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- Comment on Endurain is a self-hosted fitness tracking service designed to give users full control over their data and hosting environment 6 days ago:
Is it federated/does it have social elements?
- Comment on Which Lemmy instances have signups without registration? 1 week ago:
Instances that don’t have email approval, captcha or manual approval, tend to get defederated pretty quickly, because they attract spam bots
- Comment on How much are additional lemmy instances needed/wanted beyond what we have at present? 2 weeks ago:
just dicking around on my own for testing purposes.
Start with this, and if it gets traction, you can always move it to a more serious setup.
That’s pretty much what happened with this instance
- Comment on No background, AMA 2 weeks ago:
Did you deliberatelyskip the background section when you were doing character creation or was it accidental? Do you regret this character configuration? Would you create the same character if you were starting again?
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I can hear you Clem Fandango
- Comment on Interviews with Australians about segregated swimming pools [1965] 2 weeks ago:
She was young, still a kid, raised in the country, and going to school in one of the most racist towns in Australia. She had only turned up to go to the pool and go swimming with some friends. She wasn’t there for the Freedom Ride or the protest, so it all caught her by surprise. It was stumbling in to the protest, and seeing all of the folk that had turned out for it, pushing back against racism that made her realise that racism doesn’t have to be “just the way it is”.
Unfortunately, Moree is still a racist, bigoted place, with deeply entrenched inequality. The segregation is still there, it’s just social now, instead of legal.
- Comment on Interviews with Australians about segregated swimming pools [1965] 2 weeks ago:
My mum was in Moree to visit the pool on the day the Freedom Ride arrived there. She was 16 at the time, and she’s always told me the impact it had on her!
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 2 weeks ago:
What in USA is considered “left” more-or-less align with what is considered left outside of USA
What is considered left in the USA is largely considered center or center right outside of the USA
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 2 weeks ago:
Hey. I’m learning Spanish, I’m a volunteer, and I run and cycle on the regular!
Somehow, that doesn’t stop you sounding like a bigot though…
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 3 weeks ago:
kind of how AOSP is for Android)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You don’t “confirm” it. It’s an attempt to describe a system/outcome. It’s a model of a system, not the system itself and no model is perfect, because all models are our attempt to understand and describe things, and there is no such thing as perfect understanding.
However, it’s a highly accurate model, that explains things very well. So, either we will find that one day, we make a brand new, better model (this seems unlikely given the accuracy of the current model, but possible). Or, more likely, we continue to come to a better understanding of the system, and improve the model we use to describe it.
- Comment on Why are Maries Sues hated while Gary Stus are loved? 5 weeks ago:
I think this thread of replies largely denying it happens, or arguing as for why there’s a good reason that it happens should give you an idea why the issue happens in the first place.
- Comment on Sharing posts across instances 1 month ago:
And smart clients/UIs like tesseract realise that the link is to a remote lemmy instance, and then give you the option of viewing it remotely or from your own instances perspective
- Comment on Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. 1 month ago:
On the horizon? They crossed that horizon a long time ago. It’s just going to accelerate now
- Comment on fedi 4chan? 1 month ago:
Any place with anonymous/ephermal account and posts as the default is going to attract the worst people in the world…
- Comment on Can you create/moderate a community on a instance other than your own? 1 month ago:
Reports federate, in a limited way. They federate to the instance the community is hosted on, the instance the reported user is hosted on, the instance the reporting user is hosted on (well technically, it doesn’t federate to the last one, as that is where it started). I don’t believe that a report will federate to a remote instance that doesn’t meet one of those criteria, even if it hosts a moderator for the community, but I’m not certain about this one.
Either way, report resolutions don’t directly federate, so resolving a report doesn’t resolve it on the other instances. It looks like they federate, because post removal from a mod federates, and removing a post auto closes the report. However, a report that was spurious or a troll or whatever that isn’t going to be actioned, has to be manually closed down on each instance it federates to.
- Comment on What is the name of the sexuality of being into the opposite gender and willing to date the same gender but not finding anyone of the same gender attractive? 1 month ago:
I’m panromantic, but attracted to men, however I only date women. My partner is a woman :)
- Comment on What is the name of the sexuality of being into the opposite gender and willing to date the same gender but not finding anyone of the same gender attractive? 1 month ago:
I’m not the OP, but their question was pretty much describing me.
For me, it’s about intimacy. I value intimacy. Hugging, kissing, touching, holding hands, sharing moments, laying on the couch together watching TV etc. Those are things that I don’t do with my friends, and aren’t things that I’m looking for from my friends.
Asexual folk have developed language that talks about the way they navigate similar situations. Sex averse, sex neutral and sex positive. So even though I’m not ace, the terms apply in a similar way to my relationships. Using these terms, I would describe myself as sex neutral. Which is to say that I don’t seek it out, and I don’t miss it. Yet, it’s also a very strong form of intimacy, which I value a great deal, and as an expression of intimacy, it’s very much something I’m happy to share with my partner.
- Comment on What is the name of the sexuality of being into the opposite gender and willing to date the same gender but not finding anyone of the same gender attractive? 1 month ago:
That’s pretty much me. I don’t really have a name for it. I just call myself queer, or sometimes panromantic.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
Phones are already too small. I use a fold because it’s the only way I can get a decent sized phone now!
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 month ago:
Yeah, it does
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 2 months ago:
Like a phone book?
- Comment on Radical Feminism 2 months ago:
You’re inspired by an actively transphobic reddit community?
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 2 months ago:
No p zombies here!
- Comment on Meaning/implication of “you don’t have to do this” in this context? 2 months ago:
It means that the person you are talking to believes that you’re just making polite conversation because you’re uncomfortable with silence. They are letting you know that they would prefer you didn’t make conversation, because they prefer silence to idle chatter.
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 2 months ago:
I have very good spatial awareness, but it’s non visual. I can navigate my way mentally through a spaxe and “feel” where the walls are without seeing them. I have a sense of how big something is compared to something else and where they are relative to each other in space, but all non visually.
And I can rotate objects in my mind and change my perspective around them, but all without any visual elements.
I can sense the mental cube, but I can’t see it. It has no colour, no texture etc. Imagine a sort of mental bat sonar?
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 2 months ago:
No, I don’t get a sense of awe or beauty from reading things. I can appreciate when the folks I’m reading about experience those emotions, but I don’t feel them, because there is nothing to inspire them in me.
Which is why I tend to prefer books that go in to more depth about what people are thinking and feeling than books that go in to lots of visual detail
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 2 months ago:
The words have no sound. No volume, no pitch. They’re word ideas not words. I don’t hear anything, I just understand the words.
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 2 months ago:
I can think of words, I just don’t think I’m words. And when I think of a word I can run them together in a sentence. But they have no “sound”. They don’t have volume or pitch, they don’t sound like anyone, they’re just the idea of words. And because the words are after the fact, they don’t exist without me willing them in to existence. So no monologue in the way people describe it, and the idea of a conversation in my head doesn’t make sense. It would be more like writing a script for a conversation
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 2 months ago:
Like most folk with aphantasia, I thought that people talking about “seeing things in their imagination” were just being dramatic and using common language. It never occurred to me that they could genuinely see things in their minds. And the whole thing where people would be upset when a character in a TV show or movie didn’t look like how they’d imagined they would look, never made sense to me. And shows where people could recall the details of peoples faces for police sketch artists…
Basically, moments like that started adding up over my life, and then about 10 years ago, I read an article from someone who had discovered they had aphantasia through a similar path, and it all just fell in to place.