kalanggam

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Texas-based writer and admin of the hol.ogra.ph Firefish instance

Feel free to follow me on Firefish @gil or check out my Substack!

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kalanggam,

Genuine question: what happened last time?

kalanggam,

What’re they mad about? 🤔

kalanggam,

It does work that way, but Mastodon and some other microblogging software like Firefish (fka Calckey), Pleroma, etc. can also use relays to populate their federated timelines.

kalanggam,

Yup! If the software supports it, instance admins can usually add relays from their control panel.

kalanggam,

Respectfully, how on earth did this design get cleared? 😭

kalanggam,

Cloaks are really a cool idea and I miss them, not that I was ever alive for them being en vogue haha

A great look despite the obvious hazard of them getting caught on things

kalanggam, (edited )

i give my week a 4/5, been busy the past few days trying to set up a Firefish instance with my partner which has been just awesome and i’m super excited to open it up and get people on it! rly inspired by beehaw’s community-building style.

in less awesome news i’m moving back home at the end of the week and i’m not looking forward to it. moving is so stressful and i don’t want to be back home with my dad either lol.

kalanggam,

omg happy belated birthday!! 🤠🥳

kalanggam,

thank you for your service chris 🫡 you are a pillar of this community

kalanggam,

I’m surprised to hear that anyone would complain about this with C. Even the Wikipedia page about encapsulation cites C as a non-OOP language example.

Good journals/planners for fountain pens?

So, I like to write simple notes, journaling, to-do lists, or essays/fiction with a fountain pen whenever possible, and I’m trying to find a good journal or planner to use. My Pilot and Diamine inks feather a lot on the paper I’m currently using, and that’s really the main problem I want to address....

kalanggam,

Respectfully, I just don’t think this is the right post for this kind of humor.

kalanggam,

The cake looks beautiful! I love how the intentional misspelling pairs with how y’all nailed just about every other aspect of the cake. Hope it tastes as good as it looks 😊

kalanggam,

This person’s upvoting beans, and you’re all just going to do nothing about it? What a sick world we live in.

kalanggam,

lemmy.blahaj.zone might have some of what you’re looking for. Not sure if they offer anything specifically filling the same niche as r/me_irlgbt, but I used to be subscribed to !196. (Overloaded my feed though sadly so that’s why I unsubbed.)

kalanggam,

As a reminder, there's a megathread about all Reddit-related news here - please direct all discussion about Reddit there. Thanks!

kalanggam,

I figured it was only a matter of time before Unity made AI tools of their own - not too long ago, people in r/Unity were showcasing their own AI projects for building 3D scenes and UI. I wonder what this means for those projects.

I'm more partial to using Godot to develop games though, so I'm more interested in seeing how AI shows up on that front.

I should let you know what is being allowed (beehaw.org)

Please read the replies to the link i posted in this linked post. It highlights a lot of really upseting content that is pushing LGBT people away from this instance and makes people feel uncomfortable or unsafe in a safe space. Reminder a persons right to exist peacefully shouldn't be up for debate and they shouldn't be treated...

kalanggam,

IMO it seems pretty clear that mods+admins and the community basically told the person, in no uncertain terms, either to figure out that we don't put up with the "debate-me" nonsense or to fuck off. As a queer POC, I personally find seeing that community push-back vital in gauging whether or not I feel comfortable here.

kalanggam,

I personally disagree with the sentiment that going child-free is the solution to ecological catastrophe. Any individual's decision to have children, or not, hardly compares to the systemic issues within agriculture and natural resource management which are causing it.

I thought beehaw was supposed to be the “nice” instance. You and others have done a wonderful job proving that otherwise today.

Well, the original comment in this thread which upset you came from your own instance. From where I'm sitting, that comment has been pretty much the only not-really-nice interaction you've had all day on here. Don't really see where this strawman is coming from.

kalanggam,

Could you add the link to your post?

kalanggam,

I agree - my main reason for sharing with this post in particular is because the tie-in it has with Beehaw's recent decision to, at least temporarily, defederate with .world and sh.itjust.works; I just found the framing about decentralization, esp. the fact that the Fediverse is not a monolithic entity mandating a uniformly aligned approach, useful.

On the whole, I do think either ActivityPub's protocol spec would need some kind of privacy revision, seeing as it's already been a Problem where microblogging admins have had to block access by servers dedicated to mirroring Mastodon posts which don't delete their copies after posts are deleted by the user, or the software itself, Lemmy in our case, will have to make adjustments to its implementation of federation like you said. Of course, I'm mostly just conjecturing here and I don't actually know what either of these might look like 😅

The main part of this which I problematize are the people who are sticking their necks out for Meta and suggesting instances shouldn't be quick to defederate because this is, supposedly, a good opportunity to bring federated social media into the mainstream. Yet, in my opinion, they're not making enough of the fact that, even with their open-source contributions, Meta's software manufactures discord and bigotry on a massive scale. Letting them federate with an instance opens floodgates on that and for the stealing and selling of Fediverse participants' data.

kalanggam,

It doesn’t feel empty to me, personally (just thought I’d be clear that this is only my opinion) but it is definitely somewhat slower than Reddit or some of the other Lemmy and Kbin instances that are out there. IMO, I think a lot of people coming to Beehaw who’re acculturated to Big Social or Big Social-ish experiences are inevitably disappointed with the amount of content because it’s not a massive stream of content being funneled into your feed anymore.

But I’ve been on the Fediverse (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.) for about four years now and gotten used to the slower flow, that going to Reddit or some other Lemmy instances or Twitter now feels like I’m drowning or being inundated/overwhelmed with content which flows faster than I can give a due-diligence response to. Either I could say nothing, just vote, write a one-off low-effort response, get in a heated debate, or try to take the time to write something more thoughtful (and then by the time I was done with that, the moment would already have past or I’d get some smart-ass reply that would end the engagement for me). Plus there are some concessions involved in getting all that content delivered to you.

Some people like that but it’s just not really for me anymore, it doesn’t feel healthy. I like being able to slow down and actually talk to people, and I like that I can trust I’ll see them again later. I like that I can post something and no matter whether it’s popular or not, someone will engage, even if it takes time.

On the other part, I don’t really understand how no downvotes is a “weird” decision; it’s definitely not uncommon considering some of the subreddits I participated in on Reddit did the same thing. But in any event, Beehaw does have some posts/comments around explaining the reason for certain choices.

kalanggam,

The decision is not an easy one - in large part this is due to the massive moderation overhead which federating with those two instances brought and the lack of tools available to address that. It’s an extreme maneuver, but it’s either that or nothing until Lemmy as a software improves.

kalanggam,

I second “sizzle” or “sissle.” My partner pronounces API as “appy” and it’s the best thing ever.

kalanggam,

I hope you know this emoji has made it to the Discord 🤭 Welcome to Beehaw!

kalanggam,

We have a Discord but it’s private for the time being, I’m sure it will return to the front page sidebar as soon as things settle more with the instance itself.

kalanggam,

Please do! I would love to participate.

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