Another traveler of the wireways.
Keep an eye on [email protected], search via Marginalia Search, and check out the ooh directory among other things.
Also look out for webrings (or similar) on some of the sites you may find, as they can help you find other likeminded net people.
Some people are trying to bring back some of the old navigation methods, but with some improvements, to keep the open net around.
Sounds interesting, appreciate the link!
Going off the headline alone makes me think of when the idea of putting cosmetic patches on things felt cool. Personally I still think it’s cool, maybe others do too, I dunno.
Anyway, repairing things is cool whether it’s electronic or cloth!
The thumbnail had me thinking this was some strange creature waving until I opened it and saw the good friends goofing about.
For some reason I thought The Verge might have a more substantive article on this…Yet instead TechCrunch came in with better coverage: “Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?”
This is a great demonstration that if Bluesky really wants to walk their talk, they’re going to have to do more. More in terms of educating people on the value of self-hosting their own Personal Data Severs, and encouraging the building of other PDS hosting/entryway services.
Nevertheless even then the protocol still has Relays that act as the biggest point of failure to it all, and that will remain so even with independent ones.
A lot of Netflix’s adult animated comedies. I glance at some of them and their art styles put me off, so I think, “That’s probably not gonna get renewed…”
I check back awhile later and some of them are at like 4+ seasons.
Yeah, it worked! Really it’s just a matter of being unable to account for how each app interface handles things that was tripping me up. Some may offer suggestions to autocomplete, others not so much.
It should yeah, I had initially written that but dropped it during revision & put it back in the p.s. at the end. Part of the reason I dropped it I think is that it Depends™ on what you’re posting from, browser/WebUI or app.
Browser/WebUI, yes. App…Maybe, each seems to handle community mentions a little differently.
Edit:
For clarity I had meant the autocomplete of the mention link, not the resulting mention.
Cyberpunk’s also a manual, but to break the megacorp machinations, not comply with’em.
Out here skimming my sub feed, completely overlook the genre tags, pleasantly surprised by the psychespacy jazz. Good sound!
Penn’s theory is that at some point during its race, No. 9,550 decided to rest on a cargo ship and hitched a ride across the Atlantic.
Sometimes you just casually fall asleep on a ship and find yourself going across an ocean.
RIP, take my wheels away, I wiped out on the wheelie!
It weally was, I can’t believe I whiffed that wheelie
Honestly that’s one of my favorite parts of anthology/episodic shows. You get a loose theme of what to expect but each episode can pleasantly surprise you.
Aah, so I think Play Store is up to date but F-Droid isn’t, check again here: https://f-droid.org/packages/app.vger.voyager/
Unless this updates between me commenting & you checking (or browser cache is messing with me), it still shows v2.29.1 for F-Droid.
Checked the other day and it hasn’t gone up via F-Droid repo yet. I just downloaded the updated version from Github since it was bugging me.
I don’t know how accurate the stats are, but around the bottom of each instance sidebar they have a breakdown of users per day/week/month. I think that’s supposed to pull not from signed in visits but whether they were active by voting/commenting/posting.
Excluding the instances you mention, there’s still a sizable amount of people active if those stats are reliable.
You can see the weekly/monthly stats aggregated in the list view of instances on Lemmyverse:
If at all possible, I’d try to arrange for a break.
A lot of this sounds like it may stem from burnout (before getting into any more long-term conditions). Taking a break probably won’t help you see your job in a new light (some jobs simply suck, or aren’t a good fit for people personally), but it could give you time to rest enough to look for other opportunities. However first and foremost any such break should focus on resting and recovery to get you to a better state to just be well and happy.
Once you know you can sort out breaks and recover, you can set aside more time to look for opportunities. Right now it seems almost like this may be among your best options: carve out breaks for yourself to rest and recover. Once you’re feeling better, take time you’ve reclaimed for yourself to seek out opportunities to change jobs and improve your work situation.
Also while there’s a modest amount of people here (I’d reserve small for under a thousand online, personally), many of them seem to have a rather narrow set of interests they like to engage with. Namely technology (self-hosting & Linux in particular), news (primarily to do with politics), and memes (a mix of things but largely politically-tinged, old memes, nostalgia-tinged).
Outside of these interests the next most active may be cute animals, comics, and video games with some gradually rising gardening, stitching, woodworking, art, and certainly other interest communities I’m forgetting or haven’t noticed.
Personally I dislike anything with -verse involved because big companies have run it into the ground and then some.
The boring, dry ways of describing them work best in my opinion.
Federated forums is the driest, most technical and to the point but not very telling.
Swap out forum for link aggregator and you have similar, arguably even more technical (certainly more of a mouthful).
Connected/linked forums might be more approachable, more readily conveying how these are separate forums but networked together.
Cross-forums may work as well to the same end, but not sure how immediately understandable cross may be in this context and outside of gaming spaces.
Whatever the case I kind of think this has things backwards. What’s more important than describing and talking about the backend tech is pointing people to any of the sites built with them that have anything of interest to them to bother with. I can’t think of anything online I’ve ever gone to or used because someone told me it was using Apache, Nginx, phpBB, or like an Open Source Web Server or using such and such CDN.
The reason why is simple: next to nobody talks like that. The only people that might are deep in web dev.