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I do look to have made it to your feed now! It deleted my 3 posts that were photos with short blurbs and kept my news article that is mostly text.

We rarely get the meme type posts, but if your setup is looking at anything like text:photo ratio, that could be doing it.

I have most meme communities block myself, so I understand how overtaking they can be to a feed. 😁

I’m interested in what you’re doing because I am interested in news and politics, but it would be nice to get rid of most of the garbage US news and the dupe posts, and let a better variety of news come in. I’ve gone to keyword blocking, but while I have “Trump” blocked, I’d still like to see things from other countries about their responses to his actions., for example.

Lol she was very secretive!

She had a husband supposedly, but she never really talked about him other than saying he existed. She came over for the paprikash dinner, but he did not. She supposedly came to America as a child. Her and some others were supposed to be here for some sports tournament thing, but whoever had the money in Romania stole it ,so they were stuck here and most of them just stayed.

We joked in the office she was in some weird kind of mafia situation, and then one day we never saw her again. Her whole situation was mysterious and fascinating from start to finish.

There are worse spirits I could have encountered and a hungry Romanian one! 😆

I had never made crepes until I met a Romanian at work and once she found out I cooked, she encouraged me to make her some things to remind her of home.

We had clatite first, with nutella and preserves. Now I usually think of crepes as clatite since that was what I got familiar with first. 😄

We also had Parprikash with mamaliga, and my favorite of the bunch, cozonac! I made 2, one with the nut filling, and I want to say the other was poppy. The nut one I have made a few times since. So tasty, and the rum flavoring makes it so unique!

She just randomly disappeared on day, so I don’t know if she quit or what, but I will always have fond memories of my bried education on Romanian food!

a Dutch child? 😆

Dutch baby should be more popular. So good!

I was curious what would happen to the ratio of political posts, specifically Trump/Elon, to other communities, but it feels >= the amount as All on lemmy.world.

None of my superb owls look to have made it through, but I didn’t see them removed in the mod log. We’re a pretty large community, so I’d have thought some would have gotten through. I don’t recall if I saw stuff from any of the animal comms.

I’m glad that was helpful!

It looked great and I really wanted to stick with the dev on it once they originally announced they were going to make a Lemmy version, but even after a couple months going between it and some other apps, while it looked much the same as Boost for Reddit, it just didn’t feel the same.

Boost still looked nice, but the posting UI was terrible for me. I couldn’t figure out how to do half the things I wanted to do, and since I became a regular poster using a ton of media and formatting, it was just a no-go.

The dev has done a lot to help with my specific use cases, and I haven’t started since. I gave everything a look around the end of the year to make sure I wasn’t missing out on anything, but at this point I don’t feel I’m missing a thing from the experience.

I like the apps are all independent in that we can try one or all and hop between them at will without losing anything.

I agree, they definitely have to be passionate about it, and I feel it really shows. Truly shocked it never seems as popular as some others. I’ve given a number of bug reports and feedback/suggestions and they’ve all been addressed shockingly quick, and it’s fun to think this or that bit is there just because I agreed nicely. 😇

I’ve test driven a majority of the apps at this point, and I think the variety of apps we have to choose from is impressive. They all feel pretty different too, so everyone should be able to find what works for them.

I think it was Connect I kept installed longest other than Summit and the discontinued Liftoff. I was a huge Boost fan on Reddit, but never jelled with the Lenny implementation.

I have a hard time believing Summit Dev has time for a day job! 😂

I feel every bug is patched same/next day and they keep constantly adding to the feature set. There have been a ton of upgrades this year, and it was perfect to me once they added custom user tags, so now everything is just a bonus.

I like all their decisions and they take feedback in what works for us, and at this point you can turn almost anything on/off so you get what you want.

Summit is peak Lemmy!

Awesome app, awesomer dev. If it doesn’t do what you want, talk to them and they’ll probably do it.

Not FOSS, but free and no ads.

Would not be enjoying Lemmy near as much without it thanks to all the great features like multi-community support and endless customization.

Owls are just that awesome! Makes it easy to find good stuff.

A data mining community bought it in 2022.

It made a lot of users upset and they moved on. I still us it. I paid for it, it did everything I want, and it’s sent a whole 25kb of data so far this year. I haven’t seen any actually evidence they’re doing anything nefarious with it.

Vegeta really goes to great lengths to try and catch up. Goku just makes it look so easy while Vegeta is always taking a beating and getting better, but nowhere near Goku. The guy even lets himself get possessed to try to catch up.

You can still invest in cash while getting the tax advantages of making contributions. Don’t leave money on the table!

I think manga/anime covers mostly one sided rivalry better than a lot of other media. I think it’s that drive for perfection that pushes many characters. One is already shown to be near perfect, and the other is always trying to catch up.

Examples would be Bakugo and Midoria from My Hero Academia. Midoria is by far the most powerful and sees Bakugo as a friend, not a rival, but Bakugo is obsessed to outdo him and keeps pressing himself to find a way to do something Midoria cannot.

I also think of Ippo and Miyata from Hajime no Ippo. There is a bit more 2 sidedness here, but it is mostly Ippo. Miyata sees they are becoming closer in skill, so he leaves the gym to build himself up on his own away from Ippo, and though Ippo beats people that would outclass Miyata, Miyata is still the one Ippo wants to beat since he set him on the start to his success but still was usually one step ahead of where he wanted to be. Miyata wanted to stay that one step ahead, but wasn’t constantly using Ippo to do that after a point, he knew he had to keep looking for greater challenges if he didn’t want to be surpassed.

Honestly, as someone who largely disliked social media and was typically a lurking doomscroller that was ready to quit social media altogether at the reddit app ban, what made the best change ever was becoming someone who is primarily a poster.

I post what I want, when I want, and I get to start the conversation that way. It’s always a topic I want to talk about, and it’s something there isn’t much to argue about, and all the interactions will be 99% positive.

It’s a small crowd here, so you can get people that are ready to talk with whoever reaches out to the masses first.

You can take time replying to people, and if no one is talking at the moment, it gives you time to plan a next post.

Pick a topic you enjoy and make yourself our local expert. That prompts you to keep actively learning about something you enjoy too so you can answer people’s questions they ask you.

It’s great it’s not an all or nothing thing. It lets you see what components make a bigger difference and then you can pick and choose what you do when.

I wish trial sizes were a thing though. GF bought a ton of stuff that either didn’t help or made her hair worse, so there’s a lot of 90% unused bottles, which at least I end up experimenting with, but some of the styling stuff I don’t use so it just sits there forever.

That’d be a good business for someone with more patience than I. Buy all this stuff and sell little travel sizes a la carte. One year I got her a ton of perfume sample so she could find new fragrances without a big upfront expense and she’s really enjoyed that, and we learned Kohls sells a few products like that we’re you get a few samples for the price of a single bottle and it gives you a code to get a discount off the one you like best.

I always had straight and flat hair and kept it really short for the last 20 years. The girlfriend tried curly girl for awhile and while her hair isn’t really curly, it really made the waves much more dramatic and it looked amazing.

We’re not big on regimented routines though, so while she stopped it after a while, we still get most of the same products, and even just with that selective purchasing, her hair is still nicer and softer than before, and it made me want to grow my hair out, and now I have very handsome looking waves I never thought would have been possible for me.

The Curly Girls speak the truth, even if cowashing and plopping sound like silly things!