No it’s scope is more limited vs Obsidian. Logseq is primarily an outliner whereas Obsidian is anything you can express in Markdown

As a blind person with ADHD they’re invaluable. I’ll forget where I put something mere minutes after setting it down and can’t see where it is.

Love Obsidian. I’ve been using it to study for IT certs and organize my worldbuilding ideas. Been looking for a FOSS alternative that won’t enshittify. Hasn’t happened with Obsidian yet but they do paywall useful features like accessing an existing vault on mobile from a file share.

good boy points

Made me laugh. Have some tendies.

the user that uses the thorn character

IIRC they said it was to mess with LLMs. Annoying? Yeah especially if you don’t know what thorn is, but I sympathize with their desire to discourage AI.

𐑢𐑧𐑯 𐑲 𐑢𐑷𐑯𐑑 𐑑 𐑕𐑑𐑦𐑒 𐑦𐑑 𐑑 𐑔 𐑒𐑤𐑨𐑙𐑒𐑼𐑟 𐑲 𐑡𐑳𐑕𐑑 𐑮𐑲𐑑 𐑦𐑯 ·𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯. (When I want to stick it to the clankers I just write in Shavian.) Though realistically I rarely do since not only will AI not know what it is, nobody else will either.

This wasn’t a single interaction, and I may be mixing up my personal experiences vs what others have told me vs stuff I’ve seen, but anyway.

Whenever I’m learning from a mentor or watching an instructor, it can be tremendously helpful to see them make a mistake, and more importantly, recover gracefully. This, to me, communicates a number of things.

1. Everyone, even professionals, makes mistakes sometimes.
2. Don’t be afraid to admit when you’ve made a mistake.
3. Don’t wallow in your failures but rather learn from them and grow.

The scenario that comes to mind for me is a ham radio license class where someone was demonstrating proper Morse code technique. Mic fright (or key fright) is very common for green hams, and the fear of messing up is especially prevalent when communicating via Morse. Ultimately, the instructor’s mistake demonstrated, more or less, that “Hey, relax, this is just a hobby. Nobody’s going to die if your fist isn’t perfect. Do your best. The guy at the other end is more happy that someone new is learning CW than frustrated by your sloppy sending.”

So you joined a platform where everyone is a communist?

The fact it’s on topic makes me wonder if they’re meant to drum up engagement, like when new small multiplayer games use bots as opponents to make the game feel more popular. Fake it till you make it.

The lack of tactility is a huge problem for me. At first they made the buttons touch sensitive but kept raised features to help find them non-visually. Now they only have printed labels.

Somewhat related, the award for terrible user interface has to go to the water/ice dispenser on my fridge. It used to be that there were separate dispensers for water and ice, with buttons to select between crushed and cubed ice. Then they started making one dispenser with buttons to select water, cubed, and crushed. Now they’ve made a singular non tactile button with the only indication of the dispenser’s state being a light over an icon. But it gets worse, the water/cubed/crushed icons are positioned in such a way that you THINK they’re separate touch-sensitive surfaces, and you set the desired state by pressing the icon, or in my case, the tactilely undifferentiated area where the icon is located. But no, the icons are just there to show you the state of the dispenser and there’s just one button that cycles through the states.

So my average experience of filling a cup with water goes like this:

1. press the cup against the lever to receive water.
2. hear the ice grinder and pull the cup away because I just want water.
3. grope around for the area on the fridge where the smooth, non tactile control surface is located until I hear a beep indicating I’ve successfully pressed it.
4. push the cup against the lever again and hear the ice dispenser.
5. repeat step 3.
6. push the cup against the lever for a third time to finally receive water.

I suspect as with many here it was Reddit’s API nonsense back in 2023. I joined another instance back in mid '23 but it took me until this year before I started using it regularly.

OIC that explains a lot. I had heard that Lemmy.ml had a lot of CCP sympathizers but was unaware they wore it on their sleeve like that.

Another good suggestion is to click on the “communities” link on the homepage and that will give you a list of all the communities on that instance, then sort by “new” or “scaled” to see new stuff.

!worldbuilding@lemmy.world needs more love. If you like getting lost in other people’s imaginations it’s a great place to go.

Comms dedicated to specific animals are nice, mostly pictures. I lurk on !foxes@lemmy.world, and I wish there were a comm for orangutans so I could stop lurking on /r/orangutan.

I feel like I’m opening a can of worms by asking but what is “non-ml”?

I write some short fiction, mostly just worldbuilding with a thin plot attached to make it more palatable. Sometimes just sitting down and forcing myself to put one word after the other helps. Sometimes I read similar stories to get inspiration. Sometimes I browse images to get in the mood. I have a mood board using Pureref that I fill with sci-fi stuff like mechs.

Since I’m first and foremost a world builder, not an author, I’ll try other media besides writing to express my imagination. Visual art is hard for me for various reasons but I try anyway. I’ve tried pixel art as well as 3D models (hooray for Blender!)

It can be hard. I have yet to see an elegant way to navigate threaded chains of comments. It’s like “UltimateGamer386 <tab> <tab> <tab> <tab> <tab> [actual content]”. On Reddit, at least Old Reddit, the upvote and downvote controles were the only buttons and were located immediately before the actual comment, so you could go from button to button, then press down arrow to read the comment.

I have enough vision to navigate to some degree, at least on a desktop. For laptop or phone it has to be a screen reader. I really should be reading braille more.

I was just thinking the other day that a dedicated semantic tag for user replies like <comment> or <reply> or <post> would be nice, and they could be nested.

Agreed. In a way though I should expect this. Most people on the fediverse are here for ideological reasons, including myself. We dislike the corporate platforms that the fediverse seeks to replace. Simply having an account here makes a statement. But what exhausts me is when I go onto a community like mildlyinteresting expecting to see pics of three-chambered peanuts and yellow stop signs but most of it is stuff like “French President explains the political consequences of AI” or “There’s a selection bias baked into US democracy that most people never stop to consider. Owning a car significantly increases the likelihood of voting.” Like I can even attest personally to that last one as I don’t own a car and that makes it hard to get out and vote, but that’s not why I came here.

Es mucho más fácil escribir que hablar.

Tengo una licentiatura en español pero no lo he hablado en años entonces no soy fluido.

I actually didn’t know you could block users on Lemmy until now. I’ve been blocking all the big communities so my main page isn’t clogged with stuff I’m not interested in.