Admiral Patrick

I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

Special skills include: Knowing all the “na na na nah nah nah na” parts of the Three’s Company theme.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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  • The person who cross-posted it was probably definitely from your local instance.

    You only ever interact with your local instance’s copy of any community, even remote ones. If the community is to a remote instance that is either offline or since de-federated, there’s nothing that prohibits you from interacting with it*. Because lemm.ee is no longer there to federate out the post/comments to any of the community’s subscribers, only people local to your instance will see it.

    *Admins can remove the community and, prior to it going offline, mods can lock it. But if an instance just disappears, you can still locally interact with any of its communities on your instance; the content just won’t federate outside your instance.





  • I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone in real life. There are parts that are just way too jarring.

    Ugh, this. And I hate that it’s like that.

    Like, I used to have my instance open to whoever to sign up. My guiding principle was to have a place that wasn’t overrun with [parts that are just way too jarring]. Holy shit was that an impossible goal to do alone so I shuttered it up and now it’s just a private instance / testbed for Tesseract.

    My friends knew I was active on Reddit, and that was fine. But I wouldn’t tell them I spend any amount of time here because what they would see going to almost any random instance will probably definitely not look good on me by association despite that I’m nowhere near that.

    So if anyone shares this desire, I am open to un-mothballing my instance, rebranding, and taking on new admins and re-opening to users who also want a place like that.







  • Like someone else said: Block the news and politics communities if you like to browse /all. You can always unblock them later.

    It was with heavy heart but I also blocked silence7@slrpnk.net. Nothing against them, and they post nothing but quality material in what I fully believe to be good faith, but they’re just…too much. The only reason I had to block them individually is they post in more than just news/politics communities but never goes off-brand and only posts news/politics/“everything is a bummer” things. There’s probably a few other people like that, but shouldn’t be many.

    That should just leave you with the few oddball posts where it’s just the people that don’t follow the no news/politics rules.



  • I haven’t been to Odysee for a good while, but is it still Rumble-lite?

    I only learned of Odysee because I saw a video linked to it here and went directly to the video. When I saw it had embed code, I added support in Tesseract UI so the videos would play from the post. Then I went to the main site and saw the front page full of rightwing nutjob rants and vaccine skepticism and was like “nope”. Had I saw that beforehand, I wouldn’t have added embed support, but the work was already done so I left it in. That’s basically why I refuse to add embed support for Rumble.

    Wondering if ownership/leadership/policies have changed since about 2 years ago when I wrote the embed components for it and last interacted with it.









  • could be seen as passive aggressive commentary against FOSS links

    Nah, I get it. I get annoyed when people post Invidious links. Not because I’m against them, but because I run an Invidious instance myself and have a browser plugin to re-write YT links to use that one that’s 15 feet away from me. But the plugin only works if the link is to YouTube. When it’s some random Invidious instance on the other side of the planet, it takes forever to load because of the multiple levels of redirection and is just frustrating since my browser plugin would have redirected a YT link to my local server.

    I just figure with my ample bandwidth, PeerTube’s P2P load balancing, Lemmy’s small-ish userbase not sending a million simultaneous requests to it, and not having to proxy to another source (e.g. YT) it would balance out in my favor.

    Will def continue to provide “corpo” links or maybe switch back to those for the “main” link and provide FOSS ones as alternates. If you’ve got a preference here, just let me know.



  • Fair enough!

    I’m a huge fan of people embracing the internet as it was originally intended rather than the corporate machine it turned into. As long as it’s not some shady-looking site posted by an hour-old account, I’m perfectly content to stream some tunes from someone’s basement homelab haha.

    I’ve got gigabit fiber so might as well spread the love. This instance is almost 3 years old, and the PeerTube instance runs under a subdomain of it, so hopefully I’ve established a good enough reputation that people aren’t turned off by it.