Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

  • Something interesting that happened to you
  • Something humourous that happened to you
  • Something frustrating that happened to you
  • A quick question
  • A request for recommendations
  • Pictures of your pet
  • A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
  • Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

  • eagleeyedtiger@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Anyone else got a dehydrator? I recently ordered one and it should arrive next week sometime. I’m wondering what else I can do with it besides dehydrating herbs/fruit/jerky.

    • J52@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I started to answer it but to me it felt too much like ‘surveillance state’ questions…

      • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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        8 days ago

        Any in particular?

        The idea is to get some census like data to learn about the kids of people who use our instance/Lemmy. We’ve put some effort into trying not to scare people off while still yielding useful data. If there is any feedback I’d love to hear it! I can’t change much after the survey has started but I’d love to take feedback into the next time and help other instances too.

        It’s worth noting that no question is mandatory. If you’re not comfortable answering a question you don’t have to (and it’s fine to e.g. skip the “census” style questions and jump to the questions about how you use Lemmy.)

        • liv@lemmy.nz
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          7 days ago

          Feedback I forgot the other day is that kbin no longer exists.

          • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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            7 days ago

            Ah I didn’t spot that when copying over from last year.

            I guess it’s a bit more nuanced, too. I probably would have changed it to Mbin/Kbin.

            Kbin the platform is no longer being developed, replaced by the fork Mbin. But there are still instances called Kbin that are running the Mbin software, e.g. https://kbin.earth/

            • liv@lemmy.nz
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              6 days ago

              So there are.

              Mbin forked before a lot of kbin’s cooler features got implemented, I wonder if they ended up developing them too. Piefed seems closer but I haven’t really explored it yet.

              • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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                6 days ago

                I don’t think Piefed does the microblogging /mastodon thing like Kbon/Mbin. But it seems pretty cool. Developed by a guy in NZ.

                Piefed does have the topics thing where you can subscribe to topics that hold groups of communities, which is cool. Plus new features coming all the time. One of the aims was to write it in Python which is much more widely used so easier to find contributors. Lemmy is written in Rust, which has performance benefits but is also a newer language will fewer people that know it and so fewer contributors.

                • liv@lemmy.nz
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                  6 days ago

                  Oh that’s a pity, I loved being able to follow mastodons via kbin. Kbin was written in php so probably just as niche as Lemmy but for the opposite reason?

                  I think the topics was why I thought Piefed was going to be more like kbin.

  • liv@lemmy.nz
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    7 days ago

    So one of the crysalis is getting near hatching time and I can see his/her wings. It wasn’t attached to anything very solid (I think it was on a leaf that someone else ate) so I went and tied on a lifeline for in case it breaks off when they are trying to hatch.

    Very cold tonight though so I am a bit worried.