Davy_Jones

joined 2 years ago
 

I asked something in c/nostupidquestions and got downvoted heavily, was I really out of line? I felt so unwelcomed that I decided to leave Lemmy.

[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe youtube needs something to verify information like twitter because all the comments seem to be eating this up.

[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I registered 3 days ago to https://anarchist.nexus/instances and got a message, but I'm still waiting. How can I contact the site admins? I don't see where PieFed has that info.

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[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago

I've been using FilmAffinity for a very long time, and it's just as good as ever.

 

We all know the struggle of beloved services slowly going downhill. What’s one service, tool, or website you’ve been using for years that’s still great and hasn’t turned to crap?

 

I would like a script that given a list of my liked instances gives me the piefed instances that federate with all of them. Is there something like that?

 

I was wondering if there’s a site or database that shows how common different hobbies are in each country—like reading books, playing board games, listening to music, cooking, etc.

Does such a ranking or survey exist?

[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If Kim Jong Un had done something that stupid, we wouldn't stop hearing about it. However, because it was done by the president of South Korea, we are likely not going to hear much about it.

[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 week ago (4 children)

My bike is the only thing I can say for certain has paid for itself. If I had paid $1 for each trip I’ve taken on it, I would have spent far more than it cost me.

 

I’m curious, what’s an item, tool, or purchase you own that you feel has completely justified its cost over time? Could be anything from a gadget to a piece of furniture or even software. What made it worth it for you?

[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I don't really think social media actually makes people more social in real life and federated platforms are pretty much the same. I also remember reading once that many tech execs don't let their kids use social media or phones.

Also here's a few interesting related things I've seen:

[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Both URL types are available but I don't know what the default one will be or if it's already in effect.

[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't recommend Lemmy to anyone I know. Lemmy feels like a meme aggregator more than a forum or a link aggregator. It probably has it's own niche of people who like what they can find in it but the people I know seem interested in other things, like local news and sports.

 

Piefed now generates human-readable post URLs instead of those random ID strings. This issue has been around on Lemmy for ages with no real progress from core devs. At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.

[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Atheism 1.45K users / month, Religion 9 users / month, religion isn't gonna fly on Lemmy. You may be as christian as you like but how many times have you been able to talk religion here. And the same goes for any topics that goes against the current group think.

[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish that was an option but mainstream media is the only way to get locally relevant news as far as I know.

 

Imagine a TierMaker where everyone can rank the same things, and instead of just your personal list, it shows a combined “community consensus.” Would be interesting to see how the internet as a whole ranks thinks.

 

The other day I turned on the radio and the host was giving what sounded like a sermon about “growth” and how everyone loves it because it improves life quality and makes things cheaper. I already avoid mainstream news because it’s all one-sided and shallow, but now I’m getting sermons too.

Is there any way to listen to radio content filtered by topics I actually want, without having to manually build a playlist every day? Maybe podcasts or a feed aggregator plus with TTS to read it in real time?

[–] Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And with instances blocking each other it may be in an instance I can't see from this one.

 

I saw a post earlier about a local alternative to Perplexity (an agentic LLM + search), but now I can’t find it. Does anyone know the best way to track down posts like this?

Also, is there any community where you can ask for help searching posts on the Fediverse, or is nostupidquestions fine for that?

I really wish posts were properly organized using tags. Finding stuff would be so much easier.

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