I see a few cakes next to usernames (my cake day is June 10th).
It has been an interesting year, so thanks for hanging in there!
This Lemmy instance is a nice place to hang out, so here’s to many more!
I worked on the database stuff some more today and didn’t have any luck with getting federation of comments working again. I decided to upgrade the server to the new release, 0.19.4 even though it’s so new, with hopes that it might jump start some federation stuff – and so far it hasn’t!
The new version has some neat new features, though.
Under your profile you can click “Uploads” and see all of the pictures you’ve uploaded. Some of them seem to be “lost”, but that’s par for the course. You can even delete the pictures. Yay!
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 4 months ago
@gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social sorry! As is the norm around here these days, I deleted your comment LOL!
Yes, it would be nice to Reddit slowly die, but all of these tech giants have done similar things with seemingly no consequences. At least the people here are Lemmy know better, and are better for it!
PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social 4 months ago
I was wondering if we couldn’t try to do something on our level about this. We have quite some spillover from Reddit to our lemmy (Lather Games, AA, Theme Thursdays) – and if I remember well, someone complained about this – but there’s no spillover from us to Reddit. If there were any, this might remind some of the residents over there that we exist. The main issue is that we don’t have any instance specific events. It would be good if we had something (ideally: periodical, and which does not enter in competition with r/WetShaving events)
Maybe a weekly “Just Lemmy Shave” Day (you will find a better title) which obviously could not be Thursday, and whose themes would be chosen in advance just like Theme Thursdays ?
Or any better ideas?
DaveWave94@sub.wetshaving.social 4 months ago
You remember very well. It was me who complained about this 😅
The problem is, in my personal and honest opinion, that random visitors from other federated instances will be simply dumbfounded by reading something like “totally on theme today” in a SOTD post on Thursday. Which theme? Unless you know that it’s something from Reddit, you’ll simply be perplexed. Hell, even I am confused since I don’t look at Reddit anymore since I’ve deleted my account. Personally I don’t believe we will have much turnover from old members of the subreddit - most aren’t really keen on the idea of a new platform. There was already controversy when, god forbid, someone opened a Discord server for the sub instead of relying on the old internet chat giant ICQ.
I totally agree about periodical events that don’t clash with the Reddit sub. Maybe we could try Wednesday or Friday, Saturday? The only titles I can come up with are atrocious though 🤷🏻♂️
“Lemmy do it for you” 😂
There was also the discussion that we need more unique and informative standalone posts - like articles, reviews, essays, etc.
But I honestly don’t have the time, commitment and energy atm to produce something worthwhile here. But for a single themed day I could definitely get my shit together and participate regularly even with a busy life currently.
walden@sub.wetshaving.social 4 months ago
Yeah we definitely lack the “fun days” and contests. I struggle enough to get the daily post to fire off let alone get stuff like that going haha.
That’s not to say someone else can’t start a photo contest, etc. I’m happy to update the banner, etc if there are winners.
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 4 months ago
One thing I really enjoyed while making the Audio Book Club Shaves podcasts was the coordinated group shaves.
It’s different from Theme Thursdays in that it needs prep. In essence:
It sounds more complicated than it is, and it creates a strong group event feeling.
It would also have the spillover effect you mentioned over to Reddit in the form of @walden@sub.wetshaving.social’s, @gcgallant@sub.wetshaving.social’s, @sahenders@sub.wetshaving.social’s and my SOTD posts (assuming they’d participate) because we still regularly post in both forums.
Thoughts?
djundjila@sub.wetshaving.social 4 months ago
Yayy, happy anniversary! 🎉🎉🎉