Well, years and years ago, my neighbor had a little black-furred mutt.

Wanna guess its name? It rhymes with bigger.

Now, you wanna hear the hilarious part? My neighbor was African American. She named it that because, "ain't like white folk don't call black dogs that, at least she'll know to come when someone says it, and she can bite their ass."

Miss Margaret was awesome.

Preach!

What's your problem with beans? Are you a bean hater? You best step off my bean-bros, bro!

There's obviously bots, but some folks do multiple accounts as default (I do for sure), and others just want to have a bit of padding against instance failure. Others don't realise you don't need to have an account on an instance to access it lol.

Splash in puddles

Oh yeah, while I won't do subscriptions as a matter of principal, if mr Dawson wants to issue a new version every time there's a significant code rework, I'd pay every time with a smile on my face. I do it with paprika (the best recipe manager out there) on all the platforms. I'm kinda expecting a new version in the next year or two from them, tbh.

I much prefer that model of monetization. Buy the software, you own it and can use it as long as there's hardware and OS that can run it. Want the next version? It's just like buying a different program. It worked very well for decades. Shit, I could (if there were a point beyond having fun) crank things up and run word 98, I still have the discs lol.

And I still use the old paprika on my oldest tablet, as well as the newer version on newer devices. Which, it's cool as hell my old nook is still running.

I'd do the same with sync. I want to buy it again. Sync for lemmy is not the same software, even if it's heavily based in the old code. I want developers to be able to make a damn living so that we can have great apps. I just hate software as a service in principle. Like, the fancy extras that Apollo and sync did with premium is a different thing entirely! I'm talking about paying every month just to use an app when I object to subscriptions

Hell, Mr Dawson could charge way more than the pro version of sync was, and I'll pony up for damn sure. I dunno if anyone here ever had reason to talk to him on reddit, but he's such a good dude. Devs like that are bloody rare, and need to be cherished.

Man, I'm grieving a little. Anger, denial, the whole gamut really.

Mostly anger tbh. We all knew it was coming, once they started moving towards an IPO, but I think we hoped that it wouldn't be this bad. The way spez handled it all makes it even worse. Just shitting on all the mods and users that made the IPO possible in the first place.

It would not surprise me if there's something in the news about a bunch of angry ex redditors going project mayhem on him. The whole "do not fuck with us" thing kinda fits here, and there are some crazy people on reddit

Banana for scale pre-existed reddit, and is unlikely to die soon lol

But yeah, fuck the rest of that list, I'm with you :)

It gives us the great joy of saying "fuck 'em"

Well, I've tried all of them that I've run across.

Aside from jerboa, liftoff, connect, and thunder are the furthest along. They're all great in their own way.

Summit, slide, and lemmedit, or whatever the abandoned one on the play store is, are all quasi functional. Summit can't log in that I could find.

Slide is working overall, and the double columns in portrait orientation is awesome to have back. The tabbed interface only lets you switch between all/local/subscribed rather than through your subscribed C/s, but it should get there eventually.

Jerboa is pretty much the most functional overall. Anything you can do via web, you can do in app. And, you can usually do it from your feed rather than having to tap through. Subscribing is the exception there.

All of them can be a bit pissy with links sporadically. You may or may not get taken where you think you will, no matter how the link is formatted.

I think it's connect that does the "everything" feed, which is cool as hell. Great feature that nothing else has as of yet. But, connect isn't open source currently. Which, on a system like lemmy, that's going to be a hard sell long term, though I believe the dev said they were going to open eventually.

The first app to figure out multi subscription function is going to end up the default though. Everybody wants to organize their communities into sorted feeds like multireddits.

I'm eager to see what sync and boost bring to the table, since they're waiting to release until they're beyond alpha, from what I've heard. Two extremely experienced devs with a long history of excellent UI, aesthetics, and functionality. There's no telling what they'll be able to add on top of the lemmy API basics.

Overall, I end up using jerboa the most because I use the all feed for discovery a lot, and it's easier to subscribe and block from jerboa with minimum tap throughs. The feed also works well with the header above links/images, and good division between posts

But I like liftoff the most overall. It flows the best for me until slide and its multiple column display is backed up with more of the basic features as well. I mostly accessed reddit from tablets, and it's the same with lemmy. Being able to make use of the screen real estate better is a killer feature for me.

I ran into offline back in the early 2ks, then in chat rooms.

But it didn't go viral until reddit, that's for sure.

I cum blood.

I'm not bragging, that's the name of the song

Daaaaamn!

Whatever you're smoking must be so dank that skunks try to mate with it

I gotta be honest, that sounds like crap. It's a recipe for a race to the bottom

And, if it isn't maintained, it might as well not exist. Trying to fuck around with it would just take the lemmy team's time away from their progress as they move forward with their intended plans.

Nope, a "moon" was a single cycle of the moon through its phases, which is closest to a month out of the units we use currently.

While you can ignore that and use the word however you want, and it's definitely possible that people have done so as a form of word play to indicate shorter units of time, it does have a usage that's been around for a least a couple hundred years in English, and way longer in other languages.

The word month comes from moon, and in other languages, the words for month are usually also derived from their words for moon.

In English, the way the word evolved, a it was the period of time from one "new" moon to the next.

Many moons, as a phrase, came from a native American term that was used to express "a long, but undetermined time ago". It isn't exclusive to any specific peoples, nor only to native Americans, but the English idiom version came from a translation from a native speaker

Trade is, however, a similar term for "a long time" that's used almost exclusively an an exaggeration, "a month of Sundays". In a literal sense, that would mean approximately 30 Sundays, obviously, which isn't even a full year, but it's almost always used to express a much longer, but unspecified, time frame.

Did they ban a sub related to it, or more of the same bullshit by reckoning removing mods?

This is second hand, but still funny as hell.

So, I modded a sub. Nothing big, less than 500k users. Decided to go hard after the initial blackout protest and set the sub to restricted, and approved anyone willing to throw in a "fuck spez". I was planning to bring on new mods and get them set up in the last week before the 1st. So, I get the two best candidates in, and let them know that the sub would be crazy, so just hang back and watch.

Wellll, I did warn them about it, including the part where I said I had mentioned to some offline friends that the sub was a free target. These guys have nothing but time, and zero qualms about posting things to justify being set to nsfw.

We're talking herpes infected assholes being posted as portraits of spez, piles of feces done that way, etc.

Well, one of the new mods didn't quite understand what I meant and not only removed the posts, but banned one of the guys. Now, this guy had a regular account and a porn account. So, he's posting from both.

Now, I undid the ban within minutes. But his main account gets a suspension for ban evasion, and his porn account gets a permanent ban for the same.

He sends a little "fuck you" message as the appeal, just to walk away with spite. But, despite the fact that his account wasn't even banned at the time, they denied the appeal.

It was pretty hilarious to him, and me. I wish he'd screen shotted the messages and posts though.

For a few days there, the entire group of folks were posting some brutal shit. They all ended up getting "this was removed by mods" bullshit message, but they'd message me and I'd approve the posts anyway. Reddit still removed half of those, and one account got banned for harassment of spez.

It was the way reddit and their fake accounts acted during all that, that made me change my mind about the sub. It's set private, and won't change until they force it back open, because fuck them. The automod is set where almost everything just posts a mini rant about spez.

The sub is essentially dead now. It'll never come back the way it was. Which sucks, because it was a fucking great sub. But with reddit being shit now, it's better off dead than fumbling along as a zombie version of itself

Works pretty well, too. It kinda messes with my head. I entered the instance, and thought for a second I just got redirected to reddit somehow.

Thanks be to the euro-gods!

It'll be Woody Harrelson