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Then make the "one true frontpage" for Lemmy or whatever (implement ActivityPub, maybe borrowing some code from the Lemmy codebase itself, or kindof making a fork of Lemmy), and if it's good, it'll be used. If not, it won't.

But then, it might well fall victim to this phenomenon:

Lemmy has lots of competing "front pages." How will one more change anything? A more generic domain name or something?

Wake Up - Arcade Fire

as it gets better

Bold assumption.

I've never related to trypophobia at all before just now. Now I get it. This fucking post right here.

Very probably if you can't think how it would be beneficial for your use case, it won't be beneficial to your use case.

"Website" (as opposed to "web app") sounds like something static with no server-side logic (save serving up static content) which further makes Docker not seem very useful for your use case. In your shoes, if I haven't inferred too much, I'd probably first think of some CloudFront/S3-based solution.

Typically, Docker is used in cloud infrastructure (AWS or the like) in situations where there's a lot of server-side resource usage and you want to be able to scale up on very short notice. It can also be useful for on-prem sort of situations, or for if you want to run server-side software in a "contained" sort of way where you don't have to install your software's dependencies on the host machine. (Running a Java app on an EC2 node without installing a JRE on the instance, for instance.) Docker is also good (particularly relative to PaaS options) for minimizing vendor lockin (though, again, only really if you have server-side logic to contend with, and if you're dealing with a static website, it's hard to imagine vendor lockin being an issue.)

I suppose you could shoehorn it in. Stick your static website on an EC2 node with a Dockerized Nginx to serve it, or even bundle your static website into a Docker image, but I'd imagine you'd pay more for such a solution than just using CloudFront with S3 or whatever.

(And yes, I keep mentioning AWS, but there are lots of hosts out there. For the more focused LAMP-stack-providers rather than IaaS options, Docker would be of even less use.)

Now, even if you do intend to have server-side logic, I'm not sure Docker really adds much to the conversation unless your server side logic is expected to use a fair bit of CPU and/or RAM, you're expecting to get a good amount of request volume, and you want to be able to scale horizontally very quickly.

Definitely not too weird a question!

There are plenty of introverted Americans who hate how extraverted it is here. And the U.S. definitely isn't "superior" to Germany in that way (or any other particular way.)

Also, there's a difference between introversion, shyness, social anxiety, an avoidant and/or schizoid and/or schizotypal personality type, an avoidant attachment style, hikikomori/shutins, autism, and plenty of other sorts of socially-averse sorts of temperments. Some are "problems", some aren't. Given the way you're talking about yourself, it sounds like what you're experiencing is something you'd like to change about yourself. I do think it's worth introspecting a bit (see what I did there?) and seeing to what extent your desire to change is internalized shame put on you by others and to what extent changing your presentation in the world would lead to a truer expression of your true self. But assuming the latter is the case...

Practice. Even if Germany is a pretty introverted place (and that's valid -- there are definitely differences regionally with regard to how introverted or extraverted the culture is) there are definitely places/events/gatherings/etc that are more expressions of extraversion than others. Immerse yourself in such events. Baby steps are fine. Start with contexts that are just a little bit more extraverted than you are if you like. And move on to more and more extraverted sorts of contexts. Also, I'd try to focus on events centered around things you hold a genuine interest in. (I, for instance, have enjoyed a lot of tabletop roleplaying games. That activity, even though it's engaged in with others, feels much less overwhelming to me given that everyone's focused on a common activity rather than just on "each other.")

One more word about this. Try to avoid "masking." That is, don't invent a facade of extraversion to show people. It's very cliche to say it, but: "be yourself." I think probably ultimately if you end up "pretending to be extraverted" rather than engaging in socialization in a way you genuinely enjoy, it's likely to do you more harm than good with regard to your goals.

Good luck!

Should metal detecting functionality be added to my electric toothbrush?

Should pizza savers also be functional Magic 8 Balls?

Maybe Cessna planes should add Roomba functionality.

Voice chat is a fine and good usecase, and I might even be persuaded that some amount of ActivityPub integration might be a good thing (mostly just for account management, though), but no, it shouldn't be added to Lemmy any more so than my nose hair trimmer should also be a functional tazer. If a particular instance admin also wants to provide voice chat to users, great.

One of Lemmy's greatest strengths is that it doesn't try to do too much. It does one thing and one thing well.

I'm not sure why you're getting downvotes exactly.

A basic tutorial on web development like Sleepless One suggested is definitely a good place to start, just to get a basic overview of what you're getting into. I personally learn best by doing rather than by learning. What I mean by that is if I sit down to try to learn... say... the C programming language, I'm probably not going to learn much from it, let alone retain it. But if I decide I want to write a game in C and start writing the game even from what little I know about C, I'll learn as I go. Not to say for me there's no benefit in a "learn C" tutorial, but if you're anything like me, I'd recommend switching to doing the specific website you have in mind as early as possible rather than trying to "learn web development" before switching to the project that is ultimately your end goal.

Beyond that, you'll want to avoid falling into a trap of doing what feels to you like it'll work rather than what's "best practices" for "the industry." So the other thing I think will benefit you searching-wise is to look for information about not just how to make it (technically) work but also how to do the thing you want to do "right."

At least that's my recommendation.

Beyond that, are there any existing websites that closely approximate what you have in mind for an end goal for your project? If so, could you share one? I think it might help us with more specific recommendations.

Oh wow. I really want to hear the story behind that removal. Like, was it truly a DMCA takedown notice or just an instance admin doing a funny? Was it sent by someone who arguably has a case or some troll? What specific right(s) and with respect to what specific work(s) were claimed to have been infringed? I have so many questions.

To be fair, most of us have been "that lemming" at one point or another.

If it's weird, we can be weird together.

True, but it's gone in spikes largely driven by new strains since the original.

Obligatory

It's a little bit like Satan telling someone he's a big fan of their work.

Challenge accepted.

Like someone else in this thread mentioned, Elon. I hated him well before he started doing really assholeish stuff publicly. I had plenty of liberal friends who thought he was cool and edgy and bought not-a-flamethrowers and Tesla cars. When the soccer team got trapped in a cave in Thailand and Elon called the rescue team pedophiles, I was like "I knew that guy had to be a total asshole". Of course, now I know that was not even the tip of the iceberg.

I think I was ahead of the curve hating on "generative AI".

Bill Gates. I hated him for being a big part of the rise of proprietary software as an institution long before the right wing conspiracy theorists started making up bullshit about him. Which is annoying because now I have to tell people I hate Gates but not because I think he's putting 5G microchips in vaccines or whatever bullshit.

Facebook is probably a pretty good example. I quit Facebook in like 2008. Not that nobody was talking about how evil Facebook was at the time, but their evil wasn't really as well known at the time, I don't think.

I'm realizing a lot of these are technology-related.

Would it be a proper shitpost if nobody shat on it?

If you want to watch it

Pass, thanks.

They don't make a Clozapine big enough.

zen meditation... trying to illicit vivid imagery in the mind... it sounded like a whole lot of junk mind flailing.

See, but, this is exactly the kind of attitude I'm trying to address in my comment. People judging other people's meditation practices. You didn't specifically go so far (at least not explicitly) as to call it "not meditation", but you're still judging the practice without really understanding it. (Not that I think you should be judging it even if you did understand it.)

The practice you're describing might have been something called "kasiṇa". And it's known to "illicit vivid imagery." There are multiple kinds of kasina practices, but they originate from the Pali Canon itself in works such as the Visuddhimagga and Vimuttimagga^{[ [The Fire Kasina Meditation Site](https://firekasina.org/) ]}[ Wikipedia page on Kammaṭṭhāna ].

That's as meditation as meditation gets. If you're going to call that "junk mind flailing", the Buddha would like a word.

Now, I don't know for sure kasina was what you're describing. But it's also beside the point. I don't think meditators really have a leg to stand on to claim that even something like sitting quietly, eyes closed, and playing the whole original Star Wars trilogy in their head from memory is "bad meditation" or "not meditation" just because they judgmentally can't imagine it "exercising" a "muscle"/"mental skill"/etc. (Daniel Ingram, one of the co-authors of the fire kasina site I cited earlier and a huge advocate for fire kasina as a practice, talks about using fire kasina to conjure vivid images of dragons from Lord of the Rings, kinda just because he's a geek (and I mean that endearingly) and it's fun. Though he's also strongly of the opinion that kasina can lead to insight.) "Meditation" is not the sort of term that a lot of people tend to try to gatekeep, and I think that's basically never a good thing.