alex [they, il] @ alex @jlai.lu

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Ah yes, money laundering, I know that one

I've mostly left social media and replaced it with RSS feeds of a couple of news outlets that I trust for good AND non-depressing news coverage (can't really recommend them as they are in French; in English I just have a couple of "extra sources" for LGBT & sports topics).

It's been wonderful to finish the list and not have anything left to read. No more doomscrolling! It's great!

Same here. I also really like that they sync YouTube subscription and allow to follow Facebook pages, so I barely ever need to open these two websites.

The Storygraph is really cool.

That makes sense, thank you for taking the time to explain your reasons!

Good explanation.

If I remember correctly they defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works because they were two huge and largely unmoderated instances but did say that they'd like to refederate if solid moderation was put in place.

The SIJW admin and them had talks and agreed that they'd refederate when Lemmy would have decent moderation tools that allowed for that, which hasn't happened yet.

• Choose train over plane whenever possible, especially in Europe
• If you have to take the plane, avoid luggage if you can, you'll save a bunch of time (and money on some airlines too)
• https://rome2rio.com is a great website to find itineraries
• Bring an extra pair of socks and underwear
• Leave some free time and allow yourself to get lost in a city you're visiting, it's a great way to find new places off the beaten path
• Always have your water bottle handy

Hiya! I just visited this community (!wetshaving@sub.wetshaving.social) and wanted to point out that the daily threads on a tiny community make up more noise than valuable content. The active threads are 100 % bot-generated prompts with 0 replies, which is very discouraging. I'd recommend having at most one per week, and otherwise trying to fill the community with information or questions rather than megathreads like these :)

Being emotionally detached from really stupid leadership decisions is harder than it seems

Once again it's that "worst person you know just made a great point" headline

I liked Sapiens and Berserk and hope that you will as well!

!france@jlai.lu !humanities@beehaw.org !diy@slrpnk.net

Oh sorry yes that sounded way too ominous without context

A couple of years back, Framasoft decided to get rid of all the projects that aren't their core activity, keeping stuff like Mobilizon and Peertube for instance. I think they might have gotten rid of their publishing house as part of this restructuring.

For self publishing there's really no difference.

I believe framasoft used to have a publishing house for CC-BY books but they might have shut it down during the great purge of two years ago.

Yeah, I'd like it too, but I suppose it's a lot of work.

It's not supposed to be. It doesn't jam endless recommendations in your feed once you've gotten at the end of the new, fresh content. I feel like it's a feature, not a bug, to have platforms that don't optimise for time spent on them, because they don't need our attention to show us ads.

that's not a news bot, that's an issue with Lemmy federation. you can create a GitHub ticket for Lemmy or sign up for Lemmy and browse it there, federation really isn't the best for following posts and/or communities.

"les mers" lol

Looks absolutely yummy

Gorgeous!