Absolutely appreciate the honesty! This is why I decided to ask before moving lol, thank you.
thegiddystitcher
joined 1 year ago
Thanks for the reply, I understand you don't have communities here I'm just looking for a place where I can access the ones I want without risk of suddenly having that access taken away via defederation. I'm not in any dodgy or even any NSFW communities, I swear I'm just a normal person looking for somewhere stable to set up camp 😄
Hadn't seen that second one yet, cheers!
Ok so TLDR for people who don't quite know what this means.
Beehaw are going for a walled garden approach and cutting off our access to content from some of the bigger instances. This is fine, it's their right as instance admins and it creates a safer space for anyone who was only browsing Beehaw local communities anyway. It's best they've done this now before even more people join, but it does suck for those of us who already built a nice feed.
As users we now have a decision to make. If you're an active member of a community on one of these two instances, you'll probably need to migrate your account.
If you're an active member of a community on another instance, bear in mind if that instance grows large you may then be in the same position.
The bad news is there's no easy way to migrate accounts here like there is on Mastodon, and we're going to have to resubscribe to everything all over again from whichever instance we move to. Unless anyone knows any handy tool or anything?
(p.s. It seems like I can still click through to my communities on, say, lemmy.world but presumably they'll no longer update. This is going to really confuse people as there's no visual indicator that the community is blocked from my pov)
I cannot deal with how smol she is omg
Yeah I think you're right. And they'll hopefully fix their tech issues soon so we can all be one big happy family again haha
You two are now best friends
The easiest way is to search for hashtags and click through to profiles that look like they post interesting stuff. You can also check out https://fedi.directory/ where there are suggested accounts to follow for all kinds of different topics. If you've not made an intro post there yet, do that too with the tag #introduction and any other tags you're interested in, that way people will come to you!
Also what kind of crafts and do I already follow you there? 👀 lol
It's a whole new frontier! :D
Kbin seemed to be pushed more on Mastodon than Lemmy was, during and in the run up to the blackout. Lots of people giving new things a go this week, even from places other than Reddit!
Honestly it is a bit weird, yes, but you do you 😄
I've been trying to get into a routine of going for a morning walk. It's not far, just basically climbing a hill near home, sitting down on a bench at the top pretending to enjoy the view but really trying not to pass out because I'm terribly unfit, then back down.
Well, guess what used to be in that patch of dirt? Yep, my bench.
Who suddenly took it away? No idea. For what purpose? Beats me.
Now I just have to defiantly sit on the grass next to it and dare anyone to comment.
Hmph.
What's grinding your gears today?
Going with a knitting post today! Any other keen sock knitters about? Feel free to show off your cozy feet and recommend good patterns!
I love knitting socks, they're the best travel project and you can just get so many stunning sock yarns from indie dyers.
These beauties are the "Drippity Drop Socks" pattern by Kay F Jones which I was gifted by a very kind Instagram friend. The yarn was by Castle View Yarns, their Fear of the Dark colourway on a typical 75/25 merino/nylon base.
One thing I'll say about this pattern is that the toe section was weird. Instead of just decreasing down each side which is what I've seen in basically every other cuff-down sock pattern, it had me decrease evenly around the whole toe so it has a slightly odd "bunched" feel. If I make this pattern again I'll probably just do the toes the normal way tbh.
Other than that though, absolutely love them!
Joining @Wigglet@beehaw.org in the quest to fill this place with fun craft projects. Yesterday was sewing, today I present to you...wedding crochet!
I taught my bf (ok yes now husband but that sounds weird still) to crochet last year, so we made these simple little crochet flowers together for our small ceremony a couple months ago. The smaller white flowers are just artificial Baby's Breath from Amazon.
The pattern was Crochet Ranunculus from Moara Crochet but fair warning that the written version didn't make much sense and the video was much better. There's lots of blue and white sock yarn left over so I may yet end up with some kind of souvenir ankle socks out of it.
My ribbon wrapping technique left a bit to be desired but it was the night before and things were fraught!
Tried to sew my own wedding dress too but that was a fail so I just picked up a £30 thing off Amazon. Worked out just fine!
I've been a massive fan of Eurovision since I was a little kid and this was the first time it's been hosted in the UK since 1998, so if there's ever an excuse for a special make it was this one!
I used the "Magnolia Boat Neck Dress" pattern from My Golden Thimble, which I've used before and is fairly beginner-friendly. It comes with all kinds of options for different necklines, pockets, additional ruffles etc but for this one I just stuck to the basics. I did make the pocket insides out of some red cotton scraps though because why the heck not, although I can't figure out how to attach more than one image to show you...
The main fabric is just some flag print polycotton that you can find all over eBay, technically it wasn't 100% accurate to the list of participating countries this year but hey, close enough.
We had a fantastic time in Liverpool, and as luck would have it the person sitting in front of us in the arena recognised my dress from a Mastodon post about it the day before! What are the chances?!
Pattern link: https://www.mygoldenthimble.com/summer-dress-sewing-pattern-boat-neck/
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That's true, but tbh even with quite a techy background I looked at what's needed to do that and noped out. Hopefully we'll get to the point where you can just buy pre-made instances from a host, that would do a lot to mitigate some of these issues I think :)