RheingoldRiver

@RheingoldRiver@kbin.social

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RheingoldRiver,

Good for you OP! I stopped standing to pledge around when I was maybe 10 or 11, when I learned it was illegal to make standing for it mandatory & about how the words 'under God' were added later and the pledge violated separation of church and state. I come from a very liberal area and all my teachers were quite proud of me I think, especially my 6th-grade teacher. But a lot of my classmates didn't understand and I got bullied a lot for it. But I refused to do it. My mom was teaching public policy so....that probably influenced it a lot haha

RheingoldRiver,

I've joined a ton of new discords in the past few weeks. they're keeping me together until the threadiverse takes off.

RheingoldRiver,

Were you a subreddit mod? In this case my advice would be to contact the existing mods of the lemmy communities / kbin magazines and see if one of them is willing to hand the community over to you (add you as mod, they step down). If so, you've found your new home!

(you may want to re-make your account on the instance that you're primarily spending time on, for convenience, in case federation doesn't work for several hours at a time here and there, etc)

RheingoldRiver,

Hi! I installed it, and a couple pieces of feedback:

  1. when there's an avatar, this gets kinda overlapped
  2. sidebar is way too large when browser is fullscreen on a big monitor, that should get a width constraint

I love this though!

RheingoldRiver,

1, I realized I do, but its a js snippet to remove magazines' custom styles. I disabled and tried again and same thing. For reference though, here's where it's happening
2. atm my firefox window is slightly wider than 1080 pixels.

RheingoldRiver,

hahaha this is probably the best one here

RheingoldRiver, (edited )
  1. Reddit Platinum/Premium/Orange gives you an orange check by your name, for the low cost of $10/month
  2. old.reddit actually still exists, but only if you pay for Reddit Platinum
  3. In order to vote you must have Reddit Platinum
  4. Actually, in order to become a moderator you must have Reddit Platinum - that's right, you have to pay them to volunteer. And you still have to follow the Mod Code of Conduct.
RheingoldRiver,

Twitch Reddit Plays DevOps?

RheingoldRiver,

I love that you edited the title of this particular post haha

Christian Selig (@christianselig@mastodon.social): "Really Important Apollo Update...." (indieweb.social)

"I just released a really important Apollo update that adds the ability for users with remaining subscription time left to decline an automatic refund. Devs pay refunds out of pocket, and this will be about $250K, so I thank you for your consideration. ❤️ Also, this update includes an amazing "Goodbye Apollo Wallpaper Set”...

RheingoldRiver,

Not hariette, but yes it will! I am currently testing it on android :)

Christian is releasing the final update for Apollo, allowing users to opt out of the refunds (mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image I just released a really important Apollo update that adds the ability for users with remaining subscription time left to decline an automatic refund. Devs pay refunds out of pocket, and this will be about $250K, so I thank you for your consideration. ❤️ Also, this update includes an amazing "Goodbye Apollo...

RheingoldRiver,

Thanks for the heads up about the merch store! Sadly most of the pins were out of stock but I picked one of the remaining ones up. I wasn't an Apollo user, I used reddit is fun, but this seems like an appropriate memento to have, and I'm glad to support Christian.

RheingoldRiver,

If you aren't already a really good writer, Gammarly Plus will make your work worse because you'll accept everything it tells you, and most of its corrections (compared to regular Grammarly) are straight-up wrong. It ignores your voice, your audience, your tone, your context, etc.

That said, my work pays for Grammarly Plus & I put work-related blog posts (which will end up public anyway) through it. I like the plus version because:

  1. It forces me to really reread everything, because it highlights fucking everything. Often I will make changes unrelated to what it's saying.
  2. It often highlights things that can be improved, but not in the way it suggests.
  3. Sometimes, it's actually correct.

But usually it's wrong. For example:

  • It tells you to remove passive voice 100% of the time. This is straight-up incorrect. For example, if you're writing a post in which you talk about a new feature or patchnotes, you will use passive voice all the time. Sometimes the object of the sentence is actually the most important thing.
  • It often says "be more confident!" and then removes any nuance in your writing that you were using to soften the blow of something, or to make something sound more exciting, or etc.
  • It always tells you things like "don't use the word interesting! don't use this other word! they are too common!" Well...
    • Using random fancy words is an anti-pattern. Keep on saying "interesting"
    • Sometimes, this word in question is LITERALLY A TECHNICAL TERM IN YOUR FIELD. STOP TELLING ME NOT TO REPEAT IT.
  • It always wants me to say "So," at the start of every sentence. Jesus shut up. This is a thing I'm trying to REMOVE from my writing because it's a bad habit.

Anyway. I'd say it's right about 10% of the time, max. Would I pay for it? Hell fucking no. Am I using it since it's already available? Yes, absolutely. But I'm not accepting many of its changes.

Again, though, REGULAR Grammarly is usually right. Unless you have code snippets HAHAHAHAHAHAHA have fun having your Python code proofread for the rule "comma goes inside the quote." lmao. Literally they could ignore everything inside triple backticks, but do they? No.

RheingoldRiver,
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