The post text is supposed to be right underneath the “This is an automated archive […]” and the following few links. Dunno if that depends on the subreddit. Or if most posts just don’t contain text as they’re a bare link or image…?! But I see content attached to several posts mirrored by the Lemmit Bot.

I think there’s just a lot of posts with the entire text in the title and it’s just an image or link. I just scrolled through 25 of them and the original doesn’t have any text either. And then there’s some with text and the text gets copied. (Example: https://lemmit.online/post/8076620 )

There’s an entire instance dedicated to mirroring Reddit: https://lemmit.online/

Yeah, me too. For some hobbies there just isn’t a lot of activity.

We have some regular pc gaming communities:

• !pcgaming@lemmy.ca
• !linux_gaming@lemmy.world
• !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
• !factorio@lemmy.world
• !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
• !zocken@feddit.org

And some about tabletop games:

• !tabletop@beehaw.org
• !dnd@lemmy.world
• !scifi@ttrpg.network

Not sure if there’s more, that’s about the ones I’m aware of. Lemmyverse.net has a few more: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=gam

Well, previously we had LemmyNSFW. That one died, pretty much out of the blue. Now the second admin(?) of it launched FediNSFW as a successor. We have that - for now - I guess? They said they’re gonna try to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen again.

But I guess it’s still a single point of failure. If they don’t properly ensure there’s several people who own the domain and hosting infrastructure, can administer the contracts, server etc, it might still be down to one person and their ability to keep it up. And if there’s legal troubles, uncertainty, not enough donations, law changes or the hoster or Cloudflare pulls the trigger, that might be the end of all of it as well. A severe technical issue/mistake could also take down a singular instance. And due to the delicate nature of NSFW content, they probably can’t afford to be 100% transparent with us, so I wouldn’t know whether they’re in a healthy place or not.

I mean there’s nothing wrong with FediNSFW’s existence. I just think it’s massively questionable to all bet on the same horse, and then call us the “Fediverse”, a decentral platform…

I think so as well. Porn is available in abundance. We don’t really need it here. What I think could be nice is people who like to write erotic fiction as a hobby and post their original content. Or people discuss erotic computer games. Or like relationship advice and NSFW questions in case some country abolishes sex ed. Maybe talking about piracy, mental issues, loss… all the things that are deemed “not advertiser friendly” on commercial platforms. That’d be something positive. But it’s not easy. And it often all gets lumped together under some big NSFW umbrella and 95% of people want to share pron clips anyway. Mostly with zero care for copyright or the creators’ consent.

Hehe. Yeah, I don’t think we need more content. There’s already some out there. And everyone can add more, all they need is 20sec of time and a redgifs link. What we really need is more admins run servers to host that stuff. And a bigger admin team for the already existing instance so it doesn’t just randomly go away along with all the content, as well. Maybe one or two lawyers, or someone with expertise in bullet-proof hosting, to set it up properly. (And we likely need moderators as well. Half of the communities on the old server used to be a desert. Claimed en masse by some nominal members who left a long time ago.) But original content is certainly welcome 😆

Probably more NSFW instances? We barely have one.

Last time I was part of conscription, I sent in my objection letter, and served Germany as a paramedic.
No regrets, 100% would do it again.

The post has some blue box on piefed.social: “This post is old so votes and comments are disabled.” That’s what I meant. I didn’t have any time to look at the code but thought that could be something that triggers a bug…

Maybe that has something to do with these posts and comments being marked as old? Your profile page says you’ve made 8 comments. They’re just not shown in any way. The comments however, are still there:

Is there precedent for this in Europe? I can’t remember good things which were repeated. They tend to either succeed or fail but that’s basically it. Or political parties rallye to do something but then they don’t. Or can’t agree within the coalition. Or there’s other pressing issues after the election and it gets postponed… But they don’t really say, that’s what we promised, we failed and we’ll put it on the agenda again 5 months later?!

I think this should be somewhat discouraged in a democracy, though. Decisions have to be binding in some form. You can’t just do 5 and then randomly discard 4 and go with the one result you like. And for some reason that’s supposed to be the binding one. I mean it’s a bit tricky. But ultimately it’s the same kindergarden game like you’ll ask your mom to allow something and after she says no you’ll go to your dad and ask him, then your grandparents, uncle… and at some point some adult is busy with other stuff, doesn’t pay attention and you get your “yes” and you’ll do it. It’s a weird thing kids do, not a feature of a democracy.

And in democratic systems it leads to the same discussion blocking the agenda again and again because of some people’s dispute. And other weird things like in the USA, where the first official act of a new president is, to cancel as much bills from the previous administration as possible.

I mean there’s reasons to do it. But I still think it’s mostly a dark procedure within a democratic system.

And other kind of law has it covered. For example court rulings. You’ll need substantial new evidence. Or a changed situation to re-do their binding decisions. And that’s for good reasons. (I think in philosophy of law it’s called “non bis in idem” or double jeopardy doctrine)

Well, computer programmers still do things like Project Euler and code wars. Some people go Geocaching and more organized events which include riddles and different places. We got Escape Rooms… People still listen to shortwave radio and figure out whether number stations change due to the Iran war… I read people tried to use modern AI on the Voynich manuscript and other older riddles… It’s probably all out there, just the internet changed, and now it’s almost impossible to find in the big haystack and walled discord rooms etc. And social media got more consumerist. You’d (on average) be mindlessly doomscrolling there, these days. Not actively look for puzzles to solve.

You mean should we normalize not paying people for their work and some customer has to chip in? Definitely not. Labour is supposed to be compensated by a wage. A tip is something that comes on top. Voluntarily. It’s supposed to be a nice extra for extraordinary service or something like that. Or if you have enough money and the pizza delivery boy doesn’t, but he bicycled all the way and also brought the pizza up the stairs 3 levels to your apartment. Of course you’ll give them 2€ for that. But at the same time they’re supposed to earn some wage that enables them to pay their rent.

Also has to do with taxation. If someone gifts you something, you don’t really have to pay taxes on that. If it’s a crude form of a salary, you need to pay taxes on it.

He doesn’t have any. He grew up in an evangelical household. Studied philosophy and law. Somehow he developed a fixation on the Antichrist, Amageddon and the Apocalypse. He doesn’t have any formal backround in bible studies, though. And some people call his lectures “amateurish talk”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

Sloppy sloppy slop slop?

100% AI text. Not even proof-read. Or they would have noticed the last paragraph is ChatGPT talking to them, not the blog audience.

Plus I don’t think they’ll show up in the Community search, unless someone first (once) adds them via Add remote community and makes the instance aware of its existence.

Oh man, why didn’t I slop-code it. Hold it for two months and then sell out to some mega-corporation… Sounds like easy money. Any other very stupid (and easy) ideas still left?

I’m the wrong person to answer the question. I have a Home Assistant at home. But I don’t really need alarm and video surveillance where I live and with my specific environment(?). So I’m more or less just tinkering around. I have some Ikea Zigbee motion sensors and window sensors to control light and thermostats. And I occasionally solder together some abominations of sensors… And thanks to Home Assistant, all of that can double as some sort of poor-man’s alarm… Send a push notification when there’s movement in the hallway without anyone present…
But it’s not really a proper solution. The Ikea sensors are very nice, but not really designed to do security. And my setup requires Wifi to be available, the Zigbee or Matter bridge, electricity for the server… And the intruder of course can’t steal the server from the broom closet, or I’m screwed… So I think it works for what I’m doing here, but it’s not a professional solution by any means.

Edit: As hopfi pointed out, there’s of course more electronics manufacturers like Shelly as well…

Not sure what hardware or ecosystem to recommend. But the nice local solution tied into Home Assistant is called Frigate. Maybe they have an online community with advice and product recommendations. It’s a bit more involved, though. You definitely need a NAS (server) as well. But that will also be the component that keeps your data locked away from third parties and the government.