:sparkles_pink: Navi :sparkles_pink:'s avatar

:sparkles_pink: Navi :sparkles_pink:

@navi@hey.pomnavi.net

145 following23 followers

:opmugiwara: anime nerd extraordinaire. ♀️

Current Obsessions:

  • 🃏Lord of Mysteries
  • 👁️‍🗨️ Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint
  • 🧛VampDies/吸死
  • 🍀The Apothecary Diaries
  • 🎃Pumpkin ✂️ Scissors
  • 📖 Bookworm/本好き

日本語勉強中。アニメと漫画が大好きです。

This is my self-hosted fediverse account using !

I also have alt accounts for blogging (@naviblogs), collecting (@treasures), and eating (@mmm).

I'm followers-locked on @yume but I do liveblogs there as well

Also on sakurajima.moe @navi

@navi@hey.pomnavi.net

what in the gamer romance...it looks cute though!

https://tippy.rabbithouse.garden/notes/al6rkg9bgqz0zhw2

tippy.rabbithouse.garden

Yen Press (Unofficial) (@yenpress)

NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT: See You at That Site of Grace After Work Wataru Aida struggles with communication, yet somehow he ended up with a job in sales. His only joy is playing video games, where he immerses himself in the world and studies strategy guides rather than interac... (1 attachments)

@yenpress@tippy.rabbithouse.garden
NEW SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT: See You at That Site of Grace After Work

Wataru Aida struggles with communication, yet somehow he ended up with a job in sales. His only joy is playing video games, where he immerses himself in the world and studies strategy guides rather than interacting with other people.
@navi@hey.pomnavi.net · Reply to :sparkles_pink: Navi :sparkles_pink:

I love my Kobo Libra Colour, but unfortunately it's just a little too big to carry around casually in my smaller bags and purses. I'm getting the Xteink X4 soon, so this is all in preparation that. I want to be able to sync progress with back and forth between my Kobo and the Xteink.

I'm waiting for that shipping notice :comfytea:

@navi@hey.pomnavi.net

I installed Grimmory recently to manage syncing of my sideloaded ebooks on my Kobo, and omg the interface is so nice!

Especially since I read light novels which are DRM-free from J-Novel Club, it's nice having the same sync and management experience as buying books from the kobo store.

Also it really annoys me when the metadata on the store is wrong (series not numbered correctly, titles not following the same format, etc.) so it's nice to be able to fix that myself. I fixed all of my Discworld books from the Humble Bundle, so now the covers match and everything is in series order (rather than separated into sub-series).

Screenshot of Grimmory with the Discworld books displayed.
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Screenshot of Grimmory with the Discworld books displayed.

@mmm@hey.pomnavi.net

🥳🎉

Trout almondine with miso-glazed brussel sprouts and pineapple coleslaw
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Trout almondine with miso-glazed brussel sprouts and pineapple coleslaw

Strawberry basque cheesecake
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Strawberry basque cheesecake

@navi@hey.pomnavi.net

I loved the anime for this, maybe I should also read the manga 🤔 https://tippy.rabbithouse.garden/notes/al3v8a8bexcazbcd

tippy.rabbithouse.garden

Yen Press (Unofficial) (@yenpress)

💀 Cover Debut! - Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san Complete Omnibus 📚️ Ever wonder what it’s like to sell comics at a Japanese bookstore? Honda provides a hilarious firsthand account from the front lines! And now, all the observations and shenanigans have been collected into... (1 attachments)

@yenpress@tippy.rabbithouse.garden
💀 Cover Debut! - Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san Complete Omnibus 📚️

Ever wonder what it’s like to sell comics at a Japanese bookstore? Honda provides a hilarious firsthand account from the front lines! And now, all the observations and shenanigans have been collected into one complete volume!
@navi@hey.pomnavi.net · Reply to Inhae

@blue if he ever wanted to open source the project I'm sure other people would also love to use it haha.

I currently use storygraph to get the same kind of analytics, but it's appealing to be able to self-host and customize it to your liking.

@salehachowdhury.com@bsky.brid.gy

Hi I'm Saleha. I am a freelance illustrator. I make art for video games, covers, and comics. I'm currently open for work! www.salehachowdhury.com salchow12@gmail.com

A grainy blue tinted digital drawing of a ghost with glowing white eyes under a dark hood. The ghost's body is made up of flowing tattered cloth. Behind the ghost is a mess of barren branches of a tree.
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A grainy blue tinted digital drawing of a ghost with glowing white eyes under a dark hood. The ghost's body is made up of flowing tattered cloth. Behind the ghost is a mess of barren branches of a tree.

A comic page showing a man going to a shed and packing things in to his backpack. He leaves the shed and goes out into the forest.
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A comic page showing a man going to a shed and packing things in to his backpack. He leaves the shed and goes out into the forest.

A digital drawing of a man standing at the edge of a misty emerald lake looking off into the distance. He is surrounded by dense vegetation and pine forests.
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A digital drawing of a man standing at the edge of a misty emerald lake looking off into the distance. He is surrounded by dense vegetation and pine forests.

A greyscale digital drawing of a man standing in profile view with his hands raised up. From his palms a jagged and elaborate design springs forth sprawling across the black sky. A moon with a skull pattern rises in the upper left. A castle among mountains can bee seen below.
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A greyscale digital drawing of a man standing in profile view with his hands raised up. From his palms a jagged and elaborate design springs forth sprawling across the black sky. A moon with a skull pattern rises in the upper left. A castle among mountains can bee seen below.

@navi@hey.pomnavi.net

I must have cursed myself for saying this lol.

I wanted to cleanup some of the remote media cache and ran into an issue where hollo isn't able to refetch remote media.

I'm running a janky cleanup script, hopefully there is an official feature added in the future that will address this.

https://hey.pomnavi.net/@navi/019d8335-fdb9-760e-8bbf-81f6d30c8e6c

hey.pomnavi.net

Wow I just found another benef…

Wow I just found another benefit of self hosting fedi. I always thought my old instance was pretty good at caching media but it always took a while to load. I follow some jp artists on misskey who renote/repost other artists, and that media took a while to show up on my old server. I'm on Hollo now, and even the reposted stuff shows up pretty quickly! At least my ~25gb cache is doing something 😅

@navi@hey.pomnavi.net

Wow I just found another benefit of self hosting fedi. I always thought my old instance was pretty good at caching media but it always took a while to load.

I follow some jp artists on misskey who renote/repost other artists, and that media took a while to show up on my old server. I'm on Hollo now, and even the reposted stuff shows up pretty quickly!

At least my ~25gb cache is doing something 😅

@navi@hey.pomnavi.net · Reply to Viy Sitante @ health "break"

@vsitante I think twitter used to be so good at finding and showing you new stuff in the same category that you liked (like if I liked a lot of One Piece fanart, it would show me more OP fanartists or fan writers) which was the good thing about it lol.

Now they (X) broke how that works anyways by only boosting maga alt-right stuff so it's useless. Bluesky "feels" better since it doesn't inherently push anything yet, but because they're a place that needs to make money, they eventually will.

I feel like if people reposted and commented on stuff as much as people used to reblog on tumblr, it wouldn't be so difficult to find stuff you were interested in. So it's a bit of a culture problem as well.

There's such a pressure to "grind for engagement" as a creator that I feel like sometimes other fans (creators, readers, and lurkers are disincentivized from proper community building (commenting, sharing, etc.). The push towards indie websites is just a technical way of pushing people to change their behavior.

I've noticed this change in myself as well, which is why I'm making the conscious effort of leaving more comments on stuff now.

@navi@hey.pomnavi.net

Hate the fact that google does autobackup of your photos (I never asked it to) and then pesters you about paying for cloud storage.

I went and deleted EVERYTHING to clear up space so I could keep using my email.

@navi@hey.pomnavi.net

Wow I just found another benefit of self hosting fedi. I always thought my old instance was pretty good at caching media but it always took a while to load.

I follow some jp artists on misskey who renote/repost other artists, and that media took a while to show up on my old server. I'm on Hollo now, and even the reposted stuff shows up pretty quickly!

At least my ~25gb cache is doing something 😅

@navi@hey.pomnavi.net

I know it wasn't a lot, but my VPS post got more interactions than I was expecting and I was worried about it breaking containment 😅

I got a couple new followers on my blogging alt but I'm sure they'll unfollow when they realize I'm not really a tech blogger lol.

https://hey.pomnavi.net/@naviblogs/019d7f72-35bc-7f42-ae6a-5a4702186c51

hey.pomnavi.net

Cool Self Hosting Projects wit…

Cool Self Hosting Projects with my VPS https://blog.pomnavi.net/posts/0020-cool-self-hosting-projects-with-my-vps/ #Blog #VPS #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

@navi@hey.pomnavi.net

Decapolice (from Level-5) was originally announced in a Nintendo Direct 3 years ago but now it's been announced that it has been moved to Switch 2 and won't be releasing on the original...

It's inevitable since Level-5 is incapable of delivering on time, but hopefully it's still a good game.

https://www.siliconera.com/decapolice-wont-be-on-the-switch-or-ps4-will-be-on-switch-2/

siliconera.com

Decapolice Won’t Be on the Switch or PS4, Will Be on Switch 2

There's no Decapolice release date update, but we do know now it will be on the Switch 2, PS5, and PC and not the Switch or PS4.

@navi@sakurajima.moe

Couldn't live tweet, have my "long form" thoughts instead:

February 2023 Highlights

Advance Wars 1+2 - I preordered this nearly a year and a half ago, good to see that it's actually coming out lol.

NSO GB and GBA games - I don't have the expansion pass, but it's still cool that this is finally coming. I saw GOLDEN SUN listed as part of the games too, which is super exciting.

Metroid Prime Remastered - Not a metroid fan, but they literally shadow dropped it lmaooooo. The reactions online will be great.

Ghost Trick - YAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!! I have this on DS, but I still might pick it up.

DecaPolice - NEW LEVEL 5 GAME!!! This looked interesting, will plan to pick this up.

@navi@hey.pomnavi.net

I think this article makes a really good point about how mastodon/fediverse doesn't have good tools to manage relationships between instances.

A single user instance like mine is open to harassment and dog piling, and I have no method of managing that other than blocking after the fact.

Hollo allows user blocking, but not instance blocking (yet), and I'm cognizant of the fact that if I happen to say something that draws the wrong crowd it's difficult to protect myself.

https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/116375181921633787

mastodon.social

Connected Places (@fediversereport@mastodon.social)

New from me: Fediverse Report #158 - What is Mastodon for? On the recent discourse about the Mastodon becoming an echo chamber and the community's anti-ai sentiment, and how the fundamental tension in that @Mastodon allows for people to create communities and 'place' on the instance level, but people experience community and culture on the federation level https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodon-for/

@fediversereport@mastodon.social

New from me: Fediverse Report #158 - What is Mastodon for?

On the recent discourse about the Mastodon becoming an echo chamber and the community's anti-ai sentiment, and how the fundamental tension in that @Mastodon allows for people to create communities and 'place' on the instance level, but people experience community and culture on the federation level

connectedplaces.online/reports

connectedplaces.online

FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?

On AI and place, and how Mastodon gives tools to create communities at the instance level, but people experience 'place' at the federation level.

@fediversereport@mastodon.social

New from me: Fediverse Report #158 - What is Mastodon for?

On the recent discourse about the Mastodon becoming an echo chamber and the community's anti-ai sentiment, and how the fundamental tension in that @Mastodon allows for people to create communities and 'place' on the instance level, but people experience community and culture on the federation level

connectedplaces.online/reports

connectedplaces.online

FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?

On AI and place, and how Mastodon gives tools to create communities at the instance level, but people experience 'place' at the federation level.

@navi@hey.pomnavi.net · Reply to Inhae

@blue wow I'm surprised that you decided to read this one as your first isekai haha.

Curious to see what you think of it! I have other light novel recs if you're interested.