splinter
@splinter@hilariouschaos.com
Inconveniently Harmless
- Comment on Is there is any easy GUI for SQLite/embedded-databases for Android and Linux? 1 week ago:
Your best bet is a web “app”, like sqliteviewer.app
You could also easily get an LLM like Claude or Gemini Pro to write something similar if you had specific requirements. It’s pretty simple so a HTML+JS solution is likely enough and it will run on anything in your browser.
- Comment on Religion critical speech forbidden 2 weeks ago:
Not at all, we do not disallow any kind of critical speech, unlike the vast majority of Lemmy instances. The TOS are somewhat broad as it’s hard to be specific with these things and discretion always plays a plays a part.
In general, criticism, debate and satire are perfectly fine. Discrimination, personal attacks and insults are not. To give a concrete example, you can say that you don’t like religion X for Y reasons as much as you like. You can’t say that all people of X religion are idiots and you hope they die.
It’s no different than speech about anything else.
Another thing that is relatively unique about our instance is we give communities the right to moderate themselves according to their own rules, so long as they stick to our TOS. This means that you could, for example, start a community dedicated to praising Cthulhu and remove all comments that are even vaguely critical of him from your community, without having the HC admin try to police what you should or shouldn’t allow.
These things make us somewhat unpopular in the Lemmy ecosystem where censorship along political lines is seen as desirable, so long as it favors the left. HC is fairly well known (and amusingly unpopular) in the Lemmy ecosystem, despite our small size, specifically because we refuse to act like the thought police.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to announcements@hilariouschaos.com | 1 comment
- Comment on I am having a weird experience on the Fediverse. 2 months ago:
Definitely, post as much as you like, it will federate automatically to all the linked instances.
A word of advice is to stagger the content a bit (e.g. give it 10-20 minutes between posts) - I personally don’t care but other admins might perceive posting too much, too quickly as spam. You or your community can still be banned locally on other instances.
- Comment on I am having a weird experience on the Fediverse. 2 months ago:
People can be pretty quick to jump the trigger on this stuff, I got a report about you being a bot too. It’s all a bit silly.
Yes it can, I can see it pop up in the lemmy.world search just fine. Federation is a bit wonky at first but now that it has been linked, it should be relatively smooth sailing.
- Comment on I am having a weird experience on the Fediverse. 2 months ago:
It’s true, some instances do de-federate us. Not all, hence I can talk to you here, but some do.
As an instance we do not suppress content based on political views, and this rubs many people the wrong way. I can’t change what they do and I can’t change their minds either, so it is what it is unfortunately.
- Comment on I am having a weird experience on the Fediverse. 2 months ago:
Hey, firstly thanks for starting a community on our little instance - we are glad to have you!
I have used lemmy-federate.com on your behalf to federate it more broadly.
Regarding your issue, Lemmy can get a bit confused when you’re logged into multiple instances from the same browser. Your best bet is to clear cache and try again.
- Comment on HC wishes to expand its borders 5 months ago:
It is a bit weird, and mostly for imaginary reasons. There’s a growing mythology surrounding our little instance.
- Comment on Downvotes - let's discuss 5 months ago:
I’ve done this one, let me know if you want to add other ones
- Comment on Downvotes - let's discuss 5 months ago:
Why not!
- Submitted 5 months ago to announcements@hilariouschaos.com | 10 comments
- Comment on Did this instance disable downvotes? 5 months ago:
To clarify: Not recently, they have been disabled for about a year.
- Comment on HC wishes to expand its borders 5 months ago:
It’s already in effect, though it probably won’t make a huge difference unfortunately, as most of the instances we weren’t linked with are very small. Ultimately we are a small instance ourselves which is why things are quiet sometimes - in time I hope that can change.
I will at some point try to see if I can talk with some of the larger instances that have defederated us, perhaps they can change their minds. That would make a larger impact, though my hopes aren’t high.
- Comment on HC wishes to expand its borders 5 months ago:
It’s not very sophisticated, we just sign up, start a community called “HC Embassy” or “Embassy of Hilarious Chaos” or something equally stupid, and start something akin to an AMA thread.
- Comment on HC wishes to expand its borders 5 months ago:
Haha yeah I’ll definitely need to be in a good mood for that one, but I’m curious too.
I was thinking I could sign up on their instances and open an “embassy” thread (or community?) to see if we can talk things out / dispel some myths.
- Comment on HC wishes to expand its borders 5 months ago:
🙌
I think it was the right way to go about it too.
Subscribing their communities is the main thing you can do. Similarly, they would need to subscribe to ours to receive our content.
I might try to reach out to some of the instances that have defederated from us, to see if we can reason with them. It all feels very irrational, maybe we can get them to see that the kitty isn’t scary after all. That’s one for when I have the time and patience though.
- Submitted 5 months ago to announcements@hilariouschaos.com | 13 comments
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 6 months ago:
No, it isn’t.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 6 months ago:
Apparently some old admin went afk and nobody else had access. So much for being a collective I guess.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 6 months ago:
Truly salt of the earth
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 6 months ago:
They’re still poached though, all federation points to hexbear.net, domains are pretty central to Lemmy.
It will be interesting to see how they get out of this one.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 6 months ago:
This is true, definitely not a very happy thought.
As an aside, it looks like they have a back-up domain, the drama here is hilarious: chapo.chat
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 6 months ago:
Looks like they forgot to renewe it, someone else snapped it up and now it’s up for auction. You could own hexbear I guess!
- Submitted 6 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 177 comments
- Submitted 6 months ago to fediverse@hilariouschaos.com | 13 comments
- Comment on Apparently this instance respects freedom? 6 months ago:
That’s pretty wild. Alice tells me the mod team has changed recently, it sounds like the new mods are a different cut.
- Comment on Apparently this instance respects freedom? 6 months ago:
Hey, we do tolerate open and free discussion, certainly more than places like db0 do. You are allowed to have an opinion here and others are allowed to contradict you. As @Alice@hilariouschaos.com said, if it’s not breaking our TOS then it’s fine.
You and your community are welcome here, assuming it’s not particularly spammy.
- Comment on Trump Begins Selling New Meme Coin Days Ahead of Inauguration 7 months ago:
Shit’s nuts
- Submitted 7 months ago to news@hilariouschaos.com | 6 comments
- Comment on If shit is present tense, and shat is past tense, is there no future tense of the word shit? 7 months ago:
To shiten
