“Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, page 56, February 28, 1966.

I have never done LSD or any other illegal drugs, but I have read FInnegans Wake: www.LazyWake.com

Lemmy tester, “RocketDerp” is my username on GitHub

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  • I see you seek this kind of participation out. “On the internet, not everyone knows you’re an idiot.” being your profile statement. And that I’m not the first Lemmy community you have come along to concerning your copyright topics. Are you being paid by copyright holders to do this or something? Is it is some project or business to make USA copyright convention a world wide standard, ignoring that even in Joyce’s home focus of Ireland the work is no longer copyrighted?

    Going around openly saying you are out to demonstrate other people are idiots… I think is a pretty well paved path to try and drag down societies in total.
    “The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them — the sense that we have a monopoly on the truth; that those other people who believe in all these stupid doctrines are morons; that if you’re sensible, you’ll listen to us; and if not, to hell with you. This is nonconstructive. It does not get our message across. It condemns us to permanent minority status.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark






  • What I think is most important about FInnegans Wake and the analysis of Finnegans Wake done by Marshal McLuhan in his 1968 book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace_in_the_Global_Village

    Is the self-awareness in an individual that the interpersonal conflicts they have in their own individual life are connected to the culture, languages, global history, personal history. Not to view people as just ‘friend or foe’ like warfare, but to understand how our brain works with languages and translations (notably the thunderwords as transalation stones).

    Not only verbal languages and sounds that the story continually emphasizes with the off-axis English, but also the media it is recorded on, presentation. The generations of technology and convention that humanity has sent as waves throughout the universe. Marshall McLuhan said that ti was the most powerful media analysis framework ever.

    Joseph Campbell’s work on Finnegans Wake is also of great importance in how it confronts classic mythology and the brain. To remove the supernatural regard of classical mythology and face what Joyce was saying with the key of Bible verse Romans 11:32 www.Romans1132.com







  • A down-side…

    One side-effect of having the ability to share subscribed lists is that you don’t have to actually subscribe. The list itself will be viewed as a single subscriber, even if 10 people are using that list. I assume multi-reddit had this same general issue. And, of course, “All” works that same way.

    So some communities may feel like their subscriber count is low compared to “users/week”- which Lemmy does go out of way to show both… so It’s kind of covered by the “users/week” which IIRC - counts posts and comments as active users. Not sure if voting in a community counts as activity…



  • Even if the design solves the “multiple people can edit the list” problem, there are many issues within Lemmy right now that do not make it robust. Right now, there is no way to re-home a community when the home instance goes down. That would still impact MultiPass - because the edits to the PlayList/CommunityList would still have to be federated/replicated to all other instances by the home instance the community was first crated on.

    If anything, this project serves to highlight some of the longer-term needs of Lemmy’s core programming.







  • I’ve been experimenting with ways to design this and if anything federation holds it back. Lemmy kind of crams content into federation structures and this kind of showed me how limited it can be.

    There isn’t much in Lemmy that can be assigned multiple editors. A community is the only thing that federates, with a list of multiple moderators… so I’m playing around with a community as a means to edit.