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Memes of Production

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[–] saltywizard@beige.party 16 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

@Deceptichum

I really enjoy the memes you post, but I can't boost them without descriptive #alttext

if you're unable/unwilling, you might consider using the #alt4me tag which will invite other users to help you compose the copy.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Hi, I’m posting from the threadiverse on PieFed, so I’m not sure if the tag would help.

Due to the volume I’m post, it would add a lot of workload and time spent when I’m trying to find ways to reduce my time.

I’ve got a lot of posts in queue at the moment, but going forward I’ll try to work out something to get alt-text on them.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Three pictures first: a dystopian tangle of highways labelled "fossil fuel vehicles" second: a dystopian tangle of highways labelled "electric vehicles" third: an idyllic walkavble city labelled "walking biking and public transit".

That took me literally a minute.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Cool so an extra half an hour for this sub alone per day. Considering each post is already a few minutes work to set time fields, find image, and make up a title it all adds up to me not wanting to spend more time than I have too.

[–] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 4 points 14 hours ago

You could post less but more accessible...

Or you find a way that the community helps you with those image descriptions.

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think Lemmy or Piefed support hashtags. Personally, I often just do it anyway. See a post without transcription, transcribe it.

Better if OPs do it themselves, but volunteers taking on the effort without need to request permission/be told to do it is second best.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

PieFed does support it, not sure if it shows up on Masto though.

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Hmm, actually it doesn't look like it does work. In fact, it may be worse than Lemmy. I can see @saltywizard@beige.party's hashtags (as actual hashtags) in Lemmy, but not here on Piefed.

But I can't see my own hashtags in either platform.

edit: wait, looks like both Lemmy and Piefed may work. I can see saltywizard's hashtags as tags on the default Piefed UI, but not in Blorp, which is my preferred Piefed client.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Blorp dev here. I'm not sure I understand hashtags well enough to implement them yet. From what I can tell, @saltywizard@beige.party either manually linked the hashtag to Mastadon, or more likely, whatever client they used inserted the link when they types the hashtag.

To demonstrate my point:

  1. Here is a hashtag I manually linked #alt4me
  2. Here is a hashtag I did not manually link #alt4me

In Blorp, 1 is clickable for me, but 2 isn't. Depending on what client you're using, 2 may get auto linked.

[–] RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 1 points 19 hours ago

Piefed tags appear as Mastodon hashtags, however they may be different, eg Mastodon removes spaces 

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 1 points 22 hours ago

Oh neat! #cool

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

what the fuck's a hashtag

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

the right and left are not mutually exclusive, just the artist propagandizes us to think they are

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

As the number of cars goes up the right begins to look more and more like the left. While both can exist it is not propaganda to compare the two in this way.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

i recognize the neighborhood that inspired this drawing (it was a freeway that got pulled out, had nothing to do with fossil fuel vehicles or public transit, it had to do with a rich neighborhood's view). i used to eat calamari rolled up in a newspaper there. this is pure propaganda.

[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Boston? I thought it was Vienna with the cable car.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

embarcadero in san francisco

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't part of the point of the post that the freeways are ugly? Just because it's rich people thinking it's ugly doesn't make it untrue.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

the point of the post is that walking, biking, and public transit make cities. not electric vehicles or fossil fuel vehicles. there were already buildings below the freeway. they just demolished it so the financial center and the (usually) rich tourists could have a pretty view. I'd busk there and take the tourists' money, buy calamari, it was great. I'm all for the freeway being gone, don't get me wrong, but it had absolutely nothing to do with public transit. the public transit was better when the freeway was there. like, that's the actual history of the place. it looks like the embarcadero in san francisco. specific corner down by the wharf, viewed from the hilton up in the financial district. like, the top of the hilton. i wish i knew which corner but i only know my way around there on foot. bottommost building in the right picture is a korean restaurant i like.

i could be wrong, this could be someplace else or purely imaginary, but it looks damn close to where i busked. like, it flipped the nostalgia "oh i haven't been home in a while" switch in my brain

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago

Fair enough! I suppose I had a more surface-level interpretation of the post than you, just seeing how much more appealing the area looked without all the big roads. I can see how you could think the post is misleading.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic does the walkable city simulator game really well. If you have enough walking paths, and mass transit, the only things using your roads are the work trucks, fire trucks, and police horses (because fuck the virtual police as well)

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

you know what you just made me want? a version of... fuck what's that game. oblivion. where all the guards are horses. but nothing else changes. I would like to commission a mod. also a modder to help me get the damn thing to run on my pc.

scratch that i would also like to add a dating sim so you can date the horses.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Looks like there's plenty of places for those bats to roost