ElectroVagrant @ ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world

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You might like this thread from awhile ago: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/27389827

Feel this as I semi-void post about some of the shows I've watched in !showsandmovies@lemm.ee. Trying to let people know there's someone else around here watching Japanese and Korean shows.

I understand the sentiment, but your conclusion only reinforces Match Group's position. It overstates some real phenomena and makes people feel resigned to use their miserable services.

Public spaces have been increasingly reduced but there are still community centers, libraries, parks, walking paths, and so on to simply be in.

Those same spaces also tend to hold events for people to go out to that don't cost anything to attend. At the same time, there are also some private venues that allow others to make use of their space for events and meetings without charging anything, and buying things being a courtesy but not obligatory.

With those offline events, you then have opportunities to meet people besides some bad apps. However even online you have plenty of opportunities to make connections with others outside of matchmaking apps that may lead to more. Neither way is as straightforward, but given the state of dating apps, it's better than acting like they aren't real options.

A part of the problem is that there are multiple similar general topic instances/sites to choose from. If there were more dissimilar, specific topic instances/sites it might help reduce the choice paralysis a little.

It might even better help highlight the perks of federation, as it would be easier to be like, "See, even though you're on cuteanimalsposts, you can still check out and comment on stuff besides cute animals if you want."

Reddit Discussion Policy
For expressing frustration at the amount of Reddit discussion on Lemmy, I recommend !vent@lemmy.world, !venting@lemmy.ml, or the like.

For discussions concerning Reddit, there are a few different communities you might look to such as !reddit@lemmy.world, !reddit@lemmy.ml, !RedditMigration@kbin.social, and probably others I'm unaware of. The flipside of these suggestions is that these are also the communities those uninterested in the topic may block if they wish to minimize the amount of such discussions they're seeing in their feed.

Constructive threads concerning the transfer of information or app development from Reddit to Lemmy here remain okay, but threads simply complaining will be locked and redirected to the aforementioned venting communities to vent in, or Reddit ones to block to hopefully help curate their feeds.

Thanks for your understanding, and feel free to message me if you need any help in navigating to those communities.

It's arguably layers of this cover behavior, and mostly as you say because it's fun. The first layer, closer reading and fan theorizing, is covering why they're into children's media or some other media that isn't seen as fitting them.

The second layer is entwined with the first, the fan theorizing is itself covering what some are too insecure to say or do outright, which is make fan fiction. Some may look down on making fan fiction in similar ways as they feel looked down on for what they're enjoying, making it somewhat ironic.

In short, don't let your fan theories remain theories, make fan fiction and your own independent, inspired work!

You may find more discussion over in !reddit@lemmy.world, for what it's worth.

I don't know the exact neuroscience behind it, but suspect this relates to the fallibility of memory, and whatever goes in in the brain during learning and reasoning.

So you know of multiple bands and songs, you attempt to relate a specific band and song, but because of some murky memories and rough recall, you briefly relate the wrong pieces of information, recognize the mistake, and correct for it. How that process works precisely may vary across people and their methods of recall and knowing.

In a way I suspect that the false-positive you mention may be a sort of synaptic shortcut to the correct information through whatever systems are at play in the brain for this reasoning. For some it may be that this process of rapid error correction is sometimes faster than immediate, accurate recall, or may be more of an unconscious aspect of accurate recall.

I'm of multiple minds on it, but the short of it is, I don't feel out of the pop culture loop, I know I'm out of it being around here.

On one hand I don't mind that, as I'm frustrated by pop culture essentially being mass market culture. It's not typically something that arises from people interacting and creating together from shared passions, it's produced and pushed by big businesses. Nothing novel about this observation or frustration, but it's a vibe I resonate with.

On the other I know if ever you want people to shift into a popular culture produced in the alternative manner mentioned, you gotta accept the transitional situation of entertaining the mass market culture alongside what you're trying to cultivate. It's too jarring for many to switch over entirely, and frankly there's not enough contemporary non-commercial culture to keep people's interest to justify any attempts at a complete switch.

So in a way, yeah, but also I'm more bummed that it's so difficult to create an alternative non-commercial pop culture.

DAE is short for Does anyone else.

So people don't care as much when you leave your small indie label and join a major. In fact quite the opposite. Good on you for winning against the system.

That's integrating with the system, not winning against it. Which may be taken how one will.

The game the article is about is FlyKnight.

Certainly striking!

You might find the game Gnosia interesting then. It's a visual novel with a hidden traitor mechanic mixed with a time loop, which is partly there to narratively explain how and why the hidden traitor changes each time.

Always enjoy Technology Connections videos!

You would probably be interested in this community, which is trying to do similar: !keeptrack@lemmy.world

I think this is also in Settings under Language and Appearance, Website appearance, unless this is a stricter setting that ensures it works as desired.

Thanks for the share! Appreciate it cutting right to the substance and emphasis that it's strictly speculation on their part on the details of what happened.

Btw original video title for those interested:
"Analyzing the Mid-Air Collision Over the Potomac: A Detailed Examination of ATC Communications"

And correct me if i am wrong, but banning a user just stops them from posting, but i thought it did not delete their post history without additional mod action - which i cant see in the modlog

There's an option when banning a user to also remove their content, albeit unless it's an admin action I don't think it would affect their whole post history beyond the specific community.

I'm kind of getting the sense as I look into this that it may be related to how Voyager is rendering the thread, as I'm not able to observe what's being described from the web interface. That's another catch in all this, the other apps and interfaces have their own quirks in how they handle rendering things, which itself is typically related to how they work off the base software (Lemmy in this case).

Edit: why am i forced to upload a photo for a new post?

Which way are you posting? Mobile/web interface? Shouldn't need to add an image to post...

That aside, regarding your main question:

I think it’s very confusing when a single post appears with different comments on different instances, and have no idea how this works.

A basic reason for the difference in which comments are appearing across different instances/sites is because of delays in networking (federation) between the sites due to a variety of reasons. One of the common ones with the fediverse tends to be the software itself, and sometimes differences in versions' federation handling. In this case it's probably because Lemmy World is still running an older version of Lemmy with clunkier federation at Lemmy World's scale, which causes delays in activities on there updating elsewhere (particularly those hosted in Australia).

Edit:
See also Kichae's comment for a more detailed explanation, covers how things operate under more ideal conditions.