Cracks_InTheWalls
@Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points 5 hours ago:
If you want to see what that looks like in the relevant context here (Canada), check out what lemmy.ca is doing (fedecan.ca). Would be curious if there’s non-Canadian instances taking this approach too.
I assume there’s at least some tax benefits/less of a tax liability to TheDude if doing this, but likely requires an additional level of support from folks too for the adminstrative aspects of that.
- Comment on The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points 14 hours ago:
Checked it out, it is truly tesh.it. Definitely a nice lookin’ frontend!
- Comment on The 2025 SJW Update: Donations, costs and other points 14 hours ago:
Reading some deets:
Liberapay - does not take a cut of payments, the service is funded by donations to its own account. However, there are payment processing fees. The fees vary by payment processor, payment methods, countries, and currencies. In the last year, the average fee percentages have been 3.1% for the payments processed by Stripe and 5.1% for the payments processed by Paypal.Ko-fi - No fee for one-off donations (editorial: FUCK), 5% platform fee to use premium features/become a Ko-Fi contributor (basically to give Ko-Fi a cut in exchange for premium Ko-Fi features for TheDude and co)
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 1 week ago:
Hey, much respect to that.
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 1 week ago:
I just want to take a moment to say your username is amazing.
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 1 week ago:
See, everyone is coming in and talking about different means of measuring instances, the implications for the fediverse and the position of federated services against corporate monoliths like reddit.
But you, verity - you get it.
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 1 week ago:
So!? We’re #5! Or 4! Or something!
(Not everything needs a point - I just felt like posting this. Though it does look like it’s started a discussion about the relative size of lemmy and different instances, which is neat to think about once in a while - or disheartening depending on your perspective)
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 1 week ago:
Man, I just wanted to chant “We’re #5”, now I have people coming at me with facts. :p
(Jokes aside, I appreciate it. There’s nuance to these metrics and what best accounts for ‘size’, particularly for those cases/services where the metrics reflect a little bugginess anyway)
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 1 week ago:
I mean this is the ideal. Most of the time I’m right there with ya. I’m just really attached to this instance - doesn’t mean that others are bad for not being on this (upon review, actually somewhat problematic) list.
- Comment on [sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! 1 week ago:
Huh, you’re right. In fairness this is cropped from an image shared on the AskLemmy .ml thread, so I’m not 100% sure what’s going on there.
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- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 2 weeks ago:
Wait, you’re American?! Fuck you! blocked
Kidding, of course - you’re one of my favourites too. Think you could’ve chosen your words more carefully in the OP exchange - jealousy is a bit of a trigger word, it’s more than the U.S.’ reputation internationally is … sketchy, even before the last periods of particular sketchiness. But some people just expand this to all individual Americans, which isn’t fair - most Americans I’ve met are just normal people just as bewildered as the rest of us are at the state of the world (and the U.S’ place in it).
- Comment on Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse! 3 weeks ago:
Year of the Linux storm.
- Comment on Shit Post 4 weeks ago:
I’m embarassed about how often I think about this chart.
- Comment on What do people (as in, IRL) actually think of the [alleged] perpetrator involved in the NYC shooting? 1 month ago:
So far, it’s mostly been these points:
- Murder is wrong. Thompson should not have been murdered.
- Nevertheless, this was bound to happen eventually, and [people I’ve talked to about it are] not upset that Thompson is dead.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 months ago:
On a CRT? Sure, probably a lot haven’t seen it. On a modern TV? Still possible for some - mine does this if I hit the channel button rather than volume accidentally.
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 2 months ago:
Huh. Can’t help but wonder if this is connected to why a significant amount of people find asses sexually attractive across gender lines - something about signs of a good persistance hunter (likely quite overstated by base monkey brain), and therefore ability to provide for spawn.
Probably not, but makes ya think. I also accept that I’m thinking about it from a heteronormative, sex as biological imperative for spreading genes POV - so limited and overall probably wrong.
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 2 months ago:
Listening to a folk punk song that uses the word fuck to great effect on Spotify yesterday, wondering why the fuck the line ‘If you fuck up I will still be your friend’ reads ‘If you f up’.
I just don’t get it. Fuck is a valid, if vulgar, part of the common English lexicon. It serves a purpose.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 3 months ago:
Two choices:
- Medical mask and sunglasses (preferably those boxy ones people wear over regular glasses). Few people question medical masks these days.
- Embrace the lunacy, and wear whatever mask/facial covering you think is cool/funny. Life’s short and a lot of people would do well with embracing harmless weirdness.
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 4 months ago:
Break falls are the only skill I’ve kept from my martial arts training, but it’s literally the most useful one.
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 4 months ago:
“@!#?@!, motherfucker!”
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 5 months ago:
It’s a term that’s taken on some additional baggage/meaning. Originally it simply meant someone who was involuntarily celibate - wants to have sexual relationships, but doesn’t. Now it usually refers to someone adhering to a kind of peculiar set of ideologies around that (see: social value theories taken to some often ridiculous extremes; good ol’ fashioned misogyny/perhaps misanthropy; etc.).
There’s a kneejerk reaction to incels in the latter sense because so much that comes out of that is pretty awful. That and it’s often folks who engage with the latter stuff who are more inclined to identify with the term incel - most others who just fit the former definition just say they’re single.
IMO the latter usage is just more proof that we are failing and continuing to fail men, badly, in terms of community and mental health supports.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 5 months ago:
I’d ask how you define evil in this case. To me, an act is evil when the net detriment to the planet and its contents (including humans) is greater than the net benefit it creates, and the actor pursues said act knowing this. I’d argue it scales with the nature and context of the act. It’s hard to say this isn’t real. But yes, we all have the capacity for evil, and also can be complicit in other evils by dint of normalized behaviours (without necessarily being ‘evil’ ourselves)
I do agree that an absolute Evil doesn’t exist, the same way an absolute Good doesn’t exist. But we’re a pile of writhing meat puppets on a moist, moldy rock - we don’t exist on that level in the first place.
- Comment on Planning to propose in a few months, what should I look for in a good value engagement ring? 6 months ago:
True, but you can meet in the middle re: this kind of thing with the ring. Having established that it’s going to happen at some point, take a trip to a jewelers ‘for fun’. Pay attention to what she goes ‘oooh’ over - style, stone, cut, etc. Write this information down to search separately.
It’s a bit of a stereotype I suppose, but trust that your future wife knows what she’s doing on that visit (particularly if y’all don’t browse jewelry frequently - it’s kind of an anvil of a hint). This way there’s still an element of surprise, but you’re not just picking something random in hopes it pleases.
- Comment on Man of Hard Principles 6 months ago:
The only thing that’s weird to me about this is, why divorce in that case? There’s no law that says you need to live in the same domicile as your spouse. Could’ve lived separately and kept stuff like shared insurance benefits and whatnot.
It’s rare, granted, but it is a thing. Unless they wanted to separate their financial lives entirely and keep getting down, I guess.
- Comment on Poor Sega just didn't get the timing right. 6 months ago:
In an age of LLM, Seaman needs a remake.
- Comment on The internet connects people 6 months ago:
No need to apologize, was just curious - figured folks is gender-neutral as is, never saw an alternate form of it before.
Sincerely, thanks! Didn’t know this was a thing for anyone.
- Comment on The internet connects people 7 months ago:
Off-topic, but if you don’t mind me asking, why folx over folks?
- Comment on I don't get how people can become depressed, when we live in the century of Fentanyl, easy access to alcohol and amusement arcades. 7 months ago:
There are people trying pretty hard to make that happen though mostly in the context of supervised medical interventions.
Which I’m here for - while a lot of people do OK, (fantastically even) with less structured psychedelic experiences, many do not. A really bad trip can do a number on you, sometimes for a long while.
- Comment on Get sorted... 7 months ago:
You may not be into the music and culture - and that’s cool - but you definitely get it.
Thank you for sharing this - sounds like it was hard, but necessary, thing for you to write. Send your cousin that text man, I’m sure he’d appreciate it.
