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[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 20 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Happy 1st anniversary month dt. πŸ₯‚πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‚

Let's spare a moment to appreciate those who stayed and made this thread great and remember those who have left and are dead to us now.

In My Life - The Beatles

Feel free to post your own appropriate song.

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

A special mention to @Seagoon_@aussie.zone who has started many many late night threads. Thank you. 🍺

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 11 points 5 months ago

All hail the mighty seagoon!

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You're welcome. πŸ₯Ή

luv youse guys

[–] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 11 points 5 months ago

Pour one out for the homies we lost along the way 🍺

[–] underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Has it really been a year?? Good heavens. At some point I should probably work out how to use Lemmy beyond the DT.

Thanks all for being fab!

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

To be honest, since Lemmy World (the biggest instance) is borked, there's not very much we can see on Lemmy at the moment. A lot of Lemmy communities are hosted on LW, and with federation delays of a week, you can't really see any of the discussion until after it's fizzled out. But browsing local and the large communities hosted on other instances is nice

[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is someone like… working on that?

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

The Lemmy Devs said they'll fix it in the next milestone release (0.20) I think. In the meantime, someone else on another instance wrote a tool that can be deployed to an instance closer to LW which sends the activities in bulk to the main instance, but I think we're just going to wait until the patch gets pushed

[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 10 points 5 months ago

Sad, I miss some old faces but the community that was I think is dead and fractured. And out of the ashes this one grew. And that’s fine, honestly! I’m just concerned as to how we grow this one so it doesn’t become an echo chamber.

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That is a work of pure art! Love the coconut sprinkles!

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Take the credit anyway!

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago

Nellie? No wonder your kind are endangered. You look delicious πŸ˜‹

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I do miss Reddit sometimes, especially the DT community during lockdown. I regret that some members disappeared or didn't follow. But apparently everyone with a big site wants to be Elon Musk now so yeah :(

This DT is good though, I'm also finding Lemmy a bit calmer.

[–] CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I still browse reddit.

The other dt still talk about us like we're the poorer cousins who lost their way and hope to make it back some day because apparently it's slow over here. πŸ˜‚

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Oh, ok. I don't have any kind of beef with anyone who stayed. I wasn't aware there was any competition or tension.

I just saw the owner openly say that he wanted to emulate Musk then engage in strongarm tactics, and went 'yikes' over where that behaviour might lead. What the site might turn into. Also the whole selling user data to AI thing is not something I agree with. Would potentially consider frequenting both places casually if the owner stopped being a raging jackarse or sold the site. If it was like it used to be.

The mix of people in the DT seems to have changed though. I don't recognise many usernames anymore so if I did ever return that would be another adjustment.

[–] bacon@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

imagining AI serving breakfast daily

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No. Don't even think it. We'd all end up all eating weetbix with honey and bananas. A fate worse than death.

[–] bacon@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

🌾πŸ₯£πŸ―🍌🍌

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No, it would be an inedible slop of incompatible foods mashed together.

Or glue pizza Edit: Or deadly mushrooms.

[–] Baku@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I check in once in a while and the only people I generally recognise are MajorBear and HurstbridgeLineFTW. I feel like a remember Bear being over here during rexxit for a while, but HLFTW was anti Lemmy I think

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago

I kinda miss epicpillowcase's devotion to intellectual and social honesty. If the emperor has no clothes, we could depend on them to prevent that emperor from booking a seat on an airline for the foreseeable future.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Two sites both alike in dignity, in fair Interbutts we lay our scene

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

The fault is in the interwebs

[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I miss jayyberwocky lemon and… shit I forgot his username, the bloke who was gonna have a kid shortly after mine.

[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] TinyBreak@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago

I don’t think so, I think it was a 1 or 2 word username. Pretty sure he and his Mrs have had their kid since.

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Given we routinely outcomment them, that seems a pretty weird opinion.

[–] just_kitten@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Eh, they definitely have a wider range of commenters and much more activity in the main sub. There's no doubt that Reddit still has a lot more momentum and it's mostly the same people here in the DT. I don't mind that of course, but I don't think their opinion is that weird...

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago
[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 8 points 5 months ago

What I feel about Reddit Not sorry to have come here - much more fun and a lot less toxic.

[–] Duenan@aussie.zone 7 points 5 months ago

I’m going to celebrate with a nude homemade coffee! β˜•οΈ

When I go on Reddit these days, I feel myself getting aggrevated really easily.

I wonder if it's always been like that and I hadn't noticed.

Here's to a great space 🍸

[–] Seagoon_@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not very good with words , that's why i don't post much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-tQcvuorHQ

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Blows raspberries! You ARE good with words.