KonQuesting

joined 1 year ago
[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Scotland still has lead pipes too. Hardly a water quality utopia compared to the EU or US.

https://www.scottishwater.co.uk/en/Your-Home/Your-Water/Lead-and-Your-Water

[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

This is the same fearful and paranoid mentality which caused Putin to invade Ukraine. If everyone continues with this catastrophic thinking, we will have world war in no time.

Living in fear of a Russian invasion of Europe is completely delusional.

[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Standard Lemmy is actually faster than Old Reddit. See my comparison here.

[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The default Lemmy interface already combines everything good about old.reddit's design with additional quality of life features, faster performance, and Fediverse-oriented functionality.

No, I do not want to use an old.reddit clone. Lemmy is already better and can be further improved by the community itself. We should be encouraging newcomers to embrace innovation, not encouraging them to go back to Reddit.

[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

"The clicks" don't matter when these individuals own the media outlets and the social media platforms.

[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the updates! Seeing the details of how you work through these early issues is valuable to those of us thinking of starting an instance.

[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I have over 100 RSS feeds I've organized into different categories. It lets me get the latest updates from many websites all in one place. Even though some feeds now only supply a headline or partial article, it's still a much faster and comfortable experience than relying on Twitter or Reddit to do the same thing.

[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

You've just discovered the main problem with centralized platforms like Reddit, Discord, Twitter. The only thing stopping the mods from making a complete archive of the old platform is the Big Tech owners of Reddit. These corporate interests own all your posts, memes, and DMs, forever.

With federated platforms, the community leadership can easily backup, archive, or transfer everything whenever they like. That's the power of ownership.

[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

The pitch for Starfield seems to be Mass Effect inside an NMS-sized world. If they can pull it off, count me in. Assuming my system specs are up to the challenge.

[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago

I think the big Mastodon push last year has made things a little bit easier for Lemmy. Basic awareness of the fediverse has broken into the mainstream of social media, rather than being a niche interest of Free Software enthusiasts.

Now that Lemmy's gotten this initial nudge of mainstream support, I'll be far more engaged here than I ever was on Reddit.

[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm so glad to see this community make a big push onto Lemmy! We're making internet history and boldly going where no one has gone before!

[–] KonQuesting@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome, this is super helpful! I'd be using a very similar setup. It might be best to start small, invite a couple people on, and see how that memory scales. I'll be avoiding any auto-scaling unless it becomes a much bigger project.

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