Furry Technologists

If you're a Jerboa app user, there will be a little bit of mayhem today.

From my understanding:

• Jerboa 0.34 will only work on Lemmy 0.17.4
• Jerboa 0.35 will only work on Lemmy 0.18.0

pawb.social is currently on Lemmy 0.17.4.

Jerboa 0.35 was just released today, and will be propagating to app stores soon - if you update before pawb.social moves to 0.18.0, I think the app won't let you log in.

If pawb.social updates to 0.18.0, Jerboa will stop working until you update to 0.35

ljdawson has also created a community on lemmy.world (https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy) to discuss development, features, etc. Just a r/RedditSync has operated.

I'm excited to get the experience of Sync here on Fedi! Sync has been how I've experienced Reddit for years now, and I can't wait to see how this project goes.

I think I joined the Fediverse misunderstanding how it works. I went in under the belief that:

• Under the hood, everything is an ActivityPub post
• Lemmy, Mastodon, PixelFed, and PeerTube are "interfaces" or "views" for the underlying ActivityPub post
• All 4 can interact with eachother
• I only need 1 account

For the last point I found out that the answer is "yes...but actually no."

Based on the "ActivityPub Magic" thread (or Mastodon Post?), I see that Mastodon users can reply to the Lemmy thread (with some limitations) and follow Communities. Cool.

I see a Lemmy thread and a Mastodon post as serving 2 different purposes. Sometimes they overlap. But maybe I want to post something on my Mastodon timeline just for something general going on in my life that I don't necessarily want to post into a Lemmy community. Now let's say I started with a Lemmy account.

Unless I'm wrong, the only way to make that post would be to make a Mastodon account that's seperate from my existing Lemmy account.

I thought part of the beauty of the Fediverse was that someone could be following "me" and choose whatever "interface" they want. Instead it looks like they would be following "me@Lemmy", "me@Mastodon", "me@PixelFed", and "me@PeerTube".

And then there's the whole defederation of instances maybe requiring multiple accounts, but that's another topic. Now, to be clear I do see the use case of having multiple accounts for different instances (e.g. having a furry account and a general one).

Is there a roadmap for "merging" accounts between platforms? I understand that question might be more towards Lemmy/Mastodon/etc. developers than server admins, but just seeing if anyone here knows.

r/piracy post

the purge already start....

ActivityPub magic?

So you can tag Lemmy communities from Mastodon like @tech and it just makes a new thread on Lemmy?

My imagination is a bit small, so I'm not seeing the immediate utility of this. How do you vote/downvote? How do you subscribe to a community? Those interfaces aren't present on Mastodon.

In a response to Spez threatening to put reopening subreddits to a poll, /r/pics has gotten ahead of the game and voted to reopen, but only allow "Images of John Oliver looking sexy".

Really nice video on this, what are your thoughts? How can we turn it around?

The title is from this video, although that one is very short.

I'm glad I've given up on Reddit after the blackout, this proposal to vote out moderators will only encourage raiding, as only the people who pay attention to the votes will decide who stays on. And let's not forget that one of the cornerstones if Reddit has always been that you can make your own sub.

Who'd of thunk it :)

I made a userscript (eventually converted into a userstyle) so I could go sightseeing across lemmy and spot all you animals out in the wild. pawb.social, pawb.fun, and furry.engineer are pre-filled already, but you can add other servers to track as well!

Edit: Special mention to redyoshi49q@furry.engineer for this post, whose techniques resulted in CSS to achieve parity with my userscript. My older userscript should not be used anymore, as the CSS will do the same thing but more efficiently.

Instructions:

1. Install Stylus extension for firefox/chrome

2. "Write new style" in the addon settings

3. Copy paste the CSS code below in

4. Modify the code around line ~11 in order to reflect your homeserver and any additional frendservers that you want to highlight. Currently it's set to pawb.social and the mastodon servers that pawb.social also operates, but feel free to add some of the furry instances below as well (post in the comments if you've got a good furry instance to add here!):

• yiffit.net
• meow.social

5. Modify the code around line ~19 to reflect your homeserver

6. (Optional) If you'd like your homeserver buddies to have a different marker, uncomment the various sections around line ~27 through ~50 by removing the /* and */ bits

7. (Optional) Play around with different markers and colors!

CSS/Userstyle: https://gist.github.com/redyoshi49q/f1b2d1da0a8f7536aba1f8c3110d2dd8

Yes. That's a Valid configuration for these things

Not strictly Furry, but I do ise it to access FurryMUCK a bunch soooooo I say it counts XD

I built this when I was between contracts, to be a server crashcart and a platform for my infosec tools. It can be a srandalone machine, or with the press of a few buttons it can be a keyboard, mouse, and screen for an external machine. And yes, the visor DOES work as second display :P

If you're curious, the full build log is here: https://medium.com/@garrwolfdog/bui.....k-799a3412557a

People really really really need to leave Twitter already.

Interesting read from r/rust, where they discuss Lemmy as a possible alternative, including the option of soft-forking it. It seems like Lemmy's explosion in popularity is well timed.

Not sure if this is the place for hardware repair stuff, but can't find a community for that, so... yeah.

It looks like the dremel slot is too wide for a screwdriver to catch on. (And also ow, marred the back panel. Not much we can do about that.)

Might try the rubber band thing? That's another trip to the store, but fortunately rubber bands are pretty cheap...

(the laptop works fine, we just want to upgrade the SSD)

-- Frost

Get ready for the next bubble, folks.

Hi I'm Soatok and I'm a gay furry

Happy Pride Month uwu