BlindFrog
@BlindFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on If you had too, how would go about running a Instagram account? 1 day ago:
Ohhh, I read your concern as how to grow in popularity, but… I can’t read @.@
I think Litchralee pretty much detailed what I’d do. Use a separate phone, or ig in a browser. My bf had a yolo tablet once, to show his niece how easily “popular” he can get just by posting random cat memes. We learned that if you follow too many accounts at once or get too many follows quickly, they’ll block your account until you do a facial scan, so… That was the end of that experiment, lmao.
If you find the people you meet are using bluesky, I can… with hesitancy… recommend wafrn? I only hesitate because the design intent is like tumblr, and I’m not sure if that’s your vibe. It’s activitypub and atproto compatible, so you can share your one account with both bluesky and fediverse users. You can even spin up your own wafrn instance.
For situational awareness, the alt-text requirement for photos is on by default, but you can turn that off in your wafrn account.
wafrn.net - Comment on If you had too, how would go about running a Instagram account? 1 day ago:
If you’re in an urban kinda area, have you considered going to car meets and exchanging Instagram @s ?
Might be helpful to get your insta out there by going where the people already are.Most if not all my local car meets all advertise their next meet up spot on insta either plainly or by code name. I didn’t even post car pics, but organizers here (hawaii :) will follow anyone back, especially if they post car stuff.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 days ago:
It’d be on brand then - if they asked AI to write out an argument for them, they’d take credit for the whole essay & if found out, they’d claim it was what they wanted to convey anyway
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 week ago:
I been wooshed, sorry v.v
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 week ago:
Sauce? Or sarcasm?
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 weeks ago:
Hawaii’s Big Island be like:
24-hour lava flow asmr - Comment on Cams, anyone? 5 weeks ago:
Meta data could be edited/unintentionally overwritten
- Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots." 5 weeks ago:
My lil neato bot from 2017/2018ish makes a perimeter map around my place each time it deploys, then makes back and forth sweeps. It’s got a built in weekly timer by the quarter hour to schedule sweeps. It beeps at me when its bin is full. Why do robot vacuums need the internet?
- Comment on Where do I even start? 1 month ago:
Think of self-hosting as - instead of depending on cloud services from other entities (google/apple/whoever), you host those services yourself by running them on your own pc or maybe your secondary pc running 24/7 (usually locally, in your own home).
Some common services might be automatic photo backup and storage (like immich), or running an adblocker for your home network, or streaming movie/music from your hard drive to your phone/TV (like jellyfin).
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 1 month ago:
Steven Universe, from beginning to the end. The last (fifth?) season was called Steven Universe Future; it’s a timeskip several years into the future.
- Comment on You'll Own Nothing and It's Awful [Gamers Nexus x Level1Techs] 1 month ago:
Not sure if you were angling for this response or used a voice transcription service, but it’s *seizing, not ceasing, btw
Unrelated: sometimes I’ve had confusing chats over fb marketplace trying to gauge the other person’s tone/sanity, but found their texts were just off because they let voice-transcription take the wheel.
- Comment on [Chapter] Maison and the Man-Eating Apartment - Ch. 18 2 months ago:
I’m honestly loving this story, and I hope it goes on forever. I need more Dorohedoro style ominous world building
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 2 months ago:
More of my brain cells are left intact scrolling the fedi vs scrolling tiktok
- Comment on How to Get Hardware Transcoding BACK on Your Synology NAS 2 months ago:
The next update I have pending for Synology Office needs me to agree to AI use on my server. No thanks.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 2 months ago:
Sounds right, tbh. Source?
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 months ago:
voidfox.com/…/payment_processor_fun_2025_making_y…
Someone breaks down why it’d be a monumental task for Valve/Itch to vertically integrate the whole payment processing thing into their business. The essay is highly readable.
The only thing I had to look up was
Escrow: a financial arrangement w/ a third party who holds/manages funds on behalf of two parties in a transactionMy takeaway was that Valve/itch/GOG would still be beholden to the banks who track porn as high risk for fraudulent transactions.
So what can we do about it? ~asking in earnest, btw. I buy porn and toys like a regular ass person, too~
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 4 months ago:
Yes.
Whatchu gonna do about it?
(not asking specifically you, bridge, just didn’t want to leave the thread at a circle jerk) - Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 5 months ago:
For me, Tumblr was an online culture different from the ADHD of other journaling/blogging platforms like Instagram or Twitter. You could find conversations in tags, gifs didn’t lag my browser to hell, fan content was proliferous there, webpages could be personalized to the lengths you might’ve gone to in MySpace. It was the place to find fandoms and fandom content, even for the most obscure series. There were no ads. And I felt like gifs/texts of porn and kinks were made more accessible when searched for by tags.
There was no algorithm - discovery of new blogs was just subscribing to tags & maybe following who your followed-people followed, the way the fediverse kinda is.
I felt like the presentation was good to relish each post of content with less distraction, and the pagination + scroll browsing was just enough to keep me addicted.
Someone correct me if I’m remembering it wrong.
RIP 2011 Tumblr
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 5 months ago:
Wuff-fern
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 5 months ago:
@gabboman@app.wafrn.net ,
Is registration on the wafrn website backlogged? I submitted a registration bout 12 hours ago, and the registration page said to wait a few hours for review. Got nothin in my email just yet. Not that I’m antsy, and there’s no rush; just hoping to know when I should follow up to log in :u
I didn’t get any email confirmation about my submitted registration, I realize. I refrained to keep from spamming, but… Should I actually submit another? :x
Thank you for this! I’m not sure how I would’ve found out about Wafrn otherwise, lol
- Comment on (PC) Chill farming games (non-Anime)? 5 months ago:
Mudborne: a frog themed frog-breeding simulator with some frog-breed puzzling to open up paths between islands/dimensions
Apico: haven’t played it yet, but it’s made by the same devs & revolves about beekeeping
- Comment on What's up with all the moth memes? 5 months ago:
Mods should just redirect them to !mothmemes@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's up with all the moth memes? 5 months ago:
Throwback to subreddit mothmemes 💡
- Comment on AI boomer trait 6 months ago:
Which ones did this? D:
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 6 months ago:
This mistake makes sense to make as a mistake. But also, that’s fuckin asinine
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 6 months ago:
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- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 6 months ago:
Precise location information? Wtf for?
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 6 months ago:
Reminded me of this Technology Connections video, in which the dude explained (among other brake-light related things) how some law allows electric vehicles to get away with not using their brake lights: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0YW7x9U5TQ
- Comment on [DISC] Mieruko-chan - Ch. 65 6 months ago:
NOOOO, FECK YOUUUU SETO-SAN !!!
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 6 months ago:
This reminded me of that one London Bridge, lol www.sciencedaily.com/releases/…/051103080801.htm