@jaBote @skinnylatte most of my toots are followers only. I was recommended draw.io, excalidraw.com and PowerPoint

@skinnylatte @qgustavor
That sometimes happened to me, too.
It often helps to try again by boosting my own post. Don't be ashamed to boost yourself!

(I looked for that post on your profile to boost it, but couldn't find it.)

@RachelThornSub@famichiki.jp @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io out of curiosity, what forums do you mean? the ones i used/use were quite civil (usually)

@laguiri @jaBote @skinnylatte ooh, excalidraw is good, i was reccomended it by someone on vrchat lol

@skinnylatte

@skinnylatte looks like a collective intelligence

@skinnylatte I just did this for a very specific question in a lounge slack channel at work and now I have answers, new questions answered and a couple of people I get to know more. Asking actual people is the best thing ever

@cwicseolfor @skinnylatte
Three for three here, cwicseolfor.
The Fediverse hive mind is astounding!

@_elena @cwicseolfor @skinnylatte
Sadly, it hasn't worked for me I would still love to get a recommendation for 3D modeling software that would let me complete my walkthrough model of the airship from my books.

https://beige.party/@AbramKedge/115967060763901354

@AbramKedge you just don't have the right friends jokes aside, it is a bit hit and miss. I've had open questions that were answered after TWO YEARS and others that were answered within minutes.

@_elena @cwicseolfor @skinnylatte

@skinnylatte Autistic acquaintances in question:

@skinnylatte

"You should always carry a pocket knife when you go walking in the woods. Because if you get lost, sit down and start sharpening it and a man will *immediately* appear to tell you you're doing it wrong, and you can ask him the way back to the road"

@skinnylatte You will get an even better response if you are posting some slightly wrong information. This will not just trigger the Autists but the OCD-people as well.

@skinnylatte i bet that works great when you have 11k followers... for the rest of us finding the right receptive community is a bigger issue...

@skinnylatte a friend of mine was writing a user interface to enter phone numbers, and wanted it to be aware of all the local formatting conventions - I suggested he create a Wikipedia page listing the ones he knew in a table and wait a month for it to fill out, then parse the table to get a comptehensive list. Apparently it worked!

@skinnylatte Actual intelligence beats artificial intelligence every time.

@skinnylatte AI is great!

Autistic Interests >>> Artificial Inanity

@skinnylatte You're lucky, my posts often remain unseen or only 1 person boosts/likes, few useful replies.

@skinnylatte This makes me remember a famous prank (in nerd circles) in Brazil 2012.

Cid Cidoso, an internet influencer and prankster, convinced his digital illiterate father that Twitter was Google, and told him to make all his searches there. Cid's followers answered the searches his father made.

I've found an Youtube video of Cid explaning this story, but unfortunately only in Portuguese.

https://youtu.be/uQzgFGyqmyY?si=QkYO2iLTXxlj8A90

@skinnylatte …you know…even with the problems this place can have (and no it’s not immune to the ills of social networks…different perhaps but there are still toxic aspects/people etc)…it *is* better to ask here.
Why?
Discounting the whole Ai destroying our planet/culture/future part of the process…you’ll likely get a couple of answers here. Which you don’t immediately take at face value and double check yourself instead of accepting some slop at face value.
So there’s that.