TheWaterGod

TheWaterGod, 6 months ago

This is the thing I’m happiest to see and I hope it helps Lemmy grow more. Being able to block the NSFW/porn instances is such a quality-of-life improvement. I’ve got nothing against porn, but it’s a bad look if anyone can see your screen and every third post is nudity (even if it’s blurred).

TheWaterGod, 6 months ago

I’ve seen that option but unfortunately not every NSFW post is NSFW because of nudity. Like some of the post in the Ukraine community are marked NSFW for war reasons.

TheWaterGod, 6 months ago

There seems to be an issue with uploading large images. I don’t know if anyone else has noticed it but I’m getting the error when trying to upload wallpapers to /c/wallpapers. I think it might be related to file size? Or maybe file format? It’s a 13MB .png file. I don’t remember running into issues with the old version when posting similar content.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/e986e8a3-2059-4f5e-a7d2-e3e7eb6b9598.png

TheWaterGod, 6 months ago

Thanks! I’ll try converting the file format and see if that’ll work. I successfully uploaded a JPEG last night, so maybe it just doesn’t like PNG files anymore 🤷‍♂️

TheWaterGod, 6 months ago

Not the OP, but I’ve got the following bots blocked and it massively improved my Lemmy experience.

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• video_feed_bot
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

TheWaterGod, 7 months ago

Good news then, because there’s a second half to the story!

tumblr.com/…/thisthinginabox-writing-prompt-s-why…

TheWaterGod, 9 months ago

It’s probably not the answer you’re looking for, but depending where you live, periwinkle is considered an invasive species and it’s generally recommended to plant something else.

TheWaterGod, 9 months ago

OfficialPartner is another one. I had them and softwaresales posting spam in one of my communities.

TheWaterGod, 10 months ago

I always heard that pearls/jade and n’joy were slower growing varieties of the original marble queen. I found that mine started to really take off after I pruned it back and stuck a couple of fertilizer sticks in the pot. I’ve also got a marble and I gotta say, it’s been keeping up with it growth-wise lately haha

TheWaterGod, 10 months ago

100% agree. I really enjoy the app and Kuro has done amazing work, but this logo misses the mark tbh. I’m definitely no graphics designer (just someone who knows enough to make shitty memes), but the alignment is all over the place with this logo.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/2d719d97-db21-4220-92e5-fd4f6a8f459f.png

TheWaterGod, 10 months ago

In my opinion, that’s way better dude.

TheWaterGod, 10 months ago

Looking at the pot, that’s legitimately the first idea I had if OP wants to go the malicious compliance route. I’d be tempted to build a table around the plant pot. Something like this (but for outdoors):

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/8e64ff93-4cd6-48a8-a6fe-381f0892e867.png

TheWaterGod, 10 months ago

I struggled with this one even before I dropped it, so I feel your pain. Through some trial and error, I found that this guy likes lots of light and little water.

Light-wise, he’s in a east facing window that gets a ton of morning/early afternoon sun. Used to be in a spot that got direct sun but I had to move things around recently and it’s less direct now (so hopefully I haven’t jinxed it lol)

For watering, I know a lot of people say to do the “taco test” (i.e. fold the leaves gently and if they fold like a taco, then it’s time to water) but I found that was waiting too long between waterings. I just go on the weight of the pot now. I still wait until the soil is dry all the way through but not long enough that the leaves “taco”. I also feel like a shallow pot is super important. The grey cache pot is tall to allow hanging but the pot inside is only 2 inches deep (it’s a custom job, I cut a nursery pot in half). I’ve also found that it responds best to bottom watering because the water just kind of runs through if I go from the top.

TheWaterGod, 10 months ago

Thanks for the work you guys do!

Changelog for anyone who’s interested.

TheWaterGod, 10 months ago

It’s a great pollinator friendly plant and easy to grow (it just needs a lot of sunlight). I’ve been adding it as a filler in-between some of my shrubs and I’m getting bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds! Fantastic little plant.

TheWaterGod, 11 months ago

There’s definitely going to be more reddit exoduses. Over the last 10 years, there were several moments where this could’ve happened but there weren’t any viable options (except Voat, but that went to the Nazis 👎). Now that there’s Lemmy, Squabbles, Tildes, etc…, I think people’s appetite for putting up with reddit’s bullshit is a lot less. I think the next big one will be when reddit introduces the new “awards” system in a couple of months.

TheWaterGod, 11 months ago

I gave Lemmy a toque.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/dddc8ae1-9d8b-4b60-90ee-5b5c76acdf3d.png

And then I was reminded of Bob and Doug, so…

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/38138473-baf3-4acb-92b0-96f35cac224e.png

TheWaterGod, 11 months ago

Where did all the 90 minute movies go? I’m up for a longer movie if it can hold my attention (I have the same problem of dozing off) but 90 minutes was the sweet spot. Especially because you could make a late night (10pm or after) snap decision to watch a movie and still be in bed before midnight.

TheWaterGod, 11 months ago

It was !android that closed down and merged into !android

TheWaterGod, 11 months ago

I’m in favour of defedding. It’s just Reddit spam that’s not needed here. If people find interesting things over on Reddit that also belong here, that’s one thing, but there’s no reason to make a 1:1 copy. Let Lemmy be Lemmy and let Reddit be Reddit. They don’t have to be the same thing.

Has anyone noticed @linkbot as well? Is it doing the same thing?

TheWaterGod, 11 months ago

Go for it man! I had never moderated over on Reddit but I wanted to contribute on Lemmy so I started up some communities. Everyone has behaved themselves so far and people have been pretty positive about things. Eventually it might get overwhelming (if Lemmy really takes off), but there’s always the option of adding more mods to help.

TheWaterGod, 11 months ago

I’m really digging the realistic take on the yellow suit. I think it works well.

Also, I hope there’s going to be a scene where he rips the sleeves off. Long sleeved Logan feels wrong 😂

TheWaterGod, 11 months ago

Release notes if anyone is interested. Lots of good stuff.

TheWaterGod, 11 months ago

A lot of us just left a site because it was ruined by corporate greed. I don’t think corporations belong in the fediverse. If there’s a vote, I vote for defedding with Threads.

TheWaterGod, 11 months ago

From the original post, it sounds like this is for instances where there’s a massive influx of users but little to no posts/comments. For example, the top of the spreadsheet lists lemmy.podycust.co.uk that has >86000 users and 9 Posts/34 Comments. That honestly seems pretty suspicious to me. So I don’t think Beehaw or any legitimate instance is going to caught in this.

TheWaterGod, 1 year ago

I’m no expert on water bombers, but I wonder if the heavier use of helicopters has to do with the ease of getting water? As I understand it, water bombers need a pretty sizable body of water to do their thing and that’s not always available (or if it is, it could be a longer flight away).