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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • But that’s my point. A bot that posts links to external content isn’t driving engagement or fostering discussion, it’s just sending people to other sites. Even a brief summary of the link would be better, as it gives you a starting point.

    A plain link is pointless, other than posting for the sake of it and claiming that it’s content. Browsing All and seeing post after post of links with no discussions is just depressing, and doesn’t make me want to stick around, and especially not have conversations with bots.


  • It’s not though, is it? You’re replying to a question post here, in a community for questions. A significant portion of Lemmy is communities for questions, media, memes, and tech conversations.

    Of the posts that share links, a decent number of those are either posted with a summary to encourage discussion, or are at least posted by a human that you can speak to. A headline and link to another site, posted by a bot, does nothing to encourage interaction with Lemmy. It’s literally a link that points to content somewhere else



  • Commodore VIC20 first, with the cassette deck and memory expansion card. I can’t remember now what size the expansion was, but we couldn’t play some games without it.

    My first proper PC was an Advent 486 SX25, with either one or two megabytes of memory on board. My brother convinced our parents that it would be good for school work, but I added a single speed CD reader and a generic sound card to it and got Doom for my birthday.

    That became my PC, so I upgraded the RAM to 4MB and the CD drive to a blisteringly fast quad speed! Crazy, I know :o

    I’ve actually got it at home at the moment, but don’t know if it works. It was in my parent’s attic when there was a leak near it, so I’ve brought it here to let it dry for a while before I risk doing anything with it :)








  • Would kiosk mode be any good for her use case? Add the photos etc. as a different user and give Grandma read only access, and automatically reset her home directory on boot / login.

    Use an immutable distro to lessen the chance of her deleting something important, and you should be set. Maybe set up Firefox with sync so that she can add bookmarks, and have that log in automatically.