TeaHands @ TeaHands @lemmy.world

I live an increasingly confusing double life as [TeaHands](https://mastodon

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Truly you are a master of disguise

Remember to make your intro post! Tag it with #introduction plus the tags for whatever else you're into. Let the people come to you! 😄

This is officially my new favourite cat pic of all time.

Moved from pc to laptop about a decade ago and I don't think I could ever go back. It seemed so normal back then to spend all my time in one room at my desk.

But now, yeah I can spend time at the desk and I can even plug the laptop in to external everything and it's just like having a pc. But ALSO I can laze around on the couch watching TV with my other half while I play Deep Rock Galactic, or I can lounge in the sun in the conservatory and still edit video, or I can pick up and take it on a trip somewhere and still have access to everything I need without having to fiddle with a phone.

The only downside of a laptop is the cost compared to a similar spec pc. But when I think of going back I think of being chained to a desk in that one room and just...nah.

Everything.

Like, I'm talking to you now from the back bedroom of a random house in a small isolated town in the north east of England, and you could be anywhere. Travelling on a train is crazy fast. There are SO MANY leaves on that tree. Dogs are the best and there's no way humanity deserves them. Isn't it cool that we invented bread? My travel mug can keep hot tea at an acceptable drinking temperature for hours. Hugs are amazing. Windows are insane.

Sometimes I have to take motion sickness pills and they make me a bit loopy to the point where I start to really notice things around me, haha.

I went back by accident by following a search result, and was still logged in. Had a notification. It was a reply to a comment I'd made about a month prior, asking a question. In the comment I even attempted to clarify that it was a genuine question with no judgement attached, and I got a couple answers at the time.

Anyway, found myself back on Reddit with this belated comment reply. The person went on a whole rant related to my question, didn't answer it of course, but just went off on one accusing me of nefarious motives.

It's weird to think back on how stressful it was to interact over there for fear of being misinterpreted and drawing out the crazies. If something like that happens here I just block them and go on with my day safe in the knowledge that the nice folks have them massively outnumbered. And hence my nearly 2000 comments here over two accounts in the space of about six weeks...oh my.

There are actually already a few sites to help people find new communities but probably the best one is lemmyverse.net/communities.

There is a current initiative to get new mods for communities that are being used, but have inactive mods. Whether that covers any of these and what exactly the criteria are for "inactive", I do not know.

Ok this one got me!

You know, this has actually genuinely inspired me to add a new task to my end of week review. Maybe I can just start closing the pointless ones once a week and the habit will grow from there? We can but dream, we can but dream...

But how do you tell the difference between things you'll need in the next day, and things you just think you'll need?

Real question, my phone has given up even counting the open tabs, please help.

So basically, yes this has been discussed a lot and there are various options for fixing it floating around. A few weeks ago there were all kinds of urgent gamebreaking bugs in the software that needed patching up, but hopefully things like sort algorithm improvements will have their time to shine soon.

As far as what the conversation looks like, here's a link to all the currently open Github issues searched for "sort". https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort Some of them will be more relevant and have more discussion than others, since people tend to make a lot of duplicates, but it should give you an idea of the current thinking.

It's just not needed though, is the thing. These "links" aren't links that are posted for people to follow, they're just an artifact of having posted from Mastodon. As we get more interaction between the two platforms, your bot as currently written will reply to every single post and comment made from Mastodon, ever. It serves literally no purpose in this situation other than to clog up threads.

I'm not trying to start a fight or anything. If you absolutely won't be convinced that it's pointless replying to Mastodon tags, maybe you can at least consider limiting it to replying only on the main post? Otherwise, again, every single comment in the thread that is made from Mastodon is going to get the same bot response.

Well to post to Lemmy from Mastodon, the Mastodon user has to tag the community. That tag displays as a link on the Lemmy side. The Mastodon user has no control over the format of said link, as it's a Mastodon user tag. So your bot shouldn't be trying to correct it at all in this case.

Fyi your bot is apparently trying to "correct" people posting from Mastodon too. Seems like it's replying to every comment that comes through from Mastodon's side. Example: https://lemmy.world/post/1628806

Somehow I'm not even surprised by this. A little disappointed, perhaps, but definitely not surprised.

I think their point is, if you're correct and this is to protect people from unexpected NSFW content, viewing through the app would still just expose them to the unexpected NSFW content anyway.

Same! I had to pick up C# instead and not particularly happy about it. But PHP my sweet, I'll always love you for personal projects.

It's one of those use-cases (and I understand why it's not a thing, but still) where I'd love to have quote toots. Just being able to share the Mastodon version of a post but add a bit of text and hashtags and stuff so people on there see it and can easily interact with it. Commenting works but is a bit awkward on one side and a bit spammy on the other.

So many ways the integration could eventually go! But what we do already have is still pretty cool, just gonna keep experimenting with the best way to get people talking to each other.

Anyway consider me a recruit to your Lemmy/Mastodon crosspost revolution! 😄

You've articulated my thoughts perfectly and emboldened me not only to keep doing it, but to do it way more.

The trickiest part so far has been wording toots in such a way that they still look and read like Mastodon content, but also are in the correct format for Lemmy. Also the fact that I recently moved from an instance with an extra-long character limit to one with the default, but such is life lol.