ALostInquirer @ ALostInquirer @lemm.ee

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When you say hide it, do you mean back where you found it or elsewhere? Are there some that encourage you to add/move parts of the caches around from one to another?

Is it mainly voice chat? I tend to prefer text chat as I don't like fussing with audio settings nor hearing roughly handled mics (albeit I know you can often mute those players).

But if you’re asking about buying your own domain name (firstname-lastname.com) vs. using a subdomain from your hosting provider (myblog.wordpress.com) then it comes down to preference. Having your own domain will make you look more professional and get you more clicks on average.

Mainly the latter, and you cover the reasons for that, so appreciate it! For a more casual approach (and according to one's preferences), it sounds like you'd be alright to stick with the subdomain-from-host approach, which is how I was leaning but I wasn't sure if there might be more to it than that within the more managed hosting space.

Thanks, the assumptions are about where I was aiming so this addresses the question pretty well I think.

An added question that this and other comments bring to mind though is, and this is admittedly a super basic question (which I've gone back & forth over asking in NoStupidQuestions tbh), but besides a cleaner and exclusive URL, why might someone go after a domain for a personal site, as in related to them individually?

Appreciate the breakdown! Ngl though you lost me at the end with the ECS container/S3 bucket stuff (as in, I dunno what ECS is, I think S3 bucket may be something akin to a VPS? but yeah), but that may just be an indicator it's much more than I'd probably need/want for my interests.

Yeah! Although, from personal experience reading blogs on Medium, it wouldn't be my first choice simply due to its pushiness to sign up/subscribe to some of the blogs there.

I never read from any one source there consistently enough to remember if that's a general platform element or only partnered/select blog element, and I feel like others unfamiliar with it may feel similar.

Lemmy is a technology where each instance follows the same rules: acompatible federation API. You want people to know your website is a Lemmy instance.

I kind of see where you're coming from, and I think the reason I wasn't thinking of it in those terms is that I see ActivityPub as the more important underlying tech across the fediverse than say Lemmy/Mastodon/Friendica/etc.

I say that in part as I've come into the fediverse from Mastodon, where there's more than two options in play, e.g. Akkoma/Firefish/Misskey/Pleroma/etc. each of which has some commonalities, but also some pretty distinctive features, particularly from the Misskey side. Hell, Mastodon itself even has Glitchsoc, which is what the original instance I joined on that side of things runs.

On reflection, I don't know that the microblogging instances mix in the name of the software they're using as much, which you'd think with more options they might be inclined to, but the more I think of it the more I remember a lot of them use some fun, odd names instead.

I probably should have adjusted the examples as like metalbulletinsorg to better describe what I was trying to ask.

It's not strictly the explicit software as part of the address that I've found odd, so much as the blending of the software in the names, but I think generally it comes down to the same basic point being made in the different comments concerning domain registration and management.

than type in a number, if that’s what you’re referring to.

It is, and also don't most generic remotes still have keypads? 🤨

That's the part that probably gets me the most here. You used to, and with certain services still, have to directly enter in a channel number to go to that channel...So the basic setup is all there, but...Pretty much exclusively used for channel navigation because ???

It’s my hope to see unity and cohesion is the Lemmy-verse.

On a certain level, isn't this against its basic idea? A variety of instances/sites connecting with each other seems more the point of federation than a unified/coherent whole.

The tripping point/growing pain for these various instances/sites at the moment seems to be there's more similar, likeminded groups adopting the software to spin them up than there are distinct groups to create the variety that might reduce/mitigate redundant communities (in the Lemmy sense of that term).

Ooh, I see now. It wasn't clear from the previous comments that you were wanting to use it apart from your phone, which is why I asked. I've helped someone with a Garmin watch before and I definitely agree that their software could be improved from the little I experienced of it.

I'm confused, and I suspect it's from limited understanding here, but smartwatches are typically paired with a phone, so wouldn't it make more sense to offload dataset handling like you're describing to the smartphone than any onboard storage/memory in the watch?

Or is that part of the odd jank of some smartwatch systems atm that they don't interoperate like that?

I definitely understand this sentiment being expressed across the comments here, however the aim of the question is to try to encourage one to imagine a little more, try to go at the idea with a little more idealism.

That's why I framed it as, how would you like, rather than how do you think a new civilization would be approached. A slight difference, and although both require thought, the latter grounds the question more than the former, at least to my mind.

Whoa! Thanks a ton for the additional breakdown and links! Saved this post and am still reading over it, and wanted to give you a quick reply letting you know I've seen it, appreciate it, and am in fact reading it all.

No...Not the British. More early human evolution where we saw homo sapiens existing alongside homo neanderthalensis, and wondering if that were to happen again (albeit possibly with a less related and more distinct species), how we might do things differently.

Suppose it was somehow possible though, beyond simply not intentionally/unintentionally fucking them up, what would you like to see?

Isn't one of the parties' voters calling people baby killers, groomers/pedophiles, deranged/insane for disagreeing with them politically?

Isn't Trump in the same boat? Trump's 77, Biden's 81. One may easily argue they're both much too old to be running.

I gotcha. Fwiw I kind of agree, even beyond Lemmy I've been a little surprised some of these sites/instances haven't done more to tailor themselves to accommodate more folks or focus on specific demographics.

That's supposed to be one of the big perks of the federation approach, being able to create more distinct communities, but outside of a few, they largely seem to run the software as-is, maybe with some backend adjustments to help reduce the costs of operation or the like.

Have you checked out !lemmy411@lemmy.ca? For some reason I don't see it mentioned or linked to much, but it's basically that, which I think would feel much more approachable to new people than pointing them to tools like Lemmyverse (as much as I do really appreciate it).

Another good one for sharing communities you've stumbled across would be !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca.