monotremata

I mean, what this whole situation has shown us is the fragility that our reliance on that site creates. It would be a real mistake for us to go back at this point, because it means they (or their successors if they manage to actually sell the sinking platform) will eventually pull this stuff again. Trying to build a replacement community is a very difficult thing because of network effects, but this dramatic fracture has given us the opportunity to maybe pull it off.

So I see this as an attempt to create further disruption that prevents one of these alternate sites from solidifying as a true replacement, and little else.

Oh, thanks. I had totally missed that. That probably explains the widget on the site. And, as I say, it's possible the other person had deleted the chat I was looking for.

I got mine today too (well, apparently it was ready yesterday, but I didn't download it until today) and I was struck that the "chat history" doesn't have all my chats in it. I was in particular looking for the exchanges I'd had with a representative of a company working on a VR headset. I guess maybe the other party deleted them. But I found at the same time that the chat widget on the site no longer has any of my chats in it. It just has a "start a new chat!" button. Super weird. The site really feels to me like it's getting more janky.

Thanks for replying. Does that mean it's just a backend thing? There's nothing normal users can do to affect this, it's just going to take time?

Thanks so much for all your hard work!

Thanks for clarifying that! I didn't have to sign in again, but my account is on kbin.social, so I guess that's why.

Does this affect kbin.social? I know we federate with Lemmy, but I think there are also code differences.

I still have an account there, though I'm not using it much and am considering my options for data takeout and deletion. It feels pretty different to me, though, honestly. I think seeing it as though "things are dying down" is short-sighted. With the mod teams wiped, BotDefense gone, and so forth, I don't think things are going to stay "back to normal" for long, even if you think they're there at the moment, which I kinda don't.

That said, I'm not at all certain the fediverse can take its place. It'll depend a lot on how many folks start to use it. It's an uphill battle.

But Reddit, well, I expect it to head downhill pretty badly.

I use this along with ublock origin in Firefox, but DNS66 doesn't seem to be updated anymore, so I think it's contributing less than it once did.

If you're using Chrome, that's why. Chrome bypasses your DNS settings and uses Google's DNS because they found using the system settings was affecting their ad revenue. Using Firefox fixes this, although in Firefox you can just use ublock origin anyway, which works even better.

It's been a while since I watched that one. I'll have to give it another look. They were also using the barium pigment, but I can't remember if they used the multiple sizes of nanospheres.

I wonder. He did need the snow-scattering effect to get the barium-based pigment to work, but it seems like the dense packing achieved by the varied sizes of nanoparticles might suffice for light rejection without that effect. It didn't sound like he re-tested that with the new recipe.