ElectroVagrant
@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
Another traveler of the wireways.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 4 hours ago:
It may not do much depending on the mods/admins, but it never hurts to report and downvote comments or posts like that.
Emphasis on reporting there, as I think sometimes that stuff lingers around because people have made a habit of only downvoting and blocking those doing that regularly. I realize in your examples it’s more likely bias or bigotry respectively, but still.
Report first, then downvote and block. Doing only the latter only makes your experience a little better, the former may help the community.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 2 days ago:
Remember: $80 from the big companies is only the starting price given the various editions and other monetization schemes they may push.
Also the scale and technical demands of their games, and thus their cost, have in large part been pushed by them, despite their attempts to turn it around and say it’s all organic consumer demand.
- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 2 days ago:
For those that may only vote and otherwise lurk, there’s a decent amount.
The inability to create multi-communities/reddits (or feeds as Piefed calls them), the absence of post-folding/deduplication for when someone posts the same article to multiple communities (sometimes similar, sometimes distinct), the absence of keyword filtering to automatically filter out stuff from local/all feeds one’s uninterested in, and these are just a few from the top of my head for those that mostly lurk.
- Submitted 5 days ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Privacy disaster as LGBTQ+ and BDSM dating apps leak private photos. 6 days ago:
In other words, vibe coders are today’s technologically accelerated script kiddie.
That’s arguably worse as the produced scripts may largely work and come with even less demand for understanding than a script kid’s cobbling together of code may have demanded.
- Comment on A digital desktop toy shredder/incinerator for writing out and promptly destroying one's thoughts would be nice some days 2 weeks ago:
Huh, that’s cool! Thanks!
p.s. I meant a digital widget/thing, but it’s cool to know this tool exists!
- Comment on Looking for simple self-hosted image editor / resizer app 2 weeks ago:
Was thinking the same and you can.
Minimal fucking around needed too, just pkg install imagemagick then navigate filesystem to images ya want to adjust and magick however desired to reduce the file size.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on I have a bunch of questions: Whats the best way to get this platform's feed to compete with reddit? 2 weeks ago:
No, sorry. To put it in your terms Lemmy would be a “platform” like how you describe Mastodon/Pixelfed.
The reason I suggested mentioning feddit.org instead is because it’s what you’re using and where someone else could sign up and join easily.
Mentioning Lemmy (or Mastodon/Pixelfed) doesn’t tell people any site to sign up on, just what tech they’re built with.
- Comment on I have a bunch of questions: Whats the best way to get this platform's feed to compete with reddit? 2 weeks ago:
Focus on making posts you want to discuss or would want to see in communities that interest you and you want to see active.
While I’d argue it’s better to shake off the platform thinking, the simple way to put it would be that you simply refer to the site you’re using, feddit.org, when mentioning it to others. The umbrella term for these connected sites is either fediverse or the open social web, whichever you prefer. Each site like this connects with one another, but given formatting differences (Pixelfed is more image-focused, Mastodon is microblogging), posts shared between them try to display in ways fitting one another’s format which can sometimes look rough.
You may see content from these other sites when browsing the main feed/front page set to All, which displays content from elsewhere that others on your site (feddit.org) have subscribed to.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time? 2 weeks ago:
May want to cross-post this to !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml.
- Comment on What about AT protocol? 3 weeks ago:
There’s also this:
frontpage.fyiNot sure which of the two has been around longer, but looks like frontpage is also pretty slow going.
- Comment on Two Point Museum just launched as Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately this has Denuvo to restrict your use of your purchase. Was hoping after their first title getting criticized for this they may have changed course on that, but appears not.
Would recommend waiting till that’s removed, maybe in a GOG release.
- Comment on Best thing you can do for genuinely free stuff is share it with others and talk it up 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much, yeah. Buried by marketing and mostly kept that way by it dominating conversations.
Been occasionally posting creative commons music and some fully free games to try to be the change I want to see.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
Your ignorance means it was shiny and new to you, and that’s okay!
- Comment on Creating an artificial sense of touch. 5 weeks ago:
Great steps! Non-invasive methods may be preferable, but restoration of sensation is restoration.
- Comment on The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences 5 weeks ago:
The future of the web may be relearning the browser (and other tools)
- Comment on PSA: Some of y'all are overly afraid of scorpions 5 weeks ago:
OP is scorpions
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The tricky part is, the group-supporting fediverse software and the microblogging software need to improve how they interact for this to be as good as it could be.
Right now Mastodon barely supports group users/actors/accounts, however they’re called, translating stuff from Lemmy’s format in a rather clunky way. Meanwhile Lemmy also has to roughly translate Mastodon’s format to its own, working pretty well all things considering, but leaving clear artifacts (subject line/first line repeating, community mention remaining shown, etc.).
- Comment on Frizzle Sizzle! Got a perm! 1 month ago:
Congrats on getting them to curl with delight!
- Comment on Overte - social virtual worlds, free and open source! 1 month ago:
Honestly I’d like to see more eyes on this mostly because I enjoy the simple experience of freely roaming around hazard-free virtual worlds from time to time.
- Submitted 1 month ago to foss_gaming@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 1 month ago:
A part of the problem is that there are multiple similar general topic instances/sites to choose from. If there were more dissimilar, specific topic instances/sites it might help reduce the choice paralysis a little.
It might even better help highlight the perks of federation, as it would be easier to be like, “See, even though you’re on cuteanimals.posts, you can still check out and comment on stuff besides cute animals if you want.”
- Comment on in what order do you guys recommend watching the whole Ghost in the Shell narrative after the original movie(no spoilers please)? 2 months ago:
I’d go with this, and look into each and read a little about them to see if the art styles and stories interest you and dig in from there, rather than approaching it as a wholly cohesive series.
Personally I liked the original movie and the Stand Alone Complex/2nd Gig series, but didn’t care as much for Arise (the OVA cut). Can’t speak to other parts as I haven’t seen them.
- Submitted 2 months ago to anime@ani.social | 3 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to anime@ani.social | 8 comments
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02] 2 months ago:
Finished the first season of Hell’s Paradise awhile ago and it wasn’t too bad. The start is pretty rough, giving some major edgelord vibes, and it’s very much in the tradition of bloody splatfests with conflicted protagonists, but the later setting and creature designs kind of help compensate for that.
If you’re into the edgy vibe with bloody fights and some random nudity, it might click with you a lot. For me it had just enough weird/mystery to it to keep me watching.
- Comment on "Dan Da Dan" Season 2 Announced for July 2025 with Key Visual 3 months ago:
For more in that spirit, check out Devilman Crybaby.
- Comment on LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players 3 months ago:
Streaming isn’t the middle ground in my opinion, it’s unrestricted downloadable files that you can then handle however. Streaming provides some convenience but no consistent access (see various shows being delisted or shuffled between services).
Companies would love if everyone forgot having home video, in the sense of owning copies of movies and shows they always having access to and ability to watch whenever.