I was curious what the experience is like for Lemmy and it’s pretty much just as bad. I could not find this small community from lemm.ee at all. It seems you have to specifically search for “!waterloo@lemmy.ca” to find it. It will not show up in search with a leading “@” like kbin, nor without the “!”.

Trying to go directly to the URL that the community would have still 404s. The 404 page is even worse on Lemmy (it’s basically plain text that just mentions the fact it’s a 404).

That said, one thing Lemmy does better is that once I subscribed, I could actually see content instantly. On kbin, the sub was empty (presumably no retroactive syncing of content).

So this is a major usability issue for both kbin and Lemmy. It’s a prominent issue for smaller communities to be able to not just take off, but for smaller instances to be even remotely user friendly. The user experience on a big instance when browsing big subs is very, very different from small instances and small subs.

This also seems like it would encourage any aspiring people who want to create a sub to basically seed subscribers in every major instance. Which is just a silly amount of busywork and pointlessly inflates account numbers. But any new sub that doesn’t do this is probably gonna have growing pains. I wonder how many subs actually have purposefully already done this?

Oops! https://ibb.co/vQBTbTk

(Also, bah, lemm.ee’s image uploading is broken and imgur has apparently broke their mobile site’s uploads unless you download their app.)

If I try to pet my cat’s belly – no matter how much she looks like she wants to be pet there – she will attak.

Yeah, I can’t emphasize enough how it can’t replace Linux. And it doesn’t even always work that well for stuff that you’d expect to be able to work there.

I use Windows for my mostly-for-gaming desktop and because I’m very lazy with dual booting, I usually just use WSL if I wanna do some small thing. Or even some not so small thing. I tried to get stable diffusion working using it. I strongly dislike using the windows command line (I do all my professional dev on Linux and it’s what I’m most comfortable with), so I tried to use the Linux instructions with WSL. Did not go well. Wasted more time than I should have trying to make it work before I just gave up on that idea.

Not the first time I hit some weird WSL incompatibility either. I really should know better.

Honestly, I don’t know what the lawmakers expected. The bill is dumb. It’d be perfectly fine to require payment for copying a substantial amount of a new article (eg, if they want to prevent google from offering a public cache that gets around paywalls). But the bill outright requires paying to link to Canadian news sites in search results. That’s outright madness.

Y’all can hate google and meta all you want. That’s totally fine. I encourage you to use competing search engines (it’s bad that Google has a near monopoly). But this bill is a bad bill.

The folks on this site might know about alternatives, but the average person doesn’t. When the average person can’t find Canadian news sites on Google, they’re not going to switch to duck duck go or whatever. They’re going to just use a non Canadian site. This bill is going to hurt Canadian news companies and it’s disappointing to see people cheering it on because you’re happier to see Google and meta hurt than you are sorry to see Canadian news sites hurt…

Yuuup. I think some of it is an American export (what with their politics being so…oh, you know), but also we just plain haven’t done enough ourselves. I mean, the rhetoric PP is using stokes these kinda flames too.

Is it just “above the size limit”? I tried uploading an image in a comment in two different formats (first a PNG of about 1 MB and second a JPG of about 150 kb). Both failed with this error.

I eventually gave up and used an external host. As an aside, wow, imgur seems to have purposefully broke mobile desktop. It used to be possible to upload on mobile by using the desktop site, but now it errors out. It’s hard to assume good faith when imgur has made so many bad decisions lately.

I totally would have bought reddit premium if they said “this is what you need if you wanna use third party apps” before they did all this terrible management. I don’t have issues with paying for things I use. I mostly use kbin and donated $20 to it because I wanted to support such an alternative (but figured I’d try out Lemmy for a bit, especially because I got a bit tired of a few missing things I know Lemmy already has).

It was a pretty fun sub. The name of the sub can make it sound more aggressive or negative than it really was. But it was pretty light hearted most of the time and lots of content was just silly things like a car that had a fuzzy exterior like a fur coat.

I’m also hearing impaired and am just really glad that captions are becoming so popular.

It used to be that YouTube was rarely accessible to me. There would be a tiny amount of content that had subtitles (sometimes baked in, like epic rap battles of history does), but the vast majority of videos just weren’t fun for me because I’d miss too much. These days a good chunk of popular YouTubers have curated captions and another good chunk are clear enough speakers that the automatic captions work.

I’ve actually been watching more YouTube in recent times than ever before specifically because I’ve been discovering all this content I previously wrote off. There was recently a post somewhere that introduced me to Technology Connections. And from there, I figured I’d check out some other names I had heard about that might be interesting, Linus’s tech tips and ElectroBOOM, and both had captions, too.