DJDarren

Check out wefwef.app. It’s a skin for Lemmy that looks just like Apollo.

I don’t like to delete accounts because I’m not a fan of finality, but not being able to get to Reddit with Apollo means I can’t/won’t get to Reddit at all.

I met the woman I love on Reddit.

Same story, but on Twitter. We met 11 years ago after she got drunk and posted that she wanted a boy (or girl) friend, a mutual sent me the link to her tweet, I replied, and we’ve been married for seven years. Neither of us use Twitter any more, preferring to shitpost our way around Mastodon instead.

Life goes on, even when the websites don’t.

My week is going well.

We adopted a lovely pair of cats at the weekend, who are settling in really well. They’re Certified Good Cats.

Milo -

Molly -

I guess I don’t really watch too many ‘bad’ movies because I don’t have many in my head, but the first thing that springs to mind is Velocipastor.

But is Velocipastor really a bad movie if it did exactly what it set out to do?

Bubbahotep

Bubba Ho-Tep is a fucking masterpiece and you’ll sit in the corner and watch it as many times as you need to to change your way of thinking.

I don’t see writing by hand as “intentionally inefficient”, I see it as an extremely easy way to reconnect with physical creation of some description.

We’ve all been trained to believe that we have to be as efficient as possible in order to maximise our profitability. But why? Why not take a few moments to do things a slower, more thoughtful way?

I like writing by hand - where appropriate. It feels nice to put ideas on paper. And as a bonus, those ideas don’t then get hoovered up whichever company made whichever app you’re writing into.

Punk.

I’d been pondering a change in career anyway, but I was at work one hot summer’s day, sweating my arse off, listening to my tunes on the stereo in the workshop. Pennywise - Same Old Story came on and something clicked in me. Cycled past a tiny local radio station on the way home, went in to ask how to volunteer my help, and a couple of months later I was starting on a radio production degree.

That track still fires me up to this day.

That, however, was sincere.

Nope. Everything I say is sarcastic, so it would be redundant.

Thanks, I’ve edited my initial comment to reflect my changing level of understanding.

Ah, perhaps I’m wrong then. Sorry.

That I can’t answer with any confidence. I would assume it works the same way, in as much as Beehaw’s content simply wouldn’t naturally filter into the feeds of the other instance’s users, but I’m happy to be set straight on that if I’m wrong.

I’m a mod over on https://beehaw.org/c/neurodivergence, which has a good number of us.

So far as I understand how all this works, assuming you wanted to sub to PatientGamers@sh.itjust.works, all you need to do is search for !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works while signed in to Beehaw, and it’ll show up in the search bar.

Defederation doesn’t mean that you can’t ever see content on other servers, just that content from those servers doesn’t naturally filter across into this one. It just means that you being subbed to it from here won’t make it show up for anyone who isn’t subbed to it.

Ignore me, I’m talking out my arse.

I have ADHD, there’s no rehab for me, only the endless quest for dopamine.

They make me feel happy when I get them, and I need all the dopamine I can get these days.

For me, I’m mostly sad on behalf of the devs who put their hearts into making beautiful apps to help people access Reddit, who’ve just been hung out to dry with essentially no notice.

But with regards to the site itself; no, not really. Reddit has been questionable for a while now, and has become nothing more than a time suck for me. I get kind of irritated with the endless recycling of jokes and memes, the reposting of things over and over, the bots becoming all you can see. So I’m kinda glad to be moving on.

Despite my grandparents being Maltese, I’ve never been lucky enough to visit. One day…

This is a tough, tough question.

I’ve been lucky enough to have traveled a little, so have seen a few beautiful places. I can’t choose between;

The Norwegian fjords - Sailed here while working aboard a cruise ship. You just can’t wrap your head around being on a boat and surrounded by actual mountains. We were there for the spring snow melt, so the waterfalls were astonishing.

Florence - Almost certainly the most beautiful city I’ve ever seen. Full of tourists, yes, but the buildings themselves are bona fide works of art. Good gelato too.

The Grand Canyon - I feel almost obliged to list this because to see it with your own eyes is something else. We got there just in time for sunset, when everything turned the most vibrant shade of orange. Trouble is, I just couldn’t comprehend what I was looking at. Like, I knew it was the Grand Canyon, but it just so big that it may as well be an infinite view.

Palaiokastritsa (Corfu) - Corfu is a generally beautiful island, but Palaio has a monastery atop a steep hill that’s 100% worth the walk. You can sit there in the little cafe drinking an ice cold drink, just gazing out over the Ionian Sea, or you can turn around and look across the dramatic hills.

I think my attitude is that it’s nice that it can work, but that the style differences between Mastodon and Lemmy don’t necessarily lend themselves to it being terribly worthwhile.

That said, there’s likely a use-case whereby you can essentially use Mastodon like an RSS reader for other Fediverse software, so you can get a heads up on things you might be keeping an eye on.