bitcrafter
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- Comment on How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration? 4 weeks ago:
I only see a couple of the most recent posts, but the number 2K seems to indicate that there are a lot more that it just is not showing me.
By contrast, I felt like looking at pictures of galaxies right now, so I went over to astrodon.social/tags/galaxies, and behold–look at all of them! So easy!
In fact, maybe the lesson here is that I should just give up on Pixelfed and use Mastadon for discovering cool things to look at in my downtime.
- Comment on How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration? 4 weeks ago:
I just go to the web site, e.g. lemmy.sdf.org.
- Comment on How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration? 4 weeks ago:
But what if I want to be on a small instance or even self-host? Then I cannot see any potentially appealing hashtags because I do not start with a large library of locally downloaded content.
- Comment on How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I have to say that Lemmy has been a pretty great experience so far! 😀
ONE OF US!
ONE OF US!
ONE OF US!
- Comment on How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration? 4 weeks ago:
But if a hashtag has not made its way over to my instance, then it effectively does not exist to me. Even if I do see it show up and decide I want to see more content related to it, if said content has not ever made its way over to my instance then I am still left out. The great thing about being able about able to check out what is on other instances is that I am no longer restricted to whatever the people on my instance are interested in.
This a completely different experience from Lemmy, where I was immediately able to go to a bunch of different instances, look through their communities, and go: “I want to subscribe to this one, this one, and this one!”
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on Sometimes the advice "just be yourself" is bad advice. 2 months ago:
Nah, i rather be with an honest piece of shit than someone how “pretends” to be a good person.
On the other hand, someone who “pretends” to be a good person all of the time is essentially indistinguishable from an actual good person.
- Comment on Could Trump Force X To Become The Everything App For Government Payments 2 months ago:
Also, as I understand it, the Book of Revelation essentially only barely squeaked its way into the Bible anyway under the belief that its author was the same John as the John that wrote the Gospel of John; if it had been believed to have been authored by anyone else then it would have been left out because it was hardly a unique representative of its genre.
- Comment on Were Sony and Microsoft Truly Worried About The Google Stadia? 2 months ago:
In that case, I clearly stand corrected! Thank you for the reply.
- Comment on Were Sony and Microsoft Truly Worried About The Google Stadia? 2 months ago:
The biggest problem with Stadia was not the technical implementation but the business model: you had to pay for both a subscription to use the service and additionally a license to play particular games on the service (though there were also some free games). And of all the companies to even attempt such a business model, it is harder to think of a company that had the least chance of making it work than Google because almost no one believed that the licenses they paid for would be good for anything in a couple of years. In fairness, Google did refund these purchases when it shut down Stadia, and this was absolutely the right call, but it is also befuddling because, if they had been planning on doing this anyway, they could have told everyone at the beginning and made people a lot less wary of spending money on Stadia!
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 5 months ago:
A Mortician’s Tale was a nice relatively short interactive experience about what it is like to work in that occupation and its ups and downs, and an opportunity to reflect a bit on the reality of death.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 5 months ago:
To The Moon
I have played that game five times (so I could share the experience with other people) and have broken down into tears at the end every time.
- Comment on This feels wrong. I love it. 5 months ago:
If you are comfortable with negative numbers, then you are already comfortable with the idea that a number can be tagged with an extra bit of information that represents a rotation. Complex numbers just generalize the choices available to you from 0 degrees and 180 degrees to arbitrary angles.
- Comment on Just Terrible 6 months ago:
Just to be clear, the problem is actually not that the guy was being boring but that he was a monster.
- Comment on Magic Mineral 6 months ago:
This is especially a concern for those of us who keep pork chops in our walls for a quick and convenient snack!