because it's our content, not reddit's.

lolyep, quite often it was, and they usually wouldn't survive the fall but just go splash

that's not enough options tho. we can only pick a single thing from those drop-down lists, and we can't sort results in any way at all - most of those options in the last box are borked and give results from several days ago

anyone play the lemmings series of computer games back in the 1990s?

the ability to sort and / or filter search results by various different qualities

he should have just been pinged by that comment, but i'll do it from the world instance just in case

hey @ruud there's a community where the top mod has gone inactive and the next person wants to do some changes but can't. could you please help? cheers

mu hu huahahahahahahaha that's the best bit - it's not mine either. i'm the goofy and absurd dad that all my son's mates like, because when they see me i always start talking ridiculous bullshit that cracks them up laughing. i'v always been like that tho, smiling and joking right up to a certain point and then just stop and put my foot down. my favourite way that it's been described to me is that i'm like one of those padded clubs from the simpsons episode where they get family counselling and drain Springfield's power grid. that was a good line i gotta admit

lmao that's fucking beautiful and gives me a few ideas .....

lmao i usually just say "no doxxing" in the same way that brad pitt tell people not to talk about fight club - twice, the second time loud and forcefully with an expletive included for emphasis. it generally gets the message across, but your way works too

that's good advice for those who might be bothered by legal nudity or are in a place where it's inapproprate to view it, but if people filter by subscriptions then it shouldn't be much of a muchness. for example i haven't subscribed to any communities on that instance and the only times i see their posts is when people on other instances link to them. once this place picks up enough traffic for people to no longer watch the all page then that problem will go away

can we add "no doxxing / no personal information" to that list please? fanx

oh, i do, i'm using lemmy for modding and content posting and then browsing on kbin

yeh true. eg redditors are using lemmy to do stuff and kbin for surfing. at least i'm doing that simply because the feed loads up faster and has more content

wow. a hundred thousand new users in less than a week, or to put it another way 125% growth in six days

does he kidnap her or is he just someone who is paying board to live in their spare room? i'v seen the 1962 movie but haven't read the book

yep, i can see this post from my accounts everywhere except for beehaw. this comment is from lemmy's world

hahahaha seems that way

"loli" is underage girls, and "shota" is underage boys? not 100% sure tho

is there a way to view them (or at least specific ones) as one merged thing?

oh wow man, that's a massive step - well done!

i finally spent the time and wrote a good long explanation of things from my point of view and what was motivating me for the users of that sub to read, along with my two-week notice. if someone wants to take over from me then i'll mod them up like what you did, but otherwise i'm planning on sticking around until the API changes go into effect, shutting the sub down for multiple days each week so that it still hits the suits for a third of their advertising revenue, then when it's all done and nobody's replaced me i'll put the sub into restricted and lock it right the fuck down otherwise, remove myself as a mod, and just walk off into the sunset

huffman's been huffing his farts too much. can't wait to see the look on his face when he realises that his servers worth millions of dollars can be replaced with something like ten grand of pooter parts, which if you think about what nerds are like it's basically guaran-fucking-teed, but he's too busy huffing farts and thinking that his shit don't stink

point 1 - normal styles of parenting don't work for spectrum kids, and point 2 - i fucking hated being parented in the standard way myself lol, no way i was going to subject my own child, who i want the best of the best for, to that abuse.

thank you tho

don't get music from streaming services because it's too low quality. instead hunt for FLAC format. it's lossless.

i pay for spotify premium (yes i hate ads THAT much) and when i download songs with it for playing offline there's a weird high gate cutoff which i can clearly notice and sounds like a dogwhistle to me. pretty sure it's the encryption rather than the sound quality tho. don't go that option - it removes too much of the shape of the music, fuzzes out too many subtle details.

if you're willing to pay for it, bandcamp.

mental health days. they usually take half a week or so to prepare for, but the hard and fast rules of them is that i am not to change out of my pajamas or put any shoes more solid than fleece-lined moccasins (which were a $120 splurge on luxury for my last birthday) and the meals that i knock out are ones that i can put on to cook then go into the loungeroom and sprawl on the couch until the bell goes "ding!" so stuff like schnitzel or cold meat sammiches or something, and i don't do any fucking housework whatsoever unless i'm bored and end up doing it simply to have something to do while i sort my mind out. this is a practice that i'v had ever since i managed to earn enough money as a dancer to be able to only work intermittently and eventually self-employ and run an agency for stage performers. more often than not they're a monday thing.

thing is tho, there is a massive complication. see, i'm a parent of an 8yo child who's been diagnosed with the full rainbow - dual diagnosis ASD and ADHD - and i have to coach him thru his issues as well. this means that there are times when i'm not the one having the mental health day. if he's just been having a rough week i'll let him have a friday or a monday off about 3 or 4 times per year. he needs it, that's for sure. every single time it has happened it has had a massive and immediate positive effect on his schoolwork as well as his mood.

another thing i do for him is play really emotionally moving music (never sad unless it's in a movie, i always go with something uplifting) and talk to him about how the music makes my emotions work, and how the way that i respond to them gets to the point of physicality where i need to writhe or dance (you know, that tightness in your chest that comes with excitement, yeah? stuff like that) and although he doesn't have that need to flow like i do, he's still becoming aware of his emotions enough that he hasn't had any frustration wobblies since the few weeks before the pandemic. yeh, it was when we were stuck inside together for a couple months that we really got progress on this, and when we also became best friends, pretty much. we didn't particularly enjoy each other's company before that. i mean, we love each other fiercely, we were just interested in different stuff back in 2020. during the lockdowns tho, and we're from victoria australia so we had like the 3rd most amount of days stuck at home of anywhere in the world, during that time we turned the TV off a lot and just talked and hung out and joked and played and whatever.

i also used to do the dinosaur walk when i was his age and walk around on my toes heaps, and get told off for doing it, and eventually learned how to do it with my heels only a couple millimeters from the ground. ended up being a good thing for my career too, because dancers pretty much need to be able to kick a doorknob out of a door in order to keep strength and perfect control all the way thru a long set.

as far as how this relates to what you've said there about refusing to make eye contact with cops (it almost hurts if it's not someone that you know and care about the wellbeing of, huh?) well, i had to do quite a lot of acting training in order to appear confident enough on stage for it to be appropriate for my performances. one of the things i learned how to do is sweep my gaze across an entire cheering crowd without actually stopping for anyone in particular. it's pretty easy, it's just the plastic fake smiling face, after i'd had someone sit with me and teach me which muscles to move in order to be able to fucking smile in the first place (learned at age 17) and so i just do it to the cops, except with a scowl on my face instead of a smile. it's basically saying to them that they are beneath being worthy of my notice, and it pays off with about the same success rate as walking around anywhere with a clipboard while wearing a reflective vest and a white hard hat, or something between 80 and 100 percent of the time.

you'd be amazed how much you can get away with if you mask up the nerves with hand-made great looking clothes and instead display so much arrogance and entitlement that people think that you're rich ... although it does help if you can crack eggs with your butt too

oh yeah, and in my 20s the way that i dealt with the sleep issue was to change my sleeping pattern. did you know that 7x24 has the same answer as 6x28? lolyep, with a 28-ish hour sleep cycle i could be up and active during daylight in the middle of the week when i would be doing the dealing-with-normies stuff and actually getting paid and also awake and alert at the times that performances would happen (10pm to about 5am because we were dancers who used fire props and it kinda loses the effect during daylight) although adjusting back to a 24 hour clock when the kid was born was fucken rough

i'm loving that we get to use the music of motorhead as a soundtrack

i'v been taking part in discussions all day, learning what i need to learn to be able to help, then getting ready to do specifically that.

i'v also been cluing some of the more confused reddit mods in to where this place is and figuring out how not to get shadowbanned in the process - make a reference to motorhead instead of naming lemmy himself. hopefully we'll get the earthquakes mod here soon

awww, you've confirmed what i'v feared and been acting on. currently i have four accounts, all on different instances ...

-smiles while handing you a vegemite sandwich-

i'm his sock puppet account

i'v been here less than 24 hours and am already making preparations to abandon my reddit account

the community over on reddit saw the shape that shit's gonna turn next month and now we're all scattering and looking for places to land. this platform is close enough to what we came from that heaps of us are landing here.

this is the busiest instance, by the way. not sure about other people but i'm maintaining an account on this instance separate to my primary account simply because i can access stuff faster from here

i like following the admins around. they're almost all fairly friendly people and i'm right into the whole building-it-so-they-will-come part of developing infrastructure

i think they're anticipating it.

also, there's a false accusation there. i had to register my email with lemmy world

r/jailbait

you know, the one that spez was a moderator of

so ... this isn't a place where i can ask if anyone's seen my boat? dangit

please explain how to install this to a guy with fat thumbs and no idea what he's doing. do i just copy the folder or something? and if so, where to? thanks in advance. seems like a fantastic tool

i'm on windows desktop. the web interface leaves much to be desired. i'd personally be happy with an app in the windows store

the ability to create communities in other instances than the one that our accounts are in. i'd rather use a server in my local region than have to go to the other side of the planet where there's a populated server

an ability to re-order search results, eg in the communities list page having it so that we can click on a column and have the results sort according to that column, or alphabetically or most recent.

and some way of filtering the results would be good as well

lol yeh, good point. i read in another thread that the people that are doing it are gamers (with all the negative stereotypes that go with it) and aren't exactly known for their thinking ability