eh, pandemic, epidemic, what’s the difference?

I know there’s actually a difference and the difference does matter, but I don’t know what the difference is and I use the two words interchangeably. My point was that shit’s fucked.

new pandemic is already started, look at current measles

If nothing else in my life, it does make me feel powerful how fucking afraid of me that republicans are.

I’m the type to beat my head against a wall until the wall breaks. Then through that hole, I lead my friends. Fewer and fewer of my friends follow me through such holes. Last time I did such, I brought all my friends to discord (and now I regret it). It is hard as fuck to convince normies to adopt a new platform. If they’re not already invested, it will take a serious investment for them to give half a shit. I was able to get some people on discord by promising them that I was running a dnd campaign (I was at the time, but it fell apart shortly therefafter), and those people haven’t been on discord since.

How do I convince them that lemmy is the future? I don’t think I can. Fundamentally, lemmy is objectively better than reddit (not for features, but because lemmy won’t ban you for mentioning green mario and other similar administrative bullshits). I wasn’t able to convince them to use reddit back when reddit was good!

The infrastructure is there, and most of the features are there, but the content comes from content creators and they’re not here yet.

For example, we have grimdank, but we don’t have vezimira and emmawatnot. We have users who repost their content, but they’re not posting here directly.

The thing that I am still struggling to wrap my smooth brain around, is that I have an account on a widely federated lemmy instance. Allegedly, I should also see content from mastadon and other federated services. How do I do that? How would I even phrase the question so that a search engine could provide useful results?

actually, imma ask chat gpt. if it spits out anything usefull, i’ll report back.

i’ll check it out, thanks. Posted my list in the original comment.

Not on iOS, but thanks anyway. Posted my list in the original comment.

i’ll check it out, thanks. Posted my list in the original comment.

i’ll check it out, thanks. Posted my list in the original comment.

give me a good rss reader, and I’ll give you my list of feeds. I haven’t checked on them in years, since google reader shut down.

EDIT: As promised, my list:

note: these are bookmarks, not rss links, because, you know, google reader doesn’t exist anymore so I can’t just export a thing. Everything on this list had an rss feed back when I bookmarked it. No particular order.

• https://loadingartist.com/
• https://questionablecontent.net/
• https://xkcd.com/
• https://what-if.xkcd.com/
• https://www.blender.org/feed/
• http://loldwell.com/
• http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/
• https://www.awkwardzombie.com/
• https://thegamercat.com/
• https://vgcats.com
• https://www.spinnyverse.com/
• https://www.exocomics.com/
• https://dresdencodak.com/
• http://metroid2remake.blogspot.com/
• https://www.oglaf.com/ Warning, frequently NSFW.

This list would have been longer, except:

• Shows that I’d use an rss feed to keep track of aren’t on their own websites anymore, just youtube (and sometimes nebula or floatplane, or whatever). You didn’t ask for youtube channels, so they got cut from the list.
• Some of the comics just don’t exist anymore, their sites gone. LoZ Demon Road and Ask Mr Dragmire are notable examples, gone likely for obvious reasons.
• Several NSFW comics that I followed through e621, because google reader could turn their link format into an rss feed, i’m excluding because not actually rss.
• Several minecraft blogs that aren’t relevant anymore (like The Word of Notch or Bukkit News)

Imma be looking at other comments for things to add to my list!)

If i have to suffer because I’m a dumb dumb, that’s on me. I’m tired of suffering because other people are stupid.

The problem isn’t the updates. The problem is microsoft downloading things and restarting my pc without my consent (annoying me until I say “fine, do it” is not consent). No one but me decides when my machine installs updates and reboots. I know I’m putting myself at risk if I let my system fall behind on updates. That’s on me, it’s my computer, it is my right to make that decision.

what is jack?

ok, yeah, kinda hard to argue with that. Not sure what a good middle ground would be.

I’m of the opinion that federation should only prevent a community or instance from appearing in the all feed. I should still be able to subscribe to communities that my instance has defederated from.

Did they? I just looked and my porn multi is still full of everything I expect it to be.

look near the condoms. You’ll find some really basic and boring ones.

I’ve got the same complaint here. Firefox has a setting, but it’s kinda crap and is only in Firefox. I haven’t been able to find a solution that works system wide and isn’t horrible jank. I’m on mint with cinnamon, btw.

a user friendly user interface is one that the user is already familiar with. It is subjective, determined by the user, and will vary from user to user.

Think about the placement of face buttons for an xbox controller vs a ninttendo switch controller, specifically A and B. The function of menu accept is always on a, and menu back is always on b, but the physical placement of those buttons are opposite on the competing platform. Now think about a playstation controller, and where it puts menu accept and menu back. The glyphs are different, but a nintendo player will find it intuitive while the xbox player will be confused.