@Advocate I think the slabs may be a technical limitation. They’d have to deal with every combination of top & bottom slab, which might involve tons of new blockstates or an overhaul of how slabs were handled and thus not be very feasible when they have other things to work on.

Or it might be another vertical slabs thing where they say it “liMitS CreAtIViTY”.

Fair point. I’ll loosen up the rules some.

100% with you on tenders being better than nuggets. In general, nuggets have always been kinda eh (sometimes solid, sometimes awful), and dino nuggets are the worst of their kind.

Well, I despise donuts, so it’s probably me.

What? Why would anyone cook it? What would they use that for? Who could hurt someone so badly to make them do that?

Interesting. I might be somewhat of the opposite — I think barbecue’s great, but I’m not a fan of barbecue potato chips. I’ll maybe eat some if there’s nothing else around and I’m hungry, but I’ve just never liked them.

I think the point is more that without the serial comma, the last two items in the list aren’t separated like the others, which (imo) feels like omitting the last bullet point in a list.

EDIT: Fixed a typo.

Haha, this is gold. I’d like to think I fall more into the pedant category (except when something actually matters; then I lean towards moron).

Oof, that’s never fun. When I’m typing a long comment, I always spam copy it so that I can paste it back if I end up losing it. On PC, you can even use Windows+V to pull up a clipboard history, which has come in handy more than once.

Anywho, glad my reply was helpful! There are a lot of ways to interact with the content on the fediverse, and it seems like you’re well on your way to finding one that works best for you. Hope you enjoy it here!

The image icon in the bottom left corner of image posts can be clicked, showing the image at a larger size (i.e., what you’d get if you were to enable “Auto Media Preview” in the sidebar). There are a couple of userstyles that make this more button-like, such as kleanbin and (my own userstyle) idkbin.

The icon I’m talking about

I think there are a few culprits here.

• Not everything wants to be an everything app. While everything in the fediverse uses ActivityPub, that doesn’t mean everything has to aim to be interoperable. I wrote a lengthy rant about this here, but essentially, it’s important to have things with a more specific, restricted purpose if we want the fediverse to be accessible. If someone just wants a thread aggreegator (i.e., just Reddit’s style of media), they shouldn’t be forced to grapple with microblogging features more fit for a Twitter-like. There are some platforms that aim to combine different media types—Kbin/Mbin has both thread aggregation and microblogging, and I’ve heard that Friendica tries to work well with everything. Even so, if someone wants federated Reddit, they should be able to have federated Reddit, and Lemmy aims to provide that. The same way that Pixelfed (an image-sharing platform like Instagram) doesn’t need to incorporate Reddit-style threads or Twitter-style microblogs, Lemmy doesn’t have to do it all.

• Federation is still in the works. Something to keep in mind is that most of these platforms are early in development and still working out a lot of bugs. Kbin (the platform I use) is an obvious example due to its currently incredibly spotty microblog federation (tho I’ve heard that Mbin has implemented fixes to fare better in this regard). We have to be patient while all the kinks are worked out. As much as we all wish it didn’t, software development takes time—a lot of it.

• Admins can sometimes be a bit trigger-happy with defederation. I don’t think the fediverse has quite grasped that defederation is essentially the nuclear bomb of instance moderation tools, cutting off interaction with all users of an instance. While there are times where this is justified (even preemptively, such with Threads imo), there are times where the nuke has been threatened over a quarrel between admins or disagreements about other defederations. Hopefully, this will cool down as the fediverse matures, but we’ll have to see how that pans out (especially with Threads federation growing ever nearer).

Sounds fun. I’ve messed around with Godot a bit myself, though I unfortunately don’t have the work ethic to make a full game out of it. Great to see more people using the FOSS option!

Sweet. I’ve found that trying to make solutions to problems is always a great way to learn more about a programming language or to introduce yourself to a new one. I imagine you’ll definitely learn a lot from this (alongside the more important achievement of making something you can use to maintain your health).

Not forever ago

I myself have taken up two new things:

• This past weekend, I tried my hand at JavaScript. I ended up making a helpful userscript for Kbin, and I’m working on adding some features like settings.
• Since Geometry Dash 2.2 released, I’ve been playing around with the game’s level editor. Currently working on my first level, and I’m pretty happy with how it’s going so far.

Explanation for anyone who wants it: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2878:_Supernova

They’ve been mostly resolved in my experience. Kbin.social has been working great.

@interstellar is being developed for Android, and Lunar is working on Kbin support for iOS. Still a good ways to go tmk, but we’re getting there!

Image uploading on microblog posts should be fine. Right now, Kbin’s image uploading UI doesn’t actually give any visual feedback when you click the upload file button, but it does upload.

In general, Kbin (and by extension Mbin) is quite early in its development, so you’ll run into a good few bugs and odd UI issues. They should be resolved in the near future, and as I mentioned earlier, you can go to /m/kbinDevlog to follow progress.

Welcome! Yeah, the All Content view is great — probably my favorite feature added in the past few months. I have my home page set to Subscriptions (All Content), and it’s the best. I see threads from my favorite magazines and microblog posts on tech & fediverse stuff.