Kichae

joined 2 years ago
[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not recent. It's been a common misspelling for years. You're probably experiencing the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 72 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Adding servers to the federation list is just white-listing them. It's not actually establishing syndication in any way. You don't syndicate at the website level, you syndicate at the user level.

The way the system works is, a user on your website subscribes to a user on another website, and from that point forward the remote website starts sending your website that one user's posts, addressed to any and all users on your website who requested them. Your website then receives and stories a copy of all future posts from the remote user, and adds them to the subscribing users' feeds.

This subscription is very much like a magazine subscription. Your site does not receive the back catalogue. It does not automatically receive other magazines (users) published (hosted) by the same publisher (website). You only get what has been requested, from the point the request has been accepted onward.

There is no canonical fediverse that you can just see. It's not a centralized system, which means there's no source of truth to tap into. It's a mass, opt-in content syndication technology, where you have direct access to the locally hosted content on the single website you are using. The fact that much of that content originated elsewhere presents the illusion of some centralized whole, but it's just that: an illusion.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  1. So, the thing to keep in mind is that "PixelFed" is not a place where you can go to see things. It's the name of the software that powers a bunch of websites. You're using a website. That website knows about what is hosted locally. Your friend? They're using a different website. When you look up their account/ you're looking up a copy of that account that's been sent to your website. If things are happening on other websites, your website doesn't know about any of that, any more than Reddit knows what your friend posted on Facebook.

The whole fediverse works by requesting remote accounts to send your website a copy of whatever they post. This works like a magazine subscription. Your dentist (the website you're using) says "please end me Kichae Quarterly" and the publisher sends them a copy every time a new edition is publisbed. When you go for a cleaning, they have a copy of every edition starting at the time their subscription started. They do not have the back catalogue, and they certainly don't have copies of everyrhing the publisher has received in the mail (comments, favourites, etc.)

  1. Are you using the same server? Which website are you using? If you create an account on a different website, it's a different website. If it's the same website, well, storage costs money, and your account was inactive. Maybe they just removed the old posts?
[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why would he think that nonbinary people exist? What about anything he's ever said, done, or dog-whistled about ever suggested that he was the kind of person who believed in or gave a shit about anything but the simplest wrong answer to any question?

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"Average" does have a meaning

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's absolutely reverse engineering. People want to believe that the world is a meritocracy, and that means believing that those who have succeeded at meritful.

People avoid internalizing that the world is a kleptocracy, because that would mean having to confront that if they want to get ahead, they'll have to actively amd knowingly fuck other people over, and most of us are not psychopaths

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Business people will do almost anything to eliminate wages

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Waited a week to see if he actually signed with the Dodgers. Glad they finally added a bat!

Now, to Vladdy...

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

At a time where D&D-tubers are floundering as YouTube's recommendation system continues to pare down what it actually bothers to show people, I cannot see many of them risking whatever traction they have doing a collab with a Pathfinder creator. King Ooga Ton Ton would be the one to gain everything, with little in it for the D&D creator, if it turns out not to be a net negative for them.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 139 points 7 months ago (27 children)

A bridge isn't really necessary. Both Lemmy and Pixelfed use the same communication protocol. Lemmy just doesn't let you follow users, and PixelFed is a user-based, rather than group-based, program.

If you want to follow both groups and users, you should just use a site that's running software that supports that. Mbin, or nodeBB, or something.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

But muh rural internet is not as good as muh urban internet! So, forgiven!

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

EKOS is the only polling group showing momentum for the Liberals, and I'm really scratching my head over why that might be. They don't traditionally have an overwhelming bias like this. They also are showing an exceptionally clear, almost linear rise in the polls from the point of Trudeau's resignation, while no one else is showing any kind of pattern other than "dismal holding pattern".

I want to believe that EKOS knows something that nobody else does, but because of that I need to guard myself from getting excited.

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