/c/café daily chat thread for 28 July 2023

Greetings all, how are you people. I am still battling the bed bugs, now I reduced their population by at least 90 percent, this is my 5th week in fighting these bastards.

DE and Bio-D works well in tandem, now I looking at buying steam cleaner as last resort.

Nice. Did you sleep the same bed everyday? That's gonna be excruciating
- Yes. My bed is the most heavily fortified with diacotemecous earth, underneath looks like Siberia and sprayed daily. I also inspect the seams every 3-4 days to make sure no bugs hiding. I change the sheets every week too.
Had a flea problem once. Vacuumed then applied a liberal amount of dog parasite (Frontline) spray to and around the bed. These sprays target a wide range of bugs.

To the Good Omens fan lurking somewhere here

Does watching it elsewhere other than Amazon Prime affect the viewer number?
- rather recent ask
  
  and from the FAQ
@weecious@monyet.cc
- Thank you! This is good news!

Check out my company anniversary gift 🎁.

How's the audio quality? I'm still wired gang because I'm a rhythm gamer (and former fps gamer) but untangling wires all the time has driven my crazy lol. I'm eyeing a new pair of iems that I really like but they're wired only as well.
- You wanna try it yourself? If you're keen, hit me up on Discord. I'm still using wired too, but I must say not having to deal with the tangled wire is fun.
damn a rm1000 price. how's the quality compared to the sony wf1000xm4? assuming you have these.
- Actually I've never tried the WF1000XM4, this you gotta ask @Yong and amon from the Malaysian reddit. Apparently audio wise, it does lose out to WF1000XM4, but I really like it for its fit, I tried doing jumping jacks with this and it didn't budge. This one is also meant for video calls.

only have just figured out the "All" tab brings posts from other instances into this one

Yep, but only the ones that have federated with us.
- yea understand that part. been making alts on other instances and finding this out makes things easier

I had a huge coding grind outside of work for the past few days and now both my brain and body are paying the price 🌚

just wondering, is it the lemmy bot?
- Yep, honestly I had no idea what I was cooking for the past two weeks lmao and it's just testing and fixing and testing and fixing 🤣
  At least now I have experience on writing new applications and configuring stuff on the go, because I don't have that kind of opportunity at my job.

Massacre at Tripod The Web hosting company over the weekend axes hundreds of fan-created pages, as well as anti-Malaysian government protest sites.

search for something else, did not expect to see that

scores of pro-"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fan sites
idk which one's the collateral, that or Mahafiraun
- Well, around the same time, fanfiction.net got IP banned. Considering Indonesia banned Tumblr it's likely the assumption of erotica content

Memmy destroys battery charge lol.. left house at 5.30am @ 100%, 16 minutes of screen time with the app costed about 8.5% of battery.

I use Bean a lot nowadays. Doesn’t seem to affect battery much & way, way prettier than any other Lemmy apps I’ve seen.
It’s still in limited TestFlight, but the app is nearing feature complete so I’ll expect it to be available pretty soon.

Urgh, i'm beat. Works seems to be harsh lately, or i'm getting weak uhuk

Anyway i found out the best way to browse "All" is to sort by "Top Day" and the interesting thing will float up. I've been using "New" and "Hot" and it doesn't feels right, this one feels just like home.

Time to take a good rest during the weekend!
- Work tomorrow, and Sunday mean working on other project or do house chore 💀

Watched Guardians of the galaxy vol 3 today.

Idk . It sparks this marvel fire that died down ever since no way home to me. Pretty fkin good.

Hooked from start to mid to halfway end. The fight at the end kinda zoned me out a bit. Standard fight I'd say. Just fan service fight. Nothing unique.

Spoiler?

How do you text format spoilers on Lemmy? Couldn't figure this thing out

the way the spoiler work on the editor is whole passage spoiler

::: spoiler title of what you're spoiling text text text :::

inline spoilers à la reddit have the status enhancement: no one assigned on github.

Ate too much I’m about to burst

What hor liao you eat
- Rice, some deep fried pork, sambal kangkung, satay and a local fruit bingsu lol

There's nothing more delightful (I'm not even being sarcastic) to find one of the first messages waiting for you upon waking up is more fedi drama. It's like fandom_wank has returned in my life except more serious because it involves actual nazis

Time to start blocking instances
- oh no need - this one is quite low-stakes in terms of federation. the known bad actor dah lama kena pulau.

I need examples for enshittified platforms i.e. websites that have gone to shit. We got ~~Twitter~~X, Reddit, what else?

And preferably with counter-examples e.g. Masto and Lemmy.

Tumblr's been getting shittier for a long time. They lost alot of popularity when banning nudity back in 2018, and then they introduced "blaze", where you pay for visibility... Some people started returning when Twitter and Reddit turned to shit, but the platform had already deteriorated so much, the only ones who still chose it over the Fediverse are people whose think it's too complicated to use.
- I wouldn't say it's going shittier, my words on the fediverse community to the contrary. Tumblr staff do listen to feedback, for example finally reversing the default tab to Following (chronological feed) from For You (algorithm), they brought back reblog graph, they removed by default long post and reblog trail (the combination of which is called the reblog chain) but gave toggles to turn them back on. I know whole groups of people who were on the earliest LiveJournal who are still active on Tumblr today - they did hit the right spot there. (Those group are resigned to the porn ban, not angry, because they are the kind of people who track things and figured out banning porn and queer contents were about advertising back in early 2000's, tumblr's hands were tied and if people took them seriously back then we might not have advertising-related enshittification today. Those people brought AO3 into being, they are perfectly capable of coding a tumblr clone if they so wish. or move en masse like they did LJ to Dreamwidth, then Tumblr).
  The dashboard redesign took everyone by surprise, but xkit the third fixed it in about a week, and if they were really serious about making everyone use the layout they want xkit wouldn't have worked for about as long as tumblr has existed. xkit developers have come and gone from working on the extension. Tumblr's paid features are fun, extremely regiftable and targeted advertisement doesn't use tumblr data.
  I wouldn't say they are doing things perfectly, but they are the only long-form chronological tagged blogging platform left aside from making your own site.
  Fediverse isn't complicated to use - fediverse offerings are whole different things together. Tumblr users live and die by the tags and chained reblogs. Mastodon has tagging (hashtags) but it is a microblogging system and posts cannot be chained organically (1/12...12/12 style isn't) while Lemmy does not even have a tagging system and based on the people who are actively developing it, will never have. You cannot interact the way tumblr users interact on either.
  And Blaze...has no influence on popularity. Pay x dollar to put this post on y number of random dashboard. One single transaction. No one is going to follow you if you blaze crap.
Niche example: coolors.co used to be a nice, simple website for generating colour palettes. Now it's filled with junk and ads galore.
delicious.
more details on tumblr nsfw purge
for what's it's worth, the recent less strict content guide allows some purged tumblrs to recover their deleted blogs.
Windows and iOS increasingly showing ads in the OS & pushing their own services probably count.
Instagram has been horrible for a really long time, the Fedi alternative is Pixelfed.
Shopee with its forcing ppl to use Shopee Express lol.

Would a classifieds section be good for monyet.cc? Like for buying/selling or services offered?

Yep, we have plan to do that in the future but if you inclined to create and maintain one, please do.
Do keep in mind though, because the content for classified is easier to generate, we might see an influx of ads post all across the front page, which isn't good for anyone, including the fediverse(we might get mail from other instance to take action or get defederated). So it's better to have ground rule attached, and specify what sort of post is allowed.
Better yet if you went through all the submission, or have a scheduled post that refresh every few days.
- A daily/weekly classifieds thread?
- I wish in the future Lemmy devs would give its software tools to fine tune the algorithm, like lowering exposure for the planned classifields community.
- Oooh, that's interesting to know. Thanks!
If you look at some of the communities here, you will notice that there are a lot of other ciplak communities here lol.
Just create one
- From what 🦀 said, after thinking about it, I probably should wait until the software matures - either with improvements of front-page algorithm, or ability to minimize a community's exposure to the whole fediverse. I can definitely see moderation being a huge commitment if at least those two things aren't implemented yet. I'm not a big fan of creating threads due to limited searchability among other issues. I'll sit on this one and deliberate further. 🤔💭