At no point has Gmail ever said “we’re no longer allowing you to send/receive emails to/from Hotmail” or has Yahoo said “we’re maintained by a single volunteer who because of real life stuff can no longer continue so we’re discontinuing our email service.”
But this literally happens with instances all the time.
I’m a fediverse supporter (obviously, that’s why I’m here), however what you’re looking for requires a critical mass of users that the fediverse (at least the Lemmy side of it) will never achieve as long as two very critical problems persist:
sign up is confusing. People are used to clicking “create an account,” inputting a user name, password, and maybe an email, and then BAM they’re a user. I realize the whole instance thing is the entire point, but no one wants nor expects to have to do significant research and make a decision about how they want to interact with a social media site before they’ve even started using it.
the site (or at least lemmy.world) is sooo slooow. Basic functions like loading images take me back to the dial-up era of “click the image then do something else while it loads,” which is downright ridiculous in the 2020s. Again I’ve stuck with it because I want to support the fediverse, but 99% of users won’t.
And no, these aren’t “features not bugs” unless you want to keep the site small and homogenous.
Are you comparing bagged tea or looseleaf? I feel like bagged tea tends to taste pretty similar, especially if sourced from a grocery store vs a tea shop.
“not your grandma’s environmentalism”
“next-gen tree-huggers”
It rarely gets below 20F here, so I am expecting my plant to overwinter (the roots, anyway) and produce more next year. Honestly I wasn’t expecting it to flower at all in year one, so this was a delightful surprise! Sunlight hours here are limited (especially because my garden gets some shade), so perennial plants often take a full year just to get established but then they take off in year two.
This year I’m growing artichoke for the first time (grew a single plant from seed). It’s finally producing a head and I’m super conflicted on whether to harvest it (yummy!) or let it bloom (pretty!)
The difference is if the primary (sometimes only) admin of your instance loses interest, goes to jail, or gets hit by a truck, your entire instance could be dead in the water, whereas there are way more safeguards to “established” social media like Reddit and Twitter. Plus the issue of “well shit my instance got defederated from most of the fediverse because it turns out the admin is an asshat” is completely nonsensical on platforms without instances. Example: before I knew that Lemmy had a tankie problem, I almost signed up on lemmygrad because I thought it was just a witty pun…
Plus when you say “point them to lem.ee” what scenario are you imagining? Because “you should join reddit” or “our business is on Facebook” or “Twitter is a great resource for artists” are all straightforward and easy pieces of information to convey and pick up. “Join Lemmy, a subset of the fediverse, I signed up via lemmy.world although I hear lem.ee is also good, but don’t let that stop you from picking another instance” is like… Dude, people just want to go to [site].com, click on “sign up”, enter a username and password (and maybe email) and that’s it. Just having to explain to people that “lemmy.com” isn’t a thing is already too complicated for most folks.
Lemmy (or at least lemmy.world) was bonkers levels of buggy last summer during the reddit blackout. Like, literally unusable levels of buggy. Getting the word out that it’s (mostly) bug-free now would probably be good, because I’m sure there were many redditors who tried it and quickly swore it off as a pile of shit.
Otherwise I’m in agreement that the instance-selection part of sign-up is a huge barrier, because what instance you choose is actually really important but it’s overwhelming when you’re just getting started. Plus not being able to migrate your account/communities/posts to another instance if yours goes to shit/shuts down/turns out to not fit your needs makes the fediverse feel really unstable.
Tomatoes (all fruits?) ripen from the blossom end up to the stem end, meaning that the blossom end is always at a softer, more delicate stage of ripening compared with the stem end. So by storing the tomato upside down, you’re putting the most pressure on the stronger, less ripe end.
The “stretch marks” on the jalapenos mean they’re definitely ready for picking (not all ripe jalapenos have them, but all jalapenos that have them are ripe).
Tomatoes you can pick once they “blush,” which means start developing color other than green. Store them inside, stem side down, to finish ripening. You can leave them on the vine to fully ripen, but they’ll be much safer inside (from bugs, weather, other damage potential) without any taste loss.
The Italian peppers it’s best to wait until they fully turn red, although it’s more important to harvest them before you start seeing blemishes, such as the damage on the one in the top-middle in this photo. If you see any damage forming (including any soft spots) pick it immediately. You can always use them like a green bell pepper if they haven’t fully ripened yet.
Does that help?
There’s a through-wall box fan just outside another shower.
Washington State: banh mi
Okay so there are some eyebrow-raising entries in this list, but Washington couldn’t even get a sandwich from the correct hemisphere. (A quick Google search even indicates the sandwich was first imported to California)
Oh right I completely forgot about tamagoyaki, probably because it’s not pure egg, it has other ingredients mixed in too. But yes, those are thoroughly cooked!
Radicchio has been welcome in my garden for sure; the periwinkle really pops among all the yellow and white flowers from my bolted herbs and brassicas! Chicory/radicchio is also an excellent winter/hunger gap green (although I agree with you, it’s quite bitter on its own, better in a salad mix with milder greens)
Sounds like your area takes their eggs more seriously than where I’ve been! Do you know how close to hard-boiled they can get? I kind of assume they have a topping-out point below fully-cooked-yolk.
I’ve had onsen tamago, and they’re closer to raw eggs than soft boiled eggs. Still yummy, but “cooked” is perhaps overselling it. (Eating raw or barely cooked eggs in Japan is extremely common, to the point that I don’t think I saw a fully-cooked egg in all the years I lived there. Even their omelettes are runny.)
This is actually discussed on the live-action animated film Wikipedia page.
Since the late 1990s, some films have included large amounts of photorealistic computer animation alongside live-action filmmaking, such as the Star Wars prequels, The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Avatar franchise. These films are generally not considered animated due to the realism of the animation and the use of motion-capture performances, which are extensively based on live-action performances by implementing actors’ movements and facial expressions into their characters. Roger Ebert said that “in my mind, it isn’t animation, unless it looks like animation.”
Related note: I’m quite nostalgic for the mid-20th century live-action animation trend (even more so than the late-20th century puppet trend). If the characters are going to look fake regardless, the animated ones are way more expressive and, well, animated.
I would echo the recommendations to avoid bamboo. However it’s hard to recommend what else to plant without knowing 1) your geographic region, 2) sun exposure of the area in question, 3) what species of trees are in the yard.
You might want to consider a priest for the damned lakes (which were presumably corrupted by the damned rain?)
Interesting idea, but it would need to be heavily moderated against scams and such that have pervaded other online “handmade” shops.