BobQuasit

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What is your earliest memory? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It was well before I turned one; I was still in a crib. It was dark, nighttime, and incredibly hot. Some sort of animal with glowing eyes stared at me from the floor.

I thought it was a dream, but decades later my parents confirmed that when I was a baby the thermostat had broken and we had a night where the temperature was 100°. As for the animal with glowing eyes, that was our cat.

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Make Way for Goslings! (photos.app.goo.gl)
 

Taken near Comicopia, Kenmore Sq. Boston, MA.

P.S. - They made it safely across. Last I saw them, they were fine.

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The Weekly Radio Address of President George W. Bush (parody from The Onion) (archive.org)
 

I downloaded these every week from The Onion. They're incredibly funny. There are 40 files available. These are generally unavailable online, apart from some which can still be found on the Internet Archive. As far as I know, this is the most complete archive available anywhere.

Kagi is crazy good in c/chat@beehaw.org
[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to pay a few bucks? How many and how often?

ANNOUNCEMENT: defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works in c/support@beehaw.org
[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

How ironic! I had just subscribed to several communities on those instances this evening. Go figure. I guess I should reproduce my community subscriptions over on kbin. But wait, does this mean I can't even SEE that I subscribed to those communities here?

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Other Fediverse projects (en.wikipedia.org)
 

I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I'm enjoying BookWyrm very much; it's the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I've been looking for for years.

I love the simplicity of Paper.wf for blogging. It's truly elegant; I just click the link and start typing. But as far as I can tell there's no way for others to find my blog or for me to find other blogs on the site. There's no browse or follow feature. Nor can anyone comment on my posts! Those seem to me to be HUGE omissions.

Have you used any Fediverse blogging options? What are they like? And what other Fediverse services would you recommend? Other than Mastodon, I've already tried that (it didn't excite me).

Slow improvements in c/humor@beehaw.org
[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! This was the first Lemmy post I shared with my son. Worked great, shared successfully and the picture appeared very legibly in Google chat. Also it was quite funny.

For everyone new to Lemmy, how are you finding the experience? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Lemmy desperately needs to integrate two things:

  • The ability to search for communities across instances inside of Lemmy (I'm aware of the search option outside of Lemmy, but that's less than ideal)
  • The ability to easily search within posts A) in all local communities, B) in all subscribed communities, and C) across all communities in the whole Fediverse. Yes, I'm aware that C) is a huge ask. But I think it's vital to the success of Lemmy.
Reddit to lay off about 5% of workforce in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] BobQuasit@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All this has me wondering. Lemmy and other fediverse sites should be resistant to enshittification. But how could American corporations screw that up? Could they start their own servers and instances, and somehow make them dominant? Or would that not be worth it to them?

It seems to me that capitalism has pretty much been trying to take over everything, with a lot of success. So I find myself wondering if it could happen here.