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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello World!

First off, better late than never: Happy Halloween!

Sorry we've been a bit quiet lately. But we love you, promises given! We're just working on a lot of things, and most of us are very busy with their daily lives lately. We'll be back with you to announce some of our projects tomorrow. <3

Lately, and gladly, here's a grand thanks to @[email protected] for giving us an amazing Halloween icon!

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[-] [email protected] 138 points 8 months ago

Things have been working fine for me, so well done and take whatever time things take.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Man it feels good to have no ads. Thanks Fediverse. Happy Halloween.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Seriously reddit can be the worst in that regard especially since you can't even block sponsored content in favor for different sponsored content

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

They make the ads look as much like postings as possible too

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That intensely annoys me. My brain tries to understand the content for a good 3 seconds until I realise "oh wait this isn't a meme, it's an ad"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The ones that say "megathread", but comments are turned off!

[-] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Aww, thanks so much for the shout out! And thank you for the love in the comments. I hope to make many more themed icons in the future. Keep a lookout!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Great job @[email protected], thank you 🫶

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Thank you!!

[-] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago

I still have no idea how this works

[+] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

is there a picture on what Federation does?

like how does my post on lemmy.world go to lemmy.ml

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

You could read a long explanation, if you'd like, but the email analogy also somewhat works.

In the same way you can email someone with another email address, you can write messages on a community on another instance. They "federate" posts together.

IMO, unless you care about federation, which the average person doesn't, that's all you really need to know.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There is no magic, the servers just send it to each other.

So you send your post to LW, they store it and show it on their website. But they also send it to all the other Fediverse servers they are connected to (aka "federated with"), so those can also show it to their users. The same thing happens when a post is updated or deleted, or when new votes come in. The servers just send each other messages about what changed, so they can all act accordingly.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Okay let me try to explain my confusion:

I understand subreddits, and I understand servers. I know lemmy is like multiple different servers with multiple different subreddits in each server.

What I don't understand.

What server am I in? And how does that impact my ability to interact with other servers? Should I even care about what server I'm in? Are there things currently hidden from me on Lemmy depending on which server I originally selected?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Hey, if I can figure out how Lemmy works, you definitely can too!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Whoa! If Barbie is on Lemmy, I think we’re doing all right.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I upvoted you because of your glowing statement.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I'll just leave this here. Explanation of Lemmy and Fediverse principles in lay-person's language.

https://lemmy.world/post/583669

[-] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

Proper icon mate looks bloody fab

[-] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

I love the Halloween lemmy. I also subscribed to the lemmy dev patreon today. Glad to support the project and seems like a better use of funds than running my own instance.

Last year I bought 3 bags of candy and ran out crazy fast. We had almost 300 kids come by. Gonna be setting up some tables soon and moving outside. No costumed halloweener left behind.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Happy belated Halloween everyone. Nothing but love for the Lemmy commuinty.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Much love and Happy Halloween everyone!

[-] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Mood: Spooky 🎃

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The more I look at the icon, the more confused I am by it. Is it a pumpkin head, or a pumpkin mask? The ears are sticking through and there's a cut out for the nose so I'm guessing mask, but then what the hell happened to its eye? Does the mask turn half your face evil, or did some asshole jab him in the eye?

Or...is it implied he's like a Frankenstein's monster under there, cause of the green ears?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

lol, so it started as a pumpkin head/jack o lantern, but as I was tweaking things here and there, I wasn't liking it so I kept going back to a very simple design of the orange pumpkin head with green "stem" ears. Then someone suggested making the eyes red and white and it just looked right, so here we are, haha. Sometimes graphic design is just an accident.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

You guys all kick ass. Thanks for making such a great community.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Love the icon!!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

I just joined Lemmy, looking forward to wasting a lot of time here!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

welcome fob lemming.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

thanks, your platform grows with the treatment you give to us

[-] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Great work, team. Happy Halloween! 👻

[-] buffysummers 7 points 8 months ago

That icon is super cute.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Very spooky, very cool!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It took me way too long to figure out why the icon was orange when I saw it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It's so tiny on my screen I thought it might be Halloween-themed, but wasn't completely sure.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thanks for the update. Also, this comment is a downvoter honey pot. If you don't stop harassing me, I will start my own instance to find out who you are and report your account. Thank you.