Delayed response, but there’s a few that I’m aware of that may roughly fit this interest.

!buyitforlife@slrpnk.net

Same idea but different instance:
!buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works

Lastly there’s !recommendations@lemmy.world, but this is more for seeking product recommendations rather than providing reviews of products. However currently there’s nothing in their rules prohibiting product review posts, so you could always DM the mod to see if they’re open to them.

Edited & crossed out first couple communities as I reviewed the original thread and saw they weren’t what you were after. I also see that you’ve made a community tailored to what you were looking for via !product_reviews@slrpnk.net, which is apt. Best of luck with it!

This is buried toward the bottom of the release notes so I’m bringing it up here:

Added instance-level default sort type

Any admins out there considering changing their instance sort settings or asking people on their instance if they’d like this changed, given that we can individually set sorting anyway? Taking into account the inclination of people to never adjust default settings (I remain deeply curious about this tendency, as an aside), I think it might be worth at least bringing up to one’s instance community.

If they decide they want it to remain the same, all good, and even better, it raises some people’s awareness that they can change it themselves.

It sounds like it, although it looks like it’s a 6-digit pin instead from the image in the article.

There’s also this additional info directly from Facebook’s blog post about all this:

When your chats are upgraded, you will be prompted to set up a recovery method, such as a PIN, so you can restore your messages if you lose, change or add a device.

Personally I’m about as willing to trust this as WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption, given Meta/Facebook’s involvement, but thought it was worth keeping folks here apprised of the situation in the corporate space.

If the other person is the one ghosting, or generally being flaky, it’s not necessarily anything you’re doing wrong. The other person wasn’t in a situation to maintain contact to the degree that you were hoping.

The thing with any friendship, and especially a long one, is that there’s mutual effort in maintaining it, and that you can’t force it, as then it’s a one-sided effort and that isn’t much of a friendship (or relationship more broadly speaking). As Damaskox points to, finding some activity to do together tends to be how many make friends and maintain friendships, so say playing some game or reading books/watching shows at the same pace and discussing them together may be better than if you were only trying to chat.

The trick remains, however, to not make making friends the explicit point of talking to or doing things with others online or offline, as it tends to read poorly even if the intent is to be upfront/honest.

Keep trying to cast fireball but it just keeps whiffing like an old match against a worn matchbox, “Damn it, why’d I ever listen to those language professors?!”

Ghost Commander may work for this. I’ve not tried sftp myself, but on opening it I do see the option there, so it might be worth a try.

ty, be sure to tend to u and ur pets’ bone-connected (if so) eating assistants

pescatarian detected 😂

with so many cats i think scotland would find itself shoved off the rest of the island to become its own island

Fwiw last I checked (and this may have been fixed since, haven’t reviewed), the Lemmy software was bad about not providing any feedback when communities set their languages, meaning if people tried to post or comment with their defaults as-is (which back then was Undetermined as I recall), they simply couldn’t and Lemmy wouldn’t indicate why.

Due to this lack of feedback, I think many communities opted for undetermined to avoid confusing people by appearing broken. If I’m mistaken and/or this has since been adjusted to provide better feedback, let me know!

This headline and article are begging to be in c/NotTheOnion, yeah.

Screams:
My Christian nationalist flag has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my flag.

But when it comes to bad feels strong enough I cannot escape through gaming, then I talk or write about said feels.

Something genuinely useful I’ve found in this respect, that you sometimes see folks recommend, is writing one’s situation out, their feelings, some mix of all of that, in a throwaway form. So, open a notepad file on a computer, hammer out some lines, thoughtfully, incoherently, for however long and let it sit for a moment or two; review it if you want but ultimately don’t save it, close the window/file, and maybe it will have helped a little.

It may help even more if it’s some pages from a physical notepad or something to write them out by hand and crumple or tear them up to toss out if one’s feelings are more angry or upset.

This is a good list although i generally wouldnt bother listing yacy. Its only as good as the people adding to the list and thats not a lot.

Isn’t that last point a good reason to mention it, to possibly increase the amount of people contributing?

Here’s what you do:

Find a place still stocking it, see if you can find someone that knows when the shipments come in or contact info for the folks that ship it, stake out the store for when the deliveries come in to ask the delivery people where they load up their inventory or contact the shipping people for the address of the distribution center.

Okay, lot of work involved upfront, I know, but once you get the distro center’s info, you’re close to the gold. Figure out their operating hours and begin the heist plans, then execute them perfectly so that you come out with a lifetime supply of the drink. The next tricky part will be storage, but look at what you already learned you could do to get your prize. Next up? Squatting industrial refrigeration units until you’ve savored every lost drop of this stuff.

But I don’t want to seek out shows. There’s very little interesting stuff being released anymore. They ignore making products for groups in favour of making products for everyone, which results in products for no one. I cannot cope with that.

It seems like some other replies are glossing over this, and here’s the thing: you gotta seek out interesting stuff. Many of the big tech algorithms are focused on the latest, hottest things, sure with some personalization tossed in related to your interests, but still more related to new and popular.

You want a heap of interesting stuff, you can’t keep following what’s trending, you gotta set out and seek out stuff related to your own interests. Not in a physical sense either, but poking around online.

Follow a Wikipedia rabbit hole. Find a director/artist you like, look at what else they’ve been involved with or done creatively, check that out however you can, then look at those they’ve collaborated with and if you like their stuff, check out their collaborators’ work, follow the influences and inspirations. You will hit some duds, but you may also find some real gems the algorithms never woulda served up anytime soon.

What’s more, the further back you dig, the likelier you are to come across that really weird niche work that some folks started out with, that got eyes on them before they may have “sold out” by working on bigger, more mainstream work.

Ngl, I don’t like this justice but I like the hypothetical legal test of whether posting cat photos is state action:

Suppose, to paraphrase a hypothetical offered by Justice Neil Gorsuch, that an official uses their Facebook account both to post cat pictures and to discuss official business. Now suppose that one of that official’s constituents hates cats, and posts so many nasty responses to the cat-related posts that the official eventually blocks the constituent. Because blocking this constituent will also exclude them from the official’s government-related content, did the government official violate the First Amendment here?

I could go on at some length listing the many difficult questions that various justices raised over the course of the arguments. But the important overarching point here is that these cases are very difficult. And it’s not clear that it is possible to come up with a clear-cut legal test that will easily allow judges to distinguish between state and private action online.

Regarding the second paragraph, are there really no government policies in the U.S. regarding operating separate personal/work accounts if one is going to be communicating work-related info to the public on social media? It seems like that alone would have sufficed to mitigate the headaches of these cases.

Sometimes, yeah, particularly if it was a copy I let someone borrow but they never returned for this or that reason, or if it was a book I initially read through the library and wanted my own copy (digital or physical) to review whenever.

As of late I’ve been reading more nonfiction though, where one may be more inclined to review them for learning/reference purposes.

Beware that iirc, unlike Tor an[d] I2P, Freenet leaks your IP, so I recommend to use a VPN.

If it’s using basic peer-to-peer tech, I suspect you may be right. Been awhile since I looked into it, and as I recall it wasn’t really built for privacy so much as another way to share info with few limitations (hence the free in freenet), so it’d make sense if it did.

Has anyone thought about how we can bring more people over to the Fediverse? My friends and family are all still on the Big Tech platforms like FB and Insta, and I doubt I will be able to convince them to switch over to a Fediverse platform, especially if they themselves don’t see any of their connections using the platform too. How does the Fediverse community plan on attracting more users over?

This is a common question from newcomers, and it’s not necessarily a bad one, just worth being aware of this to better understand some of the responses you may see. Something else to keep in mind is that there is no collective, united Fediverse community in the way that you might sorta see on some bigger tech platforms (albeit even on those, there’s not really a singular community either).

What this means is that there’s no combined community effort from folks across the Fediverse to attract new users, and since it’s all loosely connected communities driving it all, there’s no market push to popularize them as you’re more apt to see from the tech industry. In fact, if you wander into some parts of the Fediverse, you’ll find some folks far happier to keep their communities small and to themselves for a variety of reasons, sometimes conflating the tech and their community (i.e. a popularization of Lemmy as tech wouldn’t mean their little Lemmy community instance had to link up with every other one).

That said, there are also plenty of folks around here interested in the question and planning/discussing drawing in more folks. Some of those discussions being about improvements to the technology to make it less jank and comfortable for less technically inclined users, others about how to present it without getting in the weeds of the tech details, and some just by trying to post interesting/entertaining content to keep folks interested past a glance. There’s as many ways to approach it as there are Fediverse communities, and so there’s not really been any one way that people have been going about it.