description:: Cute animal fan. Me love blob, do you love blob?

currentMood:: Cute animal “magazines” or instances when??? Can’t migrate from Reddit fully without them!

e.g.

r/AnimalsBeingDerps
r/borbs
r/Catloaf
r/Pigifs
r/happycowgifs

currentGoal:: finish backlog OTL

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • While I’m not entirely sure about why things are set up the way they are, I guess that it was done on purpose seeing your response. Now, if explaining the why’s and how’s of this design is too much of a sensitive topic, I’m okay with dropping my questions and just going along with the ride 👍.

    If it’s possible as a compromise, how about consider displaying both “the origin of the magazine” (instance) and the “name of the magazine”, rather than the existing format where kbin.social appears after the title, followed by just the “name of the magazine” (omitting the original instance from which it hails).

    For example, the current layout is:

    TITLE

    (kbin.social)

    PREVIEW OF BODY TEXT

    USER, 33 minutes ago to NAME_OF_MAGAZINE_WITHOUT_ORIGINAL_INSTANCE (like meta)

    My suggestion is to include an option for displaying it like this (I do understand that it might be a clutter to some, but it would be a nice feature for others facing the same qualms as I do):

    TITLE

    (kbin.social)

    PREVIEW OF BODY TEXT

    USER, 33 minutes ago to NAME_OF_MAGAZINE_WITH_ORIGINAL_INSTANCE (like [email protected])

    To provide some context, I came across a post on either main or meta on the front page. It had kbin.social listed below the title along with the “name of the magazine,” but the original instance name was missing. I was about to express my confusion since it didn’t align with my experience on kbin.social, but upon double-checking the URL, I realized the post was not related to kbin.social at all. This “issue” generated by the behavior seems to mainly affect mags like main and meta posts, but considering these posts do often appear on the front page (since I’ve enabled other instances to discover more exciting content), I think that it’s issue worth exploring.

    Hopefully in the meantime, I’ve figured better ways to work around this issue (to verify the instance of the magazine) on mobile ( apart from checking the address bar), which are to

    • click on the hamburger menu or
    • to scroll to the page’s end.






  • How long does it usually take for google to index websites? Because I tried the string lemmy site:lemmy.ml after:2023-06-15 and only one post turned up for me and it was Memes… the current state of affairs does not seem promising 😔 And if I tried with another instance with the same keywords lemmy site:kbin.social after:2023-06-15 nothing even turned up.

    I wonder though, will search engines adapt to Lemmy and its fediverse system? Or will search engines die? Or will we see dedicated search engines to search through the fediverse?


  • Unfortunately, I’ve been getting some 404 not found of some communities/magazines of some instances that are not from the instance I’m using, e.g. I’m using kbin.social at the current posting account, but let’s say that I tried to access something like https://sh.itjust.works/c/skincareaddiction there’s no issues whatsoever (since it’s the main instance where that community spawned off) but if I tried https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] then I would get the aforementioned error code. I find it pretty inconvenient that caching/indexing of certain less popular (which I assume is what is happening) community working clunkily, it feels not as reliable than using a centralized service, but I guess that this is the price to pay for a decentralized system.



  • My list

    Funsies & Weird brainstorming

    • /r/competitiveoverwatch aka /r/cow (I don’t play the game but I sure enjoy the juice)
    • /r/hobbydrama (very diverse type of juicy dramas, miam!)
    • /r/overwatchTMZ (/r/cow but extended)
    • /r/valorantcompetitive (same reasoning for the OW one)
    • /r/livestreamfail (don’t post there; but is fun to occasionally lurk and see funny stuffs and be up to date with the latest online juicers)
    • /r/anarchychess
    • /r/singularity
    • /r/BestofRedditorUpdates
    • and 20 more cute animal pictures/videos subreddits like /r/partyparrots, /r/happycowgifs, etc.

    Stuffs I use for er… productivity! yeah yeah productivity, that’s right!

    • /r/obsidianmd I enjoy seeing other people’s workflow and new tools being developed
    • /r/chatgpt (Recently the main sub went to shit with the influx of new users so /r/chatgptcoding or /r/chatgptpro might be better lol)

    Subreddits that I often get led by Google search engine and it would be sad if they were to go down perpetually since I would have a very hard time without them…

    • /r/homelab
    • /r/automation
    • /r/selfhosted
    • /r/datahoarder
    • /r/android
    • /r/sysadmin
    • /r/kitchenconfidential
    • /r/appliancerepair/

    I’m also very interested in how some different jobs work so I subbed out to these to check on them occasionally… and they sometimes would provide interesting workflows/insights that I can a-hem, take inspiration from…

    • /r/ExperiencedDevs/
    • /r/accounting
    • /r/uxdesign

    There’s way more but I visit those a bit less, the problem is, I’m not sure if Lemmy can fill the void in my heart but if it does for those main ones (all above) then I think that I can permanently migrate from Reddit.



  • Wouldn’t this just encourage SEO clickbaits more though? Also, a lot of these blogs can die over time, so it’s also not the most reliable (like the owner can die or the domain providing service has expired or some shit). Also, how can this solve the problem of confabulated misconceptions (let’s say that there are blogs that are feeding misinformation)? Without a moderating system, a comment section that can exist to engage and debunks those statements, and the upvote/downvote system… I think that it’s hard to tell reliability of the information. Feel free to debunk my doubts though.