Andonome

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Soviet propaganda poster showing Stalin as 'Tankie Sects left over from the 70's', holding a child shown as 'lonely teenagers learning Marxism from Wikipedia'

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's worked well, so I'd recommend giving it a shot.

I've been using the system in my BIND campaign. You can see an example rundown around the last index in this book.

I stuck in a few areas as well, so if the players discover 'the Green Tower' in a forest encounter, then that's where it goes forever after, but it doesn't really matter where it lives before that point.

 

I keep seeing gemini capsules without an RSS feed and whatnot, so I thought I'd share my standard setup. There's not much to it.

It's a python script which takes dates and tags from the markdown metadata, then uses that to order the RSS feed (future dates are simply not published) and uses the tags to create topics.gmi files, with a list of all the articles which have that tag.

The basic example is here:

git clone ssh://soft.dmz.rs:2222/capsule.com

It requires fortune, make (optional), md2gemini, and gematom to run.

fortune is in all the Linux repos, and md2gemini can be installed with pip. Unfortunately, gematom will need to be installed from the AUR or built from source (I have instructions in the doc, but I've not tested them very well).

But if getting gematom working goes smoothly, the rest is simple - just type make.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

More like a teenager with their first job.

This week, Lemmy becomes a man.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

In all fairness to the devs, Lemmy's had a dozen users + the devs until now, then /u/spez pulls his stunt, and we're looking at how it operates with 0.0000000000001% of Reddit, which is apparently 20-bajillion people.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The features sound good, and judging by Lemmy, I imagine they're coming, depending on how much free time the devs have.

there’s no reason for a general-purpose instance to defederate from lemmynsfw.com

This one's trickier. The mods have mentioned both moderation and legal difficulties with nsfw instances. If something illegal's posted, then whoever has the server would (verifiably) have a copy of that image and has been (verifiably) distributing it. Reddit probably managed to skirt these issues by a) being early, when the world was new, and laws were weak, and b) having the money for a legal team.

I wouldn't want to be an admin trying to answer legal questions.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty much everything from watabou is fantastic. The various in-browser apps create random villages, cities, maps, et c.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use a method I call 'story weaving'. I get a series of events which could occur anywhere within a rough location ('villages', 'town', 'forest').

After that, I create the locations. Players may bit the hooks in the various encounters, and interact with the locations, or not.

Full post here.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I most from Reddit, is the communities there. Nobody can nuke that - if Lemmy.ml disappears, those groups will have (or make) copies elsewhere.

I don't think anyone follows me on Reddit, but if I followed people, I guess they'd re-emerge soon after. Of course that's not great if you follow 100 people - Mastodon's much better at retaining that sort of thing.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There's a Github issue about it here.

There's a lot to answer on what exactly that would mean. Would you be able to edit old posts from the new instance? What if the new instance already defederated from the old? Would you retain the same username? Or are you simply getting a list of subscriptions, and copying them across?

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Users are unable to block whole instances

Sounds like a good feature, though not exactly a 'disadvantage', without a comparison. Is the comparison Mastodon? Reddit?

Lemmy is one of the least privacy friendly service I have ever stumbled upon

Could you expand on this? Is it just the deletion problem?

There is no possibility to migrate or backup your subscribed/favorited stuff or even move it to another instance (which somehow is possible on Mastodon),

This took a while to get on Mastodon. Remember, the data's not necessarily stored in a usable format (users don't want a load of postgres in their download), and the devs need to be sure that nobody else's data will accidentally get in there.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The upvotes on lemmy.world and lemmy.ml look like Microsoft's download ETA.

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I think it's just the server load messing with requests.

[–] Andonome@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm still checking it out, though the services are all up and down, so I don't have a full handle on it yet.

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