Wow, so nobody traveled across the Mediterranean until the modern era? Gosh!

They tell you they only mean the ham-fisted stuff to get “reasonable” people to agree with them, then they move the goalposts and start calling everything else woke, regardless of “ham-fistedness,” to get “reasonable” people to expand their definition of “woke” in a pejorative sense and associate a wider range of media as being “woke and therefore bad.” Just like they did in past decades with “political correctness.”

Wow, imagine how upset they’d be if they listened to the rest of the lyrics!

Same here. I have a few applications that I had to specifically turn on Wayland support for (Thunderbird & Vivaldi, for instance), and a lot that work just fine, and the ones I have issues with are mostly the X-only apps running on Xwayland, which tend to be less stable than they were directly under X, but there are only a few that I still use.

That’s something I noticed when I first started using it, too. One of the first things was picking out the different kids of small birds that my brain had previously filed under “small bird.” A sparrow here, a finch there, a warbler or a phoebe, those are starlings not blackbirds or small crows, etc.

I’m still not good at telling different dandelion-like species apart, though, and I’m happy to let the app make its best guess on those and let someone else sort them out!

Makes sense. Thanks!

Reminder to self: buy physical copies of the shows I want to watch again.

Finally! That’s one of the things that’s made it hard to deal with following a lot of people on Mastodon (to the point that I almost set up new alts just to categorize who I was following!)

I’m sticking around here, but then I wasn’t on /r/startrek to begin with

I don’t know if this will work, and I’m going to have to try it, but Mastodon has a feature when looking at someone’s profile to ignore boosts. My understanding of how Lemmy federated to other platforms is that the comments appear as boosts by the community, so turning on that option might do what you want.

(This is also why I stopped following communities through Mastodon, but I only thought of the no-boost idea just now when I saw your comment!)

Edit: It doesn’t seem to work. The top-level posts don’t show up in Mastodon either, which makes sense, because now that I look at it again, they’re also federated as boosts.

Also from shot just works.

Aaaand I just read about the situation with Beehaw.org defederating from lemmy.world because their mods were overwhelmed, so that (for now) the two servers can’t interact with each other.

So that’s another way it matters.

Mostly it doesn’t matter for the person using it*, so you can just pick one that isn’t overloaded to start. But…

Ways it does matter:

• Your instance’s moderation policy and actions. (including what content is allowed/disallowed, how they deal with harassment, etc.)
• Server reliability. This can change drastically if a lot of people join at once, as many Lemmy sites have discovered this week! (I believe Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world have both upgraded their hardware in the last few days to deal with this!)
• Admin reliability. This is harder to tell up front, but it’s worth taking a quick look at whether the admins seem to be active and responsive, whether they seem like they’re in it for the long haul or if they’re experimenting, etc.

Switching is sort of easy in that all you have to do is create a new account somewhere, and you don’t need to tell your followers because Lemmy doesn’t have user subscriptions (though someone could follow you from, say, Mastodon)…

…but it’s also not easy in that Lemmy doesn’t have tools to export/import your subscriptions (yet?) so you have to add them to the new account manually. And moving your posting/comment history isn’t something that’s doable at the moment, either.

What I did when moving from lemmy.ml to lemmy.world was put the old/new accounts in each others’ bios and add “Old Account” to the old one’s display name. I’m not too attached to my post history sticking to my profile.

*I think it matters a bit more for where you set up a community, on the basis that an instance focused around, say, history would be a better place to create an archaeology community than one focused around FOSS. Though you might want to cross-post articles about free software used in archaeology!

It’s insidious…

I’m planning to re-post my more useful comments on my website, with enough context for them to be (hopefully) findable.

I actually really like the last one, with the vague globe and trees, and I think it would work for the page header and other places where you can see it clearly, but I think the two more cartoonish ones would stand up better to being shrunk down to the browser’s tab bar. Of those two I like #3 better than #1.

I don’t know, to some extent “bundles of feelings” is what people are.

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