Maybe they could send some firefighters instead

I actually locked the D&D community on lemmy.ca that I created once the ttrpg.network D&D community took off. I recommend that one. I could reactive the lemmy.ca if someone went sideways with that instance.

I also recommend the lemmyverse.net website for finding communities to subscribe to. Copy and paste the community name – should look something like !dndnext@ttrpg.network – into the search box and then subscribe.

Also, try to subscribe to communities that aren’t on lemmy.world, even if one exists on lemmy.world. Let’s avoid putting all of our eggs in one basket ;)

Before the enshittification took root, reddit was where I interacted the most with people online. You could buy a subscription to get an ad-free experience. It came with a bunch of Reddit gold you could hand out. Basically, help pay for server time, and get an ad-free experience without adblocking.

The amount of time I spent on Reddit I would compare to a Netflix subscription or similar.

In the ramp up to their IPO when they started to fuck with everything, my goodwill evaporated. I stopped moderating and abandoned my subs. Whenever I had new content I wanted to post, I instead post to the fediverse. So, there ya go 😅

It was a matter of time. The insanity cannot be normalized.

Request for info to be added to fundraising page: which fundraising payment options are processed by American companies. If they’re taking fees, I’d like those fees to go to Canadian firms.

Fuck it, sending an e-transfer. ;)

E: sent $100. The equivalent of two one-year reddit subscriptions. I cancelled my subscription to move over here. Good luck with the fundraising :)

Got rained out playing Slopitch this evening. Too bad for the game, but good for beer. Happy Canada Day ya hosers. 🇨🇦

I thought GCC dropped support for compiling to the abacus?

Ewwww.

Well, whatever. 31 teams don’t win every year ;)

Also, nice to see all those additional names in the commit log. A growing list of contributors is great!

Awesome. Didn’t even notice downtime :)

Whoa! Cakeday on Lemmy! Thanks!

Also, great notes! :D

Excellent work folks!

The true power of federation showing itself here. In this case, it’s two software packages with the same server/admin team – which basically future proofs both.

I’d make a recommendation: have some sort of cross-pollination tool. Basically, pull the database of all subscribed communities on Lemmy.ca and have a bot subscribe to the same on PieFed, and vice versa. Probably easy to do if you have server-side access.

Furthermore, in the ideal world, “Local” from the Lemmy instance includes the piefed.ca local commuities. This might be a harder ask. The reason would be to prevent bisecting the Local feeds.

Finally, ideally there is a community migration tool, to cross between Lemmy and PieFed if a community wants to move from one side to the other. This would be a bigger project, but would future proof Fedican even further should either piece of software become badly maintained.

Well, okay, I just created a year’s worth of work for a programmer. How can I help?

I’m not crying! You’re crying!

As a mod of a few mostly quiet communities on lemmy.ca, I’d note that there isn’t actually a lot of work involved. Like, I check the ModeratorView every few days just to make sure something didn’t slip through my feed, read some comments, and then return to scrolling. I have never actually had to take a real moderator action. It’s actually crazy how nice everyone is, even the ones that disagree with me :)

Like check the modlog on lemmy.ca – it’s not that busy.

I concur. It is also relatively unmolested in terms of fucking up KDE programs.

Met him once after he gave a talk on campus. Decent dude.

He asked the lecture hall an interesting question about the explorer mindset. It was during the era of the MarsOne media-fueled vapour hype. “Would you take a one-way trip to Mars?” And then started asking why, or why not (the consensus of the room was nearly unanimously “no”). And talked about explorers ancient and modern, and how risk was no longer tolerated. Very interesting fellow.

RIP.

Thanks for your hard work. Also it’s very interesting in that the nature of the traffic is unknown. Bots scouring content?

So these are only the times they get caught.

Likely placeholder art making it into production because no one is checking, rather than a deliberate policy. But still bad form.

I remember when Mandrake was a young distro – a redhat derivative – and they (gasp) chose to compile for i586 instead of i386. People were like VROooooOM! And a bunch of other people were like: why would you target CPU instructions that not everyone has?!