VinesNFluff
@VinesNFluff@pawb.social
Nerd|Furry|Linux User|Ace|BiRomantic|Taken <3
Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.
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Unicorn, but also occasionally gryphon.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
Asshole (but left wing)
- Comment on Why does the media print rags to riches stories? 1 month ago:
Propaganda.
That’s it
That’s literally just it.
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
Decentralization.
That in itself is a huge advantage. Otherwise it’s just Reddit 2.0
- Submitted 3 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Comment on Are jabronis a necessity for a social media platform to be successful? 4 months ago:
Not “need” insomuch as “can’t avoid having them due to how humans human”
- Comment on Are jabronis a necessity for a social media platform to be successful? 4 months ago:
As I understand it the jabronis/jobbers are like mooks whereas the heel is the antagonist
- Comment on I think we have technology sufficiently advanced for me to have an Iron Golem follow me around and bash my enemies. 4 months ago:
Best we can do is a remote controlled plane with guns.
- Comment on How do y'all feel about using summons in Soulslikes? [Lies of P endgame spoilers] 4 months ago:
People who treat single player/pve games as if they’re competitive hobbies are really weird. Their talk of “honor” and of not using mechanics (that are in the game to be used, because the developers want you to use them) because they’re “shameful” is extremely silly.
In other words: fuck the gatekeepers, do what makes YOU feel good.
- Submitted 4 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on Steam summer sale is on now! What games do you recommend? 4 months ago:
I got Okami HD and Crash Bandicoot 4 for real cheap
- Comment on Would America be as divided if Trump lost to Hillary in 2016? 4 months ago:
I mean if you wanna dive that deep, it started when some religious extremists got kicked out of England for being too extremist (for the british empire!) and moved to the new world, killing the people who previously lived there.
… But up until 2008 shit more or less held together? Not pretending 'murica was ever good, but it was the 2008 recession that caused its structure, however fucky it had been from first principles, to really break down.
- Comment on Would America be as divided if Trump lost to Hillary in 2016? 4 months ago:
Yes and no.
Without Trump fucking shit up on a government level (the Supreme Court in particular), there would probably be less scary shit happening on that end.
But the radicalisation of the Americans began before 2016. Trump is a symptom, not a cause. The disease started spreading as early as 2008.
That’s the thing people don’t realise. Even if Donald J. Trump didn’t exist, the underlying social tensions mean that inevitably someone would show up to galvanise far right sentiments, and the political estabilishment would have boosted them, whoever they were, because when the common folk are getting angry about their lot, then to the people actually in charge, a fascist dictatorship is preferrable to the alternative.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 6 months ago:
Volunteer at a school/daycare for poor kids. My (retired, formerly college professor) mother already does. I’m sure I could teach them some stuff. Maths or history or how to work computers.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 7 months ago:
I see someone watches tasting history
My favourite is when the book told him to put on a “good amount” of something
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 8 months ago:
“No! I refuse to open more than one site! If it’s not on this one site that I have decided amounts to the entire threadiverse then it doesn’t exist, how dare people make me think? The absurdity of it all!”
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 8 months ago:
You being incorrect and stupid is not bait.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 8 months ago:
The problem with this is that it isn’t really decentralized equally. Lemmy.world has most of the users and getting defederated from them is essentially a death sentence in terms of content and engagement.
Self-resolving issue here. If people hop away from LW due to LW making decisions they don’t like, LW will cease being the one-go-to-place for stuff.
Also also – Defederation is a far more nuanced thing than just “is block”. There is more than one tool that can be used by an ActivityPub admin.
If LW defederates from your home instance – You can still manually follow communities that are in LW AND interact with them (unless the admins go out of their way to ALSO block USERS from your home instance), as “defederated from the instance” just removes it from the global timeline.
What happened here, though, wasn’t defederation, it was a block, and a block on two specific communities, which brings me to: LW’s block on the piracy communities from dbzer0 doesn’t stop LW users from interacting with dbzer0 as a whole. Or vice-versa.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 8 months ago:
Yeah like.
This isn’t reddit dot com opaquely purging your favourite subreddit for some unspecific corporate reason.
The admins stated quite clearly why they are blocking it (“we don’t want trouble, and our TOS lay out that we’ll defed from illegal shit”), and it is their instance. And unlike Reddit – The community is still THERE in its home server. It has not been burninated. – You can just. Make an account elsewhere. It’s free. It takes less than 5 minutes. You can even KEEP your LW account for other communities.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 8 months ago:
Centralized Reddit brain poison tbh.
Your password manager will keep track of your credentials. If you have THAT MUCH trouble keeping track of which communities are on which server, stick to local communities.
Back in the day we had everything be its own separate forum and no one died from that. You’re just lazy.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 8 months ago:
Yeah that.
Do people just not get that this is the entire point?
Hop accounts, you lil’ bitch.
And if your priority is the piracy community? Make the server that hosts that your homeserver.
Or just have more than one account and use an app instead of the default webpage.
It’s not rocket science. People’s brains are poisoned by centralization. Back in my day everything was its own separate forum with its own separate account and to be honest, it was miles better like that.
- Comment on Why does the film press talk so much about box office income? 8 months ago:
The AU I wish I lived in.
- Comment on Why are mental hospitals run like prisons? 8 months ago:
Why were you downvoted lmao
- Comment on People are, as a rule, small and obedient creatures. They like to be told what to do. Shortsighted and small-minded. And, in packs, vicious yapping beasts. How do you resolve this? 8 months ago:
Go and actually interact with other human beings.
- Comment on Is Antivirus needed in 2024? 9 months ago:
What everyone said about Windows Defender and an AdBlock is all correct.
… Just beware that if you’re a pirate, Windows Defender is often a pain in the fucking ass. I swear it false-positives literally every piracy tool no matter what it is.
If you suspect you did catch a bug, you should get Malwarebytes and AdwClean. Run them. Uninstall after the cleanup is done.
- Comment on What’s a “sovereign citizen “? 9 months ago:
Two different categories:
- People who believe they found the real world equivalent to the ‘lower wanted level’ cheats in GTA, and can do illegal shit freely as long as they say the right words to the cops when they are inevitably caught
- Grifters who take advantage of those people, who may or may not be true believers.
- Comment on What are the practical benefits of the fediverse? 10 months ago:
Yes but also a lot of fediverse instances autoblock small one person servers because of how often they are used by spammers and harrassers
- Comment on Wafrn is a tumblr clone that connects to the fediverse 10 months ago:
Define “real mail”.
Will my usual accounts (GMail and Yahoo, I am still stuck in absolutely-proprietary land when it comes to e-mail) work? :P
- Comment on Wafrn is a tumblr clone that connects to the fediverse 10 months ago:
This is relevant to my interests.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
Stinky Gringo