friend sent this, thought !bunnies might enjoy it

Just wanted to say thank you for posting here a lot! It is very appreciated.

Hm. I probably should make a backup community. Have to figure out which instance I’d put it on. Thanks for the catbox.moe rec, I’ll look into it.

Still like the idea of community redundancy though, more choice, and if I ever go crazy and become power-mad (let us hope not), or if I just make some important community decision people don’t like, people can up and leave and still have a bunny place without too much friction. At the moment both !bunnies@lemmy.world and !bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org are pleasant places and I hope it stays that way.

Thank you!

It is convenient, but I do want to help take the load off. It is the biggest Lemmy instance and I want to grow smaller instances. I mostly feel bad about being on .world because it’s the biggest instance and I want to make the Fediverse diverse instead of all centralized on one giant.

Worth noting I don’t personally notice anything bad with .world or .ml, but I know part of me being able to say that is because I keep off Local/All on any general-purpose instance and stick to my subs.

Wondering about whether I should find somewhere else to host my images before I post them, especially since I post to/mod !bunnies@lemmy.world, on the biggest instance. I do crop them down to just the relevant bit and compress them before posting.

Also wondering whether to move off lemmy.world or if it’ll die of low activity: most of our posts are from the same few people (thankfully I am not the only poster!), and !bun_alert_system@lemmy.sdf.org fulfills the same niche. I want to preserve the fact that there are two active bunny communities. I love the Bun Alert System, if you check our sidebars we both reference each other, but I also like the idea that if one of our instances dies, if the other community goes inactive, there is still a second bunny place to go to. So I do not want !bunnies@lemmy.world to just die and have its users absorbed by the Bun Alert System.

I do like the idea of the old mod I replaced because they went MIA being able to come back, find this, and post/mod again, which is a small point towards not leaving lemmy.world, but ever since I got my feet wet at kbin.social and learned what was going on I’ve decided that I’d rather support smaller instances. I am only on lemmy.world because turns out you cannot see reports if you mod from an account from a different instance (at least, that is how it was when I first took over. You can literally see me trying to mod with accounts from smaller instances, finding it didn’t work, and stopping via the modlogs of some Elevator7009 being added, and leaving haha).

Thanks for providing context, and all the links. I read them, and I really have no idea what to think anymore.

I’m just going to keep posting and I’ll probably stay out of any of this discussion in the future.

Thanks for addressing my concern. With this additional context it looks like he’s trying to refuse without being straightforward about it (from my end). Although I get it is a tactic to try to be nice instead of hurtful, it often just leads to more hurt, especially when people take the action to do “X” and they still get a “no”. Wasted effort trying to convert a “no” to a “yes” that could never be converted, and probably inadvertently pissing off someone who wishes you would just take a hint when you understandably take them at face value because some people do legitimately say “no, for X reason” and could be converted to a “yes” when X is addressed. It would be better for all parties to be straightforward. As someone who cares a lot about being nice and protecting peoples’ feelings, it is, in fact, very possible to be straightforward and honest without being rude or hurtful.

https://fanaticus.social is pretty nice for sports, although I admit a specific sports focus is more narrow than a general entertainment place

Not sure why you are owed Blaze’s efforts on your instances specifically, and why a “no” prompts such a negative, unflattering comparison. You might not actually believe you are entitled to his efforts, but the harsh comparison in reaction to his “no” is what makes me perceive you as feeling that way. I am really not used to people who don’t feel entitled to someone’s efforts speaking that way when they refuse.

I appreciate and acknowledge your efforts, I know you made some software to help people find replacement communities for subreddits and to mirror content from other sites to the Fediverse but to be honest this comment leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Especially given all the posts they do make to try to contribute to the Fediverse and grow it—but at least from what I see, they do not want to take on the additional tasks of modding or administrating your instance and you find their reasons unacceptable so you make this comparison, which frankly looks like an attempt to insult them to me.

And that unflattering comparison leaves me somewhat scared to post this comment lest I get one too, for having wrongthink, too much sympathy for someone you think I should not, insert other insults here. But I also figure I should probably speak up instead of getting in the habit of letting my fear of conflict (and lack of experience with seeing people speak harshly to me or others irl) control me especially when I feel I see something that should not have happened.

Did Blaze tell you your communities are all trash or something? I really do not see why you are reacting so harshly.

I super appreciate your community! Unfortunately I encounter bunnies and can thus make bunny content for !bunnies@lemmy.world far more frequently than I encounter snakes of any type, let alone the royal python. I can try to explicitly look up royal pythons to post so you’re not alone!

I also think this is happening because right now, we are so small that we do not have enough users to split the snake-lover community by species just yet.

amusing video, thank you for sharing

I have seen someone use https://toobnix.org for videos, which is in the Fediverse.

Part of me wants to upload videos to Fediverse places and link there, part of me wants to stick them on YouTube and link to that because I feel bad using Fediverse resources, all the space my video takes up, but have no guilt using up YouTube’s resources.

Bunny eats cutely at video start, go directly to 0:08 (this link takes you there) to skip to the loaf.

• !royalpython@lemmy.world
• !snakes@lemmy.world
• !foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org

To be totally honest with you, I did not even notice the red line under the alligator. Not sure how I overlooked that. Rewatched and looked into it. The red line, admittedly unfortunately positioned under the alligator in the thumbnail, is just a golf course thing marking off a water hazard on the side of the course.

I also made the link send people directly to the fox part of the video, which is after the alligator part.

• !royalpython@lemmy.world
• !snakes@lemmy.world
• !foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org

I also forgot to comment this earlier: thank you for crediting the source!

bunana

Different browser works, thank you. I’ll delete my post for accidental misinformation.

!otomegames@ani.social

Now on ani.social with yet another Elevator7009sAlt account. Waiting to add content until .run has been down for a week (just to make sure it is really gone and not something like them getting hacked), and the same for remaking my main account.