You’ll like this poem:
https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
The start of it:
Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos (1922)
Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
If you’re interested in seeing more Peanuts, join us at !peanuts@midwest.social. I’m currently posting all ~50 years (!) of daily strips starting from the beginning, but general posts about Peanuts are welcome too
They weren’t going to vote for Harris anyways. If she magically brought peace to the middle east tomorrow, they’d find some other reason to not vote for her.
Totally. My comment was just a note that if you screw up like the alt text is humorously referring to, that’s a good tool for fixing it.
FYI if you get mojibake like in the alt text, this is a great tool for automatically fixing it:
You’re in good company. Steam even managed to do it for a whole bunch of people:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
The way I’m imagining it, it wouldn’t be microblogging, but I’m probably not describing it well. You’d still have communities with threads, unlike Mastodon. You’d just wouldn’t have people posting “to” those communities (unless maybe you intentionally wanted to).
It’s mostly a way to get at the same thing as merged comment threads, just in a way that feels like it would have fewer edge cases to me.
Here’s the source with even more: https://ryanharby.com/new-stuff/2019/10/18/fresh-no-name-halloween-costumes
IMO copying communities from Reddit as-is was a mistake long-term, but was maybe necessary short-term so that people wouldn’t be confused. If I had my druthers, I’d make a new system where communities are uniquely identified purely as !UUID@lemmy.instance (though still with a human-friendly display name). You don’t get to create a community that namesquats something like !gaming@lemmy.world. All posts would be made with hashtags like Mastodon, and then each community would just configure “Include all posts with this tag in our community”. The big issue then is who moderates tags? I think a system like Bluesky has would work well, as you mention. People can moderate tags and other people can follow their work, or not.
If that was combined with seamless account/community migration, that would solve a lot of moderation issues. If you mod a community and the admins suck, just move it to a new instance. If the mods of a particular community suck, start your own. They won’t be able to monopolize a common name, so it’s much easier to get traction.
On the long-ago internet, there were many, many different software options that supported the same protocols, and they were also a lot more configurable generally speaking
Lemmy is pretty good about that, actually. It’s interoperable with Mastodon via ActivityPub, and there’s other projects like MBin that work nicely with Lemmy.
I was also curious, here’s a good answer:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/670199/how-is-dev-null-implemented
The implementation is:
static ssize_t write_null(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
return count;
}
Neat! Do you pick one instance to load comments from? I notice that this comment isn’t showing up immediately, so wondering if there’s federation delay or the like.
You’re both on .world, which isn’t federated with hexbear, which is the most annoying instance. They’ll brigade other communities, for example the recent thread over at https://jlai.lu/post/11504685 (view it from that instance to see the hexbear comments)
I browse all sometimes from an instance federated with hexbear and I roll my eyes quite a bit whenever I do
Not sure, sorry. I don’t really use Mastodon all that much, maybe somebody else knows?
Makes sense, thanks!
Is that a different format than the link I edited in? I don’t use mbin, so not sure if it handles things differently
Yeah sorry, edited to add 🤦
It’s going to be pretty funny if they get one of these bots to accept their “coupons”. It’s been upheld in court that the bots can agree to things in a legally binding manner for the company. I hope this sort of thing works, because it’s the only way companies will have real support, if the bot costs them more money by being stupid.
Thought you were talking about this Pete the Cat at first and was very surprised:
Neat, thanks!
Reminds me of superdickery.com, which looks to be gone now. Fortunately, the wayback machine has a copy:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060116031910/http://www.superdickery.com/dick/1.html
Lots of examples of Superman just being a dick to people for no seemingly good reason