advocated letting Lemmy be a Nazi bar. And we don’t exactly have many fascists here compared to other platforms, Lemmy is almost exclusively leftists.
Being kind to your fellow lemmites is not making this platform a Nazi safe haven, it just makes it a social space actually worth spending time in.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
Ohhh, yeah I meant the anniversary of your time on Lemmy, I didn’t realize that’s today because you just made your account. Welcome!! Lol.
And yeah it’s definitely a pattern unfortunately :/ Lemmy is far from perfect, but it has a chance to be something better than we’ve had before and I think that’s pretty cool :)
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
Oh, I hadn’t realized it was the same username! I’ve replied to like a billion people on this thread, the only usernames I really absorbed are the couple of folks I recognized from prior interactions
But yes, I’d say I agree very much with the idea you expressed in this comment chain and generally disagree with what you said in the other comment exchange. And that’s okay! We can share some amount of common ground even if we don’t agree on everything :)
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
The first was in reference to when someone expresses an idea you don’t understand or a perspective you don’t share, and the latter was about the tendency to just keep scrolling and say nothing even when you like a post or comment, but I can see why you interpreted them that way.
In my experience when someone is expressing their thoughts they generally take kindly to folks asking them about why they see things the way they do 🤷♂️
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
Personally I don’t see calling people Russian bots/trolls or accepting harmful behaviour as the only available options.
I don’t think the former is at all productive or helps anything, and the latter is completely unacceptable. But those aren’t our only options when we decide how we want to engage with people we disagree with
and again, fascists are not the only people with whom disagreements happen on lemmy. We’re literally disagreeing right now, if you called me a Russian bot I think that would be silly and unproductive. That’s literally my whole point. Not everyone you disagree with is arguing in bad faith 🤷♂️
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
my argument automatically has no merit without you hearing any of it
I did read both of your comments in full and think about them, but if you have more specific thoughts on why you hold the perspective you do I’d be open to hearing them :) (full disclosure though, it might take me a bit to get back to you- with how much I’ve engaged with this thread I’m starting to kinda run out of social energy 😅)
I guess Ben Shapiro argues with people that aren’t media trained to make his stance look better, do you want me to say people Ben Shapiro argues make some awesome argument all the time without exception?
Its a little hard to follow exactly what you mean towards the end, I think there are a couple typos, but no. I just personally see a distinction between productive conversation and making a game of humiliating people buy talking circles around them regardless of the merits of their arguments.
I can’t know that you exactly meant the latter, but it’s kind of a spectrum and it did sound like you were advocating the idea that it’s appropriate to take joy in making people feel foolish for their inability to argue as well as you. I think there’s a big difference between the merits of a stance and someone’s ability to argue them. That’s why I expressed I disagreed. And that’s why I made the connection to Ben shapio, he’s really good at arguing, and makes sport of trying to make people look bad when they make the sort of arguments I personally agree with.
I’ll teach you that it’s not on me to make your arguments, get your evidence. I just put it on myself to communicate my arguments and poke holes in other people’s arguments
I think I see argument as much less of a zero sum game than you do. I don’t wanna score points, I wanna learn about what people think and teach them why I think differently.
You’re not wrong to point out flaws in peoples arguments, or to expect them to make their case for themselves, but that’s not the same thing as treating it like a game to win. I think the former is appropriate and healthy, I think the latter is destructive and doesn’t actually accomplish anything 🤷♂️
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
Thank you very much for sharing, I expect that story will stick with me too.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
You know what, I can respect that take. I was trying to tailor things to my audience, you’re not wrong though :)
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
Gotcha, that sucks, but I’m happy you made the journey over to Lemmy!
And oh, no I only just started using it more recently. I don’t think the topical kind was ever used by folks who thought it did something for covid anyway. I know there are also oral treatments for rosacea, but I’m not sure if oral antiparasitics are every used, since it’s just on the skin of your face that matters.
It also only got a generic over the counter version more recently, if I remember right, but now you can get it as a lotion that’s labeled for lice, but for some people it really helps with rosacea (rosacea is one of those really complicated multiple causitive factor health issues that can manifest in serveral different ways that we still only kinda sorta partially understand. Demodex mites seem to play a role in some people but not others, there’s a lot of trial and error)
The perscription version sometimes perscribed for rosacea is called Soolantra I think, its really expensive so an over the counter generic is kindof a godsend for folks whose insurance won’t cover it
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
That took my brain a hot minute to process lol. Is that actually from something or did you just invent it on the spot? 😅
“I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.”
"But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it.
"OH. WELL, THEN STOP.
Unironically wisdom we should all learn from. I can’t stop for other people but I can at least choose how I act, and whether I contribute to that pain suffering and discord.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
I agree. You can get a lot of positive reinforcement from sincere positive engagement (this post gave me lots, lol 😅) but it’s exhausting work compared to just making a snide jab. And that really does profoundly shape peoples behavior over time.
I’m a BIG believer in the idea that the medium makes the message, and how we design the mechanics of this space shapes how we behave. Erin kissane has talked about that some in her work studying the fediverse and it’s really stuck with me.