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Cake day: November 30th, 2020

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  • Even within Reddit communities, a lot of posts ended up in multiple places, and the ‘crossposting’ function seemed off to me, because everyone voted on and commented in different places.

    I wonder if a ‘tag’ system wouldn’t work better, where a post shows up under multiple hashtags. This way, a picture could go under ‘#sea #thalassophobia #submarines #pictures’ all at once.

    If everyone votes on the same post, posts would receive negative attention for inappropriate tags (I’m assuming that people would downvotes pictures of cats which had the #dogs hashtag).




  • I should clarify that there’s no karma, because there are very few users. Once there are more people, some users will try to make a bot which farms karma, for the usual reasons.

    Reposting definitely serves some useful function, but too much reposting from Reddit will just make Lemmy feel like a cheap knock-off. At this early stage, I feel like new content and chat works better, but that’s just an intuition.



  • Yea, I have no idea why people are even attempting this nonsense. Perhaps they think that ‘computers are magic’, because it’s quite clear that nobody would try to verify someone’s age when it comes to posting images through snail-mail.

    Of course if they wanted to give it a proper go, maybe someone could make a real age test:

    • which of the following is more irritating:
      • Gorillaz
      • S Club 7
      • N-Sync
    • how much do nappies cost per month?
    • which instrument do you use with a casette?
      • screw-driver
      • VHS player
      • bic
    • which type of phone was most popular in 1995?
      • Nokia
      • Rotary
      • Chordless

  • Arch.

    I once ran Ubuntu, but the install instructions for so many programs are ‘import this key’, ‘add these dependencies’, and the system quickly became a mess. I had install scripts to install and uninstall some things, but it was too much for me to take care of.

    Eventually I found that if you want the latest terragrunt and i3, Arch Linux is easier than Ubuntu.