TropicalDingdong
@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
- Comment on this delta 8 is doin somethin 1 day ago:
Coaching staff is more like the president and the cabinet. They aren’t the ones who actually do the things, like how its the players who actually play the game, its the civil service who actually implements those policies.
So really, its which head coach and coaching staff do you want?
AND like, Tom Brady is the top career administrator at the USDA. They decide the “on the ground realities” of how to implement the plan.
- Comment on JEANS 4 days ago:
Thats how.
- Comment on Verizon is down, with many users seeing 'SOS' – here's everything we know about this outage 5 days ago:
A haiku:
It’s not DNS There’s no way it’s DNS It was DNS
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 6 days ago:
Okay, well, I’m trying to elaborate for you, like you asked. Does that mean making sure they have food? Does that mean physically defending them from har?
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 6 days ago:
Well it would be helpful to understand what you mean by self-defense. Some people hear that and think barricades and molotovs. Others think community gardens. The fact is there are many ways to resist authoritarianism.
What does community defense mean to you?
- Comment on The SCSI Film Scanner Resurrection 1 week ago:
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 1 week ago:
physically resisting isn’t going to do you any good.
Well at a certain point that may be the only option and human history is mostly examples of us failing to appeal to our better nature. Longer we wait do do things that physically stop these thugs from doing what they are doing, the longer this goes on for.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 1 week ago:
If you aren’t already on it… Its never too late to start but its also very late to be starting. Community defense starts at building community. How many of your neighbors do you know? 1? 10? 100? Do your neighbors identify each other as people or just people that park next to one another every night. Do you share food, like potlucks or beers on the lanai or at the beach?
These are small examples, but the very, very first step is to begin seeing people as humans. Not seeing each other as humans; being trained to not see each other as humans: its what got us here in the first place. 100 people stepping out there front porch to confront ICE immeasurably more effective than one person with a gun showing up.
As far as actual training, take a gun safety course before doing anything else firearms related. You can sign up for one this weekend probably. Guns aren’t something to be feared, they are something to be understood. Even if its not your gun, knowing when a gun’s safety is or isn’t set; its very important. At that point you can decide if its the right way for you to defend yourself.
- Comment on "My process" by kissingparty 1 week ago:
I’m in this meme and I don’t like it.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
This is something I think whatever lemmy 2.0 is going to be really needs to focus on.
Just be a content aggregator for ALL of the fediverse. Everything. One feed.
Or maybe more clever ways of integrating. But right now, we’re still relying on video mostly from YT (not peertube) and screenshots of things happening on mastodon. We need more connective tissue.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 week ago:
Raise them in the woods with no access to the outside world until the age of forty.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Its not defeatism. Its a basic understanding of how systems work, which you clearly don’t have. You being obtuse doesn’t change that. You and I can’t change the issue at play. Without scale, lemmy dies. Its not a debate and its killed plenty of projects long before it.
In other words, hope in one hand and shit in the other; see which one fills up first.
Without growing the user base, this project dies. Its not a debate.
- Comment on Man Granted Sole Custody of Toddlers Born of Rape of His Client! 1 week ago:
Terrible story and a terrible AI slop-ticle.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Yeah. Huge improvement and my other account is on piefed.social
Not having it from the beginning though, it helped create this issue in declining usership, which will kill the entire project if we don’t address it.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
A big part of that is on the design side. We really need the ability to fork/ clone/ merge/ migrate communities across instances. Lemmy was designed to be an “entire” reddit replacement. Because of this, we end up with redundant communities with less activity. Migration of accounts and communities could effectively solve this issue.
Its possibly lemmy could have been designed such that communities of similar type could be aggregated into a single instance. For example, maybe you start a “snowboarding” community on .world, but when a sports focused instance pops up, you might want to migrate your community. A few instances build like this.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
The fediverse is not a single amorphous bloc with the same overall goals of growth.
I mean, sure. I guess still people are on Fark. and Digg. And even still posting to Craigslist forums.
And growth is a matter of survival. You don’t grow, you don’t survive.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Sorry, I misspoke. The largest instances of lemmy are have been defederated, specifically world and ml.
The only argument I’m making is that almost all defederation is negatively impactful to fediverse growth.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
You are railing about moral issues I don’t even disagree with. But there are basic, physical properties that networks have, that are scale dependent. There is no moralizing around that issue. And de-federation can and does occur all the time, its basically the norm between the major instances. And that has fundamentally crippled the growth of the fediverse (at least the lemmy side).
Just because I’m not bothering putting effort into responding to a slathering wall of text like you’ve composed, does nothing to change the fact that social networks, and actually, all large networked systems from the internet to a fungal colony, all base their survival in scale. I’ve done the work and shared it with those I’ve deemed worthy, here, regarding the network analyses I’ve built to run on the fediverse. Here’s a hint: you aren’t one of those.
Without scale, networked systems collapse. Without scale, complexity can’t emerge.
A big part of this is architectural and we had that discussion years ago here. There are design constraints built into the original envisioning of lemmy that pretty much force these limitations. The biggest issue being that each lemmy instance is built to effectively be an “entire clone” of a reddit like system. The second is activity pub related, in that users can not “migrate” their accounts or community’s to new instance, neither can we fork, clone, or merge a community.
The result is that we end up with duplicated communities, balkanized content, and an overall reduction in activity, which further suppress growth. There is no disagreement that the de-federation issue contributed directly to Lemmy’s decline. We were all here for it.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Yes. And its been detrimental to the growth of the fediverse.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
The math that underpins large networked systems isn’t something you can disagree with. Smaller in those kinds of systems are always less sustainable. Instance level moderation choices like defederation have directly contributed to the balkanization (you can agree or disagree with if it’s a good thing to do so; the preference make no difference) of the Lemmy chunk of the fediverse.
Smaller, less networked systems are more unstable and less sustainable. Period.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
It’s got nothing whatsoever with what I want.
It only has to do with the math of how large networked systems function.
Right now the fediverse is unstable and unsustainable. balkanization is a huge contributing factor.
It’s not a preference thing. If you want the fediverse to survive we all need it to be bigger and balkanization prohibits that
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
I’m just going to restart my point for clarity.
Any barriers to bringing on users into the fediverse at any level is destructive to the future survival of the fediverse. This is specifically an issue that came up during any of the waves of migration we see from the bad place.
At various times there have been bans, both temp and outright, for all kinds of reasons, for both agreeable and disagreeable reasons, but regardless the impact is destructive to the fediverse.
Social networks thrive on users and through scaling aquire different properties. It’s more about the math of what it takes to keep a stable network and there is no getting around that. The “come one come all” approach things like the bad place use allows them to capture that kind of growth and without it, it’s just not possible to have the kind of detailed and varied and populated network you would get otherwise.
There have been specific moderation choices that have significantly curtailed and hurt the growth of the fediverse on all sides. Defederation is a huge one. Overly dogmatic moderation is another.
Like I agree that I don’t want tankies content or their spam, but realistically the “tankie”-verse versus the rest-of-us-verse has crippled the projects growth.
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
No. It’s not. That would be hyper destructive to any chances the fediverse has of surviving.
- Comment on I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real 1 week ago:
No turning back
- Comment on we need more users 1 week ago:
Networks are almost always about quantity over quality.
- Comment on Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets 1 week ago:
Chat is this real?
- Comment on Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets 1 week ago:
A day after it matters maybe.
- Comment on Update on my American Brown Ale. Bottling complete! 1 week ago:
The carbonation bit is the carbonic acid building up in solution. It litterally is the flavor of carbonation and dramatically alters the flavor of beer.
- Comment on Update on my American Brown Ale. Bottling complete! 1 week ago:
Muted and bitter are going to be fairly consistent for a first run kit. If its not to your taste don’t be dismayed. If you try some more recipes’ you will improve.
For about the first 10 years I was brewing I bottled with either caps (like you have here) or grolsch bottles. If you do stick with this hobby, like I recommended with the crab boiler, I strongly recommend getting into kegging ASAP. I drank soooooo much grolsch to get the bottles I needed, I easily could have supported a small kegerator setup.
Heres the thing. Its really fucking tough to make sure you’ve got 50 bottles perfectly clean. You have to make a ton of physical movements, precisely, to keep them sanitary as you are bottling. Its super common to get some off flavors or contamination from bottling. It also is a PITA to clean, store, manage, and then fill all those fucking bottles.
Kegging? It takes like, 1/100th the time. And you can store your kegs sterile and they stay sterile (with starsan). Is literally as simple as pulling a siphon, filling the keg, closing the keg, and putting it in the fridge. And a used fridge or laydown freezer with a temperature regulator.
Its easier, cleaner, -> 0 <- spillage, it makes better beer (less contamination, better conditioning), it tastes better when you pour it. When the keg is tapped, you have 1 thing to clean, and its easier to clean (you can actually get your arm down in there; no fcking goofy bottle brushes).
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 1 week ago:
im five american cheeses
