ElectroVagrant
@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
Another traveler of the wireways.
- Comment on in what order do you guys recommend watching the whole Ghost in the Shell narrative after the original movie(no spoilers please)? 3 days ago:
I’d go with this, and look into each and read a little about them to see if the art styles and stories interest you and dig in from there, rather than approaching it as a wholly cohesive series.
Personally I liked the original movie and the Stand Alone Complex/2nd Gig series, but didn’t care as much for Arise (the OVA cut). Can’t speak to other parts as I haven’t seen them.
- Submitted 3 days ago to anime@ani.social | 3 comments
- Submitted 4 days ago to anime@ani.social | 8 comments
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 02] 2 weeks ago:
Finished the first season of Hell’s Paradise awhile ago and it wasn’t too bad. The start is pretty rough, giving some major edgelord vibes, and it’s very much in the tradition of bloody splatfests with conflicted protagonists, but the later setting and creature designs kind of help compensate for that.
If you’re into the edgy vibe with bloody fights and some random nudity, it might click with you a lot. For me it had just enough weird/mystery to it to keep me watching.
- Comment on "Dan Da Dan" Season 2 Announced for July 2025 with Key Visual 5 weeks ago:
For more in that spirit, check out Devilman Crybaby.
- Comment on LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players 1 month ago:
Streaming isn’t the middle ground in my opinion, it’s unrestricted downloadable files that you can then handle however. Streaming provides some convenience but no consistent access (see various shows being delisted or shuffled between services).
Companies would love if everyone forgot having home video, in the sense of owning copies of movies and shows they always having access to and ability to watch whenever.
- Comment on Citizen Sleeper: A Compact, Sci-Fi Exploration of Survival at the Fringes of Space and Humanity 2 months ago:
Their previous game, In Other Waters, is also well worth checking out. Different style of gameplay, but similar focus on narrative.
- Comment on Hear me out, a Fediverse client that mimics Nintendo's Miiverse 2 months ago:
we can go further, somethingsomething StreetPass
- Comment on some fediverse and open web thoughts 2 months ago:
If you skip the technobabble and politics about free (as in freedom), what’s left? If it’s just a platform that feels more complicated to sign up, because you have to learn about instances and it’s not clear which one you want, plus your friends aren’t there, plus it’s just 45k users total instead of a lot…?
The complication arises by making the mistake of pointing people to the backend, and the backends confusing matters by presenting themselves as platforms like existing corporate platforms. As noted, you reduce that by inviting them to join or browse your respective instance (or if you’re self-hosting, to whichever open instance you think is amenable).
You’re right though that some positive thing would help, and that’s really down to whatever positive thing you found and want to share with others about these spaces. For me it’s as simple as them being open and ad-free. I’m reminded of it every time I find myself trying to browse enclosures without having an account and they simply won’t allow me to browse much before prompting me to sign up or subscribe to view more.
In a way that’s kind of the irony of the fediverse, a major feature is that you don’t have to sign up at all in many(most?) cases.
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Email is still great for DMs if you only use it for talking to individuals, and not to sign up to things 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s not without faults, so ProtonMail and similar may be a good compromise, or encrypting and sending longer documents. Ideally one day email will be rebuilt from the ground up with encryption.
Also to address your later comments, E2EE messengers are great, but short form writing is simply a different use case from long form.
- Comment on Email is still great for DMs if you only use it for talking to individuals, and not to sign up to things 2 months ago:
Exactly. The need/desire to write longer form like this may not come up as often with other more immediate means to communicate, but when it does, email’s there to serve its purpose.
- Submitted 2 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 2 months ago:
fwiw this is poking more fun at the other person that said this in reply to you, which is why I spelled it yours (and another person’s) way
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 2 months ago:
Hey speaking of, while !games@lemmy.world is a great example, if you’re not finding similar communities for your interest, feel free to post over in !general@lemmy.world for what Zombiepirate’s describing.
Hobby without a community around here? Just not really sure if an existing community is open to non-news posts? General’s got ya covered.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 2 months ago:
Going against the post’s spirit, but…If you’re not finding a community for your interests (or only finding abandoned/inactive ones), and don’t want to create one (or try to get existing ones going), you’re welcome over in !general@lemmy.world. Post about whatever, find likeminded folks, then if ya think there’s enough of ya, you can make a separate community without it being one person posting into a void.
Also there’s !justpost@lemmy.world. Similar vibes.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 2 months ago:
Their other comment elaborates on this more:
Until the link /c/books shows any user, with only one click, the aggregate of all “books” communities in a single place, without subscribing or even logging in. Then lemmy will stagnate because it is failing to live up to its promise of federated decentralization
They want a link like /c/books to work like multireddits did on reddit to collect together books-related communities for improved browsing and discovery.
- Comment on Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media - TechDirt 2 months ago:
To add to this, I think as long as decentralization involves having to know how to and have the money to operate a server, it’s not going to reach the point some may hope for. The monetary costs may be lower than ever, but that doesn’t address the knowledge requirements (not to mention time for setup and upkeep).
Even one of the more user friendly attempts at this so far (AT Protocol) doesn’t address this in a meaningful way, as one still has to get into the weeds of server config, domain leasing, etc.
- Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media - TechDirtwww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Are there any guides, tutorials, or documentation for how to start building fediverse apps? 2 months ago:
- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 2 months ago:
- Comment on Some explicitly single-user ActivityPub software to check out 2 months ago:
For people finding you, it means having to interact more in ways that encourage them to follow/subscribe to you, similar to how it goes now. For you finding stuff, it’s also similar in that you’d want to follow/subscribe to those that introduce you to others to follow/subscribe to. It’s really more for those that don’t mind putting forth effort to have their own online social space, much like the setup involved in having any online space.
- Comment on Some explicitly single-user ActivityPub software to check out 2 months ago:
It shines when you want to host multiple users with multiple different domains and identities.
Emphasis added. It’s that last part that drew me to include it. A single individual can prefer to portray themselves in multiple ways, particularly for different fediverse software (or even just different projects), so that’s why I included it.
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 28 comments
- Comment on Some explicitly single-user ActivityPub software to check out 2 months ago:
Going to guess it’s one of the UrbanDictionary definitions, or in that vein…
Here I was thinking Ktistec was the most unfortunate, mainly as it’s awkward to remember & write.
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 2 months ago:
When preserving culture is criminal, or punishable, ya might want to reevaluate your laws
In the meantime, people are gonna do it anyway 'cause why ask permission to back up and preserve your own stuff? And when the law finally catches up, some will be grateful to those that did so despite the earlier wrongful laws that tried to discourage them.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 2 months ago:
RSS would be an interesting route but like, it would need a feed for every creator wouldn’t it? unless the social media platform allows it built-in like BSky does
If I understand ya right yeah, with BSky/Mastodon you pull the individual feeds for each account if you go that route (or maybe someone has an .opml file of several already grouped by topic to import). To me it’s no worse than having to individually follow them on-platform, but I know I’m atypical in that respect
Once ya have’em it’s all in one feed in your reader so not too different than the following feed
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 2 months ago:
What you describe is basically the flipside of what happened to RSS folks, so I know what you mean. It sucks to stop getting updates the way you’re used to, and more hassle making the transitions to whatever the different method is.
It’s basically the reason Twitter/X still has anyone there, except they have higher switching costs compared to an open following format.
Honestly I take the compromise approach where I can, which is social media that still generates RSS, like Bluesky/Mastodon/etc. and use that to avoid making additional accounts.
- Submitted 3 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 5 comments
