@jmb I had a similar experience! https://harihareswara.net/posts/2017/learning-to-get-around-in-java/
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I’ve been having a poke around with Java (haven’t really touched it since leaving Uni in 2001) to try and see if I can help with @Edent ‘s https://github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons/issues/802 But crikey it’s complicated to compile with dependencies… grad... -
anybody got a paragraph or three about what made cohost great, that you didn't experience with, say, fedi, aimed at those of us who never got into cohost?@pho4cexa I suspect that some of that home/safety/sanctuary feeling depended on the antifeatures (how hard it was to discover users' accounts and posts), and that we may benefit from considering the tension between the desire for sanctuary and the desire for discovery/publicity/serendipity (and some platforms' need to grow # of users)
Another approach to that tradeoff is Hometown https://runyourown.social/ and I've never been a member of a Hometown instance, but it sounds nice
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anybody got a paragraph or three about what made cohost great, that you didn't experience with, say, fedi, aimed at those of us who never got into cohost?@pho4cexa As I gather:
it is *playful*: the CSS "crimes", a culture welcoming hyperbole and absurdism, and openness to experimentation with post styles and lengths
the people: my perception is that a majority of Cohost posters are queer, and a *significant* proportion are trans, so there is some feeling of home/sanctuary because of that
the size/slow growth: never had an influx of users whose values clashed super-badly with existing site culture
(I could be wrong re: all of this!)
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Good for MRIs, sleep, sex, or - as in photo of me here - dentist (cover the nose, breathe through nose, & leave the mouth open for dental work). When air particulate matter from wildfire smoke is bad, sometimes I sleep in one.
#ReadiMask is 33% off with coupon code LABDAY33 till midnight ET Monday night September 2nd. (I believe this is a US-only deal.)
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the #NYC mayor's office puts out a genuinely informative newsletter each week https://www.nyc.gov/content/hearfromeric/archive.html and I would be so much more likely to open and read it when it arrives if it weren't labelled as "from Eric Adams"the #NYC mayor's office puts out a genuinely informative newsletter each week https://www.nyc.gov/content/hearfromeric/archive.html and I would be so much more likely to open and read it when it arrives if it weren't labelled as "from Eric Adams"