I'm committed to open source (or at the very least indie dev) more than to a single platform.

you've been an absolutely wonderful admin. please take all the time you need and come back when you're ready, if you're ready; don't come back too soon and burn out again. take care!

Honeypots - ask a very easy question, but make it hidden on the website so that human users won't see it and bots will answer it.

I don't like beer either, but your post sounds more like "you should not like beer" than "why do people like beer" and that's not very nice.

The photo looks amazing! If you're ready for the maintenance and the labour market lets you do it, then do it!

It's a gender-neutral variation of my birth name. I'm a simple person.

I really don't think this pact has any legal value to begin with.

Fun fact: this applies for pretty much every language, except for 50% of French punctuation.

Homemade burgers are healthy. The problem is the absurd amount of salt and low-quality fats that restaurants put in their food.

As many potential rooms as possible in as many locations as possible, and no way to distinguish the right one. Of course, rotate it regularly.

Signal >>>>>>>> WhatsApp > texting > Telegram >>>>>>> Messenger.

I'd go with the following:

• Everything is CC-BY by default, copyright is opt-in.
• If someone opts in to copyright, it ends whenever they die (I'm going to be nice and say "until the last person dies" for a group project).

I hate copyright, but understand that some people really want to keep their work for themselves. Maybe they can do that - in a world where copyrighting isn't default, we'd have so much to choose from that we wouldn't need the content made by the kind of people who decide to prevent sharing their work.

and @eldritch.cafe !

I really liked this read! I blog, and I like my blog, but sometimes get stressed out because I feel like nobody's reading it (I've removed all analytics on purpose because I used to get obsessed with them). Blogging for the simple act of blogging, and not for engagement, is the best!

You should post here: !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

This is not a technical support community.

(but also i've had the same issue since the last lemmy update, i suppose a bug made its way in there.)

Two websites that I use quite a lot to find cool personal blogs/RSS feeds:

• Ye olde blogroll is a hand-curated list of interesting personal blogs in English
• The IndieWeb webring is a webring where people with indie blogs (ie. no substacks, no big websites, etc.) can sign up to get more visibility, it's a real treasure trove

mina le's videos are always so good!

The men around them.

I took next week off from work just because I can and I don't know what I'm going to do. I'd like to make the most of it but I can't decide between doing something really cool and doing nothing at all; both are tempting!

Otherwise, things are going pretty great. I might be able to go full remote at work (which would mean I don't need to quit anymore), and I've prepared a wonderful peach, feta & cucumber salad for lunch.

Hey, welcome :)

Firefox user here.

• Bitwarden password manager
• Bypass Paywalls Clean
• Clear URLs remove URL trackers
• Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results to hide some unwanted websites from search results
• Open in VLC™ media player, useful for some weird streams
• Push to Kindle sends any text article to PDF or to your ereader (not only Kindle)
• Recipe Filter filters recipe pages on blogs and just gets the actual ingredients & instructions
• Redirector for a few paywalls where I use a specific proxy
• RSS Reader Extension (by Inoreader) - as I use Inoreader for following RSS feeds
• Sci Hub Injector adds sci-hub links to many science publishing websites for easy access
• Shinigami Eyes highlights trans-friendly and transphobic social media users or websites
• uBlock Origin
• ViolentMonkey for userscripts

Extensions to be helpful to other people:

• Picket Line Notifier tells you if the website you are visiting has workers on strike - useful especially for ecommerce & news publishers
• Snowflake is not noticeable for me, but allows other people to use my network as a Tor node or something idk
• Wayback Machine archives every page I visit on the Internet Archive.

Fediverse extensions:

• FediAct allows me to boost, reply to, follow, etc. on any Mastodon instance without having to open the right link in my own instance. I wish there was something like this for Lemmy and Peertube.
• Fedishare allows for one-click sharing to several Fediverse platforms, including Lemmy and Mastodon
• PeerTubeify tries to check if a YouTube video you're watching is also on PeerTube

Youtube extensions:

• Auto HD / 4k / 8k pour YouTube™ - I use it for the environment, so default quality is 480px (because usually I watch the videos on a small side window so it doesn't change the visible quality)
• Clickbait Remover for YouTube - replaces thumbnails with a frame from the video and makes all titles normally named, no all caps
• DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - removes the homepage & sidebar on videos to avoid rabbit holes
• SponsorBlock auto-skips sponsored segments, intros, credit rolls, etc. on YouTube videos

Some personal blogs that I like (mine included), all of them are indie and as far as I know they all are maintained by a single person (so they don't post several times a day!):

• A Shroud of Thoughts
• Alex's Blog
• Ben Werdmuller
• Elizabeth Tai
• Felix Crux
• GioCities
• James' Coffee Blog
• Jeremy Cherfas
• Jo's blog
• KE Garland
• Mark Sutherland
• Maya's Blog
• OpenPLUTO
• Sara Jaksa
• The Maven Game
• Tracy Durnell
• Writing at Large

Communities don't need to have a single specific language and being able to share in our own language in a general community, especially outside of English, would be amazing. I know I've posted some content to book-related communities in French and was glad not to post to an empty French community, and I got some interaction on this.

Agree with Flaky that we really need a default language choice to not have to set it up every time, though.

My suggestion would be to back it up on the Internet archive manually once in a while.

That sounds like pretty great care! I'd recommend using a conditioner that's made for coloured hair, otherwise I think you're good to go! (And don't shampoo it too often, twice a week should be enough for most people - bleach dries up the hair and so does shampoo, and dry hair means dandruff & greasy hair!)

I am incredibly lucky to live in a country that strongly protects workers, to have no children and to be able to afford an apartment 10mins away from my partner's place rather than living together and depending on each other's calendar. I remember how lucky I am every day. I really hope the baby is doing well and that things will settle down in a year or two - obviously it's still not going to be "unspoken for time", but hopefully things will settle down a bit at least!

They shouldn't. They should have a blog and share the link here and on Mastodon. Social media is not the right place for long-form content.

That's an excellent question and I'm glad you raised it. I need to care more about accessibility and learn more about security in general :)

I was thinking "lifetime opt-in but no retroactive effect", but a "grace period" could be interesting for viral cases, yeah!

Not a moderator here, but in general, what annoyed me the most was people breaching the very first rule in the pinned post / FAQ / welcome post / etc.

I've seen a couple of really ugly comments recently, where a mod had replied, and I had to click on the person (wanting to block them) to realize they had been banned. I really hope a future Lemmy update shows very clearly when that happens, because right now it just looks like we're leaving the comment up. LEaving the comment up but showing the user as banned would be a relatively okay middle ground, I think.

I'm bumping this issue on the Lemmy GitHub.

I think a good starting point would be to have your Wordpress website with the ActivityPub plugin installed (which makes every product page a Fediverse-friendly post) and WooCommerce or some other type of e-commerce product on it. The payment will still not be free software (Stripe & Paypal, usually), but at least you own your shop and you can easily share it with the Fediverse.

I love having seasonal goals, but I've spent the past two weeks moving and am absolutely exhausted by the Big Thing, so I don't want to commit to small stuff on top of it. Starting in August and going through the autumn, I'm going to focus on my social life in this new city though!

Well the good news if that with the literal hundred plums you have, you can afford to "waste" plums until you figure out how to make proper jam! :)

Congrats on making it through the exams and good luck for finding the summer job!

The bi-cycle is a meme for a reason: it's true for many of us! There's really no way to prove it, "bi" is the default state of "unless proven otherwise I can like people of any gender" and anything other than that state should be the thing that's proven, imo :)

That sounds like an absolute nightmare, I'm really sorry. I hope everything will end up fine.

Oooo enjoy the weekend, whatever you end up doing!

There are a bunch of small and/or young transfeminine people, they might be interested :)