Anon518

@Anon518@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  we can get random experts chiming in about interesting topics in an organic way

  1. In my experience, many of the people claiming to be experts on reddit are spreading misinformation. This goes for Twitter too, and probably most other large social media sites. People love to be seen as an authority on a topic.
  2. Reddit is anything but organic, and is getting worse and worse in this regard.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to avoid US elections content as a non-US citizen. Is this possible on the default Lemmy-UI? I prefer it over Tesseract, Photon, Alexandrite and Voyager (which have built-in keyword filters)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a github issue requesting this feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I block politics subs and have never had an issue with lemmy.ml. All the issues I see are related to politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you use instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!esports@lemmy.zip For all things esport related!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Curious what made you choose lemmy.zip?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Lemmy better than Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, I haven’t observed that. There seem to be many people on Lemmy who go out of their way to be antagonistic to other Lemmy users. Which includes downvote brigading, as the OP said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK there is a massive Google Doc of U.S. gynecologists that will tie your tubes without asking about your kids, marital status or age.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Notice the htmlview at the end. You can archive it.

  • web.archive.org/web/20240717202840/…/htmlview
  • archive.fo/fPiCh
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A web app to easily transfer your user data from one Lemmy instance to another⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the info!

  I may add options to modify the exported data in some ways via a simple checkbox in the future, but I wouldn’t count on it.

  The 2nd screenshot github.com/…/How-to-only-export-or-transfer-a-par… shows that feature already exists?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A web app to easily transfer your user data from one Lemmy instance to another⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What about forking lasim, which is now inactive? github.com/CMahaff/lasim

  It’s better than the built-in option because it gives you more options. For example, if I only want to add blocks from one account to another without overwriting any other settings. I don’t see that your tool allows for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you just write in Markdown (the same thing Lemmy uses), pick a theme, and you’re good to go

  That is far too basic for most websites. It’s absurd to suggest that’s a valid alternative for something like Wordpress + Elementor.

  Squarespace should be on the table for static websites as well.

  How so? It’s not static that I’m aware of, unless you’re exporting it to a file after using the UI to create it?

  I assumed we were talking about direct replacements for WordPress, not hosted alternatives.

  Well, as you said, Wordpress does a lot of things. Shopify, Wordpress, Squarespace, etc., are certainly interchangeable/competitors to a large degree. Wordpress has hosted options and is a default/main option for many hosting companies.

  You can build a full website with every major function and design option with Wordpress. You can’t with Jekyll and Hugo unless you can code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice policy. I chose shitjustworks because I saw here github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances that it has fewer blocks than lemm.ee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  static site? - Hugo, Jekyll, etc - just generates regular HTML

  These are either vastly more limited, or they require you to be able to code.

  ecommerce? - consider nopCommerce or OpenCard

  I’ve never heard of these, but I have seen people say that if you want to do ecommerce you should only use Shopify, because even small differences can result in people not purchasing your products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What would you use instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online Content Is Disappearing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Forums are still around. People just got lazy and started using reddit instead. Search engines are also to blame since they don’t bring up smaller forums in search results. People can go back to forums if they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you use instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m grateful that Stackoverflow is a valid alternative to reddit for many things. Fuck reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why you and others are so mad about this. Stackoverflow is a great resource that takes significant time and money to maintain. I don’t have a problem with the maintainers making money by selling access to train AI on the data.

  Having Stackoverflow as an alternative to reddit is important so that people aren’t stuck using reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is there a search engine for the fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is to search the whole fediverse, not just one instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Promoted on TikTok, ‘No Thanks’ boycott app targets products tied to Israel⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  www.buycott.com