TeaHands @ TeaHands @lemmy.world

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

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If you'd told me this time last year that my new favourite genre of 2023 was going to be Finnish rap, I'd have said "no I hate rap".

Well, actually I'd have said "this is some kind of Eurovision related nonsense isn't it?" and the answer is yes. The people's champ Käärijä hooked me in with his party metal, got me checking out his rap back-catalogue and now Spotify has decided all my playlists should be Finnish and here we are.

Really enjoyed this episode, it didn't make the most sense at times but made up for it with an extremely disturbing core concept. And there is comfort in the idea that even without a significant portion of our memories, we're still "us".

I'm confused about one thing though and maybe I just missed something so someone can enlighten me. If the palace is so well-protected that just literally being inside it for ten minutes is enough to completely reverse the memory loss, why was Pike first affected by it while standing in the palace? Is it just that they weren't in there for very long during their first encounter with Zac, and the symptoms caught up with him, or did I miss something about how that worked?

I've been watching Trek since I was basically a baby but don't have anywhere near the depth of knowledge of most people posting here. We are still valid!

16/f/cali

Just like everyone else!

Came into this thread wondering "who the hell wears belts?". Then saw everyone in here was taking belt wearage as a given. Then looked over at my husband and saw he's wearing a belt.

TIL, all men apparently wear belts and I just never noticed before.

As a hobbyist game dev, can confirm I am basically just splashing around cluelessly making a mess.

Coming into an established venue and insisting everything change to be more like what you're used to is certainly A Choice.

I like to think most of it is people just genuinely not realising things already have a name, so as long as we continue to nip the "sublemmy" stuff in the bud it'll peter out. Saw a lot of the same stuff on Mastodon last year but it settled down pretty quick.

Oh lord, ok now things make a lot more sense 🤦‍♀️

Can I ask how you were "introduced" to .world? Just been wondering why that's the one everyone is moving to atm.

If you're logged in on the website, those links should "just work" and the subscribe button is in the sidebar. Mobile website also works really well although you have to expand the sidebar to see the button.

If you're using one of the many different mobile apps you'll have to let us know which one because they all seem to work completely differently at the moment!

Edit: Just realised you're on Kbin and it looks like Kbin is stripping the link formatting out of the post for some weird reason, that's why you can't click them 🤦‍♀️

I still code with PHP.

Come at me.

No worries at all! Gotta get you settled in somehow 😄

I'm not sure what you know about Mastodon but it's a microblogging thing (think Twitter).

So, Mastodon users can search for Lemmy communities, which appear to them just like a regular Mastodon user account. They can post to the community by tagging that account. If they follow the community they'll then see new posts and comments show up in their feed like regular "toots" (tweets). As you can imagine if they follow a busy community that gets spammy fast, but it does work.

From the Lemmy side, we can't follow Mastodon accounts yet afaik. But we can reply to posts and comments coming from Mastodon users, which from our side are formatted just like regular posts and comments in our communities.

Hmm I better add something Futurama-ey so I don't get in trouble.

...Sexlexia!

Running an instance definitely does help, but the problem is convincing people your small instance is competently run and there to stay.

For people unable to selfhost, ways to help include:

• Making posts and comments, especially in smaller "dead" communities. Preferably about things other than Reddit.
• Contributing fixes on GitHub
• If you're unable to do that last one, contributing quality reproducible bug reports on GitHub (rather than in, say, instance-specific meta communities)
• Helping to answer questions from all the confused new Lemmings, yes a lot of them are asked repeatedly but we want people to learn and stay so be polite and patient.
• Making sure people know about finding communities through sites like lemmyverse.net
• Curating lists of related communities and approaching mods to have it stickied or added to their community sidebar (helps people navigate around within their niche interests)
• Going to the extra effort of including local links when you mention a community, so people can find their way directly to the subscribe button. Example: !crochet@lemmy.ca (Lemmy / Kbin)
• And of course, shitposting memes.

It's the collection of various softwares/sites/platforms that are all able to interact due to operating on the same underlying technology.

Lemmy is part of the Fediverse. Mastodon is also and users there can follow and post in Lemmy communities despite being a totally different thing. Kbin is another Reddit-like, it and Lemmy coexist pretty seamlessly.

And there are so so many more. Fediverse alternatives to FB, Insta, YT, Linktree, etc etc etc.

You'll also hear "Threadiverse" which is what people have taken to calling that part of the Fediverse that focuses on forum thread type discussions (ie Lemmy and Kbin mainly).

I've been full-time on a Lemmy for nearly a month already and haven't really missed the other place at all. But damn, seeing that goodbye message on RIF yesterday filled me with emotions that were weird and deeply confusing.

I always got the impression that the Kirks were both destined to wither away and die if kept separate, but it's been a while so I might be wrong there.

There's also the issue that EvilKirk was a danger to everyone else on the ship. You could make the argument that if he survived, he could have learned to control his behaviour, but I'm not sure that's the case for a personality entirely made up of those negative traits.

It's definitely a moral grey area, whereas with the Tuvix situation it's more black and white. There was no danger to anyone else, he was well-liked and a credit to the ship, there was basically no reason for Janeway to split him back apart other than "I want to".

Not familiar with the game in question, but look at games like Deep Rock Galactic. No pay to win there, but they sell plenty of purely cosmetic "supporter" DLC because people do in fact like to show support when they think they've got a good deal and are enjoying the game.

If you understand the code and are able to adapt it to for your needs it's no different to copy pasting from other sources, imo. It's just a time saver.

If you get to the point where you're blindly trusting it with no ability to understand what it's doing, then you have a problem. But that applied to Stack Overflow too.

Tagging @Vorticity@lemmy.world as well in case either of you haven't got it working yet. Just take the actual URL of the Kbin mag and search for it from your instance, like you would normally search with the ! syntax for a Lemmy community.

Sorry not sorry!