EnglishMobster

joined 2 years ago
[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

/r/196 was a popular sub on Reddit, about 500k subscribers. A lot of them were dedicated users who were very active and had recognizable usernames.

196 was one of the first major subs to shut down and point everyone to the fediverse. It helps that 196 was very LGBTQ-friendly and Blahaj.zone is also very explicitly LGBTQ-friendly, so it was a good match.

196 creates a lot of content because their "rule" was anytime you visited the sub you had to leave an image, whether it was a repost or not. This also works very well for a nascent fediverse where not a lot of OC is being made yet.

Thus 196 was pretty much in the perfect position to become one of the biggest places on the fediverse.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

It will be corrected over time, I presume automatically. I was one of the first people with a Steam Deck and when I searched for things Google would "helpfully" autocorrect to StreamDeck. But eventually Google figured it out.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And the people who benefited from having their loans forgiven by the taxpayers just convinced the Supreme Court that your loans don't count and that you should be on the hook for them!

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I created a place for model trains: @modeltrains / !modeltrains@kbin.social (on Lemmy, if that link doesn't work you should use the search button by your username to look up https://kbin.social/m/modeltrains).

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

@boilingsteam (https://kbin.social/m/boilingsteam@peertube.linuxrocks.online) was created a month ago. BoilingSteam put a video on the channel 2 weeks ago (after it should've already been federated) and it didn't come down the pipe. So I think PeerTube is currently broken.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I really liked /r/latestagecapitalism but I got banned for talking smack about China, and how the authoritarianism of the USSR and its child states didn't line up with the values they tried to espouse.

Permanently banned. Appeal ignored. Disappointing, but good riddance I suppose.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

It's not uncommon on Reddit for head mods to be relatively inactive in their communities, with the mods below doing most of the work.

Assuming everyone is cool with you retiring as soon as you can, it shouldn't be an issue unless you go mad with power one day.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@0x1C3B00DA My issue with this proposal as a moderator is how conflicting moderation styles will work. Moderators would either have to do double the work (if everything is sent over) or they may lose out on posts that would be fine in one community but not another (if each community moderates separately).

The only way to fix it would be to "unfollow" the communities and that in turn can cause users to get upset. I think a multireddit approach is probably better TBH.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Convicted felons can still run for office, even from prison.

Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs was arrested in 1918 for publicly speaking out against US involvement in WWI. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison for "sedition". He ran for US President in 1920 despite being in jail - he wasn't allowed to travel or give speeches, but he was allowed to make one statement to newspapers every week.

Despite being in jail, he still got 3.4% of the popular vote. Warren G. Harding won the election and pardoned Debs in December 1921.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At the time I joined Lemmy, lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad were basically the only places in town.

Things have changed nowadays. But I'm still very wary of lemmy.ml, and as long as the devs are in charge of that instance I will keep warning people about it.

I trust that they won't let their political views get in the way of maintaining Lemmy itself, but it's important that people have context instead of stumbling into it themselves.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

HA OS is the way to go.

You don't want to have to think about it. HA OS just works. You set it up and let it run.

There's no sense in trying to kerfuffle other things into it. You don't want to do too much on the Pi anyway because it'll lower the responsiveness of Home Assistant slightly. If you want a server that does things, buy a separate NAS and run it alongside HA OS.

[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

I am so upset. I was saving up to buy some Focals by North. They were going to be nearby for some fittings. I was pretty much ready to go when all of a sudden they cancelled.

Turns out they got bought by Google and Google just shut them down unceremoniously. I was hoping they'd be an actual product I could buy at some point again... but nope, Google's now shutting them down, too. Buying things just to prevent any possible competition, as usual...

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