fieldhockey44

joined 1 year ago

Check out the book Redshirts by John Scalzi. It’s a meta-satire of Star Trek about what would happen if the redshirts started noticing that anyone who goes on a mission with the captain ends up dying. One of the funniest books I’ve read. As a bonus, the audiobook is narrated by Wil Wheaton.

Aww it’s like a bunny wallaby

[–] fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What sort of description did you use to get this image? Was it just one prompt or a bunch of refining?

[–] fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That’s awesome. How much instruction do you have to give it to be close enough to what you remember?

They may not care so much about that since they don’t make any ad revenue from those subreddits

It’s a frustrating growing pain but I’m glad he’s working on a fix now rather than waiting until the instance gets overwhelmed

[–] fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a fascinating project. I’m of two minds about using the storyboard sketch style for the reconstructed content.

On one hand, the footage is lost, and nothing anyone does will be original, so we shouldn’t try to disguise the truth and try to mimic the real footage with the reconstructed segments. Let the original pieces shine and be honest about what has been filled in.

On the other hand, this is something where the use of deepfake technology or incredibly high quality CGI and audio recreation could be a real benefit, so the audience could be immersed in the story without being distracted by the reconstructed content.

It goes both ways. Do you do your best to show the original content and fill in with just enough to keep the story together, or do you try to truly recreate the lost content even though it will never be exactly what they originally created? Do you supplement or replace?

 

I tried visiting r/pics to see the fallout of its new NSFW status and was blocked by this message.

 

I tried visiting r/pics (which was recently marked NSFW in a protest of malicious compliance) and was blocked by this message. Sorry if it’s already been posted- I can’t figure out search too well.

[–] fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I tried creating an account on lemmy.world at first and could never get it to load correctly. Try joining another instance - lemmy.world is probably overloaded.

Edit: use lemmyverse.net to look through the available instances, their rules, and their uptime stats.

I find the Hot view algorithm kind of glitchy - it always seems to jump to 2-3 year old posts after the first few. I prefer the Top views from the past day or week and the New view. You should be able to set your default view in your settings.

And like salarua said, you can switch between your subscribed communities, local communities (everything on your home instance), and all communities across all instances.

[–] fieldhockey44@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re not the only one! That’s partly why I made that post- on Reddit I would make 1-2 posts a year and only got real traction with 1 or 2 ever. I was always too late for my comments to matter and I usually just browsed and voted.

Here, the community is smaller so each post and comment matters more, and for the most part I’ve found it a lot more welcoming. I realized that engaging more proactively was a lot more fun than on Reddit, and I thought that others would probably be thinking the same way so maybe this post would help break down that passive habit so many of us have from Reddit.

There’s usually no need to join multiple servers. The only really reason would be if the communities you want to interact with are in instances that aren’t very well federated (ie connected to lots of other instances). Then you may want accounts on the more isolated instances to access that content and an account on a more mainstream instance to give you access to the rest of Lemmy’s content.

Managing multiple accounts can be tricky, but I’ve heard some of the apps are good at aggregating the content across multiple accounts. I only have one Lemmy account though so I don’t have firsthand experience.

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