I’m beautiful and tough like a diamond…or beef jerky in a ball gown.

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Cake day: July 15th, 2025
  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websitetoMeshtastic@mander.xyz•Anyone get this message?
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    22 hours ago

    What firmware version are you on?

    I had to switch to the alpha version 2.7.16 because that kept happening on my Heltecs. I never got that message, though. It would just randomly disconnect and not reconnect again until I hit the reset button on the node and force-quit and restarted the app.

    Prior to that, the only thing that changed or was updated was the app. My node was still running the 2.5.0 firmware from last March.

  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websitetoComic Strips@lemmy.world•[meta] pls stop banning people
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    1 day ago

    What exactly is the issue with self-destructing accounts other than losing the comments, discussions, etc. associated with the posts? Because if that’s the only thing, I don’t see the severity.

    It’s unfair to anyone and everyone who participates. It’s a PITA to save a post to have it just disappear later. Or remember a post and want to go back to it only to find it self-nuked. Yeah, some stuff may get modded but at least there’s a usually correct and valid reason attached. The people doing this and self-destructing are basically unmarked spambots. I fucking hate bots.

    The disposable troll account elsewhere in the comments here said “Content is king” which is the only thing in their statement I agree with. Well, when that content is ephemeral, then it’s not really “content”.

  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websitetoComic Strips@lemmy.world•[meta] pls stop banning people
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    1 day ago

    They are probably new people here trying out the fediverse because a friend recommended it to them

    Yet every one of those “new people” beelines straight to this community and starts posting like a power user right out of the gate. Yeah, that seems legit 🙄. The chances of that happening organically and without some interaction elsewhere is slim to none. The accounts that are finally getting banned are ones that have been posting and self-deleting for months or more.

    could you link an example? also maybe there should be a lemmy-built-in feature to restrict new posts to maybe 10 per day or sth.

    1. Literally no because it just comes up as “Error” and the users don’t come up in search because they delete themselves.
    2. I’ve stopped interacting with accounts less than a month old because they just up and delete themselves taking any of my contributions with them. Like, what’s the point? That’s to say I can’t just go into my history and pull up a dead post link for you.
    3. This has been going on for months if not longer
    4. Such a Lemmy feature does not exist and does not appear to be on the horizon
    5. Even if the number of posts is limited, it doesn’t do anything to stop the self-destructing accounts.

    I had saved several comic posts that just up and disappeared. One of them I remembered who posted, so I checked their history and “Error: person_not_found”. Or I’ll recall a comic from a few days ago and try to find it, and it’s long gone along with the account that posted it. Not modded, not banned, but self-deleted.

    Until there are built-in tools to assist with this and some major change to how Lemmy handles user deletions, I’m 100% in favor of the mods taking whatever measures necessary to keep the community fair to everyone else. These self-destructing accounts have a pattern, and the mods seem like they’ve caught on.

    These self-destructing jerks are the ones you should be upset with, not the mods. Like I said, I’ve completely stopped interacting with any new accounts because of this hit-and-run, self-deleting bullshit. The only ones working against legit new users are the people who keep doing that.

  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websitetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase?
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    1 day ago

    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.

  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websitetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase?
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    1 day ago

    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.