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aeharding

@ aeharding @vger.social

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Punch nazis, trebuchet TERFs.

I am building Voyager, a client for lemmy!

  • Facts are facts.

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  • Hyperbole should be exaggerated beyond what a reasonable person thinks is possible. They shouldn’t mislead. So it’s not a hyperbole if some people might think that people in the US may be outright refused care if they are dying and don’t have insurance. Which is why I commented originally, to clarify that.

  • Facts are facts.

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  • And have you ever heard of hyperbole? That is whats happening here?

    The title is “facts are facts”… literally not a fact…

  • Facts are facts.

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  • Anyone that shows up at the ER in America legally has to be accepted and stabilized before discharge. They will be sure to bill you though.

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  • Share the rule

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  • You spoiler is malformed on Lemmy-ui. What app are you using to write spoilers?

  • Lemmy app with working notifications

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  • You will just have to wait until Lemmy officially supports push notifications. It is planned. Anything else is a hack involving polling.

  • I just learned there were icons there all along...

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  • This means your android system web view is very outdated and doesn’t support display p3 colors. You should update because it’s a big security risk.

  • More Americans are taking the train than ever

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  • Pretty cool. My local stop in Columbus WI got upgraded with an ADA platform recently. It has the original 100 year old structure, maintained but never expanded/improved (until now)

  • New Jersey Drone Sightings Guide

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  • It’s supposed to be purple. I’m the voyager dev 🤓

  • New Jersey Drone Sightings Guide

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  • Oh also

    I keep seeing Starlink pics claimed as drones…

  • New Jersey Drone Sightings Guide

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  • This it right in my community. :(

    Our congressman Mark Pocan summed things up well, "Support better gun laws or stay out. Thought & prayers are useless. Action!"

    By the way OP its been corrected to three, maybe update title.

  • Soulmate rule

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  • The girl of my dreams doesn’t know how to remove oligosaccharides making food 🤔

  • Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood

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  • Me, explaining how Lemmy is similar to email…

  • Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report

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  • This world is cruel…

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  • You might have missed it, but I mentioned there will probably be an option added in the future to turn on display names (off by default).

    As for other Lemmy clients, I always encourage people to look around and find what works best for you! There are a lot of great apps and what is “best” depends on the person using it.

  • Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filing

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  • Ehh, I wouldn’t consider Safari “using chromium” at this point. It has been hard forked for years. Chrome could disappear tomorrow and it wouldn’t affect Safari development.

  • PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster

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  • To be completely honest, if you want a healthy 3rd party app ecosystem, the official UI and backend need to be completely separated with a publicly documented API.

    Biggest win with Lemmy, and biggest fluff with kbin. And it shows when it comes to 3rd party app ecosystem. People wanted to build apps for kbin….

  • This world is cruel…

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  • Oh, I see. Voyager doesn't show that because display names are confusing for mentions, can be used to impersonate, and distracting. It might be an option to enable in the future, off by default.

    Edit:

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    To clarify how I really feel, here's my hot take: display_name is a really awful feature and should be removed from Lemmy.

    Why?

    They are dangerous by default because the very concept implies that clients should render display_name instead of the username, if it exists. Which is unwise: Apps have to choose between replacing (bad for impersonation/UX/distraction reasons) and showing both (which just looks duplicative most of the time).

    What makes this feature even more frustrating is that people are now using display names for their username + flairs of actually important things, like gender identities. (for example, display_name="Alex (he/his)")

    It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation for Lemmy clients. Some people are using display_name for important info like gender identities, and yet display_name is so incredibly easy to impersonate people and otherwise abuse.

    Solution?

    What is the solution? I think Lemmy should ditch display_name and replace with flair (or something like this). The general idea is that flair is NOT a replacement for your username, but rather it will be displayed alongside it.

    Maybe even make flair per-community like Reddit. I think that was a much better design than what Lemmy currently has.

  • "Media interest" is a much higher risk than any level-appropriate encounter.

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  • It looks fine for me on voyager. Maybe connection issues.