Cracks_InTheWalls

I write this with homemade maple jalapeno cornbread in my mouth, gifted to me by the bar staff at my local pub this evening. This is simultaneously the best and most unexpected thing I've ever brought home from a bar, my significant other excepted.

This got me thinking: what is the weirdest thing you've brought home from the bar, Lemmy?

Tired of Wordle? Sick of feeling stupid at the behest of the NYT crossword editor? Looking for anything new to enjoy with your Sunday coffee other than chatting with your loved ones/cat/the void? This is the post for you!

There's all sorts of codes and ciphers in the Gravity Falls world. Why not take some time to try and solve them yourself? You could just look up answers in Google, but where's the fun in that?

What you should Google is 'gravity falls cipher keys'. Give it an honest try yourself, then come back to share your answer!

Today's selection comes from the depths of thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com. Assuming I'm arsed to do this again, future selections may come from there, the Book of Bill, Journal 3, the show itself, or maybe something custom! Have fun!

Sup, folks who have woken up to this community based (seemingly) on my two pictures of everyone's favourite pandimensional equilateral pal today?

For those who don't know, there's another possible cipher hunt ARG going on right now. You should buy the Book of Bill (our dorito overlord commands it!), but the website of interest is thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com. Check it out!

Anyone have any theories about all of this? Right now, mine are:

1. There's going to be a movie, set one summer after season 2. I'm very skeptical of season 3 being a thing, but could totally see a movie or at least a long special on Disney+ happening.

2. Someone really, really needs to go back to Confusion Hill in Piercey, CA, ask some questions and post about it somewhere. The map piece under the monitor, that looks suspiciously similar to a puzzle piece, is less ringing bells and more screaming like a disembodied head. Plus even if it turns out to be nothing, it sounds like a nice way to kill a Saturday if you're close enough (cries in Canadian)

This is the only time I wish there were more active fandom communities in the Lemmyverse. Ah well, still beats the alternative.

cough thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com cough

Because someone, eventually, is going to make this post anyway, we might as well get it over with. I know someone posted something a week ago, but I feel something a little more neutral would be useful.

There's a lot of talk on lemmy.world right now about lemmy.ml at an instance level (edit: see here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/20400058). A lot of it is very similar to the discussions we've had here before- accusations of ideologically-based censorship, promotion of authoritarian left propaganda, 'tankie-ism', etc. The subject of the admin's, and Lemmy dev's, political beliefs is back up as a discussion point. The word defederation is getting thrown around, and some of our beloved sh.it.heads are part of the conversation.

What do people think about lemmy.ml? Is there evidence that the instance is managed in such a way that it creates problems for Lemmy users, and/or users of sh.itjust.works specifically? Are they problems that extend to the entire instance or primary user base, or are the examples referenced generally limited to specific communities/moderators/users? Are people here, in short, interested in putting federation to lemmy.ml to a vote?

To our admin team and moderators: What are your experiences with lemmy.ml? Have you run into any specific problems with their userbase, or challenges related to our being federated with them?

Full disclosure: I have very little personal stake in this. I don't really engage with posts about international events, I don't share my political beliefs (such as they are) online beyond "Don't be a shitbag, help your fellow human out when you can", and have not run into any of the concerns brought up personally. But I'm also not the kind of user who would butt against this stuff often in the first place.

What I will say is that I have not personally witnessed activites like brigading or promotion of really nasty shit from lemmy.ml. I cannot say this about other instances we defederated from before. But again, this may just be a product of how I use Lemmy, and does not account for the experiences of others.

This is just an opportunity for those who do have strong opinions on this topic to say their piece and, more importantly, share their evidence.

If nothing else, given similar conversations a year ago, this will be an interesting account of what sh.itjust.works looks like today (happy belated cake day everybody!)