It looks like it’s affecting weather patterns across at least half of the continental US.

The advice is standard: make sure as you are out and about that you are set up to receive severe weather alerts on your phone.

The difference is that now with the government agency cuts (NOAA and FEMA), what does that mean for people in the affected areas?

I just got one all the way over on PieFed.

I feel seen☺️.

That’s still a choice though, to not order more supply. Tbf, if a place is small enough to run out, then the incident rate of the disease is also likely to be lessened. Even so, for something like a childhood vaccination that has enormous effects and provides decades to a lifetime of protection, someone could drive or order more to make sure to receive it?

The flu ones in the past made a ton of sense to not bother with, bc they so often guessed wrong what strain might come, and the effects were not so bad. On the other hand, long COVID is no joke, and the H5 bird flu that is affecting egg prices might be deadly (I dunno really though).

When I was using Lemmy, I also preferred the web UI. It also does things that PieFed does not, like PieFed’s search (like Reddit) is crap, but Lemmy’s is superb. And I like how Lemmy can separate up from down-votes, bc e.g. +16 & -15 = +1 is a very different thing from merely seeing +1.:-)

But over time I simply became too frustrated with its very many limitations, a good fraction of which apps reportedly fix. Although PieFed also fixes them as well, and then some, while still offering a basic web UI. Check it out! But keep your Star Trek account too, and just see how easy and fun it is to use either one to accomplish something:-).

The chief reason I keep harping on this is that PieFed is written in Python, so is much easier for a community to edit, compared to Lemmy that is written in Rust, which is notoriously difficult even for those who already know C++. The pace of development of Lemmy is thus extremely slow, in comparison. But if it works for people then that’s great, and yet for that audience all I can do is recommend an app to try to address issues such as these that otherwise languishing for months to years without being worked on.

I posted this issue 4 months ago. But there are so many caveats, like Lemmy.World still hasn’t updated Lemmy past software version 0.19.3 so the bug doesn’t even happen on it (having been introduced later), whereas StarTrek.website has the latest 0.19.9 and it does auto play - see e.g. this example video post). The GitHub issue looks like it was simply closed, pointing to another one that says that it is fixed, except ofc we can clearly still see the behavior happening. It also happens on Mbin as well, more or less.

Edit: okay so clicking the above example does not trigger the behavior, plus shows me as logged out for some reason. Try this search link, which for some reason retrieves the post twice (database weirdness issue? It took forever the first time to find it btw, so that does seem likely?), but clicking either one auto plays for me with sound, only when logged in with a Startrek.website account, and in Firefox on Android.

I have since switched to PieFed bc I like the features here much better than Lemmy, and e.g. this issue does not happen here (edit: although here is an example of an embedded YouTube and piped video post - note it waits to be clicked to play). If you want to keep your Lemmy account though, you might try switching to an app that you like better. Thunder and Voyager are great ones, and I’ve heard wonderful things about Sync and Connect.

Lemmy only updates things extremely slowly (example). Thus, very few people seem to prefer using the basic web UI, as opposed to apps.

Beans, tankies, jeans, Taylor Swift’s jet, and I too use Arch Linux btw - we have lots of choices to cycle through, over and over again… over and over, over and over… 🤪

As others are also noting here, the antivax movement is not all one monolithic concept - and especially people that would get all the childhood vaccines for their kids may not get the COVID ones, or oddly enough DO get those, but somehow are also against all vaccines at the same time as well? So I don’t even know: it’s like it appears more popular in theory than in actual practice?

I wonder if people get the vaccines for their kids out of love, but then out of fear don’t want to admit that in order to avoid standing out against their local crowd.

This about sums it up:

Thunder is pretty neat - I haven’t tried it with an account yet, but I do see it is pretty smooth even just browsing as a guest:-). And I LOVE how it is FOSS.

I should download Thunder and check it out in advance:-).

In that particular case I believe it’s left wing - echo chambers can function on both sides.

I am sure that the really real extremists are elsewhere, not here where everything is visible on the clear and open web. Similar for the left and right side, as well as other types too (e.g. climate). But in general this place does skew more towards leftism, when politics are discussed. And, like Reddit also, sometimes people are literal actual children, though here people do trend towards being older, and more educated, particularly in regards to using Linux.

Social media connects humans together, and all that that entails.:-)

To fill that niche, there’s always Hexbear, or diluted 1000-fold, the still Alt-Left lemmy.ml instance.

I don’t begrudge someone being “stupid” or ignorant, I begrudge them being obstinate and willfully remaining that way, especially when it crosses over into taking away my own freedoms.

It is helpful to have posts from multiple communities delivered to you though, in a conjoined “Feed” - e.g. here is an example of a PieFed one called “Fediverse”. Personally I disagree with not showing the full name of the community in the feed like that, but when you click on an actual post you see at the top the entire thing including what instance it is located on (and for some, the little icons can differ as well, which I particularly see for communities located on Beehaw, which really helps to distinguish e.g. technology on Beehaw from technology on Lemmy.World, etc.).

Tbf, federation delays occur for every instance - and in particular Lemmy.World is well known for how they cause them.

OTOH, the flagship instance PieFed.social does have quite a bit more of those than I’ve typically seen on any Lemmy instances. Here is a list of other PieFed instances readily available to join. They won’t have features be added as quickly, but might be more stable.

The feeds are also (now), in addition to being user customizable, shareable as well. So yes you can create your own, but also you may not have to, and instead just find one already made and maintained by someone else with similar preferences:-).

Mostly relating to small matters of polish. Like there’s a post preview feature, but that isn’t provided (yet) for comments.

One super annoying feature is when you receive a notification for something that you cannot actually see. Sometimes it relates to all the variety of auto-collapsing or auto-hiding of comments (therefore I turned all of that off), but e.g. you can receive a notification from someone that you have added to your block list if they reply to you, yet you will then be directed to a page displaying an error (when instead, that notification itself should have been removed by the PieFed backend).

Oh, and searching is crap (tbf, Reddit’s is too? However, Lemmy’s is fairly great, and about to get even better by separating out post titles I hear), plus while cross-posts are properly joined together, you cannot actually initiate a cross-post from PieFed.

PieFed is great for a new person to join the Fediverse, or for an old hand (who knows how to go to Lemmy in order to get around these limitations) to use as a daily driver, but it hasn’t reached feature parity yet with Lemmy.

OTOH, it has already surpassed Lemmy in so many ways, and Lemmy is not without its quirks as well. Chief among those might be how authoritarian it is - there is a modlog, but no modmail, and the account name of the mod who performed an action is actively hidden, replaced with just “mod”. Also the “instance blocking” feature is horribly misnamed, as it only acts as a community mute, whereas in contrast, PieFed has a true instance blocking feature that I use to block all users from lemmy.ml, regardless of what community or instance they are posting to. No need for an instance admin or defederation or anything - and you can reverse it anytime to boot! That one feature alone is what enticed me to join it, when it was much less developed - that feature is so helpful!

As are the hashtags, categories of communities, keyword filtering, and the list just goes on and on. Ahem, but yes nothing is perfect, and it does have quirks, some of which can be quite annoying. Fortunately the pace of development is extremely quick, and the dev very friendly and responsive.

Go to the community, e.g. [email protected], and just to the right of the name, you’ll see a bell icon. If that has a slash through it, which it should by default, then you will NOT receive notifications for that content. Toggle it to ON if you want them though.

I have greatly reduced my number of notifications from communities, since they can really pile up, especially for high-volume communities, and all the more so if you don’t check them multiple times a day. But for very rarely posted to communities, they can be a great way to ensure that you won’t miss something by other ways of reading, like your Subscribed or one of the Topic Feeds, which just recently were made to become user customizable and also shareable.

You can also sign up to receive notifications for Feeds too. Or a user. Or a post - most anything really. You can also toggle OFF notifications for a post or comment that people keep bothering you with, without having to delete it (this happened to me a couple times, once on Hexbear.net and again in lemmygrad.ml).

There are some quirks that PieFed still needs to fix, but overall I’m so happy with it! I’m glad you are enjoying it as well. Keep us all updated, in communities like this one, if you have other questions or feedback or anything - the Fediverse is getting active again all of a sudden, with all the enshittification happening on Reddit recently!:-)