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- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 4 months ago:
I mean even if it made them more money to platform confirmed shitheads, it’s still the wrong thing to do. Like ethically. It doesn’t also have to be wrong from a business or even legal perspective.
If a company can’t take that kind of stand I don’t want anything to do with them.
I am actually kind of thrilled that I have substack subscriptions, including paid, that I can pull as my little protest to this platform. Luckily my paid subscriptions have both confirmed that they’re ditching substack as well, so my support will follow them wherever they land.
I really hope that substack lets writers have access to their email lists, so they can easily take them with them.
- Comment on I knew it all along! 4 months ago:
If a Man cannot tear a page from the marshmallow and burn it - then he cannot be a scientist
so true 😔
- Comment on RPGs for people who don't like RPGs 4 months ago:
Do you like cool lore? Detailed item descriptions? What about esoteric oddities that you interact with through text? How do you feel about choose-your-own-adventure books? Torment: Tides of Numenera might be the game for you.
Also highly, highly recommend Disco Elysium, but someone already suggested that. I think you would love it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It was nice crawling different dungeons and then… “Fresh meat” That was the first time in the game where I started to frantically try to just… get the fuck out.
Thanks for the memories. I remember taking turns playing this with my sister and freaking out when we first saw the butcher. Like just being able to use the mouse and keyboard was a challenge it was so scary.
- Comment on Gastronomical Masterpiece 4 months ago:
Can’t believe no one’s said spritz of lemon juice yet. That was my go to as a kid.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
This makes me uncomfortable.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 4 months ago:
How do you know about DW?
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 4 months ago:
I think the fediverse in general has a better chance because it’s built on an anti-corporate philosophy, from the software, maintainers, admins, moderators, and much of the community (though increasingly less so, as it becomes more popular).
If you have a problem with corporate influence on Reddit, then your ability to act on it ends with your subreddit’s moderators. To the admins and owners of reddit, that kind of influence is a feature.
Hell they can even monetize it, bake it right into the DNA of the back-end, give the corps a nice little API to poll, maybe some webhooks…
That is not something I see happening on the fediverse as long as its open source and run by the community.
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 4 months ago:
What’s wrong with Discourse? I ran a server during college for a couple of buddies and it was totally owned and operated by us, no corpos or anything. It’s just like phpbb or any other forum software AFAIK.
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 4 months ago:
Proof the system works right here.
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 4 months ago:
I can understand this perspective: wanting to spread the gospel of federation, etc.
But I’m starting to come around to the realization that the growth mindset is rotten. It’s what leads to these big centralized/unified platforms that concede on their core in order to reach a wider audience.
I can’t blame corpos for not maintaining an identity, because engagement is how they make money, but what’s our excuse?
These aren’t refugees. They’re free to make a lemmy or masto or whatever account any time they want. It’s not the cool people we have issue with, it’s their platform and its unwillingness to clean house.
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 4 months ago:
My grandma who owned a diner used to say the same thing, but about cops
- Comment on Headphones are a crutch 4 months ago:
Oh nice so you can flip about a bit to find the perfect spot - so handy!
- Comment on Headphones are a crutch 4 months ago:
what really??
- Comment on Headphones are a crutch 4 months ago:
Vetinari IRL. From Soul Music by Terry Pratchett:
Besides, Lord Vetinari, the supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, rather liked music.
People wondered what sort of music would appeal to such a man. Highly formalized chamber music, possibly, or thunder-and-lightning opera scores.
In fact the kind of music he really liked was the kind that never got played. It ruined music, in his opinion, to torment it by involving it on dried skins, bits of dead cat, and lumps of metal hammered into wires and tubes. It ought to stay written down, on the page, in rows of little dots and crotchets all neatly caught between lines. Only there was it pure. It was when people started doing things with it that the rot set in. Much better to sit quietly in a room and read the sheets, with nothing between yourself and the mind of the composer but a scribble of ink. Having it played by sweaty fat men and people with hair in their ears and spit dribbling out of the end of their oboe… well, the idea made him shudder. Although not much, because he never did anything to extremes.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 4 months ago:
Let me know how I can curate my feed by blocking whole instances over at X et al.
Block lists auxmode.com/…/advanced-options-for-using-block-tw…
“looking after” is defined on a case by case basis, by instance admins. Anyway, I’m sorry about my normie comment. I don’t mean to sound so intolerant, so I can’t blame you from extrapolating. But I’m very on board with admins blocking entire instances if they’ve shown to have inadequate moderation. For everything else, there’s ⛔
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 4 months ago:
Nah you’re just attached to the old idea of the One Big Marketplace of Ideas, where all the saints and sinners of all the world gather 'round and hash it out. I get it. But it didn’t work out, specifically because corpos put profit over community well-being, so that’s why I’m here.
I’m sure there will be bridging or collating tools for people like you who don’t want to give up precious content just because it comes from a problematic source. Personally, I think wanting it all misses the point of real community.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 4 months ago:
If you want a place where admins are not allowed to block communities and instead leave moderation of all but the most egregious, illegal content, up to individuals, there are places like that already in X and Threads.
This is the fediverse, where admins are expected to look after their members. If they don’t, the members will leave. I don’t want to block every toxic user or instance on my own - I already spend too much time blocking normies from lemmy.world.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 4 months ago:
What are we competing on exactly? Profitability? We’re not a company, we’re just a bunch of people talking among ourselves. This is like saying your casual Friday hangout with your buddies is no match for the likes of Rogers Telecom Combined International Userbase - like, by wtf metric? It’s not even a competition. They’re a company, and we’re a community.
We’ll just keep doing our thing, and if threads gets annoying then I’ll pressure my instance to block them, and if they don’t I’ll just move to a nicer place. 🤷
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 4 months ago:
I mean they haven’t infiltrated the private phpbb forum me and my friends have been running since 2008, for the simple reason that they aren’t invited.
Same difference with the fediverse. I have no problem going back down to pre-2019 levels where it’s just a few hundred of us, chatting and sharing #caturday pictures. The fedipact means we can easily find those networks of like-minded communities to federate with.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 4 months ago:
Is that really a problem? It’s not trying to “control” anything. It’s a voluntary pact meant to conserve the non-corporate fediverse, as it is right now.
The beauty of the fediverse is that you can choose your experience based on the instance you join
This is never going to change. If you just don’t like the intent behind the fedipact, no problem - the majority of the fediverse will be talking with threads. You get the personal choice of which instances you make accounts on. Hell, you can make your own instance.
There is no problem here.
- Comment on patience 4 months ago:
Even comparing it to most modern shooters, I almost never feel as hunted as I did by the human enemies in HL. A big part of that is definitely the level design, but also the enemies in HL are very mobile compared to most games where the action is all happening roughly 180 degrees in front of you.
- Comment on patience 4 months ago:
Also the scripted sequences that were all in-engine were amazing at the time.
We were used to cool things happening in a pre-rendered cut scene before, but with HL1 everything happens from the player’s perspective in real-time while you’re in control of them. Even the opening where you put the crystal in the beam and actually cause shit to go haywire felt like an incredible moment of player agency in the world. Like oh man what did I doooo
- Comment on xkcd #2869: Puzzles 4 months ago:
lol what’s wrong with us?
- Comment on xkcd #2869: Puzzles 4 months ago:
Yeah… memories of me as a preteen pretending to choke in front of my siblings. Still feel a pang of guilt from that one every now and then.
- Comment on One day Star Trek will probably morph into a religion. 4 months ago:
Some tempting options, right? I’m trying to stay strong and tell myself I don’t need any more plastic. 😣
- Comment on One day Star Trek will probably morph into a religion. 4 months ago:
Oh dang it’s pricey nevermind lol ornament-shop.com/2015-star-trek-the-needs-of-the…
It is fun looking at them all, though
- Comment on One day Star Trek will probably morph into a religion. 4 months ago:
link now
- Comment on Here as well 4 months ago:
Man I used to think there was no relation between what I ate and my wardrobe size, but eventually it really does catch up with you, especially if your day job is sedentary.
- Comment on xkcd #2868: Label the States 4 months ago:
Not American, but I assume it’s wrong in some subtle and hilarious way?