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Message Scent
Unless it's 2020, then saying "It doesn't smell like anything here" is concerning...
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Message Scent
Unless it's 2020, then saying "It doesn't smell like anything here" is concerning...
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What is !196, and how is it different from @[email protected]?
Quite a lot, actually:
The rule. As the sidebar states, You must post before you leave. If you visit this sub, you must post. No such rules exist on ![email protected].
This community seems to focus more on memes than [email protected], which is more random in terms of content. Everything that doesn't fit in other kbin.social magazine goes to random, but 196 isn't completely random as you rarely finds discussions such as this post.
The culture. Historically, 196 has heavy ties with transgender subculture since it was still on Reddit, and it still is to this day. This community is hosted on lemmy.blahaj.zone which is primarily centered around gender diverse and other LGBTQ folk. [email protected] is hosted on a more general instance. There's a lot of memes here which trans people could relate, and many-- if not most-- people here are transgender.
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What is your workaround to avoid videos auto playing on websites?
Some browser supports blocking videos from autoplaying, Firefox is one of them but maybe chrome has similar options too. Check the browser settings.
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Do you still watch YouTube? Who do you follow?
Generally, I tend to focus on smaller creators, their qualities are usually better.
The channels I watched include Nitro Rad (gaming), MattKC (tech), and Modern Vintage Gamer (retro console/gaming).
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oh thank god i found you guys
T'was a bad day when our old ship sank to Davy Jones' locker.
But it brought us together here, so welcome aboard. This ship should hopefully never sank.
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Why do bots try to join instances?
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I assume we're talking about spam bots, not bots whose entire purpose is to reupload content from elsewhere into here (i.e. reddit reposter bot).
Most likely, spam. Spam and scam has been quite a problem on Mastodon, so I wouldn't be surprised if bad actors want to bring them here.
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Walkie talkie
You need to escape the "over" statement
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How long is too long?
Given how little activities there are on most lemmy posts, I usually comment everytime I find a post worth commenting.
I usually decide whether to comment or not based on comment count instead of time. I'll happily comment on weeks or months old post if it only had one or two comments, but skip over hours old post if it already has plenty of comments.
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to new ruleginnings
Programmers making a new project be like
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Pull over
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Let's not forget this art is on the top of all time list of the furry_irl subreddit, and I even thought this was posted on a furry_irl communities before looking at this community's name.
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YouTube confirms three-strikes test for ad blocking
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To be fair, for some youtubers, their primary source of incomes are Patreon and In-Video Sponsorships, which can be done on Peertube. After all, we've seen some youtubers, notably The Linux Experiment, use Peertube.
The biggest hurdles here would be user base. It'd be difficult to grow peertube's userbase because most creators there rely on youtube as an income-- unlike reddit or twitter where it's mostly unpaid social media stuff, so most would be scared to move to a new platform as it'd be too detrimental to rebuild their userbase.
That and the instance's funding, which, you know...
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Me looking for my favorites memes to share with the fediverse
Fortunately, most android file explorer, including most oem ones, have features to search for recent files.
...let's just hope the feature actually work, or that the file isn't in a folder with .nomedia
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CrowdStrike effectively bricked windows, Mac and Linux today.
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Critical surgery computers may also be running under Windows LTSC, so they might not get the CrowdStrike patch. Maybe...
Edit: So the issue is apparently caused by CrowdStrike. So, unless the surgery computers also use CrowdStrike then it would be fine. Unless, of course, if they use CrowdStrike on surgery computers...
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rule
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Basically: this community requires you to make a post before you leave, so people post to follow the rules, hence the title 'rules'
IIRC, it comes from the old practices of the r/196 community before... that... idk, I'm also new here.
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Why doesn't DuckDuckGo return any results for "PeerTube"?
This appears to be a duckduckgo bug. Peertube shows up in ddg for me, but I've had a few simple searches that randomly gives no results in ddg. I usually switch to ecosia when ddg gives no results.
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Do birds count as "furry"
Birds might lack fur, but that doesn't mean that they aren't part of our community. I mean, if dragon and shark fursonas can be part of the fandom, why wouldn't birds?
As Juniper puts it, Furry has always been a general umbrella term. The only limit as to what animal counts as part of our fandom is your imagination.
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π rule
Why do we even need to find the full digits of pi? Wouldn't it be simpler if we keep it short? I'm going to get mad at mathematicians for making pi more complex instead of accepting that maybe pi is indeed more complex than 3.14! /s
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me for rule
Oh my it's so cute!
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Pokemon rule
Did you know that in terms of-
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Ananas rule
The canadians: profused sweating