If we didn’t evolve to have gay sex why are gays so good at sex? QED.

Love it! What is your background??

I think NixOS is unlike any other distro out there. Other distros are some combination of prepackaged software and a package manager. That’s cool and all. But NixOS allows you to describe the state of systems and create them in the same way over and over again. That’s significantly more powerful and quite a differentiator.

Well, you’re posting in the Nix community so…

Gentoo is basically a regular Linux distro when you get right down to it. It’s cool you compile everything locally but that’s not exactly revolutionary. And if you want to reproduce your system state you’re in the same place as any other distro; using complicated scripts to try to achieve what NixOS gives you out of the box.

I personally don’t really see the comparison. But if you love Gentoo, you can always just do Gentoo plus Nix and/or Home Manager if you want.

I agree with your points.

That said I think one of the biggest draws of reddit (to me) was the constant influx of content. You could scroll and scroll and scroll and very rarely see repetitive content and there was always something new.

While this behavior was addictive and probably bad for me, it is something I miss with Lemmy, which just has less content because it has less users. More users would probably solve this problem, but I get how it also destroys communities really easily, so… tradeoffs I guess.

In my opinion, the idea of crypto/blockchain is fairly naïve unfortunately.

Crypto/blockchain is not truly decentralized; the developers of the chain and its protocol retain total control over it in a similar manner to governments over their own currencies. They can invalidate old coins, issue new ones, debase the currency – whatever they want.

What is decentralized is the ledger itself, in that the database of the chain is distributed across many computing nodes. This is in fact bad because it results in:

1. Slowness in processing. This is why BTC transactions take so long to settle.
2. Potential foreign control of the database. An attacker who exploits a flaw in the protocol, or a miner that has a majority of the blockchain under their processing power, can rewrite the ledger however they want. They can double spend coins, revoke transactions, or … well, anything.
3. Automated contract resolution. This is bad because contracts are (and have been) exploited on every blockchain to drain legitimate wallets of funds – either because the contracts themselves are badly written, or the software they’re implemented in is easily-exploitable.

Overall a centralized ledger would be a far better idea for most blockchains than a distributed one… controlled by a trusted entity, rather than a bunch of crypto devs… with human oversight instead of automated contract resolution…

And we’ve just invented actual currencies.

This is a good idea. I tried to make one for my instance here but I think it’s not a great guide.

If you work on yourself (gym, knowledge, social, gaming) a partner will come more or less naturally in my experience. You’ll find people that you’re interested in doing those things, and even better they’ll be interested in you as well! It’s important to choose activities that are beneficial to you though; as fun as CK3 all night and all day might be, it might be reasonable to take just an hour off to bike to the gym, move some weights around a little bit, and bike back.

Generally in all your hobbies and work, I would recommend trying to balance your commitment to what you’re doing to your own mental and physical health. As fun as it is to go 24/7 in one direction (CK3, work, school), a mix is better.

Sort of yes?

It certainly gives me a lot more time for reading rather than social media which is probably a good thing.

It seemed to me like a much less active Hacker News (and indeed was intended to be a replacement for that community iirc).

Yes, I think this is true. There was a lot of “ironic” that, as it turns out, was not really very ironic.

I think this implies a server-wide problem actually; that a community like this could exist there, and that it isn’t an immediate, burning problem for the people in that server.

If this doesn’t impact you why not just ignore it instead of writing multi-page screeds about how it doesn’t affect you?

sh.itjust.works said this? That’s really disappointing.

Yep… people usually interpret “free speech” as “freedom from the consequences of my speech,” but it’s never meant that.

This is really a microcosm of the problem of “free speech communities.” They wind up being infested with trolls and Nazis.

The only plausible reasoning for the admin not banning this community is they don’t mind it. Glad Beehaw is not federated with a place like that.

Depending on the community, we’d love to see more action at https://lib.lgbt 🙂

If anyone is looking for a small but cute and queer home, https://lib.lgbt exists!

Wow, I did … not know that about spez.