Millie @ Millie @lemm.ee

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You can see it when it's done :)

Right! This is why I say it has more to do with being stubborn than being smart. If you're determined to find a solution and you're half decent at research and following instructions, you can figure a lot out, but people treat it like you invented the thing with some magical knowledge that they could never possess.

You found a leshy! Don't carry an axe in those woods!

Look, uh, I totally get the emptiness of craving and the inescapable nature of dukkha while I'm on the wheel but like... There's this game i want to make first..

Let's see if you feel that way when your feed is filled with hate and ads.

It's not just about having the biggest reach, though.

I've noticed that some of the folks who are generally against defederating, whether it be between independent fediverse instances or from large companies, seem to have this impression that fediverse needs to take a huge chunk of some market share in order to compete. But the whole point of the Fediverse is that it doesn't need to compete.

It's not a company looking to increase their size, following a bottom line, and trying to increase profitability. It's a network of people who communicate and share content. There's no need to compete with anyone in order to accomplish that. We're doing it right now regardless of whatever else exists out there.

We've gotten so used to this model where there are only a few really culturally relevant social media sites, but that's literally because we've just bought into the business model of these companies as societies. Slashdot has been going strong since 1997. Is it the biggest forum or news site on the internet? No. It gets a tiny portion of the internet's traffic. But that's plenty to be what it is!

The fediverse is not facebook or twitter or reddit, and it shouldn't be. We don't want or need it to be.

I heard someone make the point recently that nobody walks into a nice, small restaurant and says they wish they were at McDonalds. Facebook is the McDonaldsification of the internet. Let's be a bunch of small mom and pop restaurants instead.

Who wears headphones while driving? That should be illegal!

The Bad Batch was pretty fantastic, and those first few minutes especially are pretty fucked. With a cast containing Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves, and a very sneaky Jim Carey, I'm honestly surprised it didn't get more attention than it did. Maybe it's the cannibalism.

Basically, the premise is that there's this big chunk of open desert around a town called Comfort out in the middle of a fenced off area in Texas where they dump criminals. It's got a very post-apocalyptic vibe. Highly recommended.

I feel like you don't get the point of the Fediverse. It's about choice. That's all. Not being the next Reddit or having the most users, but about choosing what kind of instances you want to interact with. You can set up a Fediverse server on a smallest vps money can buy and very easily customize your own experience. That's the point.

The Fediverse isn't here so we can have an undifferentiated firehose of mediocre content and hate forced unto us in the name of 'free speech'.

Free speech and free association means being able to create your own spaces, not being entitled to wave your stupid opinions in everyone's face.

Do you have a list of other servers to defederate from to keep similar content out?

I'm doing it with Calckey myself, but Communities basically act like users. You can search and follow them. You'll get to see posts in that community in your feed, and you can make top-level comments and reply to direct replies on your own comments, but if you want to see comments that aren't responding to you you'll have to switch over to Lemmy.

I basically just browse my own Calckey front page now and then when I see a Lemmy thread that looks interesting I open it in Lemm.ee or Blahaj.zone.

On Calckey you just search for @NAME@INSTANCE, whether the name is a community or an individual you'll be able to follow them!

Edit: I made a little VIA macro, so now I've got a hotkey that grabs the link in my current clipboard and searches it in lemm.ee. Made it a lot easier!

Updated this so that I can open a new tab and then press it, swapping to the other tab and taking the url from there. That way I don't interrupt my scrolling. Much nicer.

{KC_LCTL, KC_TAB}{400}{KC_F6}{400}{KC_LCTL, KC_C}{40}lemm.ee/search{KC_ENT}{4067}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_LCTL, KC_V}{703}{KC_ENT}{4000}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_TAB}{KC_ENT}