I would recommend bringing this up with the lemmy.zip admins.

Only thing I can suggest, if you’re willing to use a different client, is to try their Tesseract UI instance (https://t.lemmy.zip/). You can at least filter the Zippybot account so its posts are minimized. Find a post from it, click its username, and then “Filter User…”

The upcoming release has much more powerful filtering options (e.g. you can completely hide zippybot, among other capabilities) but it’s not generally available yet. Hoping to have it released “soon”.

Speaking from recent experience, the smaller thing can, and often does, turn into a larger thing all on its own and always at the worst time.

For the last 3 years, I knew my water heater was on its last legs. I kept putting it off until two Saturdays ago I had a wet basement and no hot water. The kick in the ass was that it wasn’t that hard to replace the unit: 2 hours of labor to install and 2 hours to drain, remove, and clean around the old one. Cost me just under $650 including same day delivery which was awesome because I would have had to rent a truck and drafted someone to help me load/unload it otherwise.

So my advice is when you allocate time to address the small problem, give yourself double that in case it turns into a bigger project. It’s always easier to deal with big stuff when it’s not a surprise.

Can’t link to the posts directly to demonstrate since the spoiler overlay is only shown in the feed. It’s assumed if you click into the post you want to see the spoiler. I suppose I could change that, but the behavior aligns with how the NSFW tag works.

To give an example of how it works in the feed, here’s a search link that should work (it’s what I used to make the post screenshot): https://tesseract.dubvee.org/search?type=All&q=posts%3A[spoiler]

Im guessing like abcd [spoiler] efg would trigger it too?

Correct. While that wouldn’t turn into a flair (only [flair text] at the beginning or end of the title will be used as flairs), it will trigger the spoiler overlay if [spoiler] appears anywhere in the title. I did this consciously to account for inconsistencies in some of the spoiler usage I’ve seen. It could easily be changed to only trigger on actual flairs (at the beginning or end of the title).

Second this. Everything I have runs on Debian or OpenWRT.

Definitely could, but I won’t hold my breath waiting for a feature to make it to the API. There’s enough 3rd party app support and enough people using flairs in the [flair] format, even though it’s not “officially” supported in Lemmy-UI, that I think we’d be safe implementing this.

And should an API-level flag ever happen, then all apps would need to do is look for that boolean attribute in the Post object rather than checking the title for the spoiler flair - the rest of the handling logic can remain the same. So it’s not like we’d have to make major changes if we ever get an official spoiler flag. It would also be easy to support both so there could be backwards compatibility or for other platforms that may lack an official spoiler flag.

You can also POST AS A GUEST TO THE FEDIVERSE without signing up.

Oh, dear lord. As if we don’t have enough spam and drive-by trolls as it is.

Mine died last weekend and I had to replace it. $650 to do myself, and that included same day delivery.

It failed the prior night, noticed it mid-morning, ordered at 2pm, received it at 5, and had it installed by 7. Was kind of a pain but not nearly as awful as I feared.

Yeah. On the surface it seems like it would be a positive. But in practice, it shields people from criticism of their behavior.

Yeah, yeah, “use your words” and all that, but some comments are just so brain-dead or trollish that they’re not worth a response, and even a downvote is expending far more effort than the comment is worth. So the person who made it sees 3 upvotes but not the 50 downvotes, so their takeaway is that “wow, 3 people liked my braindead comment” rather than everyone except 3 people hated it.

I get the appeal of disabling downvotes, but if I say something stupid, I wanna know.

The number of upvotes on this post (and it’s xpost in c/politics) is extremely disheartening and shows why getting news from social media is doomed to spread crackpot shit. People will like and share anything they agree with no matter what tinfoil rag it links to.

Humanity makes me sad.

I mean, if you’re not shitting your guts out after drinking a glass of tap water, then it’s clean enough.

Pure water tastes like…nothing. The minerals and such give it the good, crisp taste.

That said, my water is so hard it has comparable calcium to a glass of milk.

That’s basically me. Wake me when it’s time to:

• Eat
• Hand out gifts
• Go home

Added :) I also disabled the “Create Post” button if the community is on a defederated instance even though, technically, you can still post to your instance’s local copy (it just won’t federate).

Edit: This only works one way. i.e. it can only know if your instance is defederated from the community’s. If the community’s instance is defederated from yours, there will be no indicator because there’s no way to do it without a remote lookup which is both unreliable and inefficient at scale.

You mean like if there’s a community called !cats@example.com and your home instance no longer federates with the instance example.com?

If so, I’ll add that to Tesseract as it sounds useful.

My friend got me into it, and it was the first and only MUD I ever really got into. So kind of loved it by default. I tried out a few others but never really got very far beyond the first few levels in each.

Beyond that, it was intuitive as far as MUDs went, had a massive world and lore, and was well “modded”.

Two in the same vein:

1. Someone once assumed that I used a code prettier by asking for my .prettierrc. Nope. I just write pretty code and was legit offended at that.
2. Multiple times I’ve been called an AI because I (checks notes) write out my thoughts in full sentences.

There’s been worse, but I’m quick to block, and I don’t dwell on things. It’s actually pretty easy when you step back and think about the kind of person who would go online make personal attacks like that. Once you have that mental image, you quickly realize you don’t give a flying fuck what that person has to say about anything.

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I used to play the crap out of A.V.A.T.A.R. As of a few days ago, it was still alive and active.

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You can use telnet or a more capable MUD client. I used to use zMUD back in the day, but it hasn’t been developed since 2008. The last time I sat down and played, I used Mudlet.

In my city, they just keep paving over the old asphalt, so the manhole covers are like 6 inches deep in some places. Hitting one of those in my sedan is not pleasant.

Dude! Awesome! On all fronts, awesome.