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Cake day: February 25th, 2024

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  • Yes, sort of, in the Voyager app, but it’s awkward and unintuitive.

    Pretend you’re going to create a new account or log into a different server through Voyager’s interface. Search up the server you want (sh.itjust.works in your example). Tap it so there’s a checkmark on its entry in the list, but instead of pressing the big blue Next button at the bottom, tap on the three dots in a circle icon in the upper right, and choose “Connect as Guest”.

    Then it will be one of the account list entries and you can switch to it like you would switch to another account. Go to the community list from there and select Local. Now do a very awkward dance if you find a post that you want to interact with from your logged-in account. Best way to use this “feature” is probably just as community discovery to then subscribe from your account.










  • There’s no aggregate karma on lemmy, so farming is meaningless.

    Upvote posts and comments that are particularly interesting/valuable/topical/insightful, which often means that I agree. Downvote those that detract from meaningful discussion. Sometimes downvote on disagreement is a fine line, and it mostly depends on why I’m disagreeing with the author. If their opinion is racism, sure they get a downvote, and if they’re particularly abusive maybe also a report. But if they just see things differently that’s neutral.

    I probably only vote on about 5% of the content I read, and engage in comments in 1%. As a poster I expect similar numbers from others. I don’t get over collecting fake internet points, but it’s important feedback to understand that people out there are reading your content and that someone finds it meaningful or useful enough to upvote. If you were just yelling into the void with no engagement, you’d likely stop pretty quickly.

    I’m vaguely aware that I’m feeding the LLMs of tomorrow, but I engage in the fediverse to interact with humans today, and it’s important to see that some humans get value from the content. Formulating comments is a lot more effort than clicking the up arrow, and there’s often no real need to elaborate - 20 “I agree!” comments would just be annoying for everyone to read.



  • Oh you’ve misread my mentality. I’m very concerned about all of the terrible things happening in the country and I have plenty of friends in marginalized groups to believe.

    The point of this post was actually about how creepy it is that USCIS has fully embraced facial recognition and feels it has a sufficiently low error rate to use it with no secondary validation for approving citizen reentry (at least at airports where all passengers are sufficiently well off to afford plane tickets). That gives a lot of credibility to otherwise unsubstantiated concerns about government surveillance and the consequences thereof.


  • I fully believe racial profiling is real and as a white male I look like the maga demographic and benefit from the institutionalized racism. Although in the particular immigration experience I posted about I was also traveling with someone US-naturalized South Asian-born with heavy accent and someone with dark skin and stereotypical “black hair” and all of us sailed through. So did everyone else in the line with us.

    It was a stark contrast to the fascist paramilitary abduction videos we’ve been seeing from all across the country (see [email protected]). I’m not sure what to think of it.





  • Each alias has a configured delivery destination. Aliases that only point externally never reach the main account inbox.

    You are limited to replying from the gmail unless you jump through more advanced hoops. Those include telling gmail in its settings that it can “Send mail as” something else, and also giving gmail authorization to send mail for your domain by adding them into your SPF and DKIM records. Those are more complicated than I want to describe here, and it will be complicated to merge both mailbox.org and gmail into them, so if you don’t already know about them, let’s just say yes, you can only reply as the gmail user.