cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/44477998

(not my OC, just funny)

(not my OC, just funny)

Meh, if it is then it is (e.g. I could use another app, or like... actually make a password that I can remember hehe:-), but either way I'd at least like to know.

This is the second time now that a week after I log into the app a pop-up has come up titled "Login Session Expired", continuing with "Your login session is no longer valid. Please login again." The options are to login or logout, I can't simply click away. Force-closing the app does work to get around this requirement - except obviously I lose my place in whatever I was reading through, but I can vote and comment again. So obviously the "expiration" was false if I can continue beyond it, but I forget for how long that works before the expiration dialogue comes back again.

Is this normal behavior? If not then are there any ideas why I am seeing it - like perhaps my installation via FDroid rather than the Play Store could be a factor? If it is, then how do people usually deal with this - the force close and reopen method I've been using so far?

There are reasons for this, but I am focusing here on the impact that it has upon the recipients.

Zero mention of PieFed, Mbin, Sublinks, or for that matter, the operating costs of Discuss.Online. This ad is not promoting the "Fediverse/Threadiverse", but instead funding the political messaging and curation of content on the Lemmy.ml instance, with some portion also going to development of additional software features. We are not told how much, but seeing the rather large number of entries in the modlog on that instance those curation and posting activities done by those asking for funding definitely do not take zero time. Note that the developers have refused to provide a means to fund only the software without also funding the lemmy.ml instance.

I have used PieFed for a year and never once seen anything remotely like this. I used to use Kbin before it forked into Mbin and again never saw anything remotely similar. The operating costs of DO are real and valid - and if the message had been for that purpose then I would have been fine with it. There are many many ways to fund development of the Threadiverse, and most of them do not require platforming messages that routinely call for the literal murder of everyone living in a Western civilization - a topic that has been discussed in great depth pretty much everywhere across the Threadiverse so let's avoid going deeper into it here and instead I will just point anyone interested to !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works and leave it at that.

I did not appreciate seeing this 3-page advertisement (given the font size used, I had to scroll down almost exactly 3 pages worth to get to any other content). New users fleeing corporate enshittified social media will not appreciate it either. Thank you for letting me vent. There are many possibilities for a solution - including modifications to the Lemmy sourcecode as it runs on DO machines to remove this "feature" (while leaving other more opt-in calls for donations in place), and I am aware that I can click the prominent X button to make it go away (although nowadays the advertisement comes back when I revisit the page? it did not used to behave like that, but now it does for some reason, at least for me?) - but chiefly here I was focused on the poor look that it gives us. This is yet one more reason why I am being driven away from using Lemmy, as it enshittifies for the sake of its own profit, even if to a vastly reduced degree compared to corporate social media, and even if those profits are reinvested into the extremely dubious "benefit" of running by far the most controversial and contested instance across the Threadiverse.

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I am not aiming to convince - much less convert - anyone to anything (this video looks to me like pseudo-Buddhist philosophy), but I enjoyed this piece to mull over and thought I'd share in case you might too:-).

Context: I made a poll on PieFed about the new post flairs (so if you are one of the few hundred people who have a PieFed account, follow that link and answer there). Unfortunately Lemmy has neither polls nor post flairs, so this post is to open up the discussion to the wider Fediverse, or rather the subset of it that encompasses Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, which is called... what exactly?

Is Threadiverse too traumatic & tainted by association with Meta's (all but entirely defunct) Threads? Is The Verse too cool/poetic/nerdy (but niche) to be understood? I highly advise against Lemmyverse bc mainstream normal people are far less tolerant of tankies than we who are here are willing to put up with. Simply listing the software available sometimes is the best option - like the Interstellar app supports all of Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, but most support at best 1 or 2 of those - but usually is too long to say and does not roll off the tongue, plus will just keep growing as time goes on. Is Forumverse thus the least bad of the available options, or perhaps you have a better idea? 💡

Anyway, the start to a listing:

1. Threadiverse
2. Forumverse
3. (The) Verse
4. Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed
5. Something else?

- source for image

(Not my OC, so thought I'd share, if it works despite the defederation)

Not my OC, nor even current, but I hope it makes you smile nonetheless

(not my OC nor my OP, just helping spread the message around:-)

It's kinda damn cool no matter what! 😎