themadcodger

Well, this thread has strengthened my desire to adopt a teen from foster care. I technically have/had a family but they were more like roommates than parents. Left at 18 and never looked back. Had my share of lonely holidays that I would dread when they came around. I’m not trying to say I’ve had the same story as those here, but I get some parts of it really well. I’m finally at a place where maybe I can prevent that from happening to someone else.

Yeah, given my druthers I’d rather summer time, but that seems unlikely happen any time soon. So honestly, I’ll be happy if we no longer have to change clocks twice a year regardless of which we align with.

Oregon Senate just passed that bill. Here’s hoping.

Because our whole government operates as if this still the 1800s and the only thing holding us together is the Pony Express.

And then we block that instance! Or it gets defederated.

For keyboard I’m currently using OpenBoard and ThumbKey, the latter obviously not for everyone.

Adding to your list:

• Droidify
• Trail Sense
• NewPipe
• Logseq
• Syncthing
• Coffee
• Element
• Cryptomator
• VLC
• Geometric Weather
• Termux
• Noteless
• StreetComplete
• Translate You

It depends on your bowel movements and how much fiber you eat. I still have to wipe a little after the water, but far less than without. Others, drying is enough.

After using one for a while now, it seems so uncivilized not using one now.

Another alternative is Revolt. It’s open source and very similar to Discord, but it’s not federated, and thus not part of the fediverse.

I honestly think that has to do with the fact that everyone on the fediverse has the ability to immediately block bad actors and never see them again. If there’s enough brigading happening, that server can be defederated. Those same toxic people exist here, they’re just shunted to their own inaccessible islands.

It feels this way with every shitty thing we find out about in the last however many years. And the answer always seems to be vote harder!!1!

I get it. I still flinch when I see I have new messages waiting. But the fediverse is generally a pretty pleasant place and we work hard to keep it that way.

There’s nothing wrong with having separate accounts either, I do. But if you’re going to check out mastodon, I’d recommend also checking out firefish as well.

They’re both the “twitters” of the fediverse, so like kbin and Lemmy here. Mastodon is more for people who want a simple interface with fewer options, whereas Firefish has a sleeker more customizable interface with a lot more options and features. And it has a wonderful onboarding process. They’ll both get you the same content, so it’s whichever one you like better.

You’ve basically gotten your answer from the other comments, but you happened to pick the one fediverse platform that doesn’t really federate well. Lemmy (I believe by design) only federates with kbin and that’s about it. Kbin on the other hand federates with both Lemmy and mastodon/firefish (formerly Calckey).

And just a note, with the activitypub protocol, all platforms have the option to federate with every other activitypub platform, but not all choose to, and not everything at that. So while you can follow Mastodon/firefish from, say, Pixelfed, it’ll only populate the photos, not the text only posts.

If you really want to follow Masto/firefish, you’d be better off with kbin as I don’t believe Lemmy has that on their roadmap. Unfortunately, there isn’t a migration option yet, so you’d have to refollow the same communities all over again from kbin.

If kbin.social does defederate from meta, you can migrate to another kbin server that hasn’t. That’s one of the nice things about the fediverse!

Yes I did. Good catch

Increased probability that anything I put down or toss on the bed, etc, will fall off and hit the floor instead. In reality, it’s probably just a poor sense of propioception.

What’s the eye contact one? And how do you teach speed reading?

What was the bet?

I joined Mastodon a couple of times in 2018 but could never make it stick. Coincidentally rejoined last year just before the Twitter implosion, and maybe it was all the new people I was able to start using it in a way that made sense to me and rather enjoyed it, despite not using Twitter.

As soon as the writing was on the wall about the API changes, I created an account on Lemmy and here. That was end of May and the big migration happened end of June.

So tl;dr, I’ve been aware of it since 2018, but didn’t actually start using it until end of 2022.

I want the 70s to come back in many ways. The colors, the cuts, the flair, the patterns, the length.

I don’t know what any of those terms mean, but I support you in this!