##### welcome to the weekly how's your week going thread this thread is a pretty straightforward and relaxed one for giving updates on how your week is going and chat like that. nothing special --- on my front: last week was total chaos, so hoping for things to calm down this week because it is completely fucking up my groove; unfortunately reddit is not making that easy. this is also not ideally timed for my emotional state. anyways, read book 20 for the year ([America City by Chris Beckett](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35711882-america-city)). on book 21. maybe i'll marathon through a bunch of these in between keeping the site from being on fire

the big stickied thread is getting cluttered with lots of new people and the "how was your week" thread isn't a *great* fit for introductions, so it seems about time to make this a dedicated thread of its own so peoples' posts aren't getting lost. tell us a little bit about yourself, folks. don't gotta be too specific or revealing, just whatever you want to put out there. this'll be a good way of getting to know all the people you're now on here with

[Link to week 3](https://beehaw.org/post/165775) Use this space to update everyone on your progress heading into the final week. Is something going particularly well? Is there something you would like help or advice on? Share anything and everything you would like to about your project!

And saw a bunch of posts about the third party apps closing down, and lots of negativity about that whole fiasco. ... And I realized I hadn't been there for a week... And frankly didn't miss it. I am really loving the beehaw (and Lemmy as a whole) community. Thanks for being open, welcoming, responsive, engaging, and just generally nice people. I'm happy to be here. :)

I've never been sentimental about a social media site but it's sad for me to see reddit so clearly killing itself. Pushshift is already banned and Apollo is soon to follow. Reddit will either pivot fully to a mainstream audience or die out. It's just sad for me to see it doing it to itself.

Give me a hive five. Beehaw, pardners!

I got diagnosed with a fragrance allergy recently. I break out in hives on my face. My doctor gave me back my allergy results and told me I had to cut all scented things out, from cleaners, to soaps, to shampoos, detergents, whole nine yards. I was crushed at first, because I liked my scented soaps and dryer sheets. But you know how people that go blind kinda get hearing superpowers? My nose has been getting that now, because there's less scent "noise" in the picture. Scents are sharpened now. I feel almost superhuman now, haha. Anyone here ever had something similar with a different sense, or something similar with fragrances? I'm amazed at just how many things we put fragrance in now!

I am convinced that the internet needs shitposting! Hence I created this community to celebrate pure untainted skin and make fun of the stupidity and criminality of tattooed people (obvious /s is obvious!). I chose to create the community on the burggit.moe lemmy instance, because it is a good place for this kind of content regarding server rules.

Apparently these days, the most popular dream job among children is influencer. I've seen articles about it, and both the articles and the comments are invariably full of judgy statements about how Kids These Days^TM^ are such narcissists/their brains are being rotted by social media/they don't want to do anything valuable with their lives. But like. I think the kids are onto something, tbh. The thing is, working a 9-5 (or 8-5, as the average job is nowadays) job is a pretty shit deal. You have no say in your work environment and have to do whatever you're told. The hours make a medieval peasant's workload look light, and that's not even counting the commute you'll likely have to make. What little free time you have left over is spent recovering, so you don't have time to do anything fun. And you get to do this for the rest of your life. At least if you're an influencer, you set your own hours and may wind up working much less than 40 hours a week. You get to work from home, and there's a small chance you'll hit it big and get rich. There's zero chance of that at your standard office job. If you can swing it, it's not a bad deal at all. And I don't think there's anything morally wrong with being an influencer. Are some of them shitty? Sure. But that's true of any job. You could argue that being an influencer contributes nothing to society, but really, how many jobs *do* contribute anything worthwhile to the world? Is it really more respectable to type numbers into spreadsheets all day just to make your boss richer? Or to write up reports no one reads? At least influencers entertain people. TL;DR: The kids know the grind is bullshit, and they see becoming an influencer as a way to escape that.

we have a nice thing going here, and i'm glad that about 5,500 of you are here to share it with us. it's a new day tomorrow and i hope you'll be here for that too 

When I was a kid (I'm guessing 5), there was a house nearby where my grandma lived which had a statue of a small dog outside their house. The eyes on this statue were made of glass, and looked incredibly real. I remember standing there staring at the thing, extremely tempted to try and touch the eyes just so I could convince myself that the thing wasn't alive 🤣. I probably stood there for about 5 min before I finally got the courage to touch it and realized it was just glass. I was convinced that thing was going to bite me when I touched it.

Hopefully I'm not breaking any guidelines on self-promotion, but I bet some of y'all have made some really cool things. **Whether it's physical, art, a website, or software -- what is something that you're really proud of creating?** Please remove if this violates any guidelines (I couldn't find anything specific).

For me it's been communities like /r/buildapc, /r/buildapcforme, /r/buildapcsales, /r/gamedeals, and /r/consoledeals have been useful throughout the years.

see a lot of discussion about adding more specific communities on this instance and I feel as if it will dilute the community too much. I personally see Lemmy instances as somewhat similar to old forums, many of those did so well because the community came together under a shared experience. Lemmy is decentralized after all and instances based around interests will get created and discussion will get focused on certain instances for certain topics. Those instances will be moderated by the people who have passion and understanding for those topics. Of course the great thing about Lemmy is that we're (mostly) free to visit other instances and if there are redundant communities it is not difficult to participate in them. I do think it's nice to have a place to call home, a "hive" if you will. Where users can discuss their shared experience on the fediverse.

Kia ora Beehaw 🐝 I would love to see a Community Betterment group where we can post about ways we are trying to better our own communities through things like volunteering, action, or clubs and share how people are going about either organising or participating in things like tree plantings, toy libraries, tool libraries, community workshops, community gardens, pushing for cycleways and better public transport and just generally making their corners of the world a little better. I think even though every area will have it's own legal system and regulations to navigate, hearing how people are putting together their proposals and grant applications, swapping tips on how projects are managed, fun ways of attracting new community members, and general do-goodery will encourage others to give it a go. Even if it's just growing a little bit extra in the garden for the local food bank, picking up rubbish on the side of the road, or just making an effort to use the bus, having a supportive community encouraging you makes those little choices a bit easier. Maybe you've always wanted to do a little bit more for your community but don't know where to start. Maybe you already do some of these things and want to help others get started. Maybe you're just really proud of how something is done in your community. We might not be able to solve all the problems but we can at least try to make a few small things a little bit nicer. It would just be so nice to build up a little slice of the Beehaw hive with some real honest community goodness. Put any naturally competitive nature you might have to best use, out shine us all by making the happiest corner of the world!

One of my favorite subreddits is r/engrish. Its basically all about funny english mistakes. I couldn't find it anywhere so i just created it [here](https://vlemmy.net/c/engrish) and posted some of my favourites. I would love if people are intrested is post you english mistaks you find and help build out the community. Im still very new to lemmy but have been loving it.

Hey Beehaw people. I've been going through a rough time, but today was a good day. Sun was shining, I felt well rested and was able to help people in the afternoon at my work place (I currently volunteer fixing bikes). Afterwards I chilled with some friends who live close by, played some chess, then I was able to join in a meeting for the autonomous gym that I am a part of and was able to be of help there. A day of rest, friendlyness, joy and connection. Now I'm finishing the day with some peaceful videogames, by myself in my safe little bubble. I know difficult moments will still come, but so will days like this one. Lot's of love to all of you! I feel that this community could be a digital version of what I'm starting to find IRL in the autonomous gym and similar places.

I've always been concerned about privacy, and I'm ignorant of how the fediverse works at a low level. What information does our server collect about us? When we delete a comment or post, is it truly deleted on Beehaw? Do deletions also propagate to federated servers?

Hot damn, in just over a week. Data from https://the-federation.info/node/details/25274. Made in GIMP. Thank you [Chris](https://beehaw.org/u/admin), [alyaza](https://beehaw.org/u/alyaza), [Gaywallet](https://beehaw.org/u/Gaywallet) again for making such a nice place and managing this explosion in popularity, to the mods and other people keeping it operating, and lastly to everyone joining, [contributing](https://opencollective.com/beehaw), posting and commenting and be(e)ing friendly!

Is it really harder to find true, meaningful friendships (not romantic and/or sexual) in more 'adult' years or is this an introverts problem? I am quite introverted at first, I would never just start a friendly conversation with a stranger and work friends usually are just work friends. I moved to UK in 2019 and since then I had few different jobs and connected with people from work, but none of them wanted to stay in touch outside work. I was a bit confused, as I thought those people enjoyed my company as much I did theirs. Not even sure if this is maybe a cultural thing? I grew up in Poland and Eastern European people are more direct than British, so you know straight away of they like you or not. What are your experiences? How do you deal with meeting new people?

What are the recommended android apps for Lemmy? Jerboa and Lemmur are very crashy for me. Are there any others?

I notice we have a fair number of threads here where people are encouraged to ramble on about whatever topic. I think that's partially people casting about for content, but I think it's also just a nice thing? There aren't a ton of spaces on the internet that encourage that kind of semi-focused discussion, and I've enjoyed both posting to those threads and reading people's random musings. It's a nice contrast with people reacting to the latest event and debating what it means and why the person they're replying to is wrong. ...What do you think? Obviously, I think you should ramble on about this.

Beehaw is great. I like the people and the communities here. But it doesn't feel very "Fedi" interacting with just one instance. So what's your favorite community hosted elsewhere?

Hey everyone, I'm posting this rather informally because I don't think it's necessarily a problem in need of addressing at this point, but more a synthesis of what I've seen on the internet before and what's in the back of my head as I'm watching these wonderful conversations going on across Beehaw. If you have a few minutes to read a blog post, I would like to recommend reading this [excellent post](https://eev.ee/blog/2016/07/22/on-a-technicality/) where the author uses the term 'evaporative cooling' to insightfully evaluate what they've noticed about nice people in communities and how it's really hard to keep them around. If you don't have a few minutes, the short version of a summary would go something like "nice people have a very low tolerance for people who aren't nice and their participation has a lot to do with the average amount of jerk-like behavior in a community - if it raises too high, you lose (and likely never regain) the community's nice people". They use this as a starting point to discuss why jerk behavior needs to be monitored and kept in check, even when it falls within the rules of a community. This very post helped to shape some of my current ideas and was behind why I pushed so hard to have an extremely limited set of rules and to keep them open to interpretation as much as possible. We had a short stint where we itemized specific kinds of not nice behavior like doxxing, but decided to simplify it down after it was clear people didn't realize that being nice was actually a rule, because the other rules were much more specific. I bring all this up because I've seen some replies which aren't openly hostile or not nice, but could reasonably be interpreted as not welcoming. I also have seen a lot of discussion which isn't explicitly an echo chamber, but I can see how through certain lenses, people might view it as such. As I mentioned before, I'm not exactly _worried_ about these discussions and I think the community has already done a wonderful job self-moderating and [calling people in](https://edib.harvard.edu/files/dib/files/calling_in_and_calling_out_guide_v4.pdf), that is to say, encouraging nice behavior. However, there are a few places where emotions are rather charged. There have been some rather active discussions about political leanings on the internet and the behaviors often exhibited by members of these political groups that rightfully should not be tone policed. However, I would also like for you to take a second and consider how individuals who happen to share these political leanings but do not exhibit the behavior you are calling out might feel accessing or interacting with content on Beehaw. I'm calling on your inherent compassion, to give people the benefit of the doubt and to spend a second considering how others might view what you have to say, and whether it **feels** inclusive or not. I understand that we're all human and aren't going to be perfect at all times and sometimes we need to vent and I'm certainly not here to tone police you, but the more of us are paying attention to how inclusive and nice and safe the space is, the more inclusive and nice and safe the space will ultimately be. A lot of people have spent time in the last few days to call out that they don't like echo chambers on the internet. I completely agree with this statement and it's an important part of our philosophy to do our best to minimize this while still creating a safe space for minorities. However, I've often seen this sentiment proposed alongside behavior that is unintentionally a driving force towards creating an echo chamber. A rather minor way which this might play out is the fact that we are currently dominated by the voice of technically proficient individuals - we are currently a tech echo chamber. This can be seen by the relative activity of tech related communities as compared to others (we do a fantastic job with activity for some of our non-tech communities here as compared to most other instances, and I'd like to thank you all for that participation), and the way I've seen this play out in a non-inclusive or accepting way is when people are struggling with something technically, and someone else responds with a "oh just do <insert technically complicated thing here>". They are intending to be helpful, but simply do not know what life is like for someone without their skill set. This can push these people away from interacting with content like this in the future, or even away from the platform entirely. The latter is not particularly likely to happen over something like tech literacy, but I absolutely worry about this for much more emotionally charged issues. We haven't seen issues with this on Beehaw, but I've seen discussions around sex/gender result in some rather non-inclusive behavior because of sex/gender disparities on certain platforms. The most common example of this being problematic is when people post feminist articles in a male-dominated space where the replies reflect this, providing a barrier and incentivizing women to not participate since they correctly read that their voice may be disregarded or that their replies would be met with a slightly increased level of hostility. We also need to be hyper aware of minorities which are relatively rare due to the law of large numbers. Even if only 1 in 100 people on the internet are jerks, we have to think about how roughly 1 in 2 are women. In this case there's way more women then jerks, and so articles about women aren't particularly likely to be overrun with jerk behavior. But if only 1 in 100 are trans, we now have an equal amount of trans people and jerks on the internet. If even 1 of these trans folks don't want to engage with a jerk, a single bad actor can quickly drive all transgender people off the platform. Please take a moment to think about this through the lens of genuinely nice people who are diverse from you in other ways. We're here because we want to be nice to each other and want a platform that is a safe space. This necessarily means that there will be people on here who share traits with people you do not like or with people who represent behavior you do not condone. Please do your best to not write them off as an entire group, or present arguments/thoughts which do the same. There is a difference between the words neo-nazi, white supremacist, alt-right, conservative, authoritarian, etc. and we need to be careful about which words we use. Hateful behavior is not allowed and we are explicitly intolerant of intolerant individuals. While a neo-nazi is by definition an intolerant individual, a conservative is not and we should be careful when we feel the need to rightly vent about people being intolerant towards us, so as not to alienate people who are tolerant but do not share the same characteristics be it political leaning, gender, hobbies, or anything else. I don't want to end this by only focusing on negative be(e)havior, so I'd like to take a second to stop and reflect that the vast majority of what I've seen has been really heartwarming to see. This place has grown massively over the last week, but I do not feel like we've shifted too much when it comes to the core values and the feeling I get when I read what you are all posting and commenting. There's been a lot of content which I so rarely see on other places on the internet that feels so much more welcoming and human than many other spaces on the internet. You're all wonderful human beings and I'm glad we've found a place we can encourage each other and have nice interactions and discussions.

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/140vbey/launching_rlemmymigration_what_communities_have/jmxnzsh/?context=1 Look at here and the people who complain about it being too hard to figure out are the ones complaining about "I can't use muh slurs, this is awful." > "The left of today is very much in favour of censorship to avoid “harm.” This makes those of us in the middle very wary of signing up to any partisan media." /u/decidedlysticky23 /u/misshapensteed claims he isn't far right, but explictly only posts on PoliticalCompassMemes and TheLeftCantMeme and KotakuInAction. If they are too stupid to figure out we know they're lying, they're too stupid to figure out lemmy.

I only joined the main Lemmy instance a couple of days ago, but browing by new, there's a pretty consistent stream of new posts now, even compared to the first day I was on here. I'm excited for this community.

I'm wondering how many of you really get specific news from subscribed communities ? I'm subscribed to so many I often forget to manually select this filter, so I feel like subscribing doesn't really make a difference beyond a certain number. What do you think ?

I just saw [this post over on r/modcoord ](https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplete_and_growing_list_of_participating/) which is basically a massive list of subreddits participating in the blackout protest. If I'm being honest I haven't seen this much anger and coordinated frustration since the era right before the digg exodus. Assuming more and more subreddits join in, it's going to send a pretty massive message to the users who interact with a blacked out subreddit. Then I'm trying to imagine what happens if after a massive coordinated blackout, Reddit continue on the current trajectory. Is Lemmy even prepared to handle the amount of potential incoming traffic that API closure could lead to? It's absolutely bonkers to me that the Reddit team might just stay the course....

What's up chat? Like we all are on Lemmy so we're all Lemmings. But I want to go further beyond. We could be: Bee keepers? Something to do with honey? We can even have a catch phrase. If we were on a combative instance I'd say like: "bzz off!" Or "mess with the Bee and you get the stinger!" or "hey sugar, you want some honey?" If you're not on a beehaw you can still be an honorary [fandom name here].

Of course, it's up to everyone making Lemmy instances to decide how this'll work, and no one is able to make those decisions for them, which is how it should be. But if you were to make your own Lemmy instance, how would you handle it? Personally, while I think Beehaw is a great "staging ground" of sorts, I think it's important to remember that Lemmy instances all communicate. Just hit the "all" tab and you'll see posts from all sorts of instances- although mostly Beehaw, since 99% of us are here. So if *I* were to make a Lemmy instance- which I want to, at some point- I would make it much more focused. Almost like a subreddit with sub-sub-reddits. It'd probably be TTRPG-focused and I'd make communities for specific games and families of games that get a lot of discussion (and a catchall for everything else.) Because, once again, people from basically every Lemmy instance could subscribe to those communities so long as the instance I ran wasn't blacklisted for one reason or another. There's another reason I think I'd prefer things that way- It'd make the federated nature of Lemmy stronger. With very general instances like Beehive everyone naturally congregates in one place and it's kinda a microcosm of how Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are *the internet places* and I think that misses the advantages that a federated platform brings to the table. What do you think? More focused instances or a whole bunch of general-purpose instances that just happen to be ran by different people / have different moderation policies? Edit: ...Well it turns out someone *has* set up a TTRPG community (Put this in the search bar to get to it while logged in: !rpg@lemmy.ml) Edit #2: ...Admittedly I'm getting a better grasp of how this all works now, and it's more than a little frustrating that actually interacting with other servers is limited to subscribing to feeds. I guess I get it, technology-wise, sort of, is *saving* data across servers just not something ActivityPub can do, really? I feel like it defeats the point a bit if the majority of Lemmy instances are on a server ran by the Lemmy devs because being anywhere else is limiting.

Does Behaw (and Lemmy) have a concept around flair or tags? For example, if I want to search the News community for just US news could I search for #us or in the cooking community #slowcooking? If so, is there somewhere I can learn more? If not, is something like that on the roadmap?

I've only created an account for Beehaw. I read somewhere I can interact with other instances through my Beehaw account but don't seem to be able to? Am I missing something? Thanks in advance!

There's a church steeple opposite where we live. It's 200' (61m) tall. There's a guy up there on a ladder. I don't know what he's doing (I hope he does). It's safe though: he's wearing a hat. No way could I climb that ladder!

Hello, Beehaw r0ckstars!! So I've been really enjoying the Lemmy platform and Beehaw.org as the place I get my Lemmy feed... I have a couple day 2 questions and wonder if ya'll might take a sh0t at answering them. :P Lets g00000: So I see, on the main page/feed, that I can select subscribed, local or all posts. I usually look thru subscribed first, of course, but should I stay local or select all when just reading thru posts? I assume all - is all like the rest of the Lemmy fediverse? I'd like to view posts from other websites, so I think I know my answer... but wonder what ya'll do. Next, I'm a retro-computing nerd and host a few services from my home network... my BBS, a Matrix server, a KDX/Hotline server [I know, I know...], a Mast... all the hipster stuff. Should I run a Lemmy??? Does the Lemmy project want more nodes, or do the devs prefer large sites such as Beehaw.org??? I am **really** enjoying the Lemmy experience and beliefs - while Beehaw.org's spirit and mission statements *fully* coincide with my beliefs, I do have the ability to host services on decent domains with good uptime. :P If I ran a Lemmy node would I still be able to easily get Beehaw.org posts??? How large is the Lemmy fediverse userbase so far? I see that Beehaw.org has around 500 users a day... OK. And theres a couple larger Lemmy sites, right??? So we're still at the early phases of Lemmy? How long has it been around??? Why didn't I know about it sooner?!?!? [rhetorical on that one... :)] Glad to be here.... thanks for anyone who takes the time to itch my scratch. - pAULIE42o - . . . . . . . . . . . - /s

lightly adapted from a cohost post i recently made: --- Beehaw is a community i helped co-found and have been moderating for, at this point, almost a full one and a half years. from the beginning we had a whole plan for what the site is going to be, how it's going to work, what its future is, and how we can avoid the pitfalls of other communities. we spent *months* thinking about that stuff, putting it down on paper and reworking it, and then when we were finally satisfied we made the site. it was a big undertaking and it's cost us a lot of time and a fair amount of money to do. we had a false start of making our own go at it, which bluntly did not work and would not have worked if we'd stuck to it. we scrapped that. then we went to Lemmy, and we've been here ever since. but for probably the first half year if not more it was literally about 10-15 of us. everything was being paid for out of pocket and we had very little idea what we were doing other than what we *wanted* to do. i'm sure this is quite obvious, but: it is *hard* to support a community of the same 10-15 people when you aggregate links. a good post got maybe five comments--most got literally zero. for like four months i burned out and basically didn't use the site, just popping in to catch up and moderate or approve users. it all felt nice but pretty pointless, honestly. but then things started slowly picking up. we got new users (mostly through federation), and the users who churned out were eventually replaced at equal pace. one day, we started actively growing--not by a lot, maybe a few users a day if we were lucky, but something. we got made the top-featured instance on the main Lemmy website at some point, i guess because Lemmygrad was a bit too intimidating and we were not. people on Lemmy started adopting our instance as *their* instance and not just another nebulous, faceless Part Of The Federation. but it was really in March of this year that things kicked off. we started really getting donations, and didn't have to pay for everything ourselves anymore, just most of the stuff. network effects started kicking in as people recommended the instance to their friends. in April, we got our biggest boost to that point when Reddit spooked people about its API--that added probably a dozen or more substantial contributors, a lot of whom are around and regulars. we briefly suffered a setback when we lost a week of content to a crash, but by this point the ball was rolling enough that this wasn't a setback. and then, of course, last week Reddit dropped the nuke and many of its third-party app users are scrambling for something new. nonstop for the past week days i've been front-and-center in handling all of the new users, and we've had literally no problems with them. we have hundreds of new posts, everyone is meshing well, a lot of people love our vision--and critically, they're giving us money now!!! we have hundreds of dollars!!! we're actually self sufficient with their help!!! for the first time it *feels* like the thousands of hours and hundreds of dollars we've put in have *gone somewhere and to something*. it feels like there is an *actual* community, not just a hypothetical one that exists in cryptpad documents. and what could be better than that, really?

https://github.com/angr/angr Uses a Concolic execution engine where it can switch from running a binary concretely, break, and then define an unknown input and find what should I be to trigger a different breakpoint. - e.g. what should the “password” pointer be pointing to in order to trigger the “you’re in” branch of code. Note: it still can’t reverse hashes. If you try to reverse md5 using this approach it’ll consume petabytes of RAM. I think radare2 was looking into integrating with angr but I don’t know the status of the integration.

Here are my two SIC gremlins, Sansa (skinny) and Shere Khan (chonk). Show me your pets! Edit: No idea why it's marked as potentially mature. Just looks like two tabbies to me.

!cooking@lemmy.ml is a community that I just stumbled into. There is nothing there, yet. But I am sure some recipes will be posted. I just subbed. Hope to see some of you there! I will be posting soon. Disclaimer: I am not a mod for this community ... I just sorta found it!

preface: not speaking as a mod here in an official mod context. this is in chat for a reason. i've been watching a community melt down over its new community conduct policy. that policy took probably six months to draft—and the backlash to it may have honestly cost the community six months of hosting money, because for all the good the moderators who drafted it have done they made *one* big fuck up in drafting it. (bad enough they've since reversed course, but the damage is done) i have many thoughts on this, and the general implications it has. it goes without saying: we (as moderators) will make decisions You will not like sometimes. that's just how it is. we cannot accommodate everyone, and it will almost certainly be necessary at times to disregard user opinion to do something for the greater good. but: can we count on You to understand *why* we do that? will You give us the good faith and benefit of the doubt that even if You disagree, and stick by us so we can all build something better? my pessimistic sense is no, absolutely not. i think that a lot of people have been conditioned—by reddit, by twitter, by other platforms—into just assuming the worst of moderation. i think most people have given up on giving any benefit of the doubt to platforms, too. it's understandable: moderation and Existing is shit on basically all of them. there's no face and even less accountability. rules are inscrutable and haphazard. enforcement is farcical and comical. you are much better trying to just improve things in Your vicinity than hope these sites do it for You, and to never trust a word any moderator says. but we're not those platforms. the community i'm watching is not a platform like that—it tries very hard to give a fuck, and to build something special. we are like them in trying to give a fuck about everything we do and build something better, and i think it shows in everything we do. and yet it *still* feels obvious that when we inevitably fuck up something here, we will go through the ringer as if we're a reddit or twitter. all the community and good faith we've built will immediately be discarded in one swoop, and we will not recover to that point of community trust again—because everyone has been conditioned to assume the worst. we will probably lose donations and in kind possibly financial stability. we, from that point on, may then have to scale back our involvement and start to assume worse of You just for safety reasons—we are people too, and we are being vulnerable in the level of transparency being offered here. and i guess i just i don't know what to do about this dilemma—or what even can be done. it's part of why this isn't being said in a moderation capacity, just a user one shooting off into space. what *can* i say, even? words hardly bind you to giving us leeway and understanding when we err. but, to awkwardly conclude: i feel like we *need* that leeway and understanding for this all to work, and go differently than everything else. the implicit nature of the reaction to these fuck ups is that we *have* to be perfect Or Else, but we literally cannot be. that's the nature of moderation, and of people, and i'd hope people get that when we inevitably fuck up it's not because we're like reddit or twitter—it's *because we care*, and we care about making this place good for you too. idk. goodnight, folks. i'll be off for parts of tomorrow hiking.

Seems like no matter which feed/sort you choose any communities with pinned posts will always show at the top. Even if I sort by new the pinned posts will remain at the top. It makes me feel like there's not much happening since every time I open Lemmy I see the same top pinned posts. I have to always scroll past them to see any other posts Is there a reasoning behind why they always show on top of every feed?