IcedRaktajino

That is what subscriptions and the local timeline are for. The "all" should show whatever is getting the most attention.

"All" is what new users typically see. Or see immediately after clicking from "Local" if that's what the instance is set to default to. New users do not have any subscriptions, and if they're just browsing as guest, they literally can't subscribe or do any kind of curation.

First impressions are important. Someone comes here brand new and the first impression is typically that of an angry mob.

So to get a bigger userbase, the "default, guest experience" needs to provide a good first impression. This....preachy/angry/politics/news flood is highly likely to just turn them away and not even bother trying to curate to find the good bits.

Ooh, nice. +1 for your admin team. Maybe my instance would consider doing something similar. It is a topic-based instance after all.

Less politics, less news, less "I'm mad about this so you should be mad about it too" rage posting/armchair activism, less "ist's and ism's". Less preachy shit about capitalism bad, communism good (or maybe .ml should just be blocked by default?). Less bitching about Reddit (I swear, I've heard less about friends' exes than some people bitch about Reddit here). Less "hurr durr power tripping mods" circlejerking.

More content about cool stuff, hobbies, amazing feats, movies, books, TV shows, etc.

This place has much of the latter but it's completely overshadowed by the former to the point you have to almost dig for it. Even blocking the overt news, politics, and political "humor" communities, it still seeps in to comics and memes and unrelated communities.

There's still plenty of good in this world, but you'd never know it from looking at what's always topping the feed here.

And a new user checking this place out is going to be immediately hit in the face with all of the former and probably not even see the latter.

That's why I'm planning on investing in a solar+battery system for my home this spring. Well, that, and because my electric rate keeps rising.

This is her when she was younger (about 7 y/o). Don't have any recent ones I can post right now where I wouldn't have to blur out the background, etc. Blame the AI tools that let you feed pictures in and return a location. Grr...lol

Yeah, this is the first time I've seen that happen anywhere and why I said "possible" bug report since it could have been a fluke. Just figured I'd mention it.

My 11 year old dog still gets the zoomies.

I saw that one in the feed, but like the technology communities, it seemed more "in the news" in tone. But the !offgrid@slrpnk.net community linked in its sidebar might be appropriate.

What do you call Jeffrey Combs standing around by himself?

"A Star Trek convention"

From what I gathered, these would basically have been used as a last resort when the only other option is dying in space. Given the choice....I'd flip a coin I guess? lol

And also Secretary of Treasury

Star Trek but without the show's lessons....isn't that basically just the Dominion from DS9?

Looking at the cast I recognized from 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, I pretty much assumed this was a Carlock/Fey product and IMDB confirms.

Will definitely check this out.

According to the support ticket I put in last week when I saw the first post about this, the bootloader will be unlockable. Or, at least that's what they said. So here's hoping we see nice debloated/de-googled ROMs.

At the very least, it should be immediately rootable with Magisk.

Nope, sorry. Sally Jessy Raphael is the only person allowed to wear those glasses.

OTOH, let the mask make eye contact so you don't have to.

Honestly, I'm surprised. Was expecting something close to 50/50 or maybe 40% yes, 60% no but this is hilarious and heartening:

You sound like a good candidate for a router role, but just to be safe, I would generally avoid "router" unless coordinating with or organizing a coordinated community mesh. That would allow for the best placement without potentially adversely affecting the wider mesh. Client role will repeat just the same but without "overriding" other, potentially better positioned nodes.

The top of the mountain location, which would provide coverage for both sides, would be the ideal placement for a node in "router" role without consuming a hop to "jump" to the other side.