blackn1ght

joined 1 year ago
[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The problem is most likely people that are new to the fediverse/lemmy just not understanding it and choosing a "default", popular instance. I was going to pick it as a safe option when I first came here but it was under load and wasn't accepting new users, where I then had to find another instance and settled on feddit.uk.

It would be good if lemmy instances could have the option of "load balancing" new users, so if the current instance has way more active users than it's federated wtih then it disables registration but recommends other, smaller instances to the user.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

My 1st & 2nd gen Chromecasts are working just as good as was the day we bought them and the UX is exactly the same - what was it about the UX that went down hill?

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 33 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Probably because it's a Crowdstrike issue, they've pushed a bad update.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't think you can correlate the number of readers to the number of book instances or whatever they're called. Most people (myself included) probably just use Goodreads, and BookWyrm is probably a good enough alternative that there's no need to spin up another.

Edit: according to this there's a lot of instances: https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

People get really weird about this, they act like you MUST cycle and train it everywhere and anything is just an excuse.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 16 points 5 months ago

"Be nice and civil" - which is a fair enough rule, but it's always used as a blanket ban. Most of the removed comments weren't hostile or uncivil

The thread was posted into the memes community too so there's always going to be a bit of banter, but most comments that weren't in support of China were removed.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Removed by mod

Of course it was lol. Rule 1 apparently - "Be civil and nice". I literally linked to an achived blog post, how was I being uncivil?

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago

https://youtu.be/o-HgONOn0F8?si=wIUcuj_piodzT8KK

This one shows him being dragged away at the end.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago

Rocket propelled grenade

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 34 points 7 months ago

The plane probably had a low stock of alcohol. The drinks trolley usually goes really slowly down the aisle so all it might have taken was a dozen or so passengers ordering a couple of cans each and then they're sold out.

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