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[–] jnj@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You'll have a second kimchi awakening when you switch to home made :)

I've never seen store bought that can compare, barring actually being in Korea.

Yesterdays batch

[–] jnj@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For weight, they forgot to add: if it's for advertising a price, it's in $/lbs (though you will be charged in $/kg). The butcher knows damn well that steaks advertised at $15/lbs sell better than steaks at $33/kg.

[–] jnj@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is just a rant about personal frustrations. I even probably agree with him on most of these things, but I don't think we need to share this kind of thing here. So tired of threads about how much we all hate and disagree with each other's languages. It's better if the rust people get rust and the go people get go. There is no one holy grail of a language that everyone is going to like.

[–] jnj@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do not think it's fair to assume that everyone came to lemmy for the same reasons as you. I for one came because I didn't like the decisions they were making, not because I had any strong feelings about the ethics of those decisions.

[–] jnj@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, no offense to the admins who I'm sure are just trying to do their users right, but stuff like this is making me see the value of running my own instance, or at perhaps finding a more hands-off one. It's weird to me that instance admins (or popular votes) make the decisions about what content I get to have access to.

[–] jnj@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This seems like exactly the sort of rule that should be applied at the community level. Instance level rules should be kept as minimal as possible.

[–] jnj@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I agree with you. Golang is a useful symbol for things like a community ID, but the human readable name is "Go Programming Language".

[–] jnj@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This way the weight of the saw and therefore the cutting force will always be concentrated on a small number if teeth, which are able to slice deeper thanks to the extra force. Remember that when crosscutting you need to slice wood fibers. Rather than shear them as you do when ripping.

[–] jnj@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks. To clarify, my server would have to do this? I don't run my own server, I just joined a fairly small one (I didn't know it would matter).

 

As far as I know, one of the headline features of microblogging networks is searching and following hashtags. On top of that, Mastodon (like Lemmy) tells users that it's not important what server/instance you join, because of federation.

With Lemmy, I find it easy to search and interact with communities across all the federated instances. Chances are, people on my local instance (even if it's relatively small) will have already interacted with popular communities for a given topic, so they will be easy to discover. However with Mastodon this concept seems totally broken -- when I search a hashtag I want to see everything, and related posts might be spread out over hundreds of small servers for which, apparently, my small server has no content populated. With Lemmy, I understand that content gets populated on my local instance when somebody else on my instance has interacted with it before. I just don't understand how this approach is feasible with for a system like Mastodon. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it seems like the only way to have a reasonable chance of getting decent results for hashtag searches is to be on the biggest server?

[–] jnj@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If I were implementing this nefarious Reddit I probably wouldn't have edits wipe out the original data. It's certainly not necessary to implement edits that way.

[–] jnj@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I'd imagine your best bet is reading through the w3c spec if you want protocol details. I think reading it directly is probably approachable enough for a CS student and should be a good exercise.

[–] jnj@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I find it a bit annoying, maybe a browser extension which adds a link to "view in home instance" is the way to go in the meantime. Seems like it would be really easy to do. 🤔

 

If my home instance is lemmy.ca, and I want to create and moderate a community about, say, Japanese woodworking (random example of a subreddit I follow), isn't it a bit odd for that community to be hosted by lemmy.ca? If somebody else later created a community of the same name on lemmy.ml or lemmy.jp, would people be more likely to join those communities as they seem more "official"?

On one hand, joining multiple instances just for "better" vanity URLs for new communities seems wrong (and annoying to manage), on the other hand it's odd that I'd arbitrarily impose the traffic associated with a community completely unrelated to Canada onto lemmy.ca. How is this supposed to work?

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