Azura

Hmm interesting. I have terrible eyesight so I don’t always see my cats when they’re somewhere I don’t expect them to be. But they’re not afraid of me. They’re still very affectionate with me and they do seem to trust me a lot. One of my three cats has figured out that if she makes any kind of noise I’ll notice her but the other ones don’t, but still don’t seem to get too mad at me when I do accidentally run into them. I do love them very much though and I’ll spend as much time with them as I can or they let me. So maybe they have internalized that I don’t do it on purpose. Might also just be how I react to when it does happen though. I genuinely feel bad every single time. That same cat also figured out that if she stands on her hind legs and knocks on the glass door I will always hear it. Scared the crap out of me when she did it for the first time but if only I could get my other cats to do the same…

Happy birthday!!

A lot of things changed very quickly for me over the past couple months so I decided I was going to spend new years with friends. And even though it’s over I still am not sure if it was a good idea. They see each other far more than they see me, so I felt very third wheely if that makes sense. Going back home soon though so I can go back to feeling like a unicycle. Lol

Thank you! Definitely an adventure. I’m nervous about the whole thing.

About to quit my job of five years for a new one. After how much of a mess the previous months were everything seems to happen to me all at once now. So I’ll roll with it and see where I end up.

Getting over a breakup by trying to keep myself busy and not facing my thoughts much. It’s not healthy I know. I will eventually.

I feel this.

I love lying or sitting and listening to the rain. Ok I also love deliberately walking in the rain if it’s warm enough out. Ok yeah I just like rain apparently. the sound is just so soothing.

If the community is hosted on the defederated instance then I believe you wouldn’t see that post either. I believe the community instance reposts the post so that it can federate to all subscribed instances. And those might only be known to the instance that hosts the community. So everyone goes through it as a proxy.

Barely!

Is that GitHub issue where the bridge just starts deleting emails still open? I am pretty sure it was open for over a year.

Protonmails approach to requiring hCaptcha for everything, even their mobile apps, really turns me off. I can’t complete them. And I need another email to get in using their weird and creepy accessibility cookie thing. Nah thanks. If I need a second email to access my email I might as well just use that second email.

This is true. However keep in mind that instances survive on reputation. As soon as something like this came out, which is inevitable with time, nobody will trust that instance, or the person running that instance, again. And people are usually quite quick to find this out as already demonstrated by other online services. Hiding is very difficult. Even worse, once your reputation falls, people can move to a more respectful server and continue participating in the network, so in the end it’s a losing game for the instance owner. Password safety obviously applies, but if you take a look at big social media privacy and terms, a little password manager in my personal opinion is preferable.

The way I was thinking you could still go to the original community and skip the aggregated one. So you could have c/gardening and c/flowers, but also c/backyard which could combine the two. You could still go to either one, but for easier discoverability you could create aggregators or include an aggregator in your community, and do this cross server. So if you have two very popular and overlapping communities you could combine them easier. Could also be a client feature I suppose. But right now you’d have to manually hunt for the possibly dispersed communities yourself. Alternatively I guess there is an argument for smaller communities being better which I do agree with. It was just a not very thought through idea :) Or you could have community redirects. So c/technology on lemmy.world could decide to seamlessly redirect to c/technology on Lemmy.ml if wanted. Edit: although the more I think about this the more it sounds like more trouble than it’s worth.

I think community consolidation/aggregation is something that might want to be looked at. It’s possible to have a gardening community on multiple servers with different content. This will confuse people. So having a way to merge posts from two communities into a bigger community per server may be a good idea. So if you set up gardening communities on two servers you can choose to have posts show for each of them in your community. And making this a server or community setting still gives the ability to either have this or not have this if the communities are truly supposed to be separate. This would also give some kind of redundancy where the original community server can go offline but multiple different servers can still exchange messages that eventually make it back to the main community. Truly decentralized.

Maybe someone here already said this but if you find a community with not a lot of traffic here, make sure to post in it. Others might go looking for it and find nothing, just like you did. Perpetual cycle of I see nothing, I leave. If someone’s active, maybe someone else will be active with you. And then two turns to four to 8 and so on. Even if it feels like you’re screaming into the void, keep screaming. The void is infinite and someone’s bound to hear you eventually.

While I agree that forcing an engine is really terrible, as a browser dev you do get the ability to do things with the web view. So in theory your browser could support addons. I think. Also isn’t the EU kinda talking about this? Or am I misremembering

AdGuard works well. Can recommend.

I should X that sounds like I should delete/close that. How apt.

I personally like Mona.