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  • I can't believe the entire vita fanbase is here. (Not me, but I'm happy to meet the both of you!)

  • I actually find myself spending more time here, to the point to where I might have to take a break because it's starting to become unhealthy.

    I think the reason why is since there are less posts per volume, it's easier to read through everything. Since the communities are smaller, the news and discussion is more focused. And because a lot of the more tech savy and activist minded individuals made the switch over to lemmy, I find it easier to have more nuanced conversation than on reddit.

    However some of my bad habits from reddit are starting to resurface here, and I probably need to start regulating my time here. At the very least, I feel like I get a lot more out of my time and participation here.

  • I mean, they don't have to promote that message.

  • Honestly, I think fascism can manifest from both leftist and right wing points of view. Like a lot of fascists organizations started as workers organizations who gathered together for better working conditions, compensation, and security, and down the line were convinced that racial minorities, jews, and immigrants were the cause of their problems.

    A lot of the formally left wing people turned fascist I've known started from the point of view of capitalism, globalization, and wealth inequality being the causes of their problems, and overtime were convinced that this meant immigrants, erasure of their culture (white/American/Christian) and evil cabals of jews/queer people/atheists/satanists/etc.

    Basically if you rally behind strongmen, aim for religious/cultural/racial dominion, and aim for the elimination of a certain group of people as a means of achieving your goals, you might be a fascists, and the path towards that can start from anywhere.

    edit: yeah, I think going to delete this post soon. Many people seem to have taken this post as an opportunity to point the finger and rip at each other, as well as construe any negative action as "fascism" when the whole point of my post was to be introspective. Seems like a lot of people simply read the first sentence and decided to go to town instead.

  • Thank you Serena for continuing to defend our freedoms!

  • Ikr! I'm surprised it took so long for an indie project to fill the gap. If it's even half as good as jsrf, I'll be satisfied.

  • I want to know what Jet St Radio for the Wii could've been. Apparently one was tossed around, but at the end of the day was rejected. Tbf, this was 2006 Sega, and it probably would've been trash. But I will still never not be curious about what could've been.

  • On kbin and I think most major lemmy instances, you can block communities, so if you don't want to see content from them, say redditmigration posts, you can filter the whole community. That won't stop you from say seeing it in unrelated communities, in which case blocking the users who keep bring it up reduces visibility of the topic even more. Finally setting your default page to your subs rather than top reduces the visibility of unwanted topics even more.

  • Witch King: "Ima bout to end these men's careers!"

  • I sincerely wish people would use the block feature, rather than keep making threads complaining about content/communities they don't like to see.

  • To me “This community does not affirm practiced LGBTQ+ lifestyles” implies if you are a queer or queer affirming Christian, you are not welcomed in this sub, which is excluding a large amount of Christian fed users. Even with the views towards queer people aside, you are basically drawing a line in the sand in a faith based sub based on interpretation, denomination, and belief.

  • I fail to see the examples you give as hate speech against religious people.

    If there was content like memes equating jews to lizards, going off on muslims being inherently violent, or saying all catholic priests were child molesters, I think you would have a case, especially since the last two are memes I would commonly see on Reddit's religiousfruitcake sub.

    The first example you give just comes off an an edgy (lol I'm so logical. These ideas are the same)
    The second is making fun of the placements of two signs
    the last two are plays on the question "If god exists, why does he let bad things happen?" Which is a question that many atheists ask themselves.

    Hate speech would be a call to do violence against religious people, or spreading stereotypes that perpetuate violence and discrimination. All I see here are mid to bad jokes.

    Also, and this goes for any community here, just because a joke or meme offends you, doesn't inherently make it hate speech. I think a christian sub would be in their right to post memes poking fun at atheism.

  • Shit! a community complaint post already ??

  • I mean, the expectation was there would never be an artificial intelligence capable of coming up with its own ideas, having it's own inspiration and be able to create based on its own experiences.

    The reality is it didn't have to. All it took was mass work theft, and machine able to take the bits and pieces of those works, and shuffle them into a production that matched the user's parameters.

    Honestly, I wish we were dealing with actual "artificial intelligence" that was capable of its own thoughts, inspiration, feelings, and experiences. That could paint a picture or write a story based on its own experiences, and maybe give its own perspective as a machine that would further push the boundaries of what is possible in art and story telling.

    Instead, I get to realize that in reality, all art and storytelling is mixing and matching the same parts into something different, and that we have built a machine so efficient at doing it, there is no need for humans to do it.

    I already kinda knew that I was never going to have a career doing anything creative, but all this "AI" boom has shown me is that no matter how "skilled" or "creative" I become, those bits and pieces can be broken down into something cheap enough that my involvement is no longer necessary.

  • I like them for different reasons. Mastodon is somewhere I check on my phone for updates on things I care about, random posts, memes, or interesting topics that make it into my feed.

    Lemmy on the other hand is somewhere I actually hang out. Sure, there are the memes, but there's more room for in depth discussion here, and I can spend hours here while I usually browse mastodon in minutes. In a way they are both how Twitter and Reddit used to be before they got massively popular and I find it refreshing.

    In the end, I went with kbin because it combines features and integration of the two platforms while having stuff unique to it. I definitely recommend it if you like both platforms.

  • As a "lefty" (and I kinda think the way political views are classified is bullshit) Out of everything you've listed, I only outright disagree with two points. Those being the abortion and trans opinions. Everything else I more or less agree or at least sympathize with.

    Like I think having a healthy distrust of the government isn't a bad thing, especially when that government isn't holding up its end of the social contract. Likewise I feel human rights and individual liberties go hand in hand. I do feel you can go overboard in either direction, like having failed state chaos in Somalia, or having a totalitarian dictatorship in North Korea. In the end, I feel the perfect country is one where the government is strong enough to support the needs of its people. But not to the point to where it can trespass on rights and liberties and enforce its own state religion or ideology.

  • a/s/l

    N64 was my childhood console years old/ no thanks/banjo country

  • I was at house, eating dorito

  • Ah yes, the two genders, male and FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT!