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I make things, and people seem to like them.
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Can’t steal what is freely given! Hope you enjoy
Awesome! Happy to have provided a semi-decent place to start. I’m curious what things you end up tweaking :)
You’re too kind :) I think themes are a great way to differentiate instances, and having some community-made Beehaw themes available would be really cool!
Thank you! I played with lemmy.ml a bit since that’s been updated, and it looks like ~80% of what I did should still work. But it does reveal the issues with making these client-side changes
I tried, but it’s either beyond the scope of CSS edits, or simply beyond my abilities haha. Maybe proper themes installed to the instance could make that possible though!
I just released a theme based on this post if you’d like to try it!
Hey there! If you’re still interested in trying it, I just released a theme based on this post!
I’m a NYC native, and I am always struck by the accessibility of cultures we have to offer. Any time I discover a new cuisine or dish I haven’t tried, I’m basically guaranteed to find it in this city. There are lots of things I hate about NYC, but I love that we’ve got so much of the world to offer, with a transit system that can get you there.
Love this feedback, thank you! It’s a really interesting exercise, trying to make something that isn’t professional - I’ve worked so long in our modern “clean and simple” landscape that it’s tough to remember when I was younger, and things were more wholesome, simple, and authentic. I agree, for a site that is by definition “alternative,” these logos are a bit too corporate looking. Glad you like the theme though!
Thank you for the kind words! I agree, I said in another comment but this is all “bee” and no “haw” in a way I figured wouldn’t quite fit the feeling of the site. My design practice is unfortunately so “commercial” that it’s hard to get my preconceived notions of icon design out of my head. Balancing approachability and character is tough! If I do another round, I’m gonna somehow get a cowboy hat in there haha
Something I haven’t seen mentioned is an alternative to /r/BuyItForLife - I’m often looking for honest thoughts and reviews of products from real people, but it feels silly to pop into !chat and ask what bike pump or jean brand or whatever people recommend.
This is one of those albums I come back to every couple months just to get lost in it. So much anger and wrath that resolves to so such relief and self-empowerment, there aren’t many albums like it. I think it’s the best of her trilogy of widely-released albums, but God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It and His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering are also absolutely stellar.
Oh wow, /r/AskBibleScholars (and /r/AcademicBiblical) were instrumental to me years ago when I began to lose my faith, and helped me arrive to the much healthier place I am now. I had no idea the same person was, in part, responsible for Beehaw. Hopefully we can bring some of those communities here in due time - they do too much good to be lost.
Thank you, Chris. I am so thankful that you’re here right now, and it’s a pleasure to be here with you.
I completely agree with this take, including the “I hope I’m wrong” bit. It just looks… bland? Like it’s relying on the idea of space being expansive and vast and full of… well, everything that exists - but in the end will it just feel like a Bethesda game with a space assets subbed in?
Then again I still play No Mans Sky so my desperation to be a space-man is obviously without limit.
I at least succeeded with my partner, so the most private conversations I have are safe in Signal. But unfortunately Meta knows just about every party, dinner, or event I’ve been too for the last ~8 years from having planned it in either Messenger or Instagram. It’s shame we have to choose connection over privacy, and I hope someday someone hits on the magical combination of privacy, UX, and blind luck and makes a service we can use without feeling like a product.
There’s definitely a trust issue. ActivityHub doesn’t fundamentally change that unfortunately - Meta would still see everything I post or say, and can still build a profile on me if my posts are visible in their app. You bring up an interesting thought though - my understanding is that ActivityHub would make migration to other platforms easier… even migrations off first party apps, if a Digg/Reddit/Twitter-style event occurred? Might help prevent some of the tomfoolery we’re seeing now.
Or I’m also naive, I guess we’ll find out.
I genuinely believe this could be successful.
Mastodon STILL has UX issues, and the rest of ActivityHub and the Fediverse are impenetrable to the average person. That will change over time, but in the meantime, I can’t even get people to use Signal for god’s sake, let alone explain which Lemmy instance is best for them.
I still have an Instagram because my friends do. Without Instagram DMs and iMessage, I lose real life connections. If they fold in a Twitter-esque client to Instagram, that I can interact with from Mastodon if I want? That sounds like a really strong value proposition to me, and is the only way your non-techy friends are joining this parade any time soon.
But also, we’ve got to make sure these massive companies don’t snuff out what Lemmy and Mastodon are building. There’s a group of suits somewhere right now thinking of how to monetise this platform, and we need to be prepared for that.
I went LiveJournal > Digg > Reddit, and there’s definitely a similar energy to the Digg days - but the level of organization we’re seeing here feels totally new. The other difference though, is that the Digg migration had direction. It felt like within a month we had all moved to Reddit. I don’t see that happening here, so really this is uncharted territory. It’ll be fun to watch, that’s for sure.
Appreciate it! I think a stretch-goal for the future could be a “muted colors” toggle, to tone things down a little while keeping the rest of the changes