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thegiddystitcher

@ thegiddystitcher @lemm.ee

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  • What are some underrated careers/jobs?

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  • I've done all kinds of random jobs but like to tell anyone who will listen that my time as a cleaner was possibly the best of them all.

    I worked in a building that was entirely dedicated to operating and adminning a traffic tunnel, so there were normal office rooms but also cool control rooms full of flashing lights and interesting displays and friendly people who were only too happy to infodump about it all.

    The top floor was entirely given over to a conference room featuring a massive scale model of our tunnel but also the surrounding road system, complete with tiny toy cars. That room also had a hot drinks machine that was entirely free to employees so most of my breaks were spent up there with a book drinking hot chocolate.

    Yeah, cleaning toilets and buffing floors is not exactly going to keep your mind occupied, but that just means it's free to wander to more interesting places. No stress, nothing to take home at the end of the day.

    If you can get by on the generally lower pay and get to clean somewhere interesting there are a lot of unexpected perks, tbh.

  • Lemmy Active Users looking good

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  • 0.19 broke federation for quite a lot of people for the majority of December, probably has something to do with it.

    I've been an almost daily Lemming since last summer but when nothing I posted was making it off my server for about three weeks there wasn't much point!

  • Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity

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  • Same situation, for the most part. I was, however, originally on an arts & crafts server that had to shut down because the admin was being bullied by the folks over at .art, so I have seen a bit of the nonsense.

    Seems like most people on there are just normal nice people, but unfortunately as in the real world being awful gets you attention and power and disproportionally affects the reputation of your server, platform, state, country, etc.

    There's also a ton of crossover, again as in the real world but also as on Lemmy and everywhere else, between people who obsess over politics and this kind of toxic behaviour. So I think in having most of that filtered out we kill two birds with one stone.

  • Why are all the #peertube instances defederated from each other?

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  • That's definitely the way to go for now. PT is pretty ok software from the creator pov but it's atrocious as someone just looking to view! We'll see how things develop, maybe that changes at some point.

  • Why are all the #peertube instances defederated from each other?

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  • I think it's just a misunderstanding. With most other Fedi software, servers federate via the users themselves following content from other servers and then the admins have control over whether to sever that connection by defederating. With PeerTube it doesn't work that way, federation is controlled by the admin of each server in the first place and they tend to keep the list quite short (on a particular theme, or just servers by other admins they trust, or whatever).

    I expect the fundamental reasons for that are the expense of hosting video content and also the risk of extremely NSFL material if you throw the doors open by default. It definitely results in a lot of behaviours that seem very strange if you're used to the usual fedi way of doing things.

  • Opportunity to educate potential users about the fediverse

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  • Came here to basically say this, especially the first couple points. I've talked a few people into trying various Fedi services and cannot overstate just how much they DO NOT CARE about the techy underpinnings of it all. People just want to know a) it's cool b) where to sign up c) where to find the content they're looking for.

    Anything else can wait until they learn it naturally over time or specifically ask the question.

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    A different strategy for promoting the Threadiverse

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  • As much as I love Lemmy, it's just honestly not ready for another big influx yet. The 0.19 update broke so much, it really brought home how precarious this whole thing still is. Those of us who are here either a) kind of enjoy the jank because it feels like an adventure b) were morally outraged enough to make a stand against Reddit or c) both.

    I have a very small amount of influence in the niche community of fibre crafts and especially cross stitch. Would I be able to explain Lemmy to my audience in a way that made sense and that they might even want to try out? Absolutely. Would I actually do that until it's a bit more stable? Absolutely not, apart from a couple of specific individuals that I'm already working on.

    Trying to force people to join platform B when platform A is already serving their needs makes no sense. You need to find the people who are dissatisfied, the people that would actually benefit from trying something new, and then make sure they're aware of the option.

    Don't get me wrong through, I do encourage people to learn about and dip their toes into the Fediverse in general. Just last week I convinced a wave of fibre crafters (often older ladies who have barely ever ventured outside of Facebook) to try out Mastodon and Pixelfed and some of them have really taken to it! Alt text and content warnings and everything! One or two fellow YouTubers are even setting up PeerTube channels to bring over more crafting content.

    Why did I tell them to join Mastodon over Lemmy? I'm literally moderator of !knitting@lemmy.world and !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works so surely it's in my best interests to bring them over here?

    No. I know the demographic, I know what they're annoyed about with big social media, and I thought Mastodon / Pixelfed were the best replacements for them.

    As much as we would all love to see Lemmy become huge, you have to meet people where they're at. If Lemmy is genuinely the best choice for everyone who is currently in /r/adelaide or whatever, then brilliant, your strategy makes sense. But if it's not actually in their best interests, if they're just going to be annoyed by things breaking and not see enough value to make it worthwhile, then there's no point doing it just because you wish Lemmy was bigger.

    Maybe the moral of this story is that the real strategy you want to be looking at is getting tiny niche influencers on side! 😄

  • I'm attempting to publish a FOSS app

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  • Joined group, still can't get in on the Play link but I've made a note to check back and see if it's updated tomorrow. What a faff!

    Update: store link now works for group members.

  • I'm attempting to publish a FOSS app

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  • Happy to help with the play store test if you decide to try and get the 20 🫡

  • I'm attempting to publish a FOSS app

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  • Yeah I recently helped out with this mandatory testing thing for !raccoonforlemmy@lemmy.world, seems it's a relatively recent new hoop for devs to jump through.

  • Dress by Pizzacakecomic

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  • Curse seasonal colour analysis and all of its surprising accuracy! I don't want to be a bright spring, I want to be goth!

    You live your best life in that blue dress kid and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

  • Update - Crossposted to !leatercraft@lemmy.ca - [SomeoneElseMade] Leather Milk Carton

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  • You did not make this!

  • TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are

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  • Lots of railway stations, an old church, and literally just a cliff. Yeah that sounds about right, level-of-excitement-round-here-wise!

    Not entirely worth the effort but I appreciate the tutorial nontheless :D

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  • Not sure I'd go quite that far myself, but I do take any opportunity to emphasise the "no links in titles" thing for my own sanity 😄

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  • Some tips for this, as someone who does it all the time:

    • Tag a Lemmy community like you would a Mastodon user to get this to work, for example @til@lemmy.world, BUT...
    • The first line of your toot becomes the post title, so don't put any links or tag the community in that first line. Newer versions of Lemmy can strip out links but it still ends up looking weird. Looks best if you do something like the example below.
    • You can only post to one community, trying to tag multiple will post to the first one and ignore the rest
    • The first image attached to your toot becomes the Lemmy post image, but subsequent images get left behind
    • If your Mastodon instance has AUTHORIZED_FETCH turned on and the Lemmy community you're trying to post to isn't on 0.19 yet, it won't work at all. In theory this should be fixed when more servers upgrade but we'll see.

    Example toot format

    This is my title, with nothing weird in it.

    Rest of the toot goes here and will become the post body. This format will look nice on both Mastodon and Lemmy therefore not making anyone unreasonably mad at you.

    @community and #Hashtags

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  • 0.19 tidied things up a bit but .world hasn't upgraded yet, that's why.

  • TIL about the existence of Wikipedia's Nearby page, a list of pages tagged with coordinates nearby where you are

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  • Er. Stupid question. How do I actually tell it where I am so this will work? Or does it only work on mobile?

  • Wafrn is a tumblr clone that connects to the fediverse

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  • Thank you.

  • Wafrn is a tumblr clone that connects to the fediverse

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  • I cannot for the life of me figure out what this actually is. But congrats on building it and yay for more federated stuff!

  • Wafrn is a tumblr clone that connects to the fediverse

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  • Astounding achievement!