Saturnalia

"The Green Leopard Plague" by Walter Jon William. Nebula award winning novella that blew my mind when I read it in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty First Annual Collection back in 2004.

Good.

Reminded me of this early Aaron Sorkin play about a writer and director filming the most expensive and pivotal shot of their debut film, which is ruined when three cows walk into frame.

https://archive.ph/yX2Gz

Totally understand, and thank you. I'm frustrated with the folks attacking lemmit.online, not you for providing the service. Much appreciated.

Thanks. It's https://lemmit.online/c/Boise. IMHO The tiny subreddits with very few posts that don't cause front page Lemmy noise are the most important to retain, because Lemmy does not yet have the userbase to support its own niche communities.

I realize that lemmit.online is reviled for creating noise with high traffic subreddit reposts, but I want to supply another perspective. My city subreddit is one of the communities you've disabled already. It's a small city, with few subscribers on Reddit. There is no Lemmy community for my city, and no one even posts to the Lemmy community which exists for my state. So, no, I'm not going to create a Lemmy community to talk to myself. The loss of the lemmit.online community for my city means that I'll need to use Reddit, and if I'm going to be there anyway then I might as well just give up on Lemmy rather than have to use both.

For the foreseeable future with Lemmy, plan on the unplanned.

Create accounts on several instances, and keep them synced.

I use lemmy-account-sync. It works perfectly for me.

There's another project, lemmy_handshake, which is an Android app (YMMV, I haven't tried it.)

It's not too difficult to use Oracle's free tier and Lemmy-Easy-Deploy if you want to register a domain and set up your own single-user instance. I do that, knowing that it could poof at any time. I run lemmy-account-sync as a cron job nightly on the same Oracle instance, but hosting your own instance isn't required for syncing.

I sync my main account with accounts on a few small instances. I chose them from the list of Lemmy nodes which are on the current version of Lemmy, that have active users. Small instances tend not to defederate other instances so much, if that is important to you. They are also less likely to be targets of DDOS attacks. They can also wink out of existence without warning, which may be the case with lemmy.villa-straylight.social.

I also sync my main account with accounts on a few of the larger instances. (I mainly use Lemmy Explorer to find Communities, but big instances are best if you just want to doom scroll "All.")

Should I tire of self-hosting, or if Oracle decides to randomly delete my instance (a real risk), then I'll just log into another instance.

You'll lose some stuff (like post history, and private messages) but it will be better than losing everything again.

I used a Samsung device with DeX and a lapdock as my sole PC for a year. It was...challenging. I expect that a first generation "desktop experience" on Android from Google would have issues, too.

I also have big concerns about Google's invasive new ad platform which monitors your browser history to serve you ads, and how integrated it also seems to be to apps which use Chrome on Android.

All that said, I'd probably still be all-in for a Pixel that becomes a ChromeOS device when plugged into a monitor.

https://www.worldcat.org

I enjoyed The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois until his passing. I just discovered its spiritual successor, The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Neil Clarke, and am catching up now.

https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync

Would love this for Chrome desktop or Firefox mobile.

I saw a mention elsewhere for https://ground.news

IDK where content creators should go, but as a viewer Piped looks promising. (I only discovered it because of @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks.)

Ah, ok. Now I see Thanks.

@rikudou@lemmings.world ☝😢

Thanks for this. Lack of wired "Ready For" is exactly the information I needed.

@ChatGPT@lemmings.world How many nukes would it take to disrupt a hurricane?

Does anyone know if the 2023 Razr+ has Motorola "Ready For" desktop mode? I'm not seeing it mentioned on their site or in reviews.

You are not alone

Another good one is https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Inevitable, but still scary AF.

Done.

First swarming wasps, now spelunking flies. What is going on with insects???

I miss this, too. Have you considered opening an issue on the Lemmy UI project on GitHub?

You can include a screenshot or use "Inspect" on Chrome to create a mock-up like:

Unfortunately all subreddit mirror requests to that bot are auto-approved, and there is no subreddit subscriber limit. That means that very large subreddits with already-active Lemmy communities get mirrored. That causes unnecessary duplication and a lot of noise due to frequent posts to the subreddits.

That said, I actually subscribe to a few of that bot's communities for tiny, niche subreddits (like with 5k Reddit subscribers) that I followed. I use it because it will take time for Lemmy to reach adoption capable of sustaining those very specialized communities. It's useful for links (less so for discussions.)

The docs say:

Bot Account: Enable this if you are using a script or program to create posts automatically

So a bot account that doesn't self-report would be a violation of policy and should be banned from the entire instance by the admin if discovered.

To be clear: I'm personally not against useful bots. But a “Bot accounts cannot post to this community” mod option would just allow the mods to choose for their community.

There really should be a "Bot accounts cannot post to this community" mod option.

Good bot

First post -- It worked!