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casual Q: what are some of your latest hyperfixations?
  • I have two currently. I love painting miniatures, I work from home and will do it during my working day when I need a break.

    My other fixation is a friend of mine who came back into my life recently. She's amazing and knows what's happening. I have a partner who is also amazing and understanding.

  • is federation with lemmy.world working?
  • I'm no longer a bot 🙂

    When I check the post I've linked above it only has my two comments and a single reply in one thread.

    Checking that same post directly on lemmy.world there are 29 comments across 8 threads.

  • is federation with lemmy.world working?

    Hello.

    I have a post I made to a group on lemmy.world that doesn't seem to be federating.

    The group is !aphantasia@lemmy.world. The post can be found here https://lemmy.nz/post/322993 and the same one here https://lemmy.world/post/108808?scrollToComments=true

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    How did you find out you're an aphant?
  • The funniest bit was after I'd done an online autism screening test, I sent the results to my wife saying I think I may have autism. She responded saying she's known for a long time.

  • How did you find out you're an aphant?
  • I found I had aphantasia as a flow-on from something else I was investigating.

    I have known for a long time that I had trouble watching movies because I lose track of who the characters are. My wife started watching Married at first sight and I got really confused with it. 3 of the ladies had the same shaped face, hair style and colour and I could not tell them apart at all. I searched on Google to find out why and found about Prosopagnosia.

    Reading about this it mentioned it was common with aphantasia. I kept reading and it sounded more and more like fiction. This idea that people could see images, make sounds, imagine touch and actually feel it all. I asked my wife if it made sense to her, and she just looked at me like I was mad.

    Doing more reading since, I've discovered I have SDAM as well as autism. Sometimes life would be amazing if we got an instruction manual for our minds.

  • DAE
  • It's different to that, I experience emotions and can express them in real time. However, after if I think back to a memory the emotion is there but like a line written in a book. 'I was having fun and happy...', but thinking about that memory will not give me a happy feeling. Talking with my wife she can re-experience the emotion when she recalls a memory.

    My memories are like lines of knowledge in a book, everything is a fact and stored as such. It makes me amazing at remembering knowledge, facts and how to do things.

    I know lots of stories about my kids as they're growing up, and yet I cannot recall/remember what they looked like as little kids. I do recognise them most of the time in photos.

  • DAE
  • I have no minds eye at all. There are no voices in my head aside from mine that I can control, no pictures, feelings or other senses.

    I pick at my fingers as well, generally when I'm tired or stressed.

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    Antiwork was forced to reopen by the admins
  • Email has the same problems as federated lemmy servers.

    Mail Servers can end up on distrubuted blacklists and unable to communicate with each other. When office 365 has an outage it causes huge problems because it's a single large provider having issues. That provider goes down but not email as a whole.

    This is the same as what happened about a week ago when lemmy.ml and lemmy.world went down due to load.

  • Model Makers @lemmy.ml Whitt @lemmy.nz
    What's everyone working on?
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    for the Reddit refugees, do you also feel a bit heartbroken?
  • Lemmy is opensource, you can see and get a copy of the source code here. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy There's no development cost because all developers are volunteers at this stage.

    For each instance that depends on the admins running that individual instance. The instance I use is being sponsored by a NZ company that are providing the admin's a free virtual server to host on.

  • Model Makers @lemmy.ml Whitt @lemmy.nz
    Tamiya motorbike I'm painting in 1/35 scale
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    I'm noticing a much smaller list of communities here

    Hello, When I go to communities and list all, I can only see two pages of communities. If I search for a community I know about there's a good chance it does not show until I go to https://lemmy.nz/c/group@instance

    Once I do that I can subscribe to the community and it's behaving normally.

    Is this an effect of it being federated?

    Thanks

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