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Cake day: February 18th, 2024

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  • Yeah, I get shit occasionally in random places for using bigger words when they actually would take multiple sentences to replace.

    But there are a fucking lot of people who use big (or obscure) words purely as a kind of signaling that they’re smart, rather than for communication. And it’s usually really obvious to people who have better vocabularies (or better understanding of the jargon in a specific field) that they don’t know what they’re doing.

    If after looking up a word, the rationale for the word choice doesn’t become understandable on at least some level, it’s probably nonsense. (There are some super smart people who just don’t know how to communicate though and think the word’s as simple to everyone else as to them.)








  • Certain loans and contracts can prevent you from being able to sell something without the lien being lifted.

    For example, if you have a mortgage on a house, or in some cases if you’re paying a contractor to do renovations, you can’t just sell the house out from underneath them and run with the cash. Someone “buying” shit with a lien on it could outright lose it in some circumstances (though it would be pretty hard to get there for land because the process is so protracted).






  • Pixelfed supports tags, so even if the official team didn’t want to do that, it should be possible to make an alternate front end with different tools to allow you to categorize pictures in other ways without having to interfere with the actual mechanisms/structures storing pictures.

    It would also be perfectly possible to branch further from Pixelfed, but still keep compatibility federation-wise to leverage the social stuff. This would, in theory, allow you to focus more on the portfolio aspect on your own site, while still also having the social feed portions for people to follow your work in real time. It might be easier to implement something like requiring moderator review before a comment on a picture displays with a harder fork.

    That’s all way past the scope of what I’d have time for, though. I’m more likely to make something simpler from scratch that fits my own criteria.



  • So what I mean is that, to me, a real gallery type site would allow you to do things like filter down by tags and explore specific types of posts by an artist that catches your attention, with combinations of filters, etc. (This would obviously depend on how they used tagging as well.) pixelfed is also built around adding pictures as posts.

    There are third party clients that can present information different ways, but the actual website is how you’d generally expose people to your content (especially because it’s not something massively popular like instagram). It also, while good at what it is, just doesn’t provide the kind of control over structure and organization that I personally would prefer to share my pictures with, which is why I haven’t managed to bring myself to add my pictures in bulk there.

    But like I said, it’s good at what it is and may fit his needs better than mine, so it’s worth a good look.