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Cake day: January 13th, 2026

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  • Diaspora isn’t, and I’m not sure if it has activity pub support at all? Most other things are. APub is turned on for Friendica (DFRN protocol) by default, and Hubzilla (Zot protocol) allows you to enable it pretty easily.

    My line gets drawn based on what they’re made for. Friendica, Mastodon, GoToSocial, all of the *key forks, are all similar enough that I just have one account for all of them. They’re for microblogging.

    Lemmy isn’t for microblogging, it’s a link aggregator/community forum-adjacent thing. It’s different enough in function that I want a different account/client for it, especially if we’re talking mastodon because Lemmy floods mastodon feeds.

    If I cared about Bookwyrm, I’d have another account, same with PeerTube, etc. They feel different enough to the microblogs that I just prefer having accounts specific to them.


  • Even with people using more than they need we still overproduce by an alarming amount. Also someone wearing 5 shirts a day doesn’t contribute that much to consumption, just extra laundry detergent, which is a resource that can be stockpiled for a long time.

    There are a lot of ways that we do over consume, though many of them just… Do kind of go away when we’re not run ragged constantly. Don’t need to buy shinies to numb the pain when the pain is gone, y’know?

    A lot of overconsumption is fueled by industries doing it on purpose, too, clothing being a prime example of that. Clothes used to last, but that’s not as profitable as making things without enough seam allowance to alter them, and making them out of cloth so bad it falls apart if you even think of wearing it anyway.

    Some of it is definitely personal choice, but I’d wager that most of it is down to the second one, with a runner-up being the first.





  • Yep, though with calibre in particular you want to kind of make sure it’s locked down real good. People sniff for the ports it uses, so open calibre-web libraries get found quickly, and then will usually have some attempts at cracking.

    I had mine set up as a local-only thing (could only access from my home WiFi), but from experiences with other apps that have similar crawlers, it takes about a week for them to be found. Just make sure everyone’s passwords are decent, or just share one account if it’s people you trust.



  • From what I saw from my old room mate, it worked fine as of about 6 months ago. They got lower performance than on Windows, but still ran most games over 155fps (their monitor’s refresh rate) without any notable bugs. They had one of the cards that was like $2k new a year or two ago, idr the number, I think 4090?





  • So. In my experience, places with a generic “No politics” rule tend to become Nazi bars very quickly. That’s not the case here, partly (I think) because it specifies US politics. Makes it more clear that this isn’t a place where the only genders are “Male” and “Political,” even if that kind of is the case in the US.

    I think something akin to “Nothing about any current or former politician, or government entity” could be a way to allow discussions about certain parts of politics without others. In the communities (non-lemmy) I’ve run that’s the usual rule I have alongside some others that aren’t relevant here.

    I would mention that word filters exist, but this post is a great example of why those don’t work very well in a lot of cases. “The daft orange lardsack” is a case where self-censorship ends up leading to word filters being less effective. It’s also a great way to showcase that you think body shaming is fine in certain circumstances. I, personally, disagree, and think that we can talk about his actions without mentioning his weight, but y’know. What do I know








  • It’s… Actually kinda hard for me to make a guess. I think overall it’s probably more even than you’d expect. All things being equal (sex drive, being into your partner, etc) straight women outnumber gay men. 51% of the population are women (ish), and about 5% are gay men. Assuming everyone’s taken, and everyone has roughly the same ssxual activity, you’d be looking at around 5x the blowjobs in gay relationships (on average there will be more penises to be sucked in gay relationships than straight)

    However things aren’t equal. People who’re trans are also more likely to not be straight (about 17.6% of trans people overall self-ID as straight), but that’ll skew the numbers in a lot of different directions because of surgery, and dysphoria.

    I’m actually curious how heavily heterofatalism affects this, as well. A lot of straight people seem to hate their partners, though I’ve been seeing less of that ball and chain type stuff recently than I had in previous years. But also a lot more people are just single than before, so that’ll play into it.

    I would say it’s also age dependent, but there’s not much of a difference. Over 40s report having sex about 69 (nice) times per year on average vs 25-34s report about 90 times a year. With retirement communities frequently being STI hotspots I’m not that surprised tbh (condoms do more than prevent pregnancy!)

    Only now did I remember that we have statistics about a lot of things. Straight women give oral sex an average of 5.14 times per month. Gay men are 5.3x per month. So yeah. Gay men give fewer blowjobs overall, but more per capita, and gay coupled will have a little more than double the amount of blowjobs. Assuming about 5% of the population is gay men, and only looking at couples, we’re looking at about 1 out of every 6 blowjobs being from a gay man.

    … These are the thoughts that kept me out of the good schools.

    Edit: Now that I’ve been awake for more than 10 minutes I realize that the doubling of the number of blowjobs by gay men because there are 2 is prooooobably faulty logic. So it’s closer to about 10.3% of blowjobs given by gay men if we don’t forget lesbians (my own demographic, damn you, me!), and we assume a 9:1 ratio of straight women to gay men.