DrQuint @ DrQuint @lemmy.world

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I actually liked Squabbles when I first understood it but it quickly lost its charm. It's clearly made with the intent of scrolling past topics, as it basically only gives you a glimpse at one or two comments.

But thing is, I spend too much time actually inside said topics, and the set up leaves too much blank space and I don't need the actual topic contents on screen at all times, it's wasting space. And the "show select comments" thing leans too much towards reading the comments that got selected as the overall reaction to the topic, whereas sometimes it is not and the second and third responses say more.

I also tried these and a couple more alternatives to reddit, and unfortunately, kbin and lemmy truly, undoubtedly, are the only apt replacements. There are other good websites for browsing actual, active content (tumblr is still alive guys), but their setup is too different.

No, you're right, it is stupid. I have to agree it doesn't work, since it largely fails to censor the word for those people the censor was made for. I have seen platforms that do full word censorship (like Steam) and when people post screenshots of "I ♥♥♥♥ you", the only accomplishment isn't making me not think of a slur - it's actually rationalize even harder that they did say one of either Rape or Fuck, nothing else. Congrats censorship, you went from 1 slur, to 2 slurs.

Right? That should be literally the only takeaway from this article. ChatGTP is super fucking boring, to the degree it won't even have a regular conversation about banal topics like alcohol anymore.

This implies the person doesn't want to go to hell.

Oh I absolutely intend to.

God, that added text is, and I don't say this lightly, fucking cringe.

A good teacher would blame the tools not the student.

It's a primary school kid, they absolutely do not have the age to "take the responsible route based on the intents of the exercise". The only adult in the room should act like one and give the student the full grade.

while someone gets a patent on solar systems,

Rarely achieved by individuals, rarely achieved by someone intentionally aiming to achieve that particular goal. Most were just doing a job.

other invents a new recyclable plastic,

Rarely achieved by individuals, rarely achieved by someone intentionally aiming to achieve that particular goal. Most were just doing a job.

and another found a successful startup.

Less than 10% chance. The other 90+ are now worrying about their FAILED startup. Also.... Rarely achieved by indiv- yadda yadda

Why are you this worried? The vast majority of humans are NOT special, and your framing for accomplishments is all weirdly skewed if you think those require a special human. This doesn't take a stoic or a realist to realize, it's just true. You're boring and so am I, because almost everyone, even whatever celebrity you can name me on the spot, is also fundamentally someone boring who likes doing boring things in their spare time. And boring people can achieve great things. The opposition to that notion exists only to glorify whatever chucklefuck narcissist-serving philosophy dumbasses at social gatherings believe in, and pink magazines' financial security.

I've seen people be like this even with entertainment, and it's not healthy. People worried about matchmaking ratings, or pissed at themselves that they can't be as good as Fireb0rne when fighting Hollow Knight bosses, instead of just taking things at their pace, putting the effort they enjoy and accepting the results those bring.

Actually seen someone grow (regular, culinary) mushrooms off of these yellow blocks. They were definitely oyster types, but don't ask me which, or which color. The memory's gone.

What wasn't gone from my memory tho, was the size and time it took to grow. Like, I saw them prepare those blocks one night. Next day.... Nothing. The day after, still nothing visible.

Then I actually slept there, and the morning after.... Like, man... I was actually scared when I first saw it. The sprouts or whatever... They were bigger than my hands. And I have pretty big, pianist hands. A single night and the whole thing just... Just... jutting out off the side, as if a hole had been there all along. And then they grew more and more over the next three days. The full thing ended two times the size the yellow block, and at least larger than its original volume.

Best idea so far, since it takes from Apollo for recognition's sake.

However, the logo is way too busy for the purpose it'll have: An App Icon. Logos in general are very minimized, and these details aren't readable at that minute scale.

I think somewhere, iterating off of this, would be the winner idea. At least, unless if someone wants to do something completely different off of the name, like a rocket ship or a boat, or something with a yellow disc like those ones the Voyager departed with.

I feel like I should recommend Dwarf Fortress but I also feel like I should NOT recommend Dwarf Fortress.

Look, I'll just leave Dwarf Fortress here in the corner, peering into the room and the rest of us can try to ignore it. But it's there.

Yeah, but how to shorten it??

Comms?

Bullshit. Threads' algorithm will severely deprioritize external posts. It already heavily favors sponsored instagram accounts as is. You're not being smart by putting porn on Threads through a Mastodon instance. Their AI will take whatever you have that's tame and refuse to show what's dirty. And if you do too much dirty, well, being shadowbanned on Instagram is a fucking super common story as is.

All this idea achieves is doing content charity for Facebook of all things. Defederate. It's the only correct move.

Subscribing to all would be a really good step already.

But we all know what we all really want, ultimately, is to also then see all those subscriptions as a single feed, instead of having to visit all of them in order.

What was one subreddit is now multiple. Something as small as 5 subs can be something as big as 20 communities here, and if one topic becomes big, then all subs of that topic will dominate your dashboard. Grouping up communities would be a way to tell the dashboard to not overload us on one pf the things and also to give us a way to browse just the one topic you want at the moment.

Funny how Steam has been making sales and events around demos for a while (called Next Fests) and some games absolutely blow up out of nowhere thanks to them.

Also some people think FF16 having a demo was some weird, oddball marketing move by Square Enix, except they have been making "try now, continue later" demos for games since Bravely Default.

Right? I see a very easy solution to this, which is, instead of telling the person to sit there and wait under the threat of losing their place in queue if they're not available when the magically shitty music stops playing, to just have the costumers state their name and problem and to then let them go on their way and have the call center itself call back the costumers once their queue position comes up.

But of course. Capitalism.