smoothbrain coldtakes

You calling somebody out publicly is entirely to illicit a reaction from the crowd. Surely, a direct message would have been more appropriate for a disagreement over a series of downvotes?

By doing this publicly you’ve definitely made the situation way, way worse than it had to be.

I disagree with bringing in more redditors to this site. I think the community ambassador system is a quick way of creating a bunch of powermoderators on a system that’s supposed to be designed to resist that kind of behavior and centralization.

If you hate being downvoted because of disagreement, why would you want to bring more users who default to that behavior?

I also do not believe you should have any more power or capacity in the fediverse. It’s clear to me by your behavior in this thread that even basic things like being downvoted can set you off and make you decide to try to start a witch hunt.

Reddit promoted “downvote to disagree” and this is a consequence of the userbase having migrated from there.

You can say whatever you want about how it should work, but the bottom line is that most people using vote-based systems are voting up and down based on if they agree with what’s posted. It hasn’t been “downvote for off-topic” for over a decade.

This guy wants to bring more redditors to the site, the people actively perpetuating downvote to disagree.

Well, you are resorting to actively aggressive behavior in response to internet points.

Can you please explain why it matters?

It’s so weird to keep track of that, and petty on both sides if it has been happening for months like you say.

I also think you are placing way too high importance on vote counts, and specifically pinging people is not the way to handle your disapproval.

I am not catloaf but I have a problem with people literally combing vote logs to call users out in comments. That’s toxic verging on obsessive.

Absolutely not the way to act as the face of a project. It accomplishes nothing besides making you look incredibly petty and dissuades people from supporting your work.

If somebody can’t moderate their instance in any kind of way that’s impacting other parts of the federation, it makes sense to defederate until they fix their problems.

I don’t think anybody should have open signups. It’s literally just an invitation to mess with the rest of us who are federated with the instance.

I don’t understand why you needed a whole new server to discuss the NBA when not only does every single instance have duplicate communities for the teams, but also fanaticus.social already holds the top dedicated spot for sports content aggregation.

I love that the federation allows this, but I don’t get why we need to endlessly keep spinning up more instances that already have way too many spaces trying to discuss the same stuff.

You don’t need to sign up for forums for them to be searched through.

The point is that Discord is an information black hole. It’s all contained within the server, unindexed, private, hidden, and entirely gone if the server gets deleted.

Yes.

The correct answer was forum.

It’s probably some crazy ancient manufacturing equipment. This is basically what factories look like. Spit, glue, tape, and hacks.

I think it boils down to preference of thumb vs pinky. The ergo choice is thumb but the conditioned choice is pinky.

I’ve had several Keychrons and the only one that failed on me was due to liquid damage. I’ve had three of them and the original one I purchased for working on a Mac is still running strong with a few coffee stains. The second one I bought with a backlight lasted two years and died by my own hand. I have a new backlit one with a different set of keycaps and it’s been going strong for a year with no issues.

I tend to buy the wired C2 series which is the cheapest lineup. The great thing about Keychrons is that they are highly repairable and customizable by the user. You can replace keycaps, switches, and the keyboards are all designed to support both layouts with each requisite key included for Command and Windows. It can toggle to either OS via the flip of a switch, and you can attach the keycaps you prefer.

I use the Windows layout on all of my machines that run Linux, personally. You could easily keep the Windows configuration switch and just uh, replace the key I guess if that’s your aesthetic preference. I would probably do that if I were in your position. The keycaps are included and it’s not going to interfere unless you flip the switch.

VLC isn’t equivalent to Jellyfin or Plex in streaming capabilities, and it’s just running on SMB which could be configured with general folder permissions and sharing, allowing access for any media player and not just VLC.

SMB is a share protocol that’s pretty standard across ecosystems. I am not sure of your use case and why you are wanting to get rid of Jellyfin but VLC doesn’t sound like the tool to do it.

You can configure the folder permissions with a guide here or by searching “Ubuntu smb sharing” or something similar.

I’M DOING MY PART!

Garuda for gaming and Silverblue for work.

Silverblue rocks, I use it for my mission critical laptop.

For gaming it’s hard to beat Arch, still, because of how much active development is being put in by people like Steam.

The way federation works is that everything is replicated across all federated servers. If an admin team does not want to have to moderate specific kinds of content or users who are deemed detrimental (but not necessarily illegal) they have the ability and right to defederate.

Also, I’ve blocked servers but it doesn’t block users. Defederation does though.

But it doesn’t bootstrap conversation properly, because some OP on an entire other website is asking for help, and we’re talking to brick walls.

Lemmy is more helpful for Linux help than reddit is anyways, because on reddit they’ll tell you to fuck off and search, while on Lemmy I can still get hands-on support with a willing community.

Eliminate all bots.

Crossposts are useless because the communities are not interactive.

The strength of the Lemmy community in my opinion is the high quality of discussion, and there is no discussion to be had on reddit reposts when we are not having our content reposted onto reddit.