TeaHands @ TeaHands @lemmy.world

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I despise car-reliant infrastructure as much as anyone but yeah, this has to be approached from all sides you can't just punish people who use cars due to there being no alternative, and then STILL give them no alternative.

That said, the article implies that this is in fact part of a larger plan and just removes one blocker, so I guess we'll see if that ends up being true or not.

Oh these are really pretty!

I use both at random just depending on how lazy I'm feeling or if I know the shortcode for a particular emoji off by heart. All gets the point across just the same :D

Put this to a friend of mine whose mam taught at her small rural secondary school. She had two older siblings at the same school too.

"Weird. We couldn't really misbehave so that's probably why we all went so wild at college."

Makes sense. She really did get weird with it in college.

Reddit had a whole thing about looking down on emojis for whatever reason. But during the influx over the summer there was a discussion here somewhere about whether we were going to keep that attitude going here, and the general consensus was no because it's ridiculous.

We've been using emojis and their earlier equivalents to help clarify meaning and intent (as well as for humour, obviously) for as long as I've been on the internet, which means they've been in common use since at least the mid-to-late 90s. I use them all the time, all over Lemmy and Mastodon, and haven't had anyone comment on it or call it out (except once but that was in a positive way).

It's possible different communities have different attitudes, but unless you're using them in an inappropriate way I expect the downvote thing is more of a coincidence (or possibly one person with a weird anti-emoji vendetta, we all know there are weird folks out there) rather than a site-wide culture thing.

p.s. just realised I got through a whole post without any of the things for once so here's a few of my most often used just to brighten things up 😄 😅 😬 🤓 👍

Hello from Lemmy too :)

One fun tip is that if you're not sure how someone formatted a post the way they did, you can (at least on the default UI) use the "view source" icon

If you're on an instance that doesn't allow image uploads and you're hosting externally, the most useful markdown for you is ![alt text](imageURLhere.jpg) which will embed the actual image instead of you just having to post a link.

So many people make the same mistake, you are definitely not alone. VERY different games though.

Until Dawn and all the similar games that came since can be pretty good for this. They are set up with a mode where she could control characters if she wants, but otherwise just playing through the story with you controlling everything and her helping make the decisions is a fun time. Play these with my husband every year as part of our Halloween traditions, you can actually learn a lot about a person by seeing what decisions they go with😅

If it was just the constant violence in TLOU that was her issue these could work, although fair warning if she'd prefer absolutely no violence (or horror) at all then I'm gonna just be a second vote for Outer Wilds instead.

Outer Wilds, not to be confused with The Outer Worlds!

Great suggestion. Me and my partner "play" a lot of games together where one of us controls but both get to have input and make decisions, and this is a fantastic example.

Without the part where they pull up the drawbridge behind them, hopefully.

Pretty sure they were on about making a LotR MMO at some point? No idea what else they were up to though.

I happened to notice an ex-Pebble user in my feed asking for Mastodon help, a couple weeks back. Had never heard of it, but I did some digging, found there was a whole group of them wandering around lost and confused, so reached out and welcomed them and offered help. Honestly they're very nice people, it seems like Pebble's whole "thing" was a focus on people being cool to each other so attracted that certain sort of user.

Proud to say I was nominated first post-Pebble member of Pebble club 😎

If the question is "am I too old to X?" where X is not some kind of major official sporting achievement or something limited only to children, the answer is no.

Honestly it sounds like you're in a pretty good place to me. Educated, good job, actively social, these are all attractive things! But the fact that you asked this question in the first place suggests confidence is still lacking a bit (which makes sense, you are as other commenters have said still very young). One thing that does help with confidence is losing weight and feeling like you look good, so in that respect it probably would help. But it's not like heavier people are all single, if you click with someone you click. And by putting yourself out there you're already giving yourself the best chance of that happening.

This does seem like a fun thing for someone to build! Get on it, nerds.

Great to hear!

I'd love to jump in here with a big active list, and I am actually subbed to quite a lot of Kbin magazines, but the problem is as you say, it just didn't really take off in the same way Lemmy did. Almost everything I'm subscribed to there, despite making a good go of it in the very early days, is now dead.

Notable exception: !scifi@kbin.social

Unfortunately a big part of that is because during the busiest part of the migration, there was an issue on Kbin where Ernest had to (if I'm remembering this correctly) enable some kind of Cloudflare protection that had the side effect of completely breaking federation between the two platforms. By the time it came back up and we could access Kbin mags again, due to the massive influx of people on Lemmy those communities had mostly settled here instead.

Given that there are still federation issues to this day as well as the moderation issues (I see Ernest's reply in this thread and honestly very much respect how hard he's been working, but factually these are still problems), I just don't think it makes sense for people to be trying to build magazines there IF they're wanting the maximum numbers. Obviously if you're more interested in attracting Kbin folks than Lemmy, then it makes perfect sense.

Anyway here are some I'm subbed to, it doesn't hurt to add to your sub list even if there are more active Lemmy duplicates, but yeah there's not much there for some of them :(

• !3DPrinting@kbin.social
• !askscience@kbin.social
• !askkbin@kbin.social
• !baking@kbin.social <-- this one made me the saddest when my comments wouldn't federate lol
• !boardgames@fedia.io
• !citiesskylines@kbin.social
• !ELI5@kbin.social <-- looks like this one is actually having a revival, yay!
• !guildwars2@kbin.social
• !Minecraft@kbin.social
• !pixelart@kbin.social
• !programming@kbin.social
• !psychology@kbin.social
• !SquaredCircle@kbin.social
• !truegaming@kbin.social
• !UFOs@kbin.social
• !vexillology@kbin.social
• !webdev@kbin.social
• !woodworking@kbin.social

Yeah I expect given how long ago IRC's heydey was, we're talking about quite a different demographic. Everyone I know who used it was on the nerdy side (this includes me, it's not an insult!), whereas things like Discord with their modern interfaces make things easy enough that for example I run a crafting community on there full of old ladies sharing their cross stitch.

Anything that attracts huge numbers of regular folks like that is gonna be a target for trolls and spammers and suchlike, so without good moderation a public server can spiral down quite fast in my experience. Add to all this the ever-increasing hostility and us-vs-them of people on the internet in general, and ugh.

I'm sure there are plenty of lovely spaces out there too ofc, it's just finding them that's the trick :)

I've never used Signal, so can't really answer that. But really assuming it's the same sort of thing, which group messaging app you're using isn't as important as the people you're using it with.

Personally I don't do group chats on a lot of other apps due to them being quite all-or-nothing in terms of notifications. My favourite thing about Discord (been using it since back when it was in alpha) was the ability to separate out different channels and have actual granular control over what's worth being notified about.

I don't use voice / video chat much at all but it's so handy to, for example, have it for the annual fantasy football draft in my league server even though we literally don't touch it and just stick to 100% text chat the rest of the year.

If signal does all those things too, then they're probably pretty similar.

Everything I hear about it seems to be negative, but then again I only really hear about it from people who tried it and hated it and came to Mastodon instead. So I expect they just have different audiences.