Print is by Boss Dog. OP’s version is of the sticker variant.

They also have this shirt that goes hard:

Interesting find, and some really striking photos included in the article. Thanks!

Saw some chatter coming up again encouraging people to make their own websites which is fun. Somewhere in the process also found someone mentioning the Ooh Directory, which is such a great url.

Shared another of my finds the other day to !vocaloid@ani.social of the Yameii - Synesthesia music video. It’s definitely a niche within a niche, but if you like vocaloids, bright gaudy colors and surreal 3D animation, you might like it.

That’s always a relief, but also awkward feeling. “But…Up-to-date thing you’re supposed to work with the rest, wtf are you doing breaking things??”

My “favorite” is when drivers do this. Go from visuals fine to, “What do you mean you want your game to render?”

@morrowind@lemmy.ml

It’s a bit of both in my opinion. You only market/suggest Lemmy (as forum/link aggregator software) to those with the tech knowledge to build with it, but to everyone else you mention a community site to join and don’t bother mentioning what it’s built with, as they won’t care anyway.

Would you edit the OP to rephrase your last line? No pics/no sexual stuff would be better, as it currently reads as having some prejudice against homosexuality, but the no pics part suggests you mean no sexual stuff more broadly.

Thanks in advance

If we remain in our current comfort space, Lemmy will likely continue to stagnate as a niche platform.

I follow what you’re getting at here, but I think this line of thinking, of Lemmy as a platform, also contributes to the issues in drawing more people to this network of communities/sites.

As Kichae said in your other thread:

[…]
“Lemmy” doesn’t exist like Reddit does. It’s not a place people can go to talk about shit. It’s a website engine. It exists like WordPress does. One of its features just happens to be “can pull content from other websites”.

If we want this space to grow, we need to focus on building community websites that stand on their own. Then we can market it as “hey, you love it here on MyInterest.social, but did you know you can also talk to people from SomethingElse.social? Pretty cool, huh??!?” Nobody seems to want to do that, though. That means we’re totally at the mercy of places like Twitter and Reddit, waiting for them to fuck up badly again and hoping more people just kind of land here, in some cheap and uncanny knockoff of where they really wanted to be.

On one hand I agree that the interface, and in turn the user experience, is worth focusing on to help get people to participate around here. On the other, I think you also need what Kichae describes at the end of their comment. Communities that can stand on their own with their own distinct identities and interests that also happen to let you talk with and see stuff from other distinct communities.

At some point I’d like to move to a little more focused sort of community like that built with Lemmy (or Piefed, or Mbin), but haven’t had luck finding any that fit so far since many are broader in scope instead.

New version’s visible now! Seems the remote account was the issue after all, but good to see you got things sorted out.

I don’t love the default Lemmy web UI, but I agree with the sentiment of preferring a lighter, faster UI…Which makes me surprised to read that you love it.

I don’t know why, but it occasionally slows way down for me when signed in and browsing. It’s nearly driven me to switching interfaces to see if they’re any better with performance.

Was hoping they might have added an option to Not Update/Skip Update or Never Update, or some other means to preserve the currently installed version. I don’t like Valve’s (and other tech businesses’) assumption that updates are always good.

The only games for which these update settings make some sense are always online, “service” games. Other games are largely fine to indefinitely delay updates on, or never update at all.

Unfortunately I’m not seeing the updated sidebar, and it doesn’t appear on sh.itjust.works either. I think the issue is with Lemmy itself, and that it isn’t handling sidebar changes from a remote instance/moderator (as your account isn’t on sh.itjust.works).

There’s still a lot of rough edges like that with Lemmy right now, but that’s software in development for ya. =/

It might be better as a display name than a community name. I only say that because as much as I like funny community names, they can unintentionally reduce and obfuscate community’s visibility and purpose to newcomers.

If one wants it to be easily found, arguably the best community names may be either shorts or clips, followed possibly by shortvids. The display name however can be as playful as one might want, as I think frontends/apps rely on the community name when searching over the display name.

Now for the worst name, in either respect, you might make it microvlogmemes, or microvlogs, neither of which I think I’ve ever seen or heard anyone use anywhere. I can’t even remember the last time I heard or read anyone else mention a vlog, so yeah, may be technically accurate but awful otherwise.

I think related links like those you’ve mentioned would be cool. Also given this is discussing the sidebar, I’m not sure what’s being referred to in the rules regarding, “Read the sticky” as there’s no stickied/pinned post so far as I can see.

In any event, there can be some sync issues with sticky/pinned posts, so I’d recommend directly linking those posts anyway, even though it will take people off their home instance to read.

Going back to the main topic, I think the art communities are also a great touch for variety, as sketchbooks and the like can easily be understood as visual journaling, if you will.

Nice! For what it’s worth, I don’t think the original edit’s bad, I just uh…Mixed you up with the other person that recently posted here asking for feedback. That’s what I get for not reviewing usernames. 😅

Not sure about the resulting peplum either. I sort of feel like with a cleaner drawstring design it may be okay as-is, but better with a hem like you’ve done along the neck and chest to accent and give the peplum a complete, consistent look.

Also if you mean directly beneath/behind the drawstring, rather than below it, then yeah maybe something like you mention to give it some more definition wouldn’t hurt.

Cool design idea! I think the original approach(? what’s shown in before photo) might be worth another try either with a different material or with what you learned from the first try, particularly integrating a drawstring from the start. I think the drawstring adds something nice to the design, personally.

Regardless, the end result looks sharp!

Streaming isn’t the middle ground in my opinion, rather it’s unrestricted downloadable files that you can then handle however. Streaming provides some convenience but no consistent access (see various shows being delisted or shuffled between services).

Companies would love if everyone forgot having home video, in the sense of owning copies of movies and shows they always have access to and ability to watch whenever.

Darkening the background to focus on the lamp is a good touch, but personally I think keeping the lamp light’s color saturation closer to the original might look even better.

The real reminder…Now to find desktop software that gives the option to save a copy when bookmarking stuff.

Btw, if you’re still into animated shows, there’s a few communities around for them.

General animation:

!animation@lemm.ee

!adult_animation@lemmy.world

!animationafter30@lemmy.world

Japanese animation:

!anime@ani.social

Give’em some activity if you’re wanting to share and talk about some animated stuff you’ve been checking out!