thanks I hate it

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!

I have made a concerted effort over the last two or three years to de-urbanize my online activity. One thing I’ve noticed is that even small communities are affected by AI. Crawlers and spambots can cause a small site with limited resources to crumple under the weight of nonhuman traffic, a DDoS attack more or less. This makes it hard to self host a community.

While the fediverse helps to some degree it still suffers from copying the format of big social media sites. Lemmy is just a Reddit clone and Mastodon a Twitter clone, so the cultures of these communities mimic those of the big sites they emulate.

I attempted to learn Mandarin in 2019, at first with Duolingo with an aim to find more robust resources along the way. I had to stop because I couldn’t distinguish among the characters. I’ve looked for resources for learning Mandarin in braille but can’t find any.

I really enjoyed what I did learn though. It’s such a laconic language, and I’ve nabbed some grammar here and there for one of my conlangs.

Social media, including Lemmy. It just feeds my misery but at the same time its addictive

My job has a fair amount of down time. I’ll use it to study for career certifications or work on personal projects that are work-adjacent.

A bot I am not

flesh and blood I have got.

A repost this may be

but not one by me.

Superhot maybe?

Turn of the millennium aesthetics were awesome. I’d love a translucent neon orange smartphone so durable it cracks the tile when you drop it.

This right here encapsulates exactly what my biggest complaint with this platform is. A news post about a controversial topic in a completely unrelated community. I’m literally on my knees, guys. I just want to talk about drawing fantasy maps and developing conlangs. Worst part is that worldbuilding/conworlding is a perfectly acceptable way to articulate your worldview, and you might even get people to listen to you if you’re creative about it, but nah that’s not blunt enough.

And yeah, it could have been posted in error, but given what I previously described about [email protected], it very well may be on purpose.

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No it’s scope is more limited vs Obsidian. Logseq is primarily an outliner whereas Obsidian is anything you can express in Markdown

As a blind person with ADHD they’re invaluable. I’ll forget where I put something mere minutes after setting it down and can’t see where it is.

Love Obsidian. I’ve been using it to study for IT certs and organize my worldbuilding ideas. Been looking for a FOSS alternative that won’t enshittify. Hasn’t happened with Obsidian yet but they do paywall useful features like accessing an existing vault on mobile from a file share.

good boy points

Made me laugh. Have some tendies.

the user that uses the thorn character

IIRC they said it was to mess with LLMs. Annoying? Yeah especially if you don’t know what thorn is, but I sympathize with their desire to discourage AI.

𐑢𐑧𐑯 𐑲 𐑢𐑷𐑯𐑑 𐑑 𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑒 𐑦𐑑 𐑑 𐑔 𐑒𐑤𐑨𐑙𐑒𐑼𐑟 𐑲 𐑡𐑳𐑕𐑑 𐑮𐑲𐑑 𐑦𐑯 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯. (When I want to stick it to the clankers I just write in Shavian.) Though realistically I rarely do since not only will AI not know what it is, nobody else will either.

This wasn’t a single interaction, and I may be mixing up my personal experiences vs what others have told me vs stuff I’ve seen, but anyway.

Whenever I’m learning from a mentor or watching an instructor, it can be tremendously helpful to see them make a mistake, and more importantly, recover gracefully. This, to me, communicates a number of things.

1. Everyone, even professionals, makes mistakes sometimes.
2. Don’t be afraid to admit when you’ve made a mistake.
3. Don’t wallow in your failures but rather learn from them and grow.

The scenario that comes to mind for me is a ham radio license class where someone was demonstrating proper Morse code technique. Mic fright (or key fright) is very common for green hams, and the fear of messing up is especially prevalent when communicating via Morse. Ultimately, the instructor’s mistake demonstrated, more or less, that “Hey, relax, this is just a hobby. Nobody’s going to die if your fist isn’t perfect. Do your best. The guy at the other end is more happy that someone new is learning CW than frustrated by your sloppy sending.”

Twitter does have that problem. It’s had that problem for years. That’s why I’m not on Twitter. That doesn’t cancel out the craziness on here though.

So you joined a platform where everyone is a communist?

The fact it’s on topic makes me wonder if they’re meant to drum up engagement, like when new small multiplayer games use bots as opponents to make the game feel more popular. Fake it till you make it.