Kind of a wash - I’ve always been a RiF devotee. I might have rejected Sync if it wasn’t compact enough, or I didn’t realize it could be set that way - I’ve always placed a premium on cramming the most info onto a screen as I can. Which is why I was drawn to /. and then reddit, and can’t stand FB etc.
I keep running Power Delete Suite and the comments keep getting restored. Pretty shifty of them.
I’ve always used RiF - it duplicates the desktop layout better than the others, along with so many other features. Wish its developer was moving on to a Lemmy app, but he’s cranking out one for Tildes instead.
I still use it to lurk - the shitstorm over there is quite amusing, read the latest announcement at r/videos. Yes, nothing but John Oliver videos - but the screed this is delivered with is a thing of beauty.
Had the week off from work, who doesn’t love those? Mostly a staycation, went to a nice musical gathering, jammed with friends too, got stuff done, cleared head.
Ha, there’s a Tilde webring. That’s like a jet powered Wright Brothers glider.
UPS employees overwhelmingly agreed to go on strike if their demands aren’t met by July 31st. These Amazon drivers are on strike now - all 84 of them, at one facility, obviously. They’re like the Boston Tea Party.
By contrast, there are 340k Teamsters working for UPS. Their forming picket lines will grind things to a halt in really short order. Good on those Amazon drivers! Hope others join in solidarity.
I just watched it again for the umpteenth time and finally figured out that he’s probably saying “U2,” but it sure comes out sounding like YouTube.
Calling their site Twitter always baffled me - wouldn’t people be put off by what you’re implying? - or impressed me with their frankness. Why not mindlessblather.com? Doesn’t roll of the tongue the same way…
Wow, he’s complaining about Twitter 3 years before it came online. The other day I found a video of Henry Rollins complaining about YouTube in 1985.
Ah, Lemmy code growing pains. Another one I’ve noticed, I think it’s the deadly combination of All + New, and it’s a live firehose of postings. That’s to be expected though…kind of cool to watch, actually.
The redditlist seems to be offline - taking part in the protest, I guess. So, looking at a recent archived version, we could always make sure we’ve duplicated the biggest subs, for a start. WorldNews definitely fits that bill.
Looking at what had the most subscribers in 2014 it doesn’t look like things have changed much - gaming, news, funny, videos, science. News for nerds. Most all of those have been covered here, but I think it would be prudent to cover all the bases.
Also, are we going to have local communities? Jeez, “communities” is a lot of typing. Subs is 5 characters. Local “comms”? Sounds like a Hawkwind song…
I was - I’ve noticed I’ll be looking at a post, and then all of a sudden some other post is up - some bug at work. I’ll port my comment to where it belongs, thanks for the heads up.
Mind if I do a J?
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I’m waiting for better control over filtering to be able to see what I want - the duplicate communities are a good example, being able to select all technology instances would be handy. Although will people in each one be posting the same material…perhaps we could have all the comments viewed at once while we’re at it. But that makes you consider what’s the point of having all these instances in the first place.
Make sure the press hears about this. We’re still ranting about spez editing comments years after the fact; not only disobeying a user’s wishes, but violating the law?. That’s a whole other kettle of fish.
u/Taytay_Is_God says they’ve done just that, they were the sole mod of r/tumblr and have been relieved of duties.
Do it at night, show some mercy.
Some possibilities here. There’s a Chrome extension mentioned; adding a string to UBlock looks the most promising to me, since I use FF.
Looking at the tracker comments seem to reaching parity with posts again, as they were pre-blackout. For the two days of the protest 67% of subs were private, yet posts hardly deviated from the norm - and comments only slightly below. Is the implication that people in subs that didn’t join in like r/news etc just posted/commented that much more in a show of support ha ha ha, or is this a de facto admission that much of the site’s traffic is just bots? Are investors down with that? I haven’t seen this actually hashed out in discussions much.
I’ve read that Aaron Swartz was tolerant of free speech in any way shape form, thus the acceptance of anything under the sun.