/r/Cleveland
And
/r/ClevelandGuardians
I miss my friends....
Just letting you know that this American is cheering for you, and cheering for Hong Kong in their fight against China.
I also cheer for Ukraine in their fight against Russia.
I mean......if history repeats itself, we better buckle up. We've been in a bad recession for a bit, but not a great depression.
So, hold onto your butts, because the 30s we won't even have alcohol. And a silly mustache model will decide to commit mass genocide in an attempt to take over the world.
Although they do say "History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme".
Do maybe this time it'll be a silly beard style instead.
Can't help but think you're overlooking Cleveland. Where we have billboards that have eyebrows. You KNOW what he does! We have romanburger FEED THE HUNGER!!! We'll talk about how Melt and Barrio lost their way, and how the George family are pieces of shit. Mark from Norton furnature is here for you! Seriously! Now, if you can't get credit here, you can't get credit anywhere! Now enjoy this unrequested acid trip, as shit stops making sense, and Gumby chases a mad scientist with scissors through a missmash of full size random characters that sometimes hang your coat for you, and sometimes run you out the store chasing you with hedgeclippers. Where we used to all be in on the joke of the Cleveland tourism videos, but now loathe them as they've been taken over by outsiders as a means to mock us.
We also race hot dogs at the baseball stadium, and you can pick your favorite based on condiment. My pick is ketchup, because he's awesome. Kids love mustard because he "plays by the ruuuules", and nobody picks onion, because.....well, she knows what she did. She's a disgrace to the city, and the less spoken about the great hobo vehicular manslaughter of '88 said the better.
And so now, I can put either an Indians hat on your head, or a Guardians hat on your head. Seeing as you have no personal emotional ties to the 1995, 1997, and to a smaller extent 2016 Indians, I assume you have no personal attatchment to chief wahoo, so it's perfectly fine to wear the Guardians stuff. Just don't be surprised that people 40+ will still wear the old chief wahoo gear. It's not a sign of racism to us. It's a tribute to the days of Jim Thome, and Manny Rameriez, and Carlos Baerga, and Kenny Lofton, and Albert Belle, and (as much as it sucks to know how he turned out) Omar Vizquel. We'll still shit on Jośe Mesa, but really it wasn't as much his fault as people like to say. Now, regarding Slider, we don't know what the hell he is either. No one does. It's best not to think about it. It's also best not to think about the time Slider was dancing on top of the dugout, and slid knees first off the side and broke his leg. I say it's best not to think about because it's really funny, and you'll laugh for too long of a time.
We also have Cleveland signs, all over the city. By this, I mean just statue like letters, all in white, that are styled the same way, and they say "Cleveland". Just in case you forget where you are.
Then there's Big Chuck, and Little Jon. No, not the rapper, but he does have as much bling as a rapper. He own a jewelry shop, but also, he's like 4'5. Despite his name, he's not really known for having prostitutes.
And people will come up to you on the street, and start talking to you. You've never met these people, but they'll come up to you like "Hey man, you see the game last night? Shiiiiit, Rameriez knocked out Tim Andersons punk ass!" while you're like "Uhhhhhh, sure. I'm just trying to carry this refridgerator home." And then he'll offer to help. You think I'm joking, but I'm using this as a real life example of what happened to me.
And our weather can best be described as "FUCK YOU!!!!". Last week it was roughly 100 degrees, and the past few days it's been in the 70s. We havent had much snow since covid. Except for that one week last year near christmas where it said "FUCK YOU! NEGATIVE 20 DEGREES AND 3 FEET OF SNOW OVERNIGHT!!!" and we haven't seen snow since.
So come to Cleveland. We have beer.
I just wasn't prepared for this cow trotting over slowly at first, and then into a full run as she realized what happened. Then finally nuzzling the end of her mouth into the area under the victim cows head. Like she was trying to lift it.
It was like she was saying "Phil? What was that noise? Phil? Phil??? PHIL!!!! OH GOD NO!!!! PHIIIIIILLLLLL!!!!! NO! NO! NO! NO! PHIL TALK TO ME!!!!"
And now you're saying that's basically what did happen.
Here I was thinking it stood for Sexy Cute Pizza.
Lists are cool? Lists are COOL???
YOU JUST MADE THE LIST!!!
What I have learned is that if you have a simple explaination, but it's really really stupid, that's still probably what happened. Because people are stupid.
"Google is getting worse. Now watch me talk about the situation on a youtube video. Youtube is a property owned by google. "
....tell me more of these proton mail services of which you speak!
They don't get fat.....they get EATEN!!! Tasty delicious air snacks. Butterflies are called butterflies because they taste like butter and make ME fat.
Nah. This was like 6 years ago, a random youtube suggestion. Youtube reccomends me some real weird stuff sometimes.
Ok, that I haven't considered. Old unsold cat toys should be repackaged as cat toys!
The new packaging could say "Remember these stupid things? Well cats still LOVE them! Watch your cat lose their fucking mind! It's hilarious seeing their little fur brains try to comprehend these simple toys!"
I'd buy a spinner toy like that. Planking however was ALWAYS stupid, and everyone who did it should feel shame.
Whoa! Watch out everybody! We got a badass over here!
You shut your pretty whore mouth!!!
POG's were, and always be, awesome!
Found the HR woman from 2013 who thought she was being cool.....or possibly someone employed by a minor league hockey team.
Mid-20s today? Yeah. Ok.
In your 40s today? Welp...
Kriss-Kross will make ya JUMP! JUMP!
I work at the airport, and everytime I think it reminds me of Mick Foley, if Mick Foley took care of his body, and became a model.
So I do NOT understand what makes a community trend. I thought I'd use it to discover communities I didn't even know I wanted. Instead, I've found a few communities I have no interest in, and thats fine. Not all communities are going to cater to everybodies tastes.
But the real puzzler for me, is when I click a trending community, and theres 2 subsubscribers, 0 posts ever. What exactly qualifies that as a trending communities???
I don't know if everybody sees the same trending communities, but if you do, theres one right now with a jumbled bunch of letters as the community name, no posts, 2 subscribers And the sidebar is a bunch of imdb links.......
What am I supposed to do with that information? Why is THAT trending??? Is this a case of mods of that community (all one of them) are also the developers of Lemmy, so they program it that way? Or is this some algorithm thing that I don't get???
What is going on here?
Ok, so here's a situation I ran into, and thought of a solution for, but I'm not a programmer, so I don't know if this is possible.
I live in Cleveland. Last I checked, we have a population of 300,00ish people. Might be closer to 350,000. Not the point.
As it stands, in general I'd say roughly 10% of general society uses reddit. Using rough numbers, that would mean 30,000ish people. I just checked, and /r/Cleveland has 151,000 subscribers, but only 58 users on the site at the moment I checked. That tells me there's a lot of people subscribed to /r/Cleveland who no longer live in Cleveland.
I refuse to believe that of roughly 300,000 people, half are on /r/Cleveland. Especially if only 58 are online. So, maybe a lot of bots.
That being said Lemmy has probably less than 1% of society. And Cleveland has a finite number of potential users.
So when I look for the Cleveland sublemmy, I find three of them. Two I could join right away, the third is still pending because it seems the mod is the only user, and he hasn't been active in months.
Point is, this city, even if there was only one Cleveland sub would still have a very small userbase. Now we're dividing it among multiple communities all serving the same purpose. There's only so much that happens in Cleveland. The majority of the reddit posts are "where should I eat? What should I do when I visit? Why do you guys have billboards of just eyes?"
There is NOT a lot going on here. And if we split these users up multiple times, you'll have what we have now. Multiple dead communities, with a split userbase. So logically the first idea is "Well you only need one Cleveland community. The other one should close." But that flies against the very foundation of what this place is built on.
So how do you integrate both communities userbases as one, without merging the subs? And that's when it hit me.
Groups.
User groups, and sub groups. Lets start with sub groups.
So lets say I'm the head of Cleveland@instance1 and Fred runs Cleveland@instance2. We both see the userbase problem. So I send Fred a message, and ask if he wants to group up. He says yes. Now we're grouped up. So what does that mean? It means that Joe, a Cleveland resident, could subscribe to Cleveland@instance2. It would then have some checkboxes that say "group Cleveland@instance1 and Cleveland@instance2?"
And for every checkbox you leave ticked, you'll group those subs together. If you don't want to group them, uncheck the boxes of the ones you don't want to group.
So now Joe is subscribed to Cleveland@instance2. But because he's grouped my Cleveland@instance one, everytime he posts, the comments and the up/downvotes for his comment will now be grouped together. So when he makes that post on Cleveland@instance2 it will show up on Cleveland@instance1 too. Anything in that post is technically being posted to Cleveland@instance2
So if you ARE subscribed to Cleveland@instance1 but NOT subscribed to Cleveland@instance2, then you wouldn't even see the post in Cleveland@instance1. You're only seeing it, and able to interact with it from Cleveland@instance1 because they're both officially grouped, and you agreed to the grouping on your end when you subscribed.
You could, in theory reject the grouping when you subscribe, and then subscribe to the second one seperately. Which would keep everything seperate and as it is now. I don't know who would want to do that, but it would be possible.
Now, for the user groups.
Pretty much the same concept, but on an individual basis. So, lets say I subscribe to videogames@instance and I also subscribe to gamers@instance. Those communities have NOT grouped for whatever reason, so YOU group them for yourself.
So now when you post, you'll post once, and it will post your new post once in videogames@instance and once in gamers@instance.
So now you posted two seperate posts, but because you grouped them on an individual basis, you'll see all the upvotes and replies in one post in your inbox on your end. In reality there are two seperate posts, but your interaction with it feels as one.
I just learned about the Fediverse in May. I now have a Lemmy account, and a Mastadon account.
I'm not interested in /kbin, as I have no interest in facebook, but something caught my eye. SpaceHey.
Problem is, with mainstream things, you can google and find out which places are safe, private, not stealing your info........or you can find out that they're facebook, and stealing EVERYBODYS personal data. Even people who've never signed up.
I have less info on SpaceHey. And since I figure you guys know what's going on, maybe you can give it a yay or nay. I'm also interested in Peertube.
I've seen a few of their profiles, and when they say they made it just like 2008 myspace, they're pretty much wrong. This isn't 2008 myspace. By 2008 myspace was still a social network, but they were making major changes to the interface.
The profiles I saw looked more like a customized myspace profile from 2006. It was just a huge difference, but I was there.
Also, I'm unclear if it's because I have no account, but the profile display pictures don't seem to have any way to click them. You used to be able to click them, and go into a page of many pictures. The one on your profile we just called your "default photo". It was the one to represent YOUR profile. I'm also noticing that nobodies default photo is their own face. It's all anime and drawn picture art. That's not in the spirit on 2006 myspace. Your default pic was the one that you thought made you look the best.
So youngin's, don't think the idea of super close face shots, or above the head looking down shots to hide your personal body issues are some new concept. We were doing it in the dying days of 56k connections. Back when some of you were learning your shapes and colors. We were debating if that picture was default worthy, and wondering if we should re-arrange our top 8. Then getting offended when our profile was dropped from one of our friends top 8s, or moved down a rank.
Long before there was "facebook official" there was "top 8 worthy".
So, is there anything bad I should know about SpaceHey, other than the massive amount of nostolgia it's hitting me with?
I like Lemmy.World. I'd like you use old.lemmy.world as my default experience.
On my cellphone, I just click it in the sidebar. Done.
On my tablet, I click it. It just displays a blank white page. Refreshing does not help. If I type in old.Lemmy.World, I get the old ui loaded, but I'm logged out, and it will not allow me to log in. It accepts the log in as a correct username/password, but then reloads the old ui with me still logged out.