I’ve read that Aaron Swartz was tolerant of free speech in any way shape form, thus the acceptance of anything under the sun.

Ditto ibid likewise. Well not the part about being high. ;) Signed up the moment rumblings about reddit being on the way out really began to gain in volume. Had heard about how daunting this place was to suss - are you kidding me? That’s all either propaganda, or whining from people who have been spoon fed everything imaginable for their entire lives.

I literally refuse to figure out what Instagram/Snapchat/Spotify are. Don’t know, don’t care, no one I know bothers with them, who gives a shit? [shakes fist at sun]

On desktop I use FoxScroller, a scrolling extension, which barely works now - but I’m probably the only one here with this objection. Everything seems to be working fine.

A while back Greyhound put up billboards on I5 in Washington/Oregon/North Cali with a bunch of rinky dink towns whose names were crossed out, their way of showing they were ending stops there, so fuck you hicks! But you big city folk will get where you’re going so much faster. It was a really obnoxious ad campaign.

Will a critical mass be reached where we can create our own communities? At least at beehaw that seems to be handled top down, we had a poll asking what we’d want - does it work that way everywhere? I’d like a local area community, but as you say, who’d participate? I might be it.

“Threads”? Like the horrifying 1984 WWIII film? Sort of apropos…

Audacity can automatically insert labels at silences - it’s detailed in that link. It does all the work for you.

Kind of a wash - I’ve always been a RiF devotee. I might have rejected Sync if it wasn’t compact enough, or I didn’t realize it could be set that way - I’ve always placed a premium on cramming the most info onto a screen as I can. Which is why I was drawn to /. and then reddit, and can’t stand FB etc.

Splitting a recording into separate tracks - Audacity Manual Super easy to do. Back in the Cool Edit days I digitized hundreds of LPs by hand, it is a bit of a chore.

I’m really not sure which approach is best. kbin has a whole reddit migration community, you might find some answers there. I’ve only used PDS and I think you can leave parting words with it, too.

Just found this over at kbin, in the above linked thread:

You should bear in mind, PowerDeleteSuite doesn’t get everything. It can only see what’s in your reddit profile under New, Top, Hot & Controversial - there will be numerous posts that are too old with only 1 or a few karma that aren’t displayed in these lists. In particular, if you go through your top posts of all time, you might find some replies to these posts that you made that the script did not see.

The GDPR archive gives a full list of all the comments. What we need is a FOSS script that can use these csv files to get everything. Apparently Shreddit can take the csv files, however you have to pay $15 to use this feature.

I keep running Power Delete Suite and the comments keep getting restored. Pretty shifty of them.

Last I heard he’s working on one for Tildes instead, sad to say.

Think you have a bottle of Tres Comas sitting on your keyboard…

I’ve always used RiF - it duplicates the desktop layout better than the others, along with so many other features. Wish its developer was moving on to a Lemmy app, but he’s cranking out one for Tildes instead.

I still use it to lurk - the shitstorm over there is quite amusing, read the latest announcement at r/videos. Yes, nothing but John Oliver videos - but the screed this is delivered with is a thing of beauty.

Had the week off from work, who doesn’t love those? Mostly a staycation, went to a nice musical gathering, jammed with friends too, got stuff done, cleared head.

I see that he’s written a post-pandemic sequel, too, Survival of the City, I’m going to give that a shot.

Ha, there’s a Tilde webring. That’s like a jet powered Wright Brothers glider.

UPS employees overwhelmingly agreed to go on strike if their demands aren’t met by July 31st. These Amazon drivers are on strike now - all 84 of them, at one facility, obviously. They’re like the Boston Tea Party.

By contrast, there are 340k Teamsters working for UPS. Their forming picket lines will grind things to a halt in really short order. Good on those Amazon drivers! Hope others join in solidarity.