OIC that explains a lot. I had heard that Lemmy.ml had a lot of CCP sympathizers but was unaware they wore it on their sleeve like that.

Another good suggestion is to click on the “communities” link on the homepage and that will give you a list of all the communities on that instance, then sort by “new” or “scaled” to see new stuff.

!worldbuilding!worldbuilding@lemmy.world needs more love. If you like getting lost in other people’s imaginations it’s a great place to go.

Comms dedicated to specific animals are nice, mostly pictures. I lurk on !foxes!foxes@lemmy.world, and I wish there were a comm for orangutans so I could stop lurking on /r/orangutan.

I feel like I’m opening a can of worms by asking but what is “non-ml”?

I write some short fiction, mostly just worldbuilding with a thin plot attached to make it more palatable. Sometimes just sitting down and forcing myself to put one word after the other helps. Sometimes I read similar stories to get inspiration. Sometimes I browse images to get in the mood. I have a mood board using Pureref that I fill with sci-fi stuff like mechs.

Since I’m first and foremost a world builder, not an author, I’ll try other media besides writing to express my imagination. Visual art is hard for me for various reasons but I try anyway. I’ve tried pixel art as well as 3D models (hooray for Blender!)

The Uncanny Valley

https://lemmy.world/post/39732327

It can be hard. I have yet to see an elegant way to navigate threaded chains of comments. It’s like “UltimateGamer386 <tab> <tab> <tab> <tab> <tab> [actual content]”. On Reddit, at least Old Reddit, the upvote and downvote controles were the only buttons and were located immediately before the actual comment, so you could go from button to button, then press down arrow to read the comment.

I have enough vision to navigate to some degree, at least on a desktop. For laptop or phone it has to be a screen reader. I really should be reading braille more.

I was just thinking the other day that a dedicated semantic tag for user replies like <comment> or <reply> or <post> would be nice, and they could be nested.

Agreed. In a way though I should expect this. Most people on the fediverse are here for ideological reasons, including myself. We dislike the corporate platforms that the fediverse seeks to replace. Simply having an account here makes a statement. But what exhausts me is when I go onto a community like mildlyinteresting expecting to see pics of three-chambered peanuts and yellow stop signs but most of it is stuff like “French President explains the political consequences of AI.”

Es mucho más fácil escribir que hablar.

Tengo una licentiatura en español pero no lo he hablado en años entonces no soy fluido.

I actually didn’t know you could block users on Lemmy until now. I’ve been blocking all the big communities so my main page isn’t clogged with stuff I’m not interested in.

What are your thoughts on AI powered screen readers?

One of my biggest gripes with AI is that it requires a cloud connection most of the time, and I’m all about my PC being my personal computer.

In terms of usefulness I can see it maybe for image description.

I was born blind.

It’s an unfortunate dilemma. To sustain an active niche you need a huge user base like Reddit. But if you have a huge user base costs start piling up and the temptation to lessen the experience to pay the bills (or appease shareholders) grows.

The issue with the fediverse is that its members are highly self-selecting. If you’re an average Joe looking to join an online community, it’s going to be Reddit, not Lemmy, Twitter, not Mastodon, or Facebook, not whatever the fedi equivalent is. So the likelihood of amassing enough average Joes who just want to look at funny pictures of orangutans or talk about video games with anyone regardless where they fall on the political spectrum is small.

And I always thought that was the point of these little niches. Alice the gun nut likes vintage 80s computers, and Bob who wants to seize the means of production also likes vintage 80s computers, so Alice and B have fun together talking about vintage 80s computers despite their differences. The problems arise when Alice goes into the vintage 80s computers community and tries to make everything about guns.

I admin an instructional data center at a community college.

Probably NVDA for Windows. Microsoft has tried to flesh out Narrator but it’s still the MS Edge of screen readers IMO, you use it just to download another screen reader. The fact that VS Code is built around NVDA and not Narrator should show how MS feels about it.

That is incorrect. Certainly at least not a bare hand. I’ve heard of people catching it midair with a bagged hand but that was when the dog was having an accident IIRC.

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I hate those sayings that nobody ever finishes. “Speak of the devil” didn’t make sense until I learned the rest “…and he shall appear.” “Better the devil you know…” is another one. There are more I can’t remember off the top of my head.

Trump is sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

Biden was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

Obama was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

Dubya was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

Clinton was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

Bush 1 was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

Reagan was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

Forgive me if I’m a little numb to it all.