ratboy

joined 1 year ago
[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's what I figured but just wanted to get other opinions since its been most of the week. It wasn't nearly this bad when I first started using the platform but I guess the "official reddit exodus" really took its toll even with the big server upgrades. I'm looking at other instances, but it seems like any instance that isn't the big ten or so are pretty dead with very few communities. I also want to be federated with lemmygrad and not exploding heads and that seems kinda tough to find though I could stand to look harder.

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried that and another app right now but it's telling me that my password is wrong! So I'm nervous to try and reset it right now Guess I'll try again tomorrow sigh

 

Comments won't post randomly, I try to upload images and some work and others don't, then when I try to repost none will upload at all (I've resized my images too). Currently, trying to load this community, it will not show any posts but I can see them on my feed. Am I doing something wrong? I feel like it's been this way for a week and it's making me lose interest in the platform if I can hardly interact with it anymore, it sucks

edit: just wanna note that I know the devs have been working their asses off to support the wave of like, tens of thousands of users; I just wasn't sure if there is a secret cheat that I'm not privy to that would help my experience since it's been consistently buggy for me

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

That just happened to me as I was going to try a new app because I've barely been able to interact with lemmy.ml at all the last week due to what seem like bugs. So hopefully it'll be a short lived issue

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Congrats! Thick leather gloves are fantastic for thorns, so that's what I would recommend. I'm a glutton for punishment, though, and when I don't have my leather gloves I'll still dig through thorny plants, albeit veeeery gently. That's normally if I'm just pruning small patches of blackberry or roses, though and also I'm a masochist lol.

If a ton of the thorny plants are blackberry, it might be a good idea to hire someone to clear it. I've never done so but they are voracious growers. You may know this, but any branch that touches the ground can put off new roots and grow even more and so on. Unless you can dig out all of the roots, just going through and cutting is a losing game, unless you get it cut back to where it's manageable and you don't mind pruning regularly.

As for garden clippings, composting is the way. You do want to make sure that you aren't getting any weeds in your compost, though, otherwise they will profilerate and your compost soil will just spread more weeds. Again, you may know this, but for browns, save any unbleached paper that you can. Torn up cardboard, newspaper, napkins,coffee filters, paper grocery bags, chopped up twigs/wood chips/shavings, dryer Lint. If you can shred your brown foliage that's great as well. If there is a farm/feed store somewhat close to you, you can buy straw for fairly cheap and that will last forever depending on the size of the compost pile.

Also, if you can look into native flowers for your area and scatter a ton of seed once you've cleared out weeds, they can help to eventually keep the weed population under control. Clover helps with this, too and can be good ground cover. Just wanna make sure it's not invasive in your area and it doesn't choke out your natives

 

I've posted about this before but the responses didn't quite help. I'm trying to add !stoner_rock@sh.itjust.works. on the browser on mobile, I go to communities and search for it with communities and "all" chosen. I searched for "stoner", "stoner rock", "stoner_rock" and "!stoner_rock@sh.itjust.works". Nothing. It also won't come up in Jerboa. So it seems like no one from lemmy.ml has interacted with this community before, I get that, but then how do I go about getting it added?

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

This was happening to me on jerboa with my lemmy.ml account for a week or so; I think the app is still just wigging out due to the influx of users. I'd just wait it out and use the browser on mobile and it will probably come around as I don't have issues with that now. Or try reinstalling?

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.ml was just upgraded pretty substantially a couple of weeks ago with the first large reddit exodus, so unless there is a ton more monetary support from users, i don't really know that the problem will be solved. It's been like this since the 29th. Jerboa is all but unusable for me unless it's late at night.

Generally it is suggested to jump to a different instance and your performance may improve, lemmy.ml has been way overloaded for a long time

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I tried searching for a post link in my instances search and nothing came up. I've had this issue with jerboa too, and I think in the browser, where I try to do !community@instance.ee or whatever and it won't come up, it almost never works for me. but if I type the name of the instance simply, it will populate. I must be doin something funky

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Ah I see, I didn't know that an update to a post needed to be made, that makes sense. The instance isn't blocked, but I'll try the post link suggestion and fiddle around to see if that can help populate everything. Thanks for your response!

 

So I just downloaded Liftoff and found a couple of communities on an instance I'd never heard of before, and I decided that I wanted to subscribe to them on my lemmy.ml profile. We are federated, and when I view the communities through the main instance I see a bunch of posts and subscribers, but when I try to view them through lemmy.ml it says there is 1 subscriber (me) and no posts. I tested this on my mobile browser. Jerboa, and Liftoff all with the same result.

Is this one of those cases where it's a bug and will sort itself out, or am I doing something wrong? I don't wanna miss out potentially cool communities if they just aren't coming up for me

[–] ratboy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

As far as I can tell, you can through your mobile browser, and with the brand spanky new Liftoff app (android) but not through Jerboa, which sucks. I'm constantly cycling between the browser and jerboa depending on my needs. Searching for communities is waaaaay easier on mobile, but it's very clunky and you have to have multiple tabs open to make it easier to add multiple communities from one instance on your profile.

 

So I want to add the extreme metal community which I believe is on feddit, and the hardcorepunk community on lemmyworld and for some reason they don't come up at all on jerboa or my mobile browser...is this a glitch situation, or am I not adding them correctly? It seems on both jerboa and the browser, adding the ! Links don't pull up communities, they only come up if I type the beginning of the community names in the search bar. The majority come up when I do this, but some such as the ones I mentioned don't come up no matter how I try to subscribe to them. What am I doing wrong?