VolcanoWonderpants

joined 8 months ago
[–] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 2 points 7 months ago

I just tested it out by typing in "Sonic the hedgehog fanart". For once, I was able to get some decent images without being bombarded by uncanny valley ai-generated images of Sonic wearing Rouge's outfit or poorly-drawn inflation art. So it seems to be off to a good start.

[–] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's a really good site too, though I suggest using fedipact.veganism.social if you're specifically interested in which instances are defederated from Threads. Some instances have hidden blocklists and won't show if they have defederated Threads if you search through defed.xyz.

For example: You can only see that retro.pizza and masto.ai have hidden blocklists if you look through defed.xyz. However, if you look on fedipact.veganism.social, you can see that retro.pizza has joined the Fedipact against Threads, while masto.ai is fully federated with them.

[–] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 43 points 7 months ago (8 children)

You can find servers based on Threads defederation through this site. Since you don't want anything to do with Threads, I suggest filtering by 'blocked' and 'Fedipact' I'm not sure what the difference is between the two is though, so I'd appreciate if someone would explain.

[–] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can get why that user might have a pro-communist bias themself due to being from a pro-communist instance, but the articles they linked seemed to be an accurate enough representation of how the far left and far right see Wikipedia.

Maybe not completely accurate to how it really is in all aspects, but I don't really care enough about Wikipedia's biases to fact check each contradictory claim in each article. I barely use it as a point of reference anymore anyways. (Though I've found it tends to have a liberal bias, like both the articles stated. I seem to remember that during the past election, some sections of the articles about Trump or featuring him in some way used very emotionally charged language)

But accurate or not, I still find it hilarious to look at the articles side by side. One claims the articles are written mainly by teenagers and the unemployed and supports communism, and the other claims they're written mostly by privileged White men who hate communism.

[–] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

...are these people writing about the same website?! 😂

[–] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for explaining the Mastodon-Lemmy compatibility thing. I've been confused about it for quite awhile. My alt's instance blocks a bunch of Mastodon servers, and I've always wondered why, since I almost never see any content from Mastodon users on here anyway. I always assumed it was simply a gesture for the admins show that they disapprove of that server's policies or something.

[–] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I looked through several of these 'title' posts, and that does seem to be the most common use for that now that I look at it. Though I do occassionally come across stuff that you could probably come up with a decent title for, but might take longer than is worthwhile. Thank you!

[–] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I see now, thank you. I was just wondering. Now that I look a little more at the 'Title' posts as examples for others to look at, the more I see that it's usually for stuff that's hard to title without spoiling the content of the post (e.g. typing out the entire text of a meme would be really annoying)

[–] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Just got two specific ones in my reply to @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone. You can probably find a few more by going into search, filtering it to post only, and typing in 'title' as the search text. Usually I don't click into them, so I can't recall any specific ones that stuck out at me from my history, but I remember seeing some in my feed time to time, enough to make me wonder why it's relatively common.

[–] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

That sounds like it could be a plausible answer, so I looked for some posts called "Title" (or some variation), but both the users I happened to find who did this have a Lemmy site as their home instance.

  • Title OP's instance: iusearchlinux.fyi
  • title OP's instance: lemmy.world

So there must be another reason. I also wasn't aware that your posts from Mastodon could federate to Lemmy. I thought the two platforms were incompatible, since here all content has to fit into a specific community, but there you have to use hashtags, which don't seem to correlate to any specific Lemmy communites (though I've only lurked on a few Mastodon instances; I don't have an account)

 

I haven't spent long on Lemmy, but I see a lot of posts with their title literally being "Title". Is it meant to be a joke? Is it because the title would otherwise be a quote ripped from the image/post itself, and the posters don't want their fellow Lemmites to get bored from reading the same bit of text twice? Reason why I ask is because I recently posted something where I took the title from the body of text in the post, and I'm wondering if people find it less annoying to read a single placeholder word before clicking into the main post than to end up rereading a bit of the body later.

[–] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 1 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised if we see another boom in active users and new accounts due to that. Just depends on how much this pushes users who were already annoyed over api changes over the edge.

[–] VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today 8 points 8 months ago (8 children)

What are some you'd like to see?

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