Question,

If I’m on a different instance, is there a away to get the episode link equivalent for my instance? The post ID seems to differ between instances, and I don’t know if there’s something I’m missing or not regarding a “open in my instance” url.

The amount of furry / anime content on the front page might be putting off some new users

I don’t see this on mine. Isn’t NSFW enabled by default?

This is why I don’t generally believe in all being a good “starting” view for new users. Local would probably make more sense until the user has subscriptions, and then defaulting to subscriptions once the user has joined communities. This would mean an always active feed to start, prioritizing the “local” community for users to participate in the instance they belong to, while also not bombarding them with content from the firehose.

My 2 cents, probably easier to say what to do than to do it though, being a programmer myself. 😎

Needing more users is fine. Sure, we could always use more friends (or enemies, I guess)

But, ultimately, just having people come here first and then whatever hellhole corpo-media second is at least a step in the right direction. I feel like user activity increasing is a good sign that there’s a lot of people out there investing time in the fediverse instead of the corporate hell-loop social media.

While LOLA is great, I’d really love an established handshake mechanism for having two accounts on two bespoke services represent the same user.

For example, I want to have a pixel fed and mastodon presence that can be authored between the two. However, you currently can’t make two accounts that are effectively linked to each other. I feel like this linking is important for further decentralizing the fediverse (by effectively decentralizing the user itself)

Ah true, I generally avoid all until I’m out of subscribed content or just looking for new communities

Active is basically like old forum logic, where new comments will bump it up back to the top. Scaled is my go to view first as it does a pretty good job balancing out communities of widely different sizes, so smaller communities that you’re subbed to have a chance of having their post be seen if it’s new and larger in upvoter count.

Hot take: the biggest issue is actually ever entering a community and seeing zero comments. Most reddit addiction stems from wanting to read comments, so I think people should add a comment to something if they’re upvoting and they see that the thread has zero comments.

Nothing eliminates enthusiasm like seeing 0 comments on every post in a community, especially if that community is driven by bots.

I am, beach.

Yes, I get the narrative part of it. But I also felt it was shallow compared to the broader themes of Evangelion as a whole. Like, Midori as a character, why is she important and what’s the point in seeing her perspective? Why is it worth talking about her at all? Granted, it might be worth re-watching, but it felt mostly like it was “filling space” that didn’t need to be filled. I do understand that I was probably one of the few people who really enjoyed 3.0 because of it’s disconnected continuity as it felt like it was trying to say something about evangelion and story telling in general (you can shuffle the pieces around, or even completely change the context, but the story would still be the same because the themes of the characters are consistent.) I was never sold on them needing to get into “what happened before 3.0” so I may just not be the target audience.

Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart or Doctor Robotniks Ring Racers. It’s a good time if you have friends and there are still regular players online.

Really glad that this isn’t directed by either Tsurumaki or Anno. Otherwise, I’d be a bit bummed that they’re spending more time on Evangelion again.

A 13 minute short is kind of an interesting choice of format. I wonder whether this will be “canon” or if it will be intentionally out of universe with it’s own story.

The last short they did (-48 hours?) was ok but kind of didn’t make a clear point about why it was made. I’ll be curious if this director can make good use of the short 13 minute timespan.

I mean, it seems like Pihole is generally talked about first as a “ad filter” when it’s discussed online and second as a dns resolver. But either way, just saying that the use for that is pretty much overblown and not worth actually trying for a smart tv, for example, where you can’t normally block ads anyway. (Might be nice for preventing software updates, though.)

Depends on how you do it and what you need from it. I’ve actually moved on from my Pihole instance, for reasons I’ll get into later.

The broad appeal of using Pihole for DNS in a homelab is the ability to route services from domain names on the local host. This can be really useful, especially for “hacking” service availability onto other unintended devices. Additionally, it can be nice for less tech-savvy users who might not be comfortable editing /etc/hosts or just want to check out a service on their phone web browser.

I would generally recommend using an isolated device for Pihole needs; If you’re doing work on your home server, you’ll probably want all users on your service to keep their internet connection working to not be a burden to others living in your household (if you have others). A raspberry pi is a really good target for a pihole, and even a cheap old/used one from the interwebs can serve you well (I was using one recently on a pi3b and it was no issue.) Keep in mind that you can’t really do fallback dns configuration unless you’re ok with losing the key feature of pihole (blocking ads and redirecting domains). Notably, I’m actually not a proponent of running all services on individual compute units generally, I just think DNS is special and you don’t really want to tie it into docker services to keep a separation between the services and the server, so to speak.

This brings me to the second feature: adblocking. This one is really a mixed bag. Ultimately, I turned this feature off only because it doesn’t work for the websites that have arguably the most ad content (youtube, twitch) and really only serves to hurt the smaller players. Sometimes it’s great for blocking things like SmartTV advertisements or data encroachments, but it’s very hard to block ads from a web domain in a way that doesn’t outright block the service itself (so blocking youtube ads without blocking youtube is, seemingly, a fools errand.) I’m willing to hear other people’s opinion on this, I just couldn’t get this working to a satisfactory degree.

I’ve abandoned Pihole as a local dns resolver. This is because Tailscale suits my needs and also allows me out-of-house connectivity to things like my music or personal data so my phone never goes out of communication with my home network. When you use tailscale at home, it’s generally really good about routing that through your local network instead of the relay, so there shouldn’t be that many downsides. Note, I say generally, because there have been times where it goes through a relay unexpectedly which I haven’t solved yet (this is likely a local router configuration issue, anyway…)

I notice that you’re already familiar with Pihole, but just thought that it would be best to “explain” my thoughts on it in the form of a recommendation/editorial form.

*My life in an Isekai where I’m born into a lovely family that I really like, but it’s everyone else whose either fucked in the head or just a little aggro. *

I’m still working on the title. I think it needs to be a little bit longer to really stand out in the Isekai crowd.

The good news here is that Trigger has gotten TTGL back and they seem interested in treating the IP with some respect. Hopefully things like Gunbuster eventually find their way back to Khara eventually once all of the legal dust settles.

I really wish that Gainax could have been kept around as a brand though, particularly from Khara and Trigger who could have used it for a shared fan merch and otaku goods subsidiary. It’s a shame to think the entire Gainax legacy will be only a fragmented memory spread across multiple spiritual successors, even if it is ultimately healthier for the Anime scene that all of these studios have strong individual futures.

I had really mixed feelings about the reboot.

Triguns original run was great but technically incomplete because the Manga was in hiatus dues to production issues. When he eventually continues Trigun it became a completely different story in some ways (and in other ways not, without getting too detailed.)

So the idea of a remake was fine if it was going to be closer to what the Manga became except… It didn’t, it’s now a third take on the same story with some major differences again from both the original show and the manga.

I hope the next season is better, because the framework of where the show is heading post the first season ending does have potential, but they need to nail the episodic structure better imo.