I’d been using mlmym to access burggit before so I really appreciate this!

That’s a he btw.

I used it and understood how it works but I think it’s trying to be too much at once and in turn failing at all of it. I’ll try to break it down in case anyone else was confused:

Basically the idea of kbin is to join Twitter and Reddit but also make it federated. You have communities like in reddit (called magazines) where you can post threads/links like you’d expect. And then you have a microblogging section that’s literally just for people to post like on Twitter, but that section is also federated with other Activity Pub software so you can see posts from people on mastodon and stuff (and they can see your posts too) and you can also follow these people to have your own social timeline. Oh and I forgot to mention but each magazine gets its own microblogging tab so there’s no one unified one.

All in all, I understood it and I liked the UI quite a bit but it’s just too much at once. I don’t understand why you’d want to replace both Twitter and Reddit with just one site. When I go onto Lemmy I immediately get what it’s trying to be and how it works. With kbin, even after I understood it I never “clicked” with it because I just couldn’t wrap my head around having these 2 very different services in one. I much prefer having Lemmy for my reddit-like browsing and my misskey for my Twitter-like browsing.

Oh man what a trip down memory lane. Shuffle is what got me into the medium back in like 2018.

Regardless of moral stances, I’m pretty sure this would isolate burggit to kingdom come. Loli/shota is already dicey as is for many, but there’s barely anybody who would be okay with MAP communities. Not to mention the legal risks and the moderation overhead you would need for this.

Thinking about the health of burggit I would not want this line to be crossed.

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I hope one day phone aliasing services become more widespread like email aliases because this is getting out of hand.

In theory good because we absolutely need interoperability between services.

In practice I know this is just meta trying to find a way to harvest data on as many users as possible. I hate that if I interact with a user on threads that likely means Facebook is getting my data which sucks because I want the service to be open but I don’t want to subject myself to privacy invasion.

Plus the whole embrace, expand, extinguish thing which I don’t think is overblown at all. It’s literally how these corporations work by design.

I follow the misskey creator and admin of misskey.io and never saw art of this shota, but lots of Ai posts, so that’s why I was confused. But maybe he is the mascot of the instance only and I just never noticed. Either way as long as they’re cute it’s all good.

Not to detract from the cute shota but isn’t the misskey mascot Ai? She’s even in the docs

Different communities have different needs so I don’t think it’s possible to standardize tags across all of them. Some might not need them, some might not want them.

Not to mention enforcement of said tag system. Burggit is still relatively small and most communities have 1 or 2 mods. It might get stifling to try and enforce a certain tag system site wide as of now. This is why I decided not to enforce one in my community, I don’t want my already small 20 member community to feel annoyed at having to follow certain naming schemes.

What we really need is for Lemmy to have a tag system communities can take advantage of. But that’s an upstream issue.

They also might not have been the direct image links (which have /ss/ before the file name) those seem to have some trouble embedding properly in Lemmy.

This turned out to be the issue I think. I used url instead of direct_url in the config I made for sharex so I was posting the normal url. I’ll be trying to use shota.nu direct links from now on and see how it works!

I just realized I made a “mistake” and used url instead of direct_url for the response which will cause issues in lemmy specifically as it has to be the direct url being posted. I’ve fixed my post and download link. If you could update it in the OP as well that would be much appreciated!

Ah, I think that might have been the issue. I just checked the URLs I posted weren’t direct image links even though they ended in the image extension. I’ll try with the direct link next time and see if that fixes the problem. Thanks!

That’s true but I always try my best to preserve the original size because I hate downscaling artifacts. I suppose using JPG is the best option if webp is going to have compatibility issues. Thanks for the compressor link!

No json error that I could see, it just was stuck uploading forever.

Last time I tried using shota.nu and linking directly to the images in the URL field, a lot of posts ended up having broken/non-loading images. Are you saying I should be using the post body instead?

Finally. I coudln’t watch youtube before because none of the thumbnails caught my attention. Now I can go through my whole sub feed and be interested in videos!

I was looking for my first Lemmy instance to call home after the reddit debacle because I wanted access to nsfw content without using Reddit’s garbage app.

Initially I went to lemmynsfw so I could make a nsfw community freely in case the type of content I wanted (wink wink c/armpits nudge nudge) didn’t exist already. Then I realized they were really restrictive with content so I searched for an instance (literally googled nsfw Lemmy instance lol) that actually allowed freedom with nsfw content and here we are. I’m happy here with my little niche.

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Oh for sure, the latter half of the manga was not the highlight in the slightest. But the anime didn’t even bother caring to adapt it.

I’d rate the manga’s ending as mediocre, but the anime insults the viewer’s intelligence.