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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • This’ll seem unnecessarily mean but is the truth. Back when I was 18 and working as a cashier, a man and his son, both extremely overweight, went through my line. Idk what was wrong with them, but they both STANK so hard I could taste it. I went home and showered and could still smell it. I could smell it on my clothes so I washed them too. It was so horrible. I could smell it for hours. It was like the smell had been burned into the back of my nose.

    To this day, if I smell something similar to that smell I remember that day and start to panic a little.



  • Thank you. Forget Reddit. I mean, like it’s so hard to move on. She was so great for so long. We have so many… memories. Not all good, but it’s so hard to be alone. This new girl is nice, but she’s not the same.

    Sure, Reddit got pissed while I was out with my friends and trashed my apartment. It was clear by then that our relationship was so messed up, but I wanted to salvage things and rushed home, only to be cornered by Reddit. Reddit was threatening me with a knife and had broken almost everything in the apartment. My friends came to help me and while one tried to subdue Reddit, she bit him and I escaped.

    I moved out and deleted my account.

    Sure, weeks later, I got drunk and browsed Reddit a few times after all that. When I wasn’t drinking, she tracked/stalked me and sent unsolicited nudes. Nice.

    I found a much better girl to hang out with. Sure she federates with everyone, but she federates with me much more. Very cool.





  • I use ad blockers. I do feel for people who are trying to make a living producing content, I really do.

    BUT I really, really, am against letting the big tech companies that serve the ads make the majority of the money. It’s beyond messed up how little content creators make compared to what companies like Google make with ads. Ads make some companies so much money they sink tons of money into finding more ways to creep on our personal lives.

    Kind of related but not completely is how Apple and Google take cuts of money spent in apps and to pay for paid apps in their app stores. Like wtf? Sure, I can understand these tech companies need money to run their servers and all that, but jfc why do they need such a huge cut? App devs, artists (YouTube and Spotify, I’m looking at you), writers, whatever all create content people enjoy and tech companies just corner the market and force people who are usually not great with computers or tech, and they just fuck them. Content creators have no say.







  • Yeah, I think that’s one of the user experience issues we’re facing. Setting the canonical as the original server makes the most sense, but that would mean if you find something interesting via a search engine you have to figure out how to get it to show up on your home instance.

    Like for me, since I run my own instance for myself and one other person so far, I have to find interesting communities manually. It’s really annoying. Though, looking at Lemmy v0.18 release notes, a lot of new devs have made contributions and I’m sure more will help in the future. One improvement from yesterday’s release is visiting a remote community on your home server will pull the community rather than returning a 404. I think changes like that are big first steps towards improving this specific aspect of the user experience.