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daanzel, in What's your real-life superpower?

I have color-grapheme synesthesia. I can use this super power to… Uhmm… It won me a bet once? en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Grapheme–color_synesthesia

themadcodger,
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What was the bet?

daanzel,

I was talking to a friend about this who never heard of synesthesia, and though I was messing with him. I challenged him to write 50 random words on a piece of paper to which I would add colors. He took the paper, and a month or so later he read each word, to which I was able to flawlessly respond with the corresponding color. He did my chores for that week (we were roommates at that time).

That’s basically the only time it somewhat benifitted me. The rest of the time it’s people asking what color their names are whenever the topic comes up :)

deweydecibel, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?

A bit. Not much, but a bit.

Lemmy is still missing some things I enjoyed from Reddit, things I can’t just snap my fingers and create here by typing a name into the “create community” page.

I’m not bothered by it. The transition will happen in time. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Etc.

ButhJolokia, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?

Not really. Checked it a couple of times, but I’m sticking with Lemmy. Don’t miss it, don’t need it.

GiuseppeAndTheYeti, in Anyone else missing posts in smaller Lemmy communities because they are overshadowed by the popular ones?

Yes, but I figure that’s just the way it will go until the community grows. Give it another couple months of growth and reddit exodus then I imagine we’ll see far more QOL updates to Lemmy and Jerboa.

Anon819450514, in Anyone else missing posts in smaller Lemmy communities because they are overshadowed by the popular ones?

You should go see the github for lemmy-ui. There is feature request to add the weight of the community into account so we don’t only see the most popular post from the biggest communities. github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues

CmdrShepard,

That’d be great. Currently 90% of my feed is /c/memes and while I do find them entertaining, I also miss a ton of posts from smaller communities related to my hobbies that I would engage with more.

Zeth0s,

I blocked meme, shitposting and 196.

All is nicer now.

I liked some of the memes but they were too many

gkd,
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Best solution I’ve found is to block all of that on the main account and just switch over to another account if you feel like seeing the memes.

Anticorp,

I blocked that community because it dominated every feed.

GnuLinuxDude,
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I finally created my lemmy account specifically so that I could browse lemmy.ml again without seeing memes all over the home page!

teawrecks,

Yeah, I had to leave memes because it was my whole feed. I feel like one of lemmy’s biggest potential selling points would be a scriptable feed. There are some small communities I want to see every post in, and other huge ones that I only want to see maybe the top 5 from.

MentalEdge, (edited )
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It’s also preventing smaller subs from being discovered and growing.

Seems there’s a PR for a “best” sorting option, which sorts by the top post from each sub, and then the second place post from each sub, and so on.

Sounds perfect.

HollowNotion,

I haven’t looked at the PR, but if it’s really that simple, that doesn’t seem like the full solution. I don’t particularly want a sub with 10 users popping up on the front page after 3 upvotes just because it got to the top of that sub. Sub weight, as mentioned in the top comment here, should probably be taken in to account.

MentalEdge,
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That’s honestly exactly what I would want.

neo,
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Then don’t subscribe to that 10 person sub?

HollowNotion,

Doesn’t stop them from showing up via All and Local, which is what I want to do without having the completely block these communities. Just my preference.

neo,
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I’ve unfollowed /c/memes for exactly this reason. Not that I don’t like them, but I wanna see “literally anything else”

allmond226,

The problem is I mostly use lemmy(or reddit before) on mobile, so sadly all this neat stuff doesn’t help me

MentalEdge,
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The sorting systems are server-side, not client.

morrowind,
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If web adds it, it is likely many apps will follow suit. It’s all open source after all.

AlaskaMan,

That’s bloody brilliant. I hope it’s implemented soon.

kplaceholder, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?
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I admit I wasn’t intending to leave Reddit. Sure, I absolutely wasn’t going to install the damn official app, but I browse Reddit way more on desktop that on my phone. But it turns out my time spent on Reddit absolutely tanked without me doing much. Lemmy turned out to be a better replacement for me than I expected, I could find a lot of interesting activity here unlike, say, Mastodon where I had to dig further.

That does not mean I left Reddit entirely lol, but I sure enter way less now.

DarkThoughts, in How do other Europeans survive the raining season in Asia?

I don't. Why would you even move to a hot humid place without knowing how that actually is?

jeena,
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Because of a woman.

DarkThoughts,

Ah well, fair enough. Then I hope it will turn out to be the right one to be worth having the swamp ass.
I guess there's not really much solid advise for it. Lose some weight if you're obese, make sure to eat healthy and check if you have any sort of conditions, specifically the heart, that could affect your cardio. Of course, do what you can in regards to climate change, but I think Korea is just like that anyway, and our course on that matter is looking pretty grim anyway.

jeena,
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She definitely is, meanwhile we got our first child together so there is no way back :D. I’m trying to convince her to go to Europe with me for the children’s sake, Korea is not very friendly to young people. Let’s see how it goes.

With the weight, I lost a ton of weight just before I came to Korea, but since then got more than half of it back. I need to figure out how to lose it again.

SubsAndDubs, in Anyone else missing posts in smaller Lemmy communities because they are overshadowed by the popular ones?

Had to block some of the meme communities there for this very reason. My feed no matter what was meme after meme. Blocking them has made the all feed much better.

Dfirebug, in What's the best Android/iPhone app for Lemmy?

I am using mlem for iOS. I haven’t tried anything else yet though. (Also, mlem is still in testflight beta, but I think it will be on the app store soon)

surrendertogravity, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?
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I purged my comments and deleted my main account on July 1st, which was surprisingly emotional for me. I use Alien Blue on mobile, which still works so far, but now that my main account is logged out, I’ll never be able to log another account in because authentication has been broken in Alien Blue for a while.

I’m keeping Alien Blue installed for two reasons: one, for checking on a friend who only posts updates on reddit, and two, I read r/games a couple times a week for headlines and discussion. Lemmy just doesn’t have the same level of engagement or discussion as r/games; even though there’s a certain brand of insufferable commenters there, the majority of people post thoughtful comments that are more than one or two sentences long and those are the kinds of threads I like reading. Lemmy threads seem to be more shallow; lots of replies to the parent, but very few threads that go more than one or two comments deep.

deweydecibel, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?

Why is this pinned? And which apps let you block instances wholesale?

fgil, in Anyone else missing posts in smaller Lemmy communities because they are overshadowed by the popular ones?

There’s currently a PR for a different sort that would kinda of address this issue.

github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3378

MentalEdge,
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This seems ideal. I hope it makes it in soon.

giant_smeeg,

Aslong as it hides posts that are old from a less active community.

I don’t need a 14day old post popping up on the front page all the time

maegul,
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Wow. I’m kinda impressed that that’s already in the works.

I’m rather pleased with how many developers have gotten involved with the project. Looks like the work might not be finished yet on this feature, but it’s definitely on its way!

deweydecibel,

After the stability issues with Lemmy were addressed (and they have been, for the most part…) the next thing that needed a revamp was content aggregation. It’s too stale. It’s no wonder they’re pilling on to address it.

IIRC it took quite a while for Reddit to find an algorithm that worked, and it constantly needs tweaking. It will here, as well.

Woedenaz, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?
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I’ve looked maybe a handful of times over the past couple weeks, mostly to look at /r/modcoord and /r/save3rdpartyapps. Even then, I used libreddit. Other than that, I’ve not visited for really any other reason.

Lemmy + Mastodon is doing a good enough job being my daily time waster. There’s definitely less content here but I am but one man, it’s not like I could go through all of Reddit’s bot-generated daily content anyway.

charonn0, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?
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I occasionally poke my head in to see if it’s dead yet, but other than that no.

paddirn, in Be honest, do you still use reddit?

I do not at all. I’m avoiding even Google Search results that go to Reddit. I have not used Reddit since June 12, other than to fully wipe all of my accounts on June 30. I’ve moved on and it’s been an easier transition than I thought it would be.

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