JohnnyEnzyme @ JohnnyEnzyme @piefed.social

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Do you have a particular bone to pick with them, PJ? I mean other than their general poly-ticks?

(love your contributions, btw; thanks for all you do!)

I agree with the people urging you to do your best to take care of your sublemmy once you create it. On top of that, I also feel that most types of communities need you and/or others to be motivated promoters and content creators, even if you're just pulling 'best of' content from elsewhere.

So-- IMO it's generally best to think of it as a volunteer job. And from what I've seen, most community founders don't necessarily realise that, and aren't actually up to the task, hence the # of abandoned subs across the FV (fediverse).

IME one thing that really helps with growing subscribers is that due to the current size of the FV, almost any small community posting content on a regular basis is going to be seen by a fairly large proportion of the FV via the "ALL" feed. Whereas for example, that's almost impossible on Reddit. It really helps!

Oh! Vous êtes en fait l'auteur, n'est-ce pas?

Do you mind if I add a link in our "WEBCOMIX!" post? (2nd from top)
https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels

Oh wow, thanks for sharing the link! Lots of good stuff there. :D

Everyone in the building happened to flush their toilets at the same time.

Fun factoid: there's an urban legend about so many people flushing their toilets during halftime of the NFL Super Bowl, that it actually broke municipal water mains.

And of course, most of the right-wing voters probably don't know and/or care to understand that FOX was founded as a propaganda outlet in the first place.

Ah, I see the edit now. Me like!

I'll be danged. oO

https://www.creators.com/read/heathcliff/10/23/357118

Wha... what is this? The official comic actually succumbing to your HwoH project?

All we need is one more well-placed balloon there, and Robert's your avuncular figure!

Well, there's a nice example of a brick wall. Alrighty, then.

Aha, could be.

More specifically he reminds me of... I think either a French General, politician, or artist.

As someone who grew up in Philly, I'm slightly bemused as to why as a group we don't seem to have ever tried adding scrambled egg in our cheesesteaks. Or scrapple, for that matter.

My point is that context is everything. For example, if you already know that most of your audience is already highly skeptical of right-wing views and talking points, then: 1) it might just behoove the program to feature the more extremist interviewees, and 2) it might actually be a waste of time, energy and resources to rebut what the audience likely already considers obvious rubbish. That's over-generalising of course, but still...

Also, NPR doesn't necessarily represent the totality of pure, journalistic purpose, and they're not there to live up to any specific outside standards. It's fine for you to critique them, but to my mind, if they're accomplishing their mission then that's the most important thing.

Now the best you get after having a Republican spout off the benefits of killing the poor for 10 min straight is a mild tone of disagreement as they say "that's all the time we have, thanks for joining us".

Just a hypothesis, but considering NPR's general audience, maybe they don't necessarily need to offer much rebuttal. Maybe, via the interview Q's, it's more a case of attempting to give the right-wingers as much rope as they need to... you know?

(then again, I haven't listened to NPR for ages; so shame on me)

1847 was a year of economic turmoil in France, which preceded a second revolution in 1848. Wouldn't be surprised if this was related to any of that.

Also, the tall officer in the middle looks very familiar, but then again, I guess it was a pretty common look, i.e. middle-aged man with a drooping, caterpillar moustache.

Late-ish reply, but I'm enjoying how Grandpa doesn't even need arms anymore to serve his purpose. Perhaps not-too-far in the future he can be reduced to a sort of bobble-headed matryoshka, like the old "Shmoo" character, or once upon a time, children's toys "Weebles," which would famously wobble, but never fall down.

From the couple of books by Jane Goodall I read, there absolutely was a 'top dawg' male in the Gombe chimp troop for as long as she was around to study it.

Sometimes it would be based on force of personality; sometimes on strength & size, sometimes on wiliness and psychological tricks, and another time due to two brothers teaming up together. Regardless, after the fall of one, another would inevitably take its place.

IIRC Sapolski also observed that most baboon troops indeed had a heirarchy, with the top dawg there typically taking out its frustrations on the next-ranking member down, and so forth down the line. That said, he also observed that when the most aggressive males sometimes died off due to disease / etc, the resultant troops could function remarkably differently, in which there was more of an egalitarian matriarchy.

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] > https://discuss.tchncs.de/ is managed by the admin behind https://tchncs.de/ , as you can see, they offer quite a few services: https://status.tchncs.de/status/tchncs

Thanks; cool stuff. I just hope there's enough resiliency and backup in terms of personnel, such that such projects can go on indefinitely.

] > In your situation, have you ever considered hosting a blog rather than content directly on Lemmy/Piefed? That might be an easier way to manage the content over time.

Well, there's the rub-- by no means did I set out to create a blog-like project, rather that's what it happened to drift towards over time. My main intent was to create as close an alternative to r/bandedessinee as possible due to Reddit's self-immolation at the time. I didn't want it to be about me, but about community participation, eventually with other people overseeing the project, with myself being more of an occasional contributor. This is doubly the case due to significant health issues and living in a place currently drifting towards... some pretty disastrous general outcomes.

But yes, I've tried doing a couple blogs for awhile. I frankly prefer the Reddit/FV approach because I don't have to be as perfectionistic, 'complete,' and me-centred, plus it let's me work more in a style intended to get general discussion rolling.

As I said above, if PieFed / etc eventually offered the ability to assign transferred content with matching usernames to the new account, that would pretty much solve things for me. Or if the community owner had the ability to modify old content (showing that in a public log of course), then it would also solve things. I don't feel like I'm hoping for too much here, but maybe I'm wrong...

Good point, but one which also maybe shows how this kind of thing can be completely arbitrary. I.e., there's nothing else in English that sounds like "tor-til-a," so in most ways it doesn't really matter, same as with the Texan city of Amarillo.

"Guerilla," however...

IIRC as the article already mentioned, these were the kind of his moves that were quite unique, experimental and even trail-blazing. I thought the first SW was a pretty interesting yarn, even if this kind of thing later got turned in to a product. But that was going to be the case, regardless. Anything successful was always going to be imitated until turned in to product.