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well you're in luck! i'm currently messaging some other imaginary community mods, so more communities will be coming soon

it's a step more horror-y, but little nightmares always felt to me like the third playdead game. i solidly recommend playing the first one first too

there's also far: lone sails (and its sequel, but I haven't played that); and it's a bit more low-budget i also really liked darq

salt & sanctuary had this atmosphere; but i've never finished it so i can't comment on its quality. and some other souls likes as well - thymesia and helloint come to mind

also portal (1) kind of fits this if you haven't played it

honestly i feel like that's their attitude toward everything? maybe i missed the glory days of gnome, but now i see it as only useful if you're A) a gnome developer, or B) have exactly the same workflow as a gnome developer. otherwise it's useless unless you want a bunch of extensions that break every update

same. to be honest, that's mostly why i'm on Debian - from what i could tell it had the largest repositories. i did try arch on my laptop and one markdown editor took over half an hour to compile so i just gave up

I mean, isn't cinnamon just a better version of gnome 2?

oh yeah that's fair. it's only gnome 3 that's awful

I generally understand it as the frontends for the applications, no

it's just that i imagine you know more than me about linux, having used it for longer, but i didn't want to assume that and have you floundering and confused

Oh, I'm a gnome slut through and through.

ew. heathen

What does this command do exactly?

probably not much on gnome/cinnamon, although i don't know. it might work if you install the qt file picker package (maybe) but i don't know what that is

on kde it forces gtk apps to use the qt file picker, so you don't have to deal with the useless gtk one

i'm presuming you know what i mean by qt and gtk. if you don't just tell me

but what difference is there really between Mint and Ubuntu Cinnamon? Especially since I took the time to learn cinnamon on here that I have it setup all nice and where I like everything, would it be worth my time to switch?

okay i've never used ubuntu cinnamon, so most of this is conjecture:

if you're on ubuntu lts and already have everything set up, not much. mint is just ubuntu[^{lmde fans don't @ me] with all the generally accepted as good fixes on the top (no snap, an easy driver manager, etc). they also add their own repos, a software manager, and some other software that's [objectively] better than the gnome/ubuntu default offerings[}they also used to have a much better de, but not anymore]. i don't ever see any point in using ubuntu cinnamon unless you want the non-lts versions; but if you're already set up you won't get that much out of switching

i don't know much about browser extensions, so take this suggestion with a pinch of salt: what about rewriting the link on mouse down? (i believe this is what google does to take you to their tracking url instead?)

obviously this has a few issues - i don't know if there's enough execution time between mousedown and mouseup, you'd have to listen for middle click and enter (possibly ctrl/shift click too), and the arguable privacy concerns; but it seems like no performance impact and no extra click?

d'you want to pm them? i have a matrix at @zeusofthecrows:matrix.org and a telegram but not much else (and a discord that i generally avoid opening)

i don't want to end up as some tyrannical ruler of the imaginary network though

The dev will write a github issue with everything described for stage 1 of tags before proceeding to gather opinions. But he will only mention stage 2 and stage 3 of tags and I will have to make issues for stage 2 and 3 myself.

i guess i'll have to keep an eye on the gh then - presumably it'll be on lemmy-ui

I also have this weird sublemmy called “imaginary cities/cityscapes/landscapes” because it’s about cities but cityscapes very often are also portraying a landscape. I can either make “imaginary scapes” (ik this sounds weird lol) and use it for starscapes, landscapes, skyscapes, cloudcapes etc. and have a separate sublemmy for showing inside shots of cities/villages where far away shots of them would be counted as a “scapes” to which will be included in “scapes” sublemmy and not the sublemmy about cities/villages. I also have this weird sublemmy called “imaginary cities/cityscapes/landscapes” because it’s about cities but cityscapes very often are also portraying a landscape. I can either make “imaginary scapes” (ik this sounds weird lol) and use it for starscapes, landscapes, skyscapes, cloudcapes etc. and have a separate sublemmy for showing inside shots of cities/villages where far away shots of them would be counted as a “scapes” to which will be included in “scapes” sublemmy and not the sublemmy about cities/villages

i, personally, would prefer the former. i don't know which is objectively better, but i was actually considering making a "grungy hamlets" sub.[^stuff like this] although i didn't really know what to call it. so i'd like / will make a "street level views of mediævil/vicorian/cyberpunk distopic towns", but i have no interest in wide grandiose vistas.

i don't really have strong opinions, but that's my thoughts. i wonder if we should make some sort of discussion group with tywele, sebinspace, and remus989 to make co-ordinated decisions?

yeah fair enough, that's all you really need

for some reason, lemmy automatically prefills with [!zeitgeist@lemmy.world](www.lemmy.world/c/zeitgeist) if you start typing an exclamation mark on desktop. even though !zeitgeist@lemmy.world(/c/zeitgeist@lemmy.world) is better (and just !zeitgeist@lemmy.world works in most cases)

oh hi tywele

did you really read all of that? i'm impressed

(Edit: actually, I think it may be do BOTH of those things now that I read my conversation with the dev again)

yeah, the thread was hard to follow due to people talking about different concepts without realising. i feel like that would need to be clarified before implementing one (or both[^hopefully not])

Stage 1: Tagging and Presets (Community and Instance, no User defined Tags allowed)
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\ Stage 2 (not sure if I’ll do that): Filtering, Cosmetics? (Border, Text Color)

yeah this seems fine (although cosmetics seems like a late stage issue to me, but meh)

I think backend wise not worrying about that is fine for now, the separation of tags per community can be achieved by filtering tag AND community ID in the filter, which could just be hidden from the user or displayed, there’s a separate discussion to be had about the filter features. Point is not separating these tags per community shouldn’t limit their filterability because community id’s already exist. Plus by not splitting them up in the backend general tags can be used across instances a lot more easily.
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\ Subscribing to tags in a community could then work similar to that filter, again the issue would be how to make the UI bearable but backend wise should be no problem to implement.

i'm not surprised, that makes sense. as an aside: there are community id's? like, uuid's? or does he mean just comm@instan.ce which is, i guess, an id?

For the stage 3 to be implemented (if anyone decides to implement this AT ALL) we will need to wait for weeks at best and months at worst. Now this makes it hard for me to decide how to proceed with my communities because the path of the tag system is not yet clear and I need to decide NOW which communities should be separate and which should become more general.

in my (irrelevant) opinion, separate communities are better. it's a paradigm that everyone knows, rather than some nebulous proposal that 1) may not be implemented 2) may be lacking features (rss etc.) 3) will almost certainly be more complex to use. also you could merge them at a later date and add links to the archived versions in the sidebar. not really optimal, but it is a solution

adding them all together won't prevent spam (although i guess it would make it easier for people to block..). there will be the same volume of posts, just all in one place. i have been trying to avoid flooding local though. i have a whole folder of art to add to these subs. although to be honest, i've no sympathy with the op. browse subscribed if you don't want to see irrelevant posts. if you browse all, be prepared to see posts you have no interest in

Edit: I talked with the dev, it will take months to reach stage 3. And I realised just now that not all content on c/imaginaryaviation will be vehicles which means that I will need to a create a new sub called c/imaginarylocomotion to be able to fully capture both of the subs.

ah yes, convoluted and intermingled subs. fun

it's such a shame. i used it despite the interface; but even if some site perfectly recreated the interface on a federated version, it wouldn't be the same. most of the older users wouldn't switch, and it'd be filled with non-tumblr early adopters

no worries, i don't even expect you to respond to all of it. i did just sort of ramble for a while. but i thought it might be good to have on hand when you talk to neshura

i didn't even read it that much, so i apologise for any formatting errors (i wrote it in a text editor outside of lemmy)

edit 2023-07-12:

On another topic, it would be awesome having Mastodon-style featured tags, but for communities.
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this also sounds awful. it will just propagate what is currently popular, making it more popular. this is already a problem with sorttype=active. it will cluster all the conversation into one tag, making it continuously popular. don't do this.

issue #1459

i missed these, so i've never used them; but this seemed like a really good idea

Categories have been removed, and there is #317 for tags.

ah, shame

[^1]: honestly i feel a lot of my issues stem from interopability with mastodon. i wish we weren't interoperable with mastodon. the twitter model breeds vapid and pointless comments like this. i'd rather a static tag similar to reddit's, as that's designed for a link aggregator not a microblogging site. but maybe that's just me

[^2]: e.g. CW: Gore, CW: Sexual Abuse etc.

[^3]: edit: don't use hashes for this. they don't work in urls. i'm dumb.

hmmm. i personally really dislike almost every idea discussed in that issue. thank you for the link though

i agree with you - I'm personally interested in trains (obviously); but not really cars, tanks, etc. so i like the separate communities

i didn't know about the tags thing though, that's interesting. do you have a source?

yeah exactly. that's why i don't like webp. i've nothing against it as a format, i would just rather use image format that's not backed by said corpo