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Kristell

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  • [CLOSED] what fediverse services do you recommend?

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  • Diaspora isn't, and I'm not sure if it has activity pub support at all? Most other things are. APub is turned on for Friendica (DFRN protocol) by default, and Hubzilla (Zot protocol) allows you to enable it pretty easily.

    My line gets drawn based on what they're made for. Friendica, Mastodon, GoToSocial, all of the *key forks, are all similar enough that I just have one account for all of them. They're for microblogging.

    Lemmy isn't for microblogging, it's a link aggregator/community forum-adjacent thing. It's different enough in function that I want a different account/client for it, especially if we're talking mastodon because Lemmy floods mastodon feeds.

    If I cared about Bookwyrm, I'd have another account, same with PeerTube, etc. They feel different enough to the microblogs that I just prefer having accounts specific to them.

  • Say we succeed in bringing down Capitalism. Then what?

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  • Even with people using more than they need we still overproduce by an alarming amount. Also someone wearing 5 shirts a day doesn't contribute that much to consumption, just extra laundry detergent, which is a resource that can be stockpiled for a long time.

    There are a lot of ways that we do over consume, though many of them just... Do kind of go away when we're not run ragged constantly. Don't need to buy shinies to numb the pain when the pain is gone, y'know?

    A lot of overconsumption is fueled by industries doing it on purpose, too, clothing being a prime example of that. Clothes used to last, but that's not as profitable as making things without enough seam allowance to alter them, and making them out of cloth so bad it falls apart if you even think of wearing it anyway.

    Some of it is definitely personal choice, but I'd wager that most of it is down to the second one, with a runner-up being the first.

  • Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds

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  • Not too far off of how a lot of AIs function, unfortunately

  • I made a website to revive dead multiplayer games (GameDate)

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  • Oh, neat! Lemme check it ou-

    Every time I die I drink a cup of tequila, and every 10 minutes I drink another

    Well that seems irresponsible.

  • Yet another post for cloud storage suggestions.

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  • If you need cloud storage, Disroot.org has 2gb free, but... For this I think something like syncthing would work well, if you even need it in multiple places.

    The download page for syncthing: https://syncthing.net/downloads/

  • What did you think you've always needed until going without it?

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  • Facebook messenger. I was afraid people wouldn't want to deal with using other chat apps, etc. DM'd everyone I knew with "Hey I'm leaving Facebook, I have XMPP, Signal, texting, and email, lemme know which one you want" and most people were fine giving me their phone number.

    Turns out most people don't care.

  • Discord keeps walking into rakes, but TeamSpeak is thriving after 'incredible surge of new users'

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  • Everyone needs at least one friend who's willing to break their own brain about tech, so they can host all the neat shit! Plus if everyone chips in it's pretty cheap

  • The reality of Discord and its alternatives

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  • For all the alternatives out there truth is, none are really anywhere near perfect. Matrix and most of its clients while encrypted don’t offer true jump in /jump out game chat.

    After complaining about it heavily for a few days, I did find one client that has that same feel, commet.chat. I haven't done a whole lot of testing yet, but from what I've seen/experienced, it's close, if not there

    Personally I still prefer XMPP+Cheogram. It's more Signal than Discord, but it's a lightweight chat server with voice call abilities, and that's what I needed it for

  • Is there a way to "self-post" on Lemmy like there is on Reddit?

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  • You can't on Lemmy, but can on mbin. I saw someone else mention just post, which will work for it, but I also just have a second account on a microblogging fedi platform for that, and that's what I'd actually recommend for it. "You don't need multiple accounts on the fediverse" yada yards, but there are certain instances where it's helpful to have multiple, like this one xD

  • Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook Server

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  • Yep, though with calibre in particular you want to kind of make sure it's locked down real good. People sniff for the ports it uses, so open calibre-web libraries get found quickly, and then will usually have some attempts at cracking.

    I had mine set up as a local-only thing (could only access from my home WiFi), but from experiences with other apps that have similar crawlers, it takes about a week for them to be found. Just make sure everyone's passwords are decent, or just share one account if it's people you trust.

  • Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook Server

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  • I need to look into calibre-web more. I definitely tried it, but I remember it being awkward. Might give it another go to see

  • Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

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  • Ahh, I somehow missed that, my bad. I'd never even heard of that one holy shit

  • Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

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  • Right, it can generate child porn, tell kids to kill themselves, and tell you to put gasoline in your pasta sauce while while also quadrupling or more the price of hardware! Much better!

    I'm not even sure where you're getting the idea that you can't buy drugs with crypto, though, because you absolutely can???

  • Beware

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  • From what I saw from my old room mate, it worked fine as of about 6 months ago. They got lower performance than on Windows, but still ran most games over 155fps (their monitor's refresh rate) without any notable bugs. They had one of the cards that was like $2k new a year or two ago, idr the number, I think 4090?

  • Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

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  • I mean. Useful how? At least you can but drugs with crypto. Can't buy drugs with AI.

  • Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital

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  • Hah... Haha... Hah... Ha... sigh

  • Do you reckon more blowjobs are given by straight women, or gay men?

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  • Fair xD I'm wondering how much of that is a true preference for not receiving (I know one person who just. Does not, because it tickles?) and how much of that is the stereotype of straight men being bad at it, though. Could be worth putting that to a poll

  • YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it

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  • I... Honestly don't even think about my adblocker enough to even think to disable certain websites in it. Generally if I like a site enough to disable ads, I'll also generally like them enough to pay them more money than they would have gotten from me turning ads off for a year

  • Community feedback request regarding Rule 6: "No Politics"

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  • I'd say 8 would be better, just because they can have a second term. Usually those are consecutive, but still

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    What am I missing with Matrix?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Any way to make nextcloud more like Google Photos? (Solved!)

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    "A hill I'm willing to die on" is a weird phrase for what it means.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Surgeons have to have really strong stomachs

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Why do people who try to convince others to switch to metric focus so much on the conversions?

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    One Million Cannibal Ants Trapped in Soviet Nuclear Bunker Have Escaped

    www.newsweek.com /cannibal-ants-soviet-nuclear-bunker-1469573
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Trump withdraws U.S. from 66 “woke” international organizations & treaties

    www.lgbtqnation.com /2026/01/withdraws-u-s-from-66-woke-international-organizations-treaties/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Trump hosts “furry party” at Mar-a-Lago with dancers wearing bizarre dog heads

    www.lgbtqnation.com /2026/01/hosts-furry-party-at-mar-a-lago-with-dancers-wearing-bizarre-dog-heads/