I’ll probably hop on when I’m feeling froggy

PolyMC has a toxic lead dev. Google it to learn more. PrismLauncher forked from it about a year ago taking nearly all the active devs, and it remains my favorite launcher of all those I’ve used.

Fuck PolyMC.

Hi5! I’m 45 and I have played MC from the beginning, still play it more than any other game. Now my little kids play it with me and it’s their favorite too.

for me, reddit nearly always has way more quality content and news for me though for the time being

It’s not just you.

As constructively as I can put this, reddit has been building community and goodwill for many years. Lemmy has only recently become an option and it’s done wonderfully in the short time it’s had.

The challenge is the catch 22. People go where there is more content, they produce content there, and then there is more content there. There no vacuum, reddit didn’t disappear. It became toxic and people apparently care less about avoiding toxicity than filling up on dank memes.

All I can say to that is we all need to be the change we want to see in the world. Adopt a Lemmy First mentality, and go to reddit only to pick up legacy slack. Continue the conversation from there over here. Link it up.

Look forward to talking to you!

I would not be surprised to learn that you could make as much profit open sourcing the work and using Patreon instead of demanding users pay to release the shackles.

Do it your way. I will probably pay you when you come out with a widget. But I would have done that anyway. Shoving ads in my face makes me not like you.

The same could be said of literally every single product that magically became way more expensive post pandemic for no justifiable reason.

Everyone thought it could have been an honest mistake. After all, she was home schooled. But then, they found out her name is actually Margaret.

Hey, @AvaddonLFC

I’m sure that the buyer can be expected to pay for shipping, but at the end of the day for any buyer the “price” is inclusive of all fees, and for the seller the “profit” is minus expenses. So if it’s cheaper to ship using eBay’s discount, that means the buyer pays more or the seller makes less.

In the end it’s probably worth it for the peace of mind, though. I’ve personally never been screwed on a big ticket item and I don’t mind selling stuff for under $100 on ebay. If I lose, it’s lost, right? My feelings about eBay so far are that I’m selling there as much for altruistic reasons… I don’t want the material to be landfill, someone can get a deal (I do it all the time), and I’d like to recoup some cash as well to spend on hobbies. The couple times I’ve been hassled and lost money on ebay, it totaled less that $50.

I’d be super upset if I got screwed for several hundred.

Apparently they are using discord now, and I might give it a shot. Might not be a bad idea to link that in the sidebar here.

I wonder if it’s worth the extra cost to ship. Will have to investigate more.

That sucks.

Better they don’t pay at all than they do, you ship, they complain, then return you an empty box or a broken card for a full refund.

Yes. If you are a buyer and you submit INAD, you can say anything you want and ebay will side with you. 100% of the time. Even if you lie. And if they initially don’t, just keep it up and they will. Then, when you “return” the empty box to the seller, there’s nothing they can do about it.

There are stories all over ebay about it. And I’m not a big seller btw, I’m just a dude who sells odd stuff to pay for new stuff. When I get screwed, which I occasionally do, it hurts because every time it feels personal unlike if it were my job.

Using Connect right now. What I really care about is a Frontpage widget like RIF. I’m holding open real estate on the main screen of my Android. Basically the first dev to have that and a decently usable interface (bonus points for a “black” mode) gets the space :)

Carrots. Same as potatoes. Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew. Someone already mentioned onions, same idea.

I know your edit says you were thinking about dishes, and I think carrots can be their own dish with very little preparation. I like to bake mine on a sheet for half hour or so at 425f, and they are wonderful on their own. Also so low-calorie you can eat a practically infinite amount of them without spoiling a diet!

Let’s look at what Snoosite has been historically good at.

• propagating web content
• providing a space for derivative communities of content

The web content is already all over the place and takes no more than a dedicated core moderation team to begin driving discussion. The latter - content communities - is what really made Snoosite exceptional, and what drove that engagement was principally the aggregation aspect in the beginning combined with a distaste for the alternatives.

Lemmy is modeled very closely after Snoosite, obviously, and shares the same potential for link aggregation. The community building is really an organic function, and if we’re able to ride the wave, we may not continue to blast into the stratosphere but arriving at a decent plateau to provide a viable federated alternative is a noble and lofty goal.

The secret sauce, if the Lemmy devs implement features creatively, is ActivityPub. Cross pollinating conversations and communities between microblogging, distributed image sharing and tagging, and link aggregation communities of content using built-in features of hashtags and boosting is … well, it’s game-changing, and it gives me tingles to think about how well it COULD be done.

I’m not really wasting any time on Snoosite anymore other than for archaeological purposes. Now, it’s only been a few days, so I can only speak from my own history - when I made a decision to drop Birdsite like a hot rock, I did so completely and deleted my account. I’m a little less inclined to be as drastic with Snoosite because of historical significance relating directly to technical interests of mine. But as time passes and the Fediverse grows, and Lemmy (or another technology) matures into the space, I think the relevance of Snoosite will fade like so many farts in the wind before it.