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Yeah, the pitchfork crowd manages to shut down everyone who tries to do something genuinely good for the community, while leaving all the bad actors running wild in the background.

I mean, we always knew loud voices in the open source community were toxic as fuck - that’s obvious enough from the Linux mailing list. Giving these people their own social network to ruin was wildly optimistic from the beginning. It’s a wonder it hasn’t gone worse.

It’s amazing how computer nerds posting on the fucking fediverse can be so sceptical of seeing their content leave the platform they’re currently on. Like that’s not the whole goddamn point of posting here in the first place.

Also, Bridgy.fed rules. Anyone out there on Mastodon or Bluesky: Please opt in! :)

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If I understand correctly, there’s a central pump running behind the scenes in any AT implementation. You feed content into the central hub, and it pumps it out to everyone connected to it. Bluesky itself provides the one major pump that feeds its network right now.

So in that sense, Bluesky is a centralised network with decentralized users.

Frontpage is building a different pump, spreading different kind of content to a different type of platform. So there’s no obvious connection between the Bluesky pump and the Frontpage pump - that’s why they’re talking about bridging in the post.

It almost seems a bit silly - in order for two AT hubs to talk, you need to build a bridge for them. At that point, you could might as well have built an AP protocol and made it work with Bridgy.fed.

Furthermore, all “instances” running Frontpage would process data through the same central hub. If that goes down or they run out of funding, it’s all over.

I’m applauding the Frontpage crowd for trying something new. But I’m not entirely convinced I see the benefit compared to what we’re doing over here.

I think in some ways Mastodon is better suited - if you use the list feature actively there, it gets quite powerful. And personally I quite like the way content gets community curated on Mastodon once you follow enough people.

I love Mbin, but scratches a very different itch. :)

I think support for boosts is a game changer for interoperability. As a Mastodon user I wouldn’t really want to follow a community even if it was well implemented, but I’m happy to follow users who boost content I’m interested in.

Boosting content is the way posts spread on Mastodon. If anyone follows me from Mastodon they will see all the content I boost; if they enjoy it, they might re-boost to their followers and the ball starts rolling. And that’s how you suddenly get comment sections where Mastodon users are actively participating.

Though luck, they are interpretations already and have been doing it since the beginning.

The first comment I ever made to a Lemmy community was via Mastodon - that’s how I found out about Lemmy in the first place.

That’s a great trick, thanks!

Some people have mentioned elsewhere that this specific plant might have trouble with cold temperatures, so I think I might be a bit careful about giving it ice cubes. But I’ll keep it in mind, and consider trying it if I find myself struggling to hit a good balance!

I feel like dark theme is often tricky on different monitors - If the font is too heavy it’ll look awful, if it’s too light it might look bad on low resolution displays. Combined with different colour contrasts on different screens, and it gets really difficult to know what people will end up seeing.

The headline - “MBIN SERVERS” - looks great on my 4K monitor, but slightly less good on a worse one. The same goes for the text stating that “Also view servers on FediDB and Fediverse Observer”, but it’s not so bad for the white text. The hyperlinks, however, might suffer from a lack of contrast with the background (a slightly too dark blue) combined with very thin text on low resolution monitors.

I guess brighter hyperlinks could also benefit the names of instances.

It’s not something I ever noticed myself when using the site, but keeping it in the back of my head while looking at it I can see why some might have some problems with it. :)

!dadvice@lemmy.world is there right next to !bellyexpansion@lemmynsfw.com at [9.6, 38.3]. I guess someone is excited about their wives being pregnant. :)

That’s brilliant, thank you so much!!

I’ll change the soil, take a new cutting for good measure, and buy some bottled water after careful inspection in the local supermarket. The water here is indeed quite hard, and this explanation fits perfectly with how the plant has been behaving - doing really well in the beginning, and then gradually terrible as the soil deteriorated.

I have also moved it to a corner of the brightest room of the appartement. It used to stay in the bedroom, which is probably the darkest place I could have found, and then I would give it direct light in the window sill whenever I wondered if it was not getting enough light. Mistakes mistakes.

Thanks again! I’m feeling mildly optimistic now. :)

It does look like a maranta! And the fact that it stayed alive at my friend’s place despite a lot of neglect would indicate that it shoudn’t be a famously tricky plant. That might give me some more hope, but also makes it even worse that I’m managing to kill it.

I’ll follow the advise given for the calathea then, if they want roughly the same thing. Thank you so much! :)

That’s uplifting!

I guess I’ll have to make more effort to give it less water more frequently to keep some stability in the soil. Probably that’s where I messed up.

I also put it in in a corner of the apartment that’s a bit brighter but with indirect light. Hopefully it’ll do better there.

Thank you!

Oh my - it’s a wonder it ever felt comfortable here in the first place.

Thank you so much! I’ll do what I can, though it’s clearly in Bad shape for entering a season where both heat and sunlight are sin short supply.

Well, I think the deteriorating effect social media and the modern internet has on society affects all of us, whether we participate or not. Russians stole the 2016 election using the internet - it’s not like it didn’t affect people who didn’t use Facebook or Twitter.

Of course there’s a lot of wonderful things as well. I use the internet all the time, obviously. But it would have been fascinating to see what the world would have looked like if the Internet had remained much more primitive and run largely by enthusiastic individuals.

This is a point for sure, especially since I assume part of their contribution was that they were supposed to replace not only cycling, but also walking.

Then again, I’m increasingly excited about electric bicycles. They’re not for me while I still have good knees and all, but as soon as I can’t go everywhere I like with pedal force… I’m sure as hell getting an electric bike. I guess it’s still more exercise than a Segway though.

I guess maybe segways could in theory take up less parking space… but I’m not entirely sure. They’re wider, and you need to get out somehow. And they strike me as more awkward than bikes if you should need to lift them.

I feel like it would probably be terrible for your eyes, but I feel ya.

Audio books maybe?

But… Bikes? How does it improve on bikes, other than being much less safe and more expensive?

Crazy futurists could even propose we build cities around bikes… but that would be insane, obviously. 🚙

I hate it so much I’m almost sad it didn’t take off more for just a little while. Would have been fun to get the chance to hate it even more.