Finally happy with my pizza crust
JohnnyEnzyme @ JohnnyEnzyme @lemm.ee Posts 16Comments 367Joined 2 yr. ago
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The only things I changed are dusting with corn flour and using an inverted cast iron skillet instead of a pizza stone.
Sounds like a great idea. My experience with pizza stones is that they add very little of the 'brick oven' effect, even when pre-heated a long time. Pizza steels seem like the way to go for the average oven.
Btw, since corn flour / corn meal doesn't add much taste, I've thought about using poppy or sesame seeds to do the job, some things which might add nice flavor. But maybe I'm wrong and they'd burn...
removing posts permanently deletes the actual content from your server
Just for the record, the posts were in fact soft-deleted, something that OP and I can do as staff, as well as restoring posts. Indeed, I could be wrong, but it looks like only staff on the instance-runner level can actually perm-delete posts, i.e. even common admins can't do it.
The whole point of that is pretty clearly to err on the side of caution when deleting, even by post creators and staff. Which is why, like I think you're implying, it's such a disaster to have deleted all OP's image content over... seemingly nothing.
In any case, thanks for weighing in so strongly. We appreciate it!
Damn. All that is relatively common knowledge, yet you're getting some weird downvotes.
One thing I hadn't thought much about until recently-- the quality of comments is so much higher here, and I don't have to typically scroll through a wasteland of dudebro jokes to get to relevant replies.
So, comments are also 'content,' and from what I'm seeing, Lemmy already has a distinctly smarter / more mature userbase.
Brand recognition and memory triggers is what big brand ads are about.
Cleanex, Hoover, Coke, most cologne/perfume ads, Old Spice…
Late reply, but-- the above makes much sense to me when it comes to inexperienced / first-time buyers of a product. And/or buyers who simply get in to a rut and keep buying that product without trying anything else out.
But for everyone else, I would think they sample enough tissues, sodas, perfumes, etc to gain an understanding of the ins & outs of a product, settling on choices which best represent their favorites / desired price point. For bigger-cost stuff like vacuum cleaners, I'm thinking people in this group also learn to use review resources to evaluate best choices rather than buy a Hoover just because some ads ran.
So what does this all mean? Aside from overlap between these two groups, that there's enough revenue being produced by the former childlike group such that ad systems can afford to almost completely ignore the latter, more adult group..?
We can only construct our working conclusions based on the known information, which is what I'm doing.
Yes, and there is* a time-sensitive nature to this stuff that needs to be quickly addressed, starting with the amount of repairs my mod and I will need to coordinate on in order for our sub not to look like a hot mess. Unfortunately, him being in a very different time zone means there's almost nothing I can do until tomorrow morning.
This would make little difference if the community had low presence and activity, but we now have almost 300 subscribers, are growing fairly quickly by Lemmy standards, and are in the presence of 'getting the word out.'
I understand your perspective and your seemingly benign intent, but frankly, you're not helping. Just like instance runners and their staff, we are ALSO volunteers, aiming to serve and support our userbase, as well as doing our part to help make the Fediverse a viable Reddit-alternative. We've been working hard on this project, and have every right to feel aggrieved for the stated reasons.
Feel free to have the last reply if you like, but again-- you're not helping here, and I don't plan on responding further. Good day.
I understand and agree with those things, but disagree that OP's situation fits that kind of model. No, in this case it was a slew of LW failures that I should think would drive most victims away, no matter the setting.
Consider:
- user is banned for evidently no reason at all
- user is seemingly in compliance with all site rules & guidelines, including image upload rules
- user has no previous strikes or violations
- no communication of any kind is offered to user for the ban
- the user is also locked out of their acct, with no way to appeal from said acct
- the banning agent evidently remains unknown, days later
- one unrelated admin got involved only after the community owner personally reached out to them
- unfortunately, said admin has very little tools or ability to investigate any of this
- despite the light (24hr) nature of the ban, all of the user's local image content is evidently destroyed irreversibly, representing many hours and days of work
Understanding and excusing part of that due to the volunteer nature of LW is one thing, but IMO this is a next-level clusterfluff.
Indeed, I understand that LW previously put a lot of effort in to attracting Rexxiters, to some degree at the expense of other instances, and maybe this is what it looks like when there isn't enough staff & process to handle the magnitude of userbase the instance runners desired. Maybe that's something to consider as well, when volunteers sign up for a project.
People just need to spread the word that that particular Instance might have some bad policies going on, so others can make more informed decisions.
Right, and I feel like that's a big part of what OP is doing here. I think we just have to let the reputational dust settle and go with that flow.
What I'm also concerned about is what kind of failsafe the big instances have. For example, if something happened to my instance-runner and the place went down, federation would only help so much. So altho the content would be preserved, all those communities would be dead in the water, and their subscribers lost. That would be a terrible blow after months or even years of building them up, plus providing content, which is what I've been doing steadily for two months now at my place. If I had to start over at another instance, I don't think I'd have the heart, even though I've tried to locally archive everything, including a good chunk of the reviews I write by hand.
All that said, I am still hoping this is some kind of innocent mistake or technical bug.
Yup, hopefully. On the surface it's a disastrous one, and the admin I'm talking to has put in a ticket, at the least. But it's turning in to a good bit of hard work we didn't need to manually restore some of the lost image content. Most of the content is gone however, despite the posts being restored.
Whole situation bloody well sucks, and wasn't helped by my colleague OP receiving no communication or explanation of any kind. AFAIK they still* haven't been contacted, so we're talking at least two major failures on the part of LW.
I'm the founder of the community in question, and one of the first things I noticed is that an admin @Xylinna@lemmy.world restored some of the posts even while OP was still banned. Unfortunately their action was useless what with the images being blocked or deleted from LW.
So I reached out to that person a day or two ago, and have heard nothing but crickets, so far. EDIT: They responded just now, altho it sounds a lot like they don't know much about the issue. Credit to them for trying to help, however.
It also appears my colleague still hasn't received any meaningful response.
Point is-- I don't understand this business of volunteering for a public-facing role and then either neglecting or refusing to communicate with users who've been wronged for one reason or another.
They are well within copyright in terms of timeline. Anything after 1927 can and likely is subject to copyright. I don’t like it but that’s how it works. Given that they are images from trading cards, it would not surprise me if the rights holder was enforcing copyright through a third party service.
Granted, but I don't think that was the issue in this case. The Moebius images in question were arbitrarily removed/blocked, with most being zapped, but others remaining.
For the record, none of the many other copyrighted images were removed, either.
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I started similarly on Reddit as a sort of power user on a couple subs such as altcomix and bandedessinee. It can be a borderline thankless job, but still, it feels good to help grow a community as a productive member.
After the great Spez-out, I started a parallel community here on Lemmy called !eurographicnovels@lemm.ee, and I'm happy with how it's going so far. 270 total subscribers after less than two months, and most days I contribute two posts of material, partly from my archive and partly new stuff I find. Hopefully the community 'takes off' at some point, i.e. with actively posting users. I understand it takes time, though.
Anyway, I salute you for being such a good contributor. All our little communities need people like you. :-)
Mais ouaisss, mssrr...
<3
- "Omelet" you say? What is that... like 1 & 1/2 eggs in a sort of chicken-mushroom pancake?
- Oh, shut my mouth and spank my bottom. That looks absolutely inhalable! :D
I'm sure there's differences between various region & brands, but from my local grocery (Midwest US), brands I've tried ("Chobani" Greek yogurt, and.. can't remember the last sour cream I tried, sorry) do indeed taste similar in taste and texture.
Yeah, for sure they're not exactly* the same, but just like training oneself out of using too much sugar, salt, trans fat, etc, I find that one can shift one's palate over time. Indeed, when I eat out at a Mexican place or whatnot, the sour cream tastes oddly 'heavy' to me, which makes me glad, since part of why I switched over was to improve my diet.
Looks like some amazing comfort food. :o
The one thing I'd swap in would be Greek yogurt for the sour cream. The taste is reasonably similar, the calories about 1/5th or less, and it's good for gut health.
EDIT: Well, based on the downvotes, looks like a lot of people aren't happy with my diet!
I hate to say it, but the exodus failed. I’m glad to have discovered Lemmy, but it simply doesn’t have anywhere near the numbers to compete.
I think "failed" is a little strong, and that we have to remember two things, here: 1) Lemmy wasn't in ideal position to handle a major Rexxitor exodus at the time, and 2) Lemmy is best looked at as a long-term project that will ultimately have higher quality of infrastructure, user rights, and users themselves. Much of that is already true, arguably.
What's helped me personally is to start a community where one was needed in the FV, posting regular content there. Others are joining in, and it's fun to see our little community grow. It also means a lot to me that I don't have to worry about a corporation one day arbitrarily fucking with our community to suit their own ends.
That said, if you're simply a content-devourer, then I agree that Lemmy is going to be less useful than Reddit for the time being. But there's also a fairly unique opportunity to help change that, as many are doing here. <3
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Seems a bit specific for "lost Redditors" in general, but okay. I'm sure there's plenty of good stuff there. That said, I think for most folks it's pragmatic to pick and choose one's communities from the entirety* of the Fediverse rather than to limit oneself to a single instance.
SCMP is an odd one, as they commonly publish articles critical of the CCP.
They seem to operate along the lines of 'we can't stop anti-CCP news, but at least we can soften the blow for select audiences.' Or something like that. They're definitely an interesting case, though.
“Art” flocks to places like that because of rich people with too much money doing dumb shit… like partying in the middle of the desert.
Sounds like a pretty facile, cynical, and plain inaccurate way of looking at the tradition:
I'd be concerned about the onion & garlic burning, and the salt adding unnecessary sodium.
The idea with swapping in poppy / sesame for corn flour / meal is to take a low-key item that's already present and necessary, and upgrade its flavor without changing the overall pizza taste, while still doing its job.