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I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)

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  • OtterMAtoCanadaThe insidious creep of American culture
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    3 hours ago

    Believe me I want the same thing, and I’d imagine most people here want the same. The solution is to post more of what you want to see so others can learn from it. There’s no entity here deciding what content people post

    I didn’t know about the IBM plant, and if you want to make a post about it in !canada@lemmy.ca or some other community, I think it would be cool for more people to know about it





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    I agree that this is happening. While we should be aware of what they’re up to when it directly affects us, we could use more Canada specific content

    I try to share what I can, feel free to share some as well :) If you have a website that you recommend, I can see if I can share more from there





  • OtterMAtoLemmy.ca's Main CommunityConfused about Federation
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    It’s also early on for most of these platforms. They’re relatively new, changing rapidly, and so it’s harder to keep the platforms compatible with everything that’s out there.

    As an example, there have been a few improvements over the past short while around Mastodon-Lemmy compatibility

    Once the software matures, I imagine it’ll be easier to see the content in most popular formats



  • While this won’t be the case with everyone, it was mentioned a few times in a post I made here a long while back

    https://lemmy.ca/post/9443464

    I’m a woman, and make no attempt to hide that fact in my posts. That said, I also don’t personally have much interest in talking about being a woman, so don’t sub to any of those places you linked.

    Over on Reddit I just sort of let people assume I was male a lot of the time, since it wasn’t really relevant to what we were talking about. But from the start on Lemmy I’ve made sure to call out incorrect assumptions, downvote and give a talking to people stereotyping or being misogynistic, etc etc. And the more of us (of all genders) that make that same decision, the better things get






  • Done, you are now a mod!

    Feel free to make a post to onboard more people if you would like. Some mod actions work better from a local account (ex. pinning and unpinning posts, and seeing certain reports), so it can help to have a secondary local account. Otherwise no harm in moderating from your main :)


  • According to Mr. McGowan’s complaint, the steward became visibly upset and allegedly stated, “If your travel agent can’t order vegan food I am not helping you.”

    The crew member reportedly showed the passengers Emirates’ computer records indicating they had not ordered vegan meals and subsequently declined to provide them with food, drinks, or coffee during the long-haul flight.

    The aftermath proved equally frustrating for the passengers. Mr. McGowan reported making six separate complaints to Hays Travel in Glasgow, who insisted they had correctly booked vegan meals. After two months of communication between Hays and Emirates, the airline refused to acknowledge any error in their meal ordering system.

    Well that’s just unprofessional all around :( Long haul flight too

    Emirates reported a 40% year-on-year surge in demand for plant-based meals across its global network.

    Hopefully that means that there will be more effort to support different dietary options moving forward


  • Now I’m trying to regularly share news that is relevant for both developers and hobbyists. (Studio news, software milestones, talks, interesting columns/posts, etc.) I think I’ve done an okay job, but it’s still pretty low in search results when you search “gamedev Lemmy”, so I’m adding it here in case any of you out there are interested in the field.

    That sounds great!

    As others have mentioned, you could reach out to the mods on !gamedev@programming.dev and offer to help moderate. Very often the mods will be happy with the extra help. It already has a lot of subscribers, but doesn’t have as much activity. Having you on board might be the perfect blend.

    You can also decide you want to try and grow your own community, in which case it might still be helpful to cross post your posts into the other comm to reach interested users

    Regardless of what you go with, looking forward to seeing it grow. Thanks for working on it!