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Old Man Fire

@ a_crappy_pirate @aussie.zone

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3 yr. ago

middle-aged single dad who lives rural. nerd.

  • Daily Thread: Garfield Mondays 19/06/23

  • nice weather for ducks

  • Daily random thread: Hey, Hey it’s Saturday edition (June 17, 2023)

  • and now it's 5am and i am THOROUGHLY stoned. rest well, everyone! see you when the sky's a different colour

  • Lemmy and Kbin shoutout from Techdirt: Reddit Blackout Crashes The Site As Reddit Users Realize They’re In The Power Position

  • we knew we had the power position when lemmy's world stood it's ground and didn't explode on the day before yesterday.

  • Daily random thread: Hey, Hey it’s Saturday edition (June 17, 2023)

  • ahhh WOO HOO i gave my subreddit the two-weeks-notice that i'm quitting today. fuck that feels better, knowing that the endless toil is ending.

    i'm gonna have a celebration and get baked

  • need another junior mod?

  • that sounds fine by me. i think i might be running around like a decapitated chicken for the rest of the month seeing what needs to be done on which instance and all that, and i'm pretty sure Gigs will keep me busy once more people land in here

  • What are your favorite browser extensions?

  • web of trust, or mywot. puts a little sign next to every link telling you if they're trustworthy. fucken game changer. botsight is a great one for twitter. and buzzkill, well, kills buzzfeed

  • Anti-mod brigading going on within reddit?

  • when has the narrative ever changed away from that attitude? look at how mutahar has acted - knowing that we're doing the right thing but still throwing as much contempt into everything as he possibly can. the only times that people side with mods is when we're taking enormous damage so that general users don't cop it instead, or if there's a power-mad despot who should never have control of anything larger than a toy train

  • Supporting Aussie.Zone

  • so what's the full specs of the machine? would building one of them and then running it at home from an NBN connection be viable, or would it lag to hell more than lemmy's world about 12 hours ago?

    btw when it's time for money, i'll put one hand up and the other into my pocket. this is the sort of thing that i would be happy to fund.

  • need another junior mod?

  • lmao hell no, a dedicated munter never returns to the scene of the crime because getting locked up gets in the way of getting drunk and stealing some rich arsehole's tinny

  • need another junior mod?

  • oh, so they managed to get it off the concrete pillar that i had wrapped it around? good for them!

  • Aussie Bush Doofs @reddthat.com
    Old Man Fire @aussie.zone

    okay let's go

  • Fire Twirling and Spinning @reddthat.com
    Old Man Fire @aussie.zone

    it's not a proper twirling session unless you have gotten at least one first-degree burn

  • community requests - live music (various)

  • yeh i suppose that's a good starting point and i'd let someone know if it was getting too clogged. i doubt that is going to happen for a few weeks at the very least tho, and by that stage i will very likely be in a position to be able to build an instance of my own

  • community requests - live music (various)

  • yes, they would be focused on the various live music scenes that they represent. i think live events would be more important for the entertainment industry than genre-focused communities which could easily be covered in other instances. being more activity-based than interest, i believe that they would benefit from a uniquely australian position

  • need another junior mod?

  • at least it got towed out of the environment

  • need another junior mod?

  • aww, thank you for your concern, but i'm not being troubled by the insomnia in the slightest, and i do prioritise myself immediately after my son because i need to be fit enough to be responsible for him

  • need another junior mod?

  • this is true

  • Melbourne @aussie.zone
    Old Man Fire @aussie.zone

    need another junior mod?

  • Dear Friend u/iamthatis

  • nah, crypto is smoke-and-mirrors and he knows that this isn't, so he's run away

  • How can the fediverse scale and grow to large communities like Reddit without large infrastructure and servers? How can a non-profit driven platform afford to keep the lights on if this takes off?

  • the instance that i'm typing from is being hosted in someone's cupboard with some pretty off-the-shelf parts. i'v probably got enough parts for something similar laying around my house. if instances stay to low populations and the workload is distributed amongst all of them, it's not actually stressing the system all that much at all.

    that being said, as soon as the aussie zone sysadmin asks for financial assistance, i'll be putting my hand into my pocket. again, if enough people do that then it's not much of a cost at all

  • Why not just stop moderating?

  • the thing that did happen with digg that didn't happen with heaps of other websites was a negatively received UI change. people hated it.

    now, people deliberately don't use the reddit mobile app because it fucking sucks, and closing down the alternatives is a negative UI change ...

  • refugee

  • aye, the former mod of r/jailbait can have his cardboard castle and paper crown - let's build something better

    and the mods of r/australia can sit in the hole that they dug too

    SALUT, KANGA !!!!!! nice to meet ya

  • Meta @aussie.zone
    Old Man Fire @aussie.zone

    community requests - live music (various)