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ElectroVagrant

@ ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world

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Another traveler of the wireways.

  • Excellent explanation of the mid air collision in DC

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  • Thanks for the share! Appreciate it cutting right to the substance and emphasis that it's strictly speculation on their part on the details of what happened.

    Btw original video title for those interested:"Analyzing the Mid-Air Collision Over the Potomac: A Detailed Examination of ATC Communications"

  • Missing comments - how does it work?

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  • And correct me if i am wrong, but banning a user just stops them from posting, but i thought it did not delete their post history without additional mod action - which i cant see in the modlog

    There's an option when banning a user to also remove their content, albeit unless it's an admin action I don't think it would affect their whole post history beyond the specific community.

    I'm kind of getting the sense as I look into this that it may be related to how Voyager is rendering the thread, as I'm not able to observe what's being described from the web interface. That's another catch in all this, the other apps and interfaces have their own quirks in how they handle rendering things, which itself is typically related to how they work off the base software (Lemmy in this case).

  • Missing comments - how does it work?

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  • Edit: why am i forced to upload a photo for a new post?

    Which way are you posting? Mobile/web interface? Shouldn't need to add an image to post...

    That aside, regarding your main question:

    I think it’s very confusing when a single post appears with different comments on different instances, and have no idea how this works.

    A basic reason for the difference in which comments are appearing across different instances/sites is because of delays in networking (federation) between the sites due to a variety of reasons. One of the common ones with the fediverse tends to be the software itself, and sometimes differences in versions' federation handling. In this case it's probably because Lemmy World is still running an older version of Lemmy with clunkier federation at Lemmy World's scale, which causes delays in activities on there updating elsewhere (particularly those hosted in Australia).

    Edit:See also Kichae's comment for a more detailed explanation, covers how things operate under more ideal conditions.

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    [Off-Topic] Should we purge doomers?

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  • Tend to agree with this, particularly leaning towards warnings first given limited moderation tools.

    @ultrahamster64@lemmy.world, I think specifying nonconstructive over constructive comments may help here. The first comments you highlight roughly fit the nonconstructive type, being dismissive or not citing any sources to back their resignation.

    Deleting those comments and banning them immediately misses an opportunity to encourage them to reevaluate their thinking. A warning first, followed by a temporary ban if they choose to be rude about it, and ultimately a permanent ban if they continue, seems like it may be a decent approach. If it went any further, bring in admins.

  • Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector - Wake up and play this game

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  • For some reason I thought this was another Early Access situation, but it's not. Moments like this I love being wrong.

  • I've been making fried rice for a while but this was the first time on my new outdoor griddle!

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  • Looks like ya should have a pretty good amount of leftovers to boot!

  • Pillars of Creation

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  • Nice, dig the look of it! You say iridescent blue, so does it have a sort of shimmery look in-person?

  • Dino Crisis 1 & 2 getting enhanced PC re-releases courtesy of GOG

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  • Talk about a pleasant surprise!

  • What my front page looks like with no-politics content filter on

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  • [...] there was just a little more non-political content to help dilute it due to the larger user-base.

    There was/is a lot more and that's one of the various reasons the different Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed sites haven't swayed people over yet. There's far more people around here replying to posts like this and news posts, as well as creating news/politics/"dry" posts or find-anywhere-fare like memes/shitposts than much else.

    It's why recently I've tried posting more than media news links to a few of the different entertainment communities. Around here you really have to post/comment on what you want to see more than on the big corporate sites.

  • I am having an existential crysis about this

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  • The lurking downvoter, more astounding when they don't appear than when they do. 😂

  • @lemmy.world

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  • Sort of, it's because a lot of microblogging software doesn't have the same post format with title/post body. The current workaround for microblog to Lemmy and similar is to format it like this:

    first line title

    second or more lines post body

    communityname@site.name

    #hashtags if desired

  • Ray of Sunshine

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  • Great photo for sure!

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    I don't understand the purpose of some selfhosting

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  • Appreciate this post OP, as I've wondered similar at times when not wanting to fuss with another machine for self-hosting (as often it's not the case that I could run the server software on my main system).

  • in what order do you guys recommend watching the whole Ghost in the Shell narrative after the original movie(no spoilers please)?

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  • I'd go with this, and look into each and read a little about them to see if the art styles and stories interest you and dig in from there, rather than approaching it as a wholly cohesive series.

    Personally I liked the original movie and the Stand Alone Complex/2nd Gig series, but didn't care as much for Arise (the OVA cut). Can't speak to other parts as I haven't seen them.

  • Working the Defaults

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  • It's a default that admins running newer versions of Lemmy (v0.19.4 onward) can change if desired, but that might be a little awkward to do for existing instances compared to newer ones.

  • Let's discuss how to efficiently promote Lemmy to potential new joiners

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  • Well, also maybe Reddit, unless they're also removing/burying other social sites. Besides that, any messaging services one may use to chat with friends or others.

  • Let's discuss how to efficiently promote Lemmy to potential new joiners

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  • Echoing this, with some slight adjustments:

    Promote the specific sites/communities to people, and on sites that permit it, share links back to specific posts/comments that you found interesting/amusing/etc. from said sites/communities.

    Reddit got popular off the back of changes to Digg and people mentioning/sharing stuff from Reddit there. I'd imagine TikTok also grew in popularity from people sharing stuff from it on other major platforms like Instagram/YouTube/Snapchat/Twitter, much as now RedNote's growing in popularity from people mentioning it on TikTok and other platforms.

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    Is there any cool communites in the Threadverse for Gen-Z?

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  • I'd say post this sort of thing to any of the chat/discussion communities across instances.

    !general@lemmy.world is open for it.

    !casualconversation@lemm.ee is open for it too.

    !chat@beehaw.org is likely open for it.

    There's plenty more but those are a few to start with. You may not get many responses due to fewer people and fewer among those in the same age range, but you may also be pleasantly surprised. Regardless, that's an easier route than trying to start up a community from scratch.

    Btw instead of inviting people over, you may also try sharing stuff from around here with links you think your friends might enjoy. Once they see there's stuff of interest, that may be more of a draw than an invite to Yet Another App alone.

  • Idea: having a political-free instance for new joiners

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  • [...] you can create and share json files of blocked instances/communities without overwriting other user settings

    I finally got around to testing this and found that it doesn't overwrite existing blocks, merely adds them to your existing list. I made sure that the import file only contained new blocks and not duplicates to verify. You have to refresh the page to see the changes, and may take a few seconds depending on list length/instance performance, but it works.