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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • See, I don’t agree with this analysis. It works fine for your pretty straight example, but that’s because Straight is already as straight as it can be. Something can’t be extra straight. But if I were to say something is pretty cheap, I would actually mean that it’s cheaper than I would mean if I just said it was cheap. Generally when I use pretty to qualify something, it’s in relation to my preconceived notion about something, and that’s typically made obvious by the tone of my voice as I say it.

    You know, I went into this movie with low expectations, but it’s actually pretty good.

    but if I had just used good in that statement, it would be indicating nearly the same thing, but with a little less emphasis.




  • RSS isn’t specific to Lemmy. It’s a standard that has existed for a long time. It stands for Really Simple Syndication (or also apparently RDF Site Summary). It’s a way for websites, blogs, link aggregators, news sites, anything really that has content that updates, to provide a simple, platform agnostic method for users to subscribe to that changing content.

    You would use an RSS reader, or maybe some software that isn’t specifically an RSS reader but supports RSS subscriptions (Outlook is an example of an email client that you can add RSS subscriptions to), then your RSS reader takes care of fetching updates, and you have a perpetually updating feed of your subscribed RSS content in one spot. An RSS feed item usually has a link, some text, and sometimes other content. So you can read a summary, follow the link to read the whole thing, etc.

    For Lemmy, you can subscribe via RSS to your Subscription, Local or All feed, with whichever sort you want. But you can also subscribe to specific users’ comments to be notified whenever they make another comment.