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athos77, in What would be the best way to protect a room from unwated visitors in a low-tech fantasy world?

Is it on display in the bottom drawer of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying, "Beware of the leopard"?

More seriously, just make it an incredibly uninteresting door that no one even thinks about, which everyone thinks is like for plumbing or linens or something boring and irrelevant. Then paint the door in whatever Disney NoSeeUm color is most appropriate.

coldhotman, in What is your opinion about Lemmy not having karma but Kbin having reputation points?
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I do not want to worry about downvotes

There's Lemmy-servers that have turned off down-votes. You can only get upvoted or ignored.

MyMulligan,
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A big shout out to Lemmy.one. I signed up not knowing but love the fact now. Down votes don't add to the discussion. And posts and comments that are in poor taste should just be reported. Ignoring poorly made comments and posts is the best way to extinguish them. It forces the writer to improve their input if they care about the up votes. Down votes just make the user give up in wanting to contribute at all. Lemmy is about contribution. For now it is anyway.

cpoc,

Just look at the reddit accounts in recent years whose goal was to accrue as many downvotes as possible. Contributing absolutely nothing to the discussion.

surrendertogravity,
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yup, I started on Beehaw and realized I didn’t miss the downvotes and that it made interacting with comments sections feel much more in good faith. Later moved to my current instance after specifically looking for small instances with applications and no downvotes but federated with (almost) everyone. I know downvotes are still there for most other users but I don’t see them and it’s freeing!

ShittyKopper, in Deleted

I do, because I care about people who may not have the ability to recognize satire for any number of reasons (neurodivergence being one)

In most cases they tend to be nicer people than ones who say the tag is unnecessary, anyway

athos77, in What would be the best way to protect a room from unwated visitors in a low-tech fantasy world?

Is it on display in the bottom drawer of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying, "Beware of the leopard"?

AlternateHuman02, in What would be the best way to protect a room from unwated visitors in a low-tech fantasy world?

Some old palaces in Japan have "nightingale" floors that purposely squeak to keep people from sneaking in. Could be a security feature outside your room

sunshine, in How did Ikea's Blajah became the symbol of the trans community ?

I think it's a Marge Simpson "they just think it's neat" situation

Satelllliiiiiiiteeee,
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This is exactly the reason, it became a meme (like Fallout New Vegas becoming a thing in the trans community before it) and people ran with it. People have retroactively said that it's because blåhaj is trans pride colors but it wasn't the initial reason.

Peruvia, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?
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First of all, I was having a nice day until I read this. But alas, here’s my two cents. Since you said you will be travelling, not eating will be a problem. Why? As other comments pointed out and as I went through this myself a few weeks ago(not intentionally, just financially dependent on irresponsible traumatised individuals who get to decide when/what/why I eat- I am working on it, don’t worry), not eating for extended amounts of time gets you weird cramps and liquid poop. You don’t want that, especially when you need to move. I don’t know the environment you will be in, but aim to eat a bit those days, processed solid foods will do. Cheese, eggs, bread(bagels),plain pasta(ALREADY BOILED) if available. Avoid sugar in fairly large quantities(dehydrating), coffee(obvs), fruits, even vegetables. Your body will hate you for this, so when it’s over please take it easy and eat&drink water properly. It’s good that you will be moving, hopefully not too intense activity(because you’d need to eat/drink water properly) as that will distract your brain from wanting to eat/drink water.(again, sauce: former retail worker, wasn’t done intentionally, I can’t stress this enough. It just sorta happens). Make sure that you at least sleep and rest properly, and as others have pointed out, this isn’t sustainable and not recommended by any means. Long term lack of nutrition fucks you up in ways I can’t even begin to describe, take that shit from me. In the offchance you tattoo your asshole(and that you are one who has that tentacle tattooed on the asshole and are having it re done/touched up), you can simply wash after you poop, you don’t have to go through this. Also you can try anti diuretic and anti liquid poop(for a lack of a better term) medicine. Looking foward for an update, hope you’ll be ok.

Ado, in Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit?

This is how Reddit felt 15 years ago. This too can slide in the wrong direction, so we’ll have to be cautious

neshura,
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Advantage is if this thing slides in a direction the majority disagrees with it can be forked. On reddit all changes had to be accepted or you could leave. With lemmy and ActivityPub it's easier to fork the service and have it run in semi parallel to the OG. (Granted forking should only really be done if shit goes sideways)

Edit: besides, due to the open source status the community has more of a say in where things go

Very_Bad_Janet,

This is why I am not putting all my eggs in one basket (e.g., I have a Tildes account).

Ado,

Great idea. I’ve not heard of tildes. I’ll have to check it out

socialjusticewizard,

There's no way to prevent it entirely. A larger community will slide that way.

I do think that it can be less encouraged though.

Moonwalk, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?
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Just adding a comment so people will believe me when I tell them I was here when the "3 days without pooping" post happened :)

Good luck on your journey, OP!

IAm_A_Complete_Idiot,

I was here! :D

Tai,
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Obligatory "I was here" from me too

riccardo,

same :)

CanadaPlus, in Teaching children about online manipulation without creating a paranoid world view subject to manipulation?

There's no magic bullet. Manipulation exists, and manipulation based on claims of manipulation exists.

I recommend you explain but don't force your view of the world onto kids, and tech kids how to think well for themselves instead. So, just steer them towards things like history, social sciences and to a degree hard sciences and let them make sense of the world for themselves.

PerogiBoi, in What's the mob policy on Emojis here on the fediverse?
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Emojis are another means to express human intent. Don’t mold your personality over what other people might like.

CoolRhino, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?

Honestly, the edits didn’t clarify much. I’m nearly as confused by this whole situation as I was the first time I read the post

BuddhaBeettle,
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Reading the edits, I just think OP is poop-shy and its either scared/ grossed out to poop on a camping trip, or has to use one of them "hole in the floor" toilets. At the end of the day, If OPs life is not on the line (which it doesn't sound as), its better to endure the poop than to endure whatever digestive torture they are about to inflict on themselves, but thats my opinion.

If it were something demanding like expedition to the everest they probably would have someone professional preparing them nad telling them what to and what not to eat.

anteaters, (edited ) in Why do I not find any video/gif content here?

All the videos uploaded directly to Reddit never worked well on mobile clients (or even on web) and was slow as hell. It's up to the instance admins to decide whether media content should always be uploaded to 3rd parties like streamable, imgur or uploaded directly?

There's also IPFS for distributed file storage but I have no idea how that interacts with lemmy or how that is even moderated.

SCmSTR,

Reddit media always worked for me on Android baconreader. It had a few months sprinkled over the last ten or so years where random hosting sites or Reddit hosted media would choke, but it would always fix itself. I'm not sure how much of any of that is the app or the site or what.

This is the first I've heard of Ipfs and that looks VERY exciting...

krolden,
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RIF worked great with v.redd.it links

maiskanzler,

IPFS is basically fancy torrents. Pieces of media are accessed by the hash of their content and some metadata. It's neat, because it can be linked as a URL/URI similar to stuff hosted on the regular web. But, and the main website doesn't really make that clear AT ALL, all content is only available for as long as there are people interested in it. You access a file and distribute it to others from then on. After a while, people move on and old data is deleted from their cache, etc. Unless you 'pin' a piece of content and STORE IT YOURSELF, there is no guarantee it will still be available even 5 minutes after you delete it from your device.

In short: The website makes it seem as if IPFS is this big black hole of infinite and immutable storage when it actually is highly fragile. It can be great if used correctly though, for example if instances decide to keep an archive of successful posts and thereby share the load of storage and distribution. But because every IPFS member is also a distributor, the same legal problems that arise from torrent use will rear their heads again. So better not watch movies or browse a sub with illegal bits if they are hosted on IPFS. IPFS is not built for privacy either, but that's a problem many p2p projects have.

Grosshirn, in Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit?

I have been a user on Mastodon for quite some time but wasn't that active and felt it lacked some content for me. Now that I joined lemmy I learned that mastodon is federated and I learned about kbin! That's what makes it refreshing for me. A lot of new stuff and small communities emerging :)

kiddblur,

The thing that I think makes lemmy more valuable than mastodon is the focus on content versus personality. With Twitter, you followed people because you were interested in what they had to say and share. With Reddit, you followed communities. So even if a lot of the people don’t move over, once enough of the community does, it’ll feel the same (or better). I was never super active in my various subreddits (although I did comment, I just never posted), but I’m making an effort to comment and vote a lot on here just to help build that sense of community

Grosshirn,

Yeah that perfectly summarizes my feelings aswell. The topic oriented communities are what I preferr!

yads,

Really good summary. I think this is exactly why I never really took to Twitter and I never really realized why, but it's exactly that. I'm more interested in topics than specific people.

danielton,
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Not disputing what you're saying, but one feature that was a game changer for me on Mastodon was figuring out that I can follow hashtags in addition to people.

But I do agree with everything you said!

kiddblur,

Oh yeah, that is nice, but I guess at the end of the day it's still just that idea of "I'm a person saying a thing" (and using a hashtag) versus "here's this article I found"

Mininux, in Side effects of nitric oxide?
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That's usually what happens when I'm missing air... Stop immediately, you may even pass out

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