Elevator7009 @ Elevator7009sAlt @lemmy.world Posts 2Comments 42Joined 9 mo. ago
I prefer the drip-feed as a regular user. Seeing a big influx of posts in one day from a community I follow tends to drown out other communities I follow, and feels intimidating. I've currently signed up to see bunnies, owls, foxes, and snakes. If I see mostly snakes at the expense of foxes, owls, and bunnies I'm not going to be too thrilled. (In practice, this doesn't happen, !snakes@lemmy.world isn't that active, if you like snakes please post! I do whenever I run across some pleasing snake content in my regular internet browsing, maybe I should put more effort into explicitly finding snake and fox stuff again…)
I am more willing to let it go if I followed some giant community with lots of subscribers, because what did I expect, a big community is going to have lots of people wanting to post stuff. But if it is a small niche…
As a poster trying to keep Lemmy active and as a mod, I find things in bursts. So I break them up with https://schedule.lemmings.world/. Post one thing right now, do all the rest on that scheduler so they come out a couple days from now. That way I still get to "post" all at once—just into the scheduler, which will actually submit the posts in a more spaced out manner for me.
Image visible.
Just the Lemmy website, iOS
I was about to say thank you because I have just been finding some random image downsizer online, then I toss it through an EXIF stripper app on my phone and post. But then I checked and found ffshare appears to be just an Android app :( I guess that is what you meant by "Android, at least". I Lemmy from an iPhone and I'm not about to get an Android emulator on my computer just to use ffshare.
Self-plug: !bunnies@lemmy.world, also active, posts don't overlap with !bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org
Also !snakes@lemmy.world, though I don't run that one.
I realize my wording "Gave up on All" probably came off as if I wanted to use it and was disappointed I couldn't, so I appreciate you trying to give me advice on how I could still use it. I'm happy doing things this way though. I find Subscribed far easier to use than playing whack-a-mole with the many, many meme communities that inevitably have a "haha the world SUCKS" post, and then understandable but still-not-good-for-me-personally vents about the world sucking in the comments. Or news communities (not just politics!) that inevitably post something that could tie into politics, and then all the politics in the comments. You said it's exhausting yourself, and I simply don't have the energy to put quite that much effort into it. If you find it worth it anyways, more power to you, but I really don't mind missing out on something I might like in exchange for missing out on 1) stuff I really don't like and 2) a lot of stuff I'm ambivalent about and would rather just scroll past.
I do look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world, which is good enough for me in my opinion re: discovering new stuff, and although this isn't really the purpose of !fedigrow@lemm.ee, it often tells me about communities I didn't know about. And sometimes I click Communities on an instance and wander through the list.
I did take Algorithms.
The definition we learned (let me know if I am wrong) is that an algorithm is a concrete set of steps to accomplish some goal in a finite amount of time given legitimate inputs.
Although in practice we use this more for stuff with a math formula and/or stuff you code. "Given the input of the world, if your eyes see it is raining outside, grab the umbrella from your closet. If you don't see the umbrella, search for it. If the search takes 5+ minutes, just go to your destination" is an algorithm for trying to not get rained on, but in practice nobody's going to be using that word that way.
I think the definition used online today is "some computer code that I can't reliably determine the input/output of, that is used to my/society's disadvantage in an exploitative way."
Words evolve, and the word you learn in academia sometimes also gets used in real life and its usage changes in real life from what you would use in academia. And sometimes academia keeps using it that way, and real life keeps using it their different way, and so you use the same word while talking about slightly different concepts. And sometimes people in real life use it the academic way, others don't, making things even more confusing… you just have to be aware people are using the same word to talk about two different things (or in this case, one group uses the word to talk about an unpleasant subset of the thing the other group uses the word to talk about) and clear up that misunderstanding.
Leftist into tech.
My feed got very overwhelmed by depressing relatable memes that, guess what, had leftist views expressed in the comments, and posts that were not politics but ended up getting into there anyways.
I might be leftist but damn if outrage and despair isn't exhausting, I come to social media for fun, not to be angry and sad and hopeless.
Gave up on All incredibly quickly, only use Subscribed (I explicitly excluded anything political from Subscribed). So much less outrage and despair, so many more cute animals.
They are framed so nicely by the environment once you find them, it is a very good picture OP
bunnytechnic bunstitute
Super grateful to whoever came up with the trick to hold bottles under hot water if you struggle to open them.
I'm seeing buns less and less often, it's a good thing I have a lot of unposted bunny pictures stocked up for Lemmy!
Took me a bit to realize it was animated. Cute!
[Instance] lemmy.zip down
Different browser works, thank you. I'll delete my post for accidental misinformation.
Now on ani.social with yet another Elevator7009sAlt account. Waiting to add content until .run has been down for a week (just to make sure it is really gone and not something like them getting hacked), and the same for remaking my main account.
Some people get a smartphone instead of a computer, but you are right, I probably should have said "something with internet access."
Sorry. In my experience, lack of sympathy is often paired with animosity and harshness, so I am a little wary. Disagreements in real life are a lot easier because you can tell tone better, and if the person is civilly disagreeing, or if they are going to start getting hostile on you. I'll agree to disagree here.