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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Bluesky just got major investment from a crypto bro…

  It’s not flukey…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it pretends to be different to the centralised corporate social media platforms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just call it the X social media site

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine my surprise when “What could Hamas do to end the violence” wasn’t just an innocent question…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some explicitly single-user ActivityPub software to check out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Australian/British slang. It’s a disparaging term for Americans

  Starts with rhyming slang

  American = Yank Yank = Tank Tank = Septic Tank Septic Tank = Seppo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As I said, yes, a lemmy that bans folk like you is a lemmy that is doing something right

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “What could Hamas do to end the violence?”

  Nothing else.

  And I got immediately banned.

  Making excuses for genocide being something that gets you banned is a lemmy I’m fine with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some explicitly single-user ActivityPub software to check out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seppo is a really unfortunate name…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re the only person to mention trans people in this thread. It’s got nothing to do with trans folk…

  decided this is a hateful post based on prior comments without watching the video.

  I had to watch the video to see her dog whistle.

  And the whole thing about red flag/dog whistle comments is that they’re designed to seem like nothing to people who don’t recognise them. You not recognising a dog whistle doesn’t mean it isn’t one…

  The fact that she shouts out another steamer that was banned from twitch for bigotry isn’t a co-incidence. It’s a red flag for a reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. Sticking to the things they know and avoiding the recs is how a lot of people use Youtube. But all of the things you avoid are thrown in your face in the recs. Clickbait titles, bait and switch content, dogwhistling videos that start people down the path of ever more bigoted content (for example, the video the OP posted).

  I generally don’t engage much with video content though, so I’ll just continue to ignore it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As I’ve said three times now, I barely use YouTube and then only direct links. This isn’t that. YouTube rewards civil bigots so civil bigots are common and have big audiences

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I barely use youtube. I actively avoid it as much as possible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She shouts out a racist who was banned from twitch for bigotry, so I’d say it’s pretty spot on as a red flag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gamergate is not a very specific circumstance. It was a widespread harassment campaign involving the entire industry. This is a follow on from that movement, and any game that releases a female protagonist that isn’t soft and demure gets active push back from this group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube, like other corporate social media and engagement platforms, thrives on anger and conflict, and pushes shitty takes higher up the recs list to get angry engagement.

  So it’s more likely to be bad than good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  she made points I have never heard about that I found interesting, like disappearing of some femininity aspects to awkwardly try to avoid sexism accusations.

  These are very common talking points of gamer gate bigots. It’s a giant red flag, because the people who talk about it are bigots

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I rarely click on YouTube links. For some reason I gave this one a try. Turns out she’s bigoted.

  That’ll teach me for clicking

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New data reveals thousands of Australians who own 10 rentals or more⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope. Cunt as a singular can be a term of affection. Cunt as a plural is only a positive when used with some adjectives like “crazy” or “mad”. Used without an adjective like that, it’s a harsh put down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horse-flippers? Have any horses from history, ever been fitted with horseshoes that improve their ability to swim?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d watch that show

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone know what sort of fly this is?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a hoverfly. They’re bee mimics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, Iguazú. I likely felt it because my Spanish is not great, so even though I could make myself understood by Argentinians, the poor Brasilians stood no chance as I murdered Spanish in an attempt to communicate :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I speak a little Spanish, but no Portuguese, and my time in Brazil right near the border with two Spanish speaking countries was a challenge, because most folks there didn’t speak Spanish despite the location.

  Some folks do of course, but most people I encountered didn’t have any Spanish

  I have zero idea how representative that is of other borders

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  carrying a bulky Z fold phone in my pocket only to be able to have a tablet once in a while and watch a movie is not interesting enough.

  It suits my needs perfectly though! You can take my folding phone out of my cold dead hands

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do ribbed condoms feel better than smooth during anal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a matter of “fixing” so much as things moving around. After bottom surgery, the vaginal canal sits between the prostate and the anal canal, so sensation to the prostate is reduced with anal sex. However, the prostate ends up sitting approximately where the “g spot” is in AFAB folk, and so is more easily accessed via the vaginal canal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do ribbed condoms feel better than smooth during anal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not so much AMAB/AFAB as vaginal canal vs no vaginal canal. A person with a prostate and a vaginal canal doesn’t get as much pressure on the prostate from anal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Labor refuses to ban gambling ads - ABC listen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the answer money? I bet it’s money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's clarify something: does Bluesky allow federated servers on their network? Is there a list of those independent servers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would someone host a server and pay for it out of their own pocket, when the protocol just turns in to an invisible piece of infrastructure that people don’t even know exists?

  AP instances allow for communities and identity to build around them, so there is a non monetary incentive to running them, but what’s the incentive to run an equivalent on AP and make it public?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a house advantage in a "double-or-nothing" coin flip game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All the house needs to do is to create an overall situation where more people push until they fail than cashing out whilst ahead. And that’s where the disparity in bank rolls comes in. The bank has a cap so large that it doesn’t come in to play the vast majority of times, so they just keep raising the stakes to give people another chance to fail.

  And as long as more people push than don’t, in the end, it works out of the house

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a house advantage in a "double-or-nothing" coin flip game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once the player loses, the chain ends, and the house wins. So as long as the house can afford to keep pushing the player in to trying again, they’re going to create more opportunities for the player to return their winnings to the house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any non-tech-background self-hosters?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda? My bare bones initial self hosted media streaming setup was put together by my partner. It’s no longer bare bones, because I’ve since upgraded it, added new functionality and I keep it going.