They’re called communities here (welcome)! And Stardew Valley :)

I’m not sure they want to depend on Amazon services?

Well, I’m existing, which is already a lot of effort.

June is usually the one month that I tone down the “activism” and fighting for my own rights and let other people (and even companies!) do it for me with all the special events and posts while I chill at home :)

Cool, thanks!

ahhhh welcome to the discworld!!

Just read Lavender House, a murder mystery set during the Lavender Scare and gay-bashing in 1950s San Francisco.

Sometimes you want a neat little mystery that does exactly what the genre says it’s supposed to do. Sometimes you want it to be super gay.

If that is the case and if you don’t mind a few graphic police beatings of gay men, this is the book you want.

CWs: gay-bashing, homophobia, violence, obviously murder, infidelity.

VLC and OBS

I haven’t read that one yet (my partner just finished it so I’m hoping to steal it from them next time I see them!), but if it’s anything like the other books I’ve read by her, it’s made up of short chapters so you can finish a chapter in one go and then forget you own the book, then go back to it for another chapter a few months later, etc.

Finally got around to watching this and thought it was a really sweet video!

Ah fair! In that case yes my big recommendation is bell hooks’s work (both super foundational and surprisingly easy to follow) and Whipping Girl.

So many, but that’s a really really wide topic and also different “levels” and I don’t know if you’re looking for introductions or for very specific stuff!

Here’s a small selection of things I enjoyed reading, though:

Books

Nonfiction

• Pretty much everything by bell hooks, especially Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center for a general overview and The will to change specifically aimed at men
• The Guilty Feminist (also a podcast)
• Whipping Girl, specifically about trans women

Fiction

• The first woman, on the birth of modern feminism in Uganda

Essays

• What gender gap in chess?
• Life as She is Lived: A meditation on gender, power, and change

They’re semi-public spaces, I’m not sure “infiltrate” is the right term. (I’d call it correct for WhatsApp though.)

I really love language tags, and yes, a default option would be pretty neat.

Haha welcome!

I entirely agree - this was written in the context of a 6-person org in a field that has an extremely low percentage of women.

I don’t know how to react to this kind of headlines on the literal day that the game comes out. What do ratings mean at this point?

Haha nice!

I’m not sure why you’re nervous about posting on a federated instance that has the channel you need. Is it a moderation thing?

In general I like to rely on federation and don’t lean towards “duplicates” on several servers, but I also understand the very different approaches per instance :)

(Also, while Antiwork exists there, I think a Work channel would be useful! You know, at least until the Revolution…)

Running, as for several people above. Singing / dancing (very poorly) as well. Journaling / writing down my thoughts when they get overwhelming.

On a regular basis, reading. It’s not a quick pick-me-up when I’m not doing great, but it improves my overall well-being.

Oh, that’s really unfortunate, I liked them!

I’m moving to a smaller city soon and am super excited about that.

Also, Olympics qualifiers - Olympics are a bit more than a year away but hey, that’s a workaround :)

aw yay, happy 18th in not too long! and enjoy the holidays!

I try to check if there’s a community on one of our federated instances that is closer to what I’m looking for. If not, then probably “chat” yeah

No, but his latest speeches don’t really mention the Metaverse and suddenly focus on AI. Meta has been investing in both recently, it’s the orientation of the speeches that has suddenly changed.

very well, if only because today’s a public holiday. also, i’ve gotten some really nice reading experiences recently after a very long dry spell and that’s pretty great too!

(Oh weird, I still see them here!)

Oh no to the indie bookstore, it’s always so sad to see one struggling so much :(

And great tips for everyone based in the US, thanks for sharing!

Beautiful and very motivating - I love when these advice columns only give advice that is pretty easy to follow!

Yes! It sucks! Let us discover books by pure chance, while browsing the shelves of a bookstore!

all good - while Germinal is perfect as a standalone, it’s also one of the later ones in the series. I’d also recomment La Terre (on the agricultural side with a big inheritance plot) and L’Assommoir (on alcoholism in poor urban families), two of my favourites.

I can never express enough love for the works of Zola!

ah, yeah, that wasn’t my smartest comment :')

Everyone who hasn’t specifically deselected “Undetermined” in their settings, from what I understand.

That’s true! I’m not a techie and always forget Hacker News exists haha

Thanks for the reminder on keeping content diverse more than aiming for a single approach!

Yes! Sharing links is great but it’s original posts that really make a difference on social platforms.

Yeah, there’s a big need for more funny and more personal channels on Lemmy. Sometimes everything just feels so serious!

Setting your language. This means instead of having one all encompassing “French” community I can post in the “regular” ones but set the locale as French. It’s amazing and it also makes Lemmy much less US-centric than Reddit.

Yep, it’s really frustrating - the false information is a real problem, and the fact that their output is so huge means that their SEO is unfortunately really well optimized. So you want to make a simple search on a specific topic and end up on articles that are clearly AI-generated, all over the first and second pages of your search engine.

I enjoy the blog post by Curtis McHale on how he mostly uses YouTube and Reddit for information rather than search engines nowadays.

• His post: https://curtismchale.ca/2023/02/07/the-tragedy-of-ai-and-google-bard/
• A reply: https://alexsirac.com/no-more-search-engines/

I’m going to take the opposite approach and say Lemmy is surprisingly active.

I wanted to check an idea of Reddit proportion of lurkers; didn’t find actual data and am definitely not emotionally invested enough to make my own, but it took me to the 1% rule, which states that on an online community, roughly 1% of people create content, 9% edit/update/upvote/comment, and 90% are passive consumers of content.

It’s very true that Lemmy isn’t very active (although it’s definitely been better recently!), but given this, I honestly believe it’s purely a matter of gaining a critical mass of users. So I see two main approaches:

• Comment as much as possible! Sometimes you’ll be shouting at the clouds, sometimes you’ll lead by example and people will join the conversation;
• As a community, let’s get more people using Lemmy so that even with the same ratio, the absolute number of posters & commenters will grow.

I’ve seen the issue on Mastodon when I joined a few years ago, and my friends and I make a point of not using “favs” too much, just boosting (which puts it in your followers’ timeline) and commenting/replying. It’s a small thing but it’s good etiquette and encourages others to do the same.

Finding out about Lemmy was this amazing extension of the Fediverse that could improve (and maybe eventually replace, but I’m not there yet) Reddit, which I’ve used for 10+ years and really love.

Is there any upside to it being federated? I’ve always favored the Wiktionary (by Wikimedia) over Urban Dictionary.