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  • I got banned from a subreddit because the mod had this "not with us, you are against us"argument. It was years ago, but IIRC I was posting against a comment calling for assaulting men to balance out the abuse of women.

    To be honest, I think I may have seen more banning on Lemmy though. I’ve noticed a few cases where the admins have banned people with objectionable opinions. In all fairness, these were the type people you would avoid at parties, but it does give me pause. In reddit if you get banned from a particular subreddit you still keep your identity and participate in other subreddits. In Lemmy, you are at the mercy of your server, and if a large server bans you, it would essentially remove you from all of their communities that otherwise might accept you. I worry that this is creating an echo chamber.




  • I think that’s a pretty good response. More details will probably emerge in the next few days that could change my mind, but for now that gives me a bit of confidence in their platform.

    In comparison, a few years ago I was a patient at an IVF clinic in Sydney. I saw some absolutely bonkers security and repeatedly raised it with them. They wouldn’t hear it, and almost expectedly they were hacked and now my sperm count is public information. Their response was delayed and appalling. If my medical records were treated a severely as a streaming platform, I would have been happy.


  • I get the frustration, but I don’t think its fair to direct it at tourists. I don’t believe for a second that the protestors aren’t at times tourists themselves, and it’s hard to see what directing abuse at random tourists visiting for a week, with no emotional investment or control of Spain’s rental system, could possibly achieve.

    Airbnb has been allowed to run unregulated in pretty much every market. Naturally this hurts areas where tourism is a major industry more than others–so again, I get the frustration. But geez, channel that back to people who can actually fix it rather than yelling at foreigners.

    EDIT: Sorry I should add, I’m referring to not just this piece of graffiti, but also the similar posts that seem to appear on lemmy every few days.






  • I’ve played Ker Nethalas and a little bit of Thousand Year Old Vampire. I enjoyed both of them, but in both cases I found myself using Obsidian and later foundry VTT to manage the game. I imagine for some people the goal might be to move away from a computer, and in which case, my experience may not apply.

    My experience was positive, but I would like to explore some other games. Ideally something where the randomisation utilises playing cards rather than charts and dice (which was the case with KN). I know KN has cards you can buy, but for some reason they weren’t appealing to me at the time. Perhaps incomplete or too expensive… I can’t remember.






  • I agree. About 10 years ago I had a some unstable dependencies hit in the middle of a major crunch/product release at work. When it was vital I was productive, I was instead trouble shooting my laptop. I moved to mac the next day and was surprised how far the OS had come, and that I could run zsh, nvim etc. Not to mention since apple silicon its rare I need to take a charger with me anywhere.

    I still have a linux thinkpad for personal use, and all my personal servers are linux. My heart is linux, but a lot will have to change to take me away from a macbook.



  • I think I might have seen a build or two even back then. However, what I need from a mobile app isn’t to provide all of emacs, but rather just satisfy a few key use cases. Providing everything comes at the cost of usability, which is a key requirement for a mobile app. Really I just need to capture notes and tasks and see task lists, but trying to use the mobile emacs in the middle of a conversation, commuting, or grabbing coffee isn’t ideal.

    There were a couple of 3rd party apps that were designed for orgmode, but after I trialled, but they all fell short for me.

    Even if it had the best mobile app now however, I wouldn’t go back to emacs. Each to their own, but I’ve become way more aligned with the unix philosophy of “do one thing, and do it well”, where as I see emacs more as “lets do as much as we can in one app”. IMO Ofc.