nice stickers! I have a couple on my laptop too.

I would love to have https://joinbookwyrm.com/ capability. That would be fun. You finish a book, and bookwyrm would auto tell you were finished. Give users the option to post about it.

By preference (at least for me):

1. Buy outright (AKA online stores like https://www.baen.com/). No DRM ebooks are great.
2. Buy from authors website or sometimes patreon.
3. Calibre + digital library download. My local library has an app, and you can just get the book and then sideload.
4. Yoho if I cant find it elsewhere.

I try really hard to give authors money in some way…but sometimes Yoho is all you got if they have an amazon exclusive contract.

Its been 14+ years with this combo and I cant say I have ever had issues getting books.

Make it! Fork Piefed/lemmy and get it setup. Why not, might be fun.

Amazon allows people to report those now. If you go to the support tab, theres a section on getting “free” stuff randomly from Amazon stores like what you are describing.

It was sooo bad. We had such a bad time with it. The controller buttons stick, the software was super buggy, and they required a credit card to log in (I dont know if that changed after the first couple of months, but I remember being pissed).

Found them! https://mastodon.social/@mntmn

@[email protected]

Lots of open hardware here https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform

They are on the fediverse if i recall.

Just take out the battery of any phone like a fairphone and most will work.

WOOOOOOO!

Jeff hayes is great. I like all the stuff he narrates.

Just started today. Its so gooooood! Im excited.

I got the ebooks but later pulled everything online. Its free online. I plan on getting the books soon too. No idea how to not use amazon although im sure arrrr has it. The audiobooks are really good too.

But im willing to give pirateaba $$.

It took me 4 months of heavy (like every day reading t least 2 hours a day) to get 10% of the way done with the Wandering inn. God damn is this a huge series.

Im about to get the new Dungeon Crawler Carl book today woo!! Ill be switching for a while there.

Dang…

Hope they come back soon. ;(

Heh coo.

Any idea if SDF is coming back? Loved that lemmy instance and the community around it.

Essentailly. Theres a couple of peertube instances that had that issue if i recall. Filters started to go up a coupke of years ago. Admins can see it pretty easy in the logs most of the time once its pointed out. Its a timing thing. Some software is beyter at it than others.

Same fantastic one liners.

Good questions. Its been a bit since ive looked at lemmys code so im going to dive in again.

Here is the docs for the votes themselves. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/blob/main/src/users/03-votes-and-ranking.md

You can see this in action here: https://lemvotes.org/ if I recall.

I know the vote model is here . You can see the logic here. It checks to see if the post is actually available in the community with other functions and other such checks. It doesnt ask any lemmy instance for totals (unless theres something im not aware of), it tallies based on real time data. Which can also include fediverse actions(not necessarily lemmy/piefed/mbin/etc… but also mastodon, gotosocial, and other such services).

One of the things piefed does a bit differently is it bunches up votes for sending to other instances. And there is a backfill operation when puling from new communities or users. I would argue its a bit better than lemmys system at least from a technical perspective. But its a VERY minor one. Its nice we have multiple ways of getting to the same result-ish.

Hope that helps! I dont know everything but I know a little bit.

It would be VERY difficult. I have no idea what im looking for other than the delay or block. And im not seeing anything today. If you can give me an example, I can check in and reproduce. Otherwise its nettle/haystack.

It might very well be a bug.

I can see it being frustrating. But thats what community software is. The good news is that even just reporting the issue can help us all out!