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CreamDrippinHoles, in Do you need to vent about something?
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I have to take care of a 3 year old with pink eye giving her antibiotic eye drops 4 times a day for a week. It's like wrangling a greased screaming pig. She doesn't sleep though the night from the coughing, so i dont sleep through the night. I'm all alone while my spouse is on a work trip for 2 weeks, so he gets to miss out on all of this start to finish! No daycare or taekwondo so I can get a break! No family or support! All me all alone with a shit eyed toddler and no sleep for 2 weeks straight. That's on top of all the other agonizing responsibilities haunting me every day. I'm so tired, 10 days left......

average650, in Have you already encountered those new bots on Lemmy?
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I haven't seen any posts or comments that are obviously bots, except for useful ones that make it clear what they're doing.

I think they're just making accounts, not using them yet.

rm_dash_r_star,
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I haven't seen anything yet either. I think they're lining up for the assault.

kionite231, in what should I do with this pile of old (wiped) hard drives?

Give me those hard drives (just kidding). You can host a big media server using jellyfin since you got a lot of disk space.

brakebreaker101, in What piece of wisdom about life are you able to provide others?

Save your money. When you feel like you have enough keep saving.

drascus, in Why don't we use PeerTube to host the videos for Lemmy/kbin?

this is a great idea. They could code it that if someone does post a youtube link that it just fetches the peertube equivalent or gives the person the option of what platform they prefer to watch videos on in their settings.

CoderKat,
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That will would cause load for peertube that it otherwise would have though. I'm not sure how well it will be able to scale. Hosting videos is really expensive. If something is already on YouTube it may be best to just leave it there so as to not put all our weight on a new, untested product.

GlowingLantern, (edited )
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PeerTube uses BitTorrent to be more resilient if a video goes viral (everyone who is watching the video shares the load). If someone is already investing the money to host a PeerTube instance, I think they wouldn't mind if people were to actually use it. Otherwise, what's the point? For example, the admin of TILvids often advertises videos from popular tech YouTubers, who mirror their content on that instance.

PS: PeerTube also introduced remote video transcoding in the last update, so now it should be even easier to distribute the load across the network.

drascus,

I have been using the freetube client for years to watch videos across multiple platforms. Maybe we could incorporate their method of having youtube be a first choice but allowing the user to pick other providers if they prefer?

Ciari, in What piece of wisdom about life are you able to provide others?

If you feel like you hate everyone, you probably need to eat.

If you feel like everyone hates you, you probably need to sleep.

Vlyn, in What was your best and worst experience on Reddit?
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Gated communities on Reddit suck.

A thread hits /r/all, you type out a long comment in reply to someone, hit send… then get an automod message that your comment was denied. Because you aren’t part of that subreddit, or you aren’t verified in that subreddit.

Probably the worst example was /r/blackpeopletwitter. They have open threads where you can talk with people. Then at some point they lock down their threads (make it verified black users only) and your next comment in a chain of replies simply gets nuked. Even though you had a civil discussion and just wanted to continue it.

Often those threads aren’t even about race, just general things happening. Reddit has shitty support to lock things down where the UI doesn’t get greyed out. So you already type a long reply, hit send and only then you get kicked out. I had to block several of those subreddits because I kept running into this issue when browsing /r/all.

Zacryon, in What are your favorite lemmy communities?

What are your requirements for "curated"? A bunch of different people will have a bunch of different interests and would therefore find a bunch of different communities appropriate for a "curated" list.

confetti_8tVST5, in What piece of wisdom about life are you able to provide others?

Backup everything important using the 3,2,1 rule...I learned that the hard way

brakebreaker101,

What exactly is that method?

Vlyn,
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Too lazy to type it myself, so from Google:

The 3-2-1 backup strategy simply states that you should have 3 copies of your data (your production data and 2 backup copies) on two different media (disk and tape) with one copy off-site for disaster recovery.

“Disk and tape” is a bit outdated, but you get the gist. A good strategy could be your main computer, your phone, some cloud drive (so it’s in another location).

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

I have noticed similar things, just like you. Here are mine:

  1. More respectful, thought-provoking commenters
  2. Being early on a fundamentally different site is cool (federated vs centralized)
  3. In really small sublemmies (Less than 10 posters I guess) I kinda get the small village feeling, where eventually everyone will know eachother, which is kinda wholesome.
MentalEdge,
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I'm really liking number 3, as well. Hello PrivateNoob!

PrivateNoob,

Literally you're the reason why I wrote the third one. ^^

SkyNTP,

I feel like I’m eavesdropping a private conversation.

samus12345,
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I'll translate your comment into Reddit-speak: "now kith"

StarLuigi,
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I just wanted to say I love your banner and profile picture, what are they from?

PrivateNoob,

Oh, thank you for the compliment! I don't know if they are a specific character from a series or a video game, I just took them from Pinterest. With the banner, I specifically wanted to find a wallpaper that captures a bit of retrowave internet aesthetics.

OSHI NO KO ENJOYER. It's a pleasure to meet you.

StarLuigi,
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Pleasure to meet you as well!

aski3252, in Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit?

I think right now, there are a lot of passionate old school reddit users on lemmy who are exited about it and eager to participate and who are finding a lot of things they were missing from reddit.

The community is a lot smaller and made up largely of enthusiasts.

CalcProgrammer1,
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Definitely this, Lemmy feels like the early days of Reddit. I wasn’t a super early Reddit user as I came over just before the Digg migration (and mostly used Digg prior to the migration) but 2010 Reddit felt quite different to modern Reddit. Lemmy recaptures that smaller community feel, but I am excited to see it grow.

martin_uieafa, in Why don't we use PeerTube to host the videos for Lemmy/kbin?

we know what happened over there recently

hmm, at least not me. Do you have a link?


What speaks for you against uploading your content there? When users start using platforms and others realize that they work well, they will follow their example. I think that's more effective than making a call to use a platform.

Krause,
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ulu_mulu,
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Gosh that's bad! They're going to break a lot of old forum posts and guides. More than ever we need to migrate out stuff to the fediverse.

Fulthi,

They might be referring to imgur recently deleting and banning all nsfw content.

bolapara, in How do I stop seeing post from 2 or 3 days ago?

Sort by All->New or Subscribed->New, depending on how many communities you are following. Keep in mind though that Lemmy is still much smaller than Reddit at the moment but it’s getting better by the day.

boogers19,

See, when I do that in Edge(on pc) it updates continuously. Every single post from all across the fediverse (or my subs) starts flooding my feed.

Just starts basically auto-scrolling forcing posts down, forcing pics closed, and Edge starts throwing a fit with "high cpu usage" messages.

bolapara,

Yeah that is annoying. I was mostly speaking about the mobile experience, but what you mentioned is apparently a bug and is known.

blackbrook, in What is the weirdest thing that your family does together?

I don't know what your families nationality is, but this is very common in some countries (not for memorial day, specifically, but picnicking in the cemetery on a holiday).

KittenBiscuits,

Yes, I found out from my Filipino friends that picnicking among ones ancestors was a thing. Or at least for their family, it was. I kind of like the idea now as a sentimental activity, but kid me thought it was macabre.

Nepenthe, in What was your best and worst experience on Reddit?
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Best experience: A bunch of strangers getting bored during lockdown and setting up an impromptu hemotology class to amuse each other. This eventually became more of a generalized whatever-today's-instructor-likes class after one user stole the entire show with their brilliant rant about chemistry.

He and I were pretty good friends for a while and though parting ways was inevitable, I'm still sad to have had to. We can't get along, but I do miss him and I wish him well.

Worst experience: every time I posted anything about my mental situation ever. Without fail, İ would come away with multiple of the shallow, dismissive "oHH, if everywhere smells like shit, check your shoes!!" reply. They've never taken the time to think it out, but they know it's snarky enough to win upvotes and shut down the conversation.

I'm forced to assume the people parroting this are themselves abusers irl, because that's sure as shit not a sentiment r/raisedbynarcissists would take well to. Or really any PTSD-centered community/professional. Trying to convince the victim it's their fault is a common tactic, it's what the R in DARVO stands for.

If I needed someone to tell me I deserved to get beat with a table leg, I'd still be talking to my mom.

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