You don't get rid of me quite that quickly. Heeerrreeee I am again. I like the idea of all of us having the same cake day though. Cake is good. Cake is life.
Whoa what? That’s it? So long and thanks for all the fish the DT is done?! I get it. It sucks. But like, arnt we cutting off our nose to spite our face here?
Yeah that was very sudden. Glad I'm here though. Might take my old arse a bit to get used to the interface and such, but looking forward to the experience.
Oh thank god! you were one of the names I was worried about since I didn’t see you online the DT today. I did think to message Dressedlikerappers and jaybberwocky. Should someone message Lemon?
You know what annoys me the most about all this? I have thousands of saved posts that I was ONE DAY going to get around to sorting through. Now a lot of them are going to be gone.
Looks amazing! Some leftover pasta carbonara (no cream). Had no special ingredients in the house and no idea what to make for dinner yesterday, it's perfect for that situation.
My friends catholic primary school in Echuca relocated and now the building is an Aldi, I love how it feels like I know where things are without being to one as they are mostly uniform.
Welcome to the new frontier! It's pretty basic, but we have plenty of potatoes to sustain us while we build. 🥔
I've been here a couple of days but had a teleporting incident on the way over, which led to the development of a multiple personality disorder. I am BrightFadedDog elsewhere, but appear here in the form of a Raven😁
Only you beautiful people are going to know about the St Kilda Rd tram disruption. Trams being diverted down Park St and Kings way from ANZAC Station. Back onto St Kilda Rd at arts precinct (theoretically - we've moved 100m in 15m on King's way)
Been screenshotting saved posts (much to the cats' chagrin when they wanted cuddles) but enough.
If they're gone in the morning, they're gone.
Night all! szzzz
Well, I'm here... Didn't know if it would be the same but after having a look, it does feel a bit like home.
I promise that I'll try be on my best behaviour, but like in the old times, if I act up please don't be afraid to put me in my place. I'm not the brightest, but with the DT here, I think I can continue to grow.
Man I hope the jerboa devs are working feverishly to polish this app up. This could be a pretty painless transition if they get a move on.
Remembering preferences, like that I want my "front page" to be Subscribed and trending rather than active, not Local Active.. that and sorting by new are probably the big ones. If they can eventually get it anywhere near the Boost/baconreader experience that'd be incredible.
Getting people's heads around instances will be tricky but if people are looking for a specific place and are directed to it, that should be ok.
If you go to the settings for your profile you can set the preferences for the front page. Mine is now set to subscribed and new and works for the main page for the instance. No settings for the individual communits that I can see though.
Oooh I somehow missed those dropdowns when I went looking. Subscribed/Hot seems to have done the trick. Now I see today's DT above yesterday's which is way better. Thanks!
Please don't take this the wrong way, but were you trained in the arcane arts of typewriting? The only time I've seen anyone do double spaces after a punctuation was when dad taught me how to use the typewriter as a kid.
Yes, I was trained on a typewriter. My fingers insist on the double space and my brain is no longer involved in the process. I don't think I could change now, no matter how much I wanted to!
To give you an idea of the timeframe, I came first place in my typing class, an achievement for which I was awarded a Brashes voucher 🤣
Ha, nice catch! I recently noticed an older colleague doing the double spaces and it brought back memories of my mum teaching me how to type. Not sure when I dropped it, it looks weird to me now once I notice it.
We have both here. I somewhat represent the dog contingent, but due to confusion over the new platform and ending up with multiple accounts I am mostly present in my Raven form🙂
Breakfast is a bit sparse here so far, I have only been able to supply potatoes.
I hope the ones that blocked me on r/melbourne don't come over and do the same here. Also can you swear on here? Everyone seems very well mannered on here so far.
I reinstalled Reddit earlier today, and I'm very sad to see the news about the DT. I haven't been there as long as some of you, but I have been around long enough for it to feel like my little internet home. It's very upsetting to see all of the conversations and memories from the sub just gone, potentially forever.
The silver lining, I guess, is that r/Melbourne was almost the only reason I even use reddit, so I guess I can get rid of it now.
I hope everyone will be sticking around, I guess this will be my new home now.
(also, I'm still getting the hang of this fediverse and instance stuff, [email protected] is also me, but Jebora doesn't seem to have a way of logging into aussie.zone, so sh.itjust.works is my home instance for now)
kidcalhoon1 attained double digit status today.. All the sugar was had, and some presents (mostly asked for encyclopaedia type books, which was cool), and seemingly no meltdown.... she's asleep now, so I think we did it.
@[email protected] It is possible to tag here, but it works differently. Type out the name with @ at the start, then put another @ at the end and it should give you the option of doing it as a tag. Or hold down/right click the name (on the web browser) and select copy text.
I didn't see our community on the /r/melbourne sticky about going dark again, they mentioned a discord so I messaged them about this community and I'll have a look at the discord to let them know as well.
Update: Zooks is happily nomming the Dine.
The Dine that both of them have refused for days.
The Dine that Sammi has already sampled and licked the gravy off of. ten millon facepalm emojis
edit: and now she's hoovered up the mince that neither of them would touch. Cats gonna cat.
I got asked for ID at liquorland today. First time ever. Apparently I look under 25, which is weird because I thought people between 18 and 25 could drink. It tripped me out
iOS creep here. For iOS users ,The app is called Mlem. It’s in beta testing so ya gotta download TestFlight to use it. Then a stool and blood sample.
It’s basic but the Alpha version drops on the 1st of July ( coincidentally when all Reddit 3P apps crash and burn)
In a moment of sheer brilliance, I got completely fuddled, thought I created a duplicate account, and accidentally deleted the account I just made, inadvertently locking out the other name for good. Eventually managed to get things together enough, although I ended up with a headache. Not ideal for just getting over being ill, and a different kind of headache.
I now know what it is to be like, to be 97, and not know how to computer. Admittedly, the interface not telling you that there's an issue and just sitting there loading forever did not help any.
Update on the cats: Sammi at least licked the gravy off some of the opened Dine (but didn't finish the contents).
Zooks is sacked out but the plate is near her so we'll see (wouldn't bet the farm on it).
Neither of them seem to like the minced beef.
You can toggle to see/not see avatars in the settings. Go to the top right and find the 三 looking button and click on your username, scroll down to Settings to configure this.
ugh, my clothes are so frumpy, I need to get some more structured black stuff, Think I'll go to Witchery, they seem to have nice clothes
and some new high heels 😊
The majority of the communities I am subbed to in aussie.zone are from other instances, usually you can search [email protected] in the top right search area and it will come up in our instance.
You can put the full name in the search - so Melbourne would be [email protected] . I found it didn't always work first time, and you need to have "all" selected, not communities.
I signed up on another instance before I found this one, and couldn't get to this community from there. I ended up creating a new user account here (which is how I became RustyRaven instead of BrightFadedDog). Then I managed to get it to work from the first one anyway, but my MPD was already established by then.
For the time being, I have found it easier to sub on the desktop and it will be in Jerboa after you restart the app. It's not the most seamless, but its good after you have subbed to a few active communities.
I haven't been keeping up with Reddit since the blackout started. But I'm surprised that some subs I frequent are gone. Are mods nuking their subreddits because of Reddit's bullshit? Behind The Bastards and Gaming Circlejerk seem to be missing...
Anyone know what’s the name of the website/app that shows you the types of helicopter flying around in your area? Does it exist or am I going crazy lol
Ok, may as well just go back to daily rants and updates here. I think I finally might have bought almost everything I need for this place and almost removed everything I don't need. The last part is a lie. I bought cats new toys and they still want to play with what's on my desk. Bit the audio cables and stuff.
About to do another aa meeting. Did much better than getting drunk with my enabler today and the opportunity was there. One day at a time as they say. Higher power? Its those people, not some god or anything, I listened to them for hours last night and they're pretty normal, believe in each other and what the teachings say, that we spend too much time being self indulgent and not enough time being giving.
I got upped on my hormones and tonight I feel superior to my old self in a lot of ways. Dr could have so easily lectured but I'm 100% honest with him so he doesn't. We have a meeting of minds, informed consent but not just on the hormones. It's very refreshing. ADHD likely he thinks also. Great. Got my wig bangs cut nicely too ,,,
After crying in the drs surgery to the replies I read about lamenting the dt dying I feel actually elated to see so many familiar faces here. There's a few people I blocked in the past, and that was then. I'm sure we've all moved on from whatever petty beef we had. I hope so anyway.
Thanks for reading, this journal isn't over than fuck. It's been a good friend.
So i thought the reddit blackout would make me use social media less, but I ended up going down the lemmy rabbit hole, and even created my own community here. I tink I'm just too good at procrastinating. Halp.
I should go do adult stuff now... Or maybe I should post more lol.