Not really a question, but something to think about is being more strict about backwards compatibility so that people don’t get burnt out on having stuff break. Coming from this post by the Tesseract dev, who did not like the breaking changes to the v3 API in 1.0: https://dubvee.org/post/2904152

To formulate that into an actual question, do you think the changes are still worth it and you’d make the same decision to break backwards compatibility?

Total Perspective Vortex

Yeah, I don’t quite get this one.

Yeah, that does improve it. He mentions a few times in the The Prehistory of The Far Side that he sometimes dithered on what was too much to kill the joke vs not enough to let people get the joke, and here he should’ve scaled it back. Sometimes it was his editors too.

EDIT: Example:

Transcript:

In hindsight, I wish I hadn’t included the title to this vampire cartoon. It’s obviously redundant and only distracted from the humor.

Some more history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_Been_Working_on_the_Railroad

The “Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah” section, with its noticeably different melody, is actually an older song that has been absorbed by “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”. It was published as “Old Joe, or Somebody in the House with Dinah” in London in the 1830s or '40s, with music credited to J.H. Cave. “Dinah” was a generic name for a slave woman and, by extension, any woman of African-American descent.

This extra verse confirms what I figured the lyrics were about:

Someone’s makin’ love to Dinah

Someone’s making love I know.

Someone’s making love to Dinah

'Cause I can’t hear the old banjo!

BTW, you might want to include these links in your post:

Smart link: !metaldetecting@lemmy.world

URL link: Metal Detecting

Don’t say that too quickly. Now that I’m posting the old comics again, we’ll see if it’s any darker now than the early comics 🙂

I’ve never tried it past a few minutes, but I don’t think so?

Thanks! FYI, you can undelete a comment pretty easily, so if you accidentally delete it, just undelete it.

It’s based on markdown. Here’s two ways you can write the link:

!flask@lemm.ee

[!flask@lemm.ee](https://lemm.ee/c/flask) 

The first one is a link that goes to the community from your current instance, which is handy. E.g. when I click it, I’ll go to https://discuss.online/c/flask@lemm.ee. If someone on lemmy.world clicks it, they’ll go to https://lemmy.world/c/flask@lemm.ee. This format is specific to Lemmy, but is similar to reddit’s /r/flask syntax.

The second link is a regular markdown link, and has the general format of [regular text](some url). This will always go straight to the URL, and won’t have the above behavior. Generally for linking stuff like this, the first option is preferred.

All that said, to answer your question, I think you just typo’ed the URL. You typed lemm.me (extra m) instead of lemm.ee

Not really sure how that works with federation. You’re not “using” lemmy.world, you’re using lemm.ee, which has a copy of content from lemmy.world.

Might want to include this in the post as well: !flask@lemm.ee

It’s not a great joke either way, but I read it as either “Fooled you! You thought I was hallucinating but I’m joking!” or “Oh shit, I’m hallucinating, better play it cool and act like I was just pretending”.

I have multiple accounts, but only really for moderation purposes. Cross-instance moderation is semi-broken, so it’s easier to do it that way. Other than that, having an alt is useful in case your main instance goes down.

I wouldn’t generally worry about impersonation, if someone tries it you could contact the admin of that instance and they’re generally pretty responsive.

That was great, thanks for sharing!

Yeah not sure what’s going on. I only see one post, but I never got a notification for this comment, even though I should’ve 🤷

Huh, I just assumed it was purely a play on “full moon”. Thanks for the background!

Pixelfed/Mastodon/etc sort of work with Lemmy, in that they can see Lemmy posts. Lemmy can see posts from them if you tag them appropriately, which rarely happens. They only sort of federate properly. And yeah, Loops is like TikTok for the Fediverse.

I’m not saying PieFed is better than Lemmy, just saying that apart from Lemmy, your best option is probably PieFed atm.

Wow, that is quite a picture. We need a community like !picsthatgohard or something

Mostly Lemmy via discuss.online, with a little bit of Pixelfed via social.photo and Mastodon via utter.online.

I was using Loops pretty heavily for a while, but the most recent update made it not work right on my phone (and there’s no web version), so maybe I’ll try again when it’s out of beta. It’s also not truly federated atm, so only sort of counts.

I’ve tried out a bit of PieFed and it looks really nice. Probably the best Lemmy threadiverse alternative atm. The dev does some interesting experiments like Private Voting