TheSpookiestUser @ TheSpookiestUser @lemmy.world

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Can you see the word "bitch"?

I have heard lemmy.ml blocks curse words. My account is on lemmy.world and I see no removeds.

Wouldn't be the weirdest rebrand recently, honestly

Curate.

Block liberally. Especially block any community that is focused around hating something - even if it's a thing that deserves scorn, the vibe will grind you down, over time, especially if there are many communities like it. Block users who are assholes, after reporting them if it's bad enough.

Subscribe/follow/equivalent-action things you are genuinely interested in; cut out the really general categories unless you actively enjoy browsing that topic. Smaller communities are usually better, if they have enough content to be alive.

If you have any sort of hobby, try joining a space about it. If it's too toxic, block it, but if not, it is a good place to destress and perhaps even make friends.

Curate, it can't be overstated enough. A lot of sites don't let you sufficiently curate your feed, and if they don't, you should leave em.

I am subscribed to over 100 channels, ranging from daily uploads to 1 video every few months. Frankly I don't need more stuff to watch. When I do want to find something new, it's either a recommendation from a friend, something I saw on a different social media, or something I searched for myself deliberately.

This change isn't a good thing, it's Google trying to pressure more people into giving up more data, but the "threat" of them removing their algorithmically recommended content from my feed is not a threat at all, it's a bonus if anything.

My first character ever was a goblin wizard (part of the Izzet league in the Ravnica setting). I've had a soft spot for goblins ever since.

EDIT: and yes my familiar was a rat how did you know -

Totally depends on the vibe. In my group, acting out persuasion or deception checks is most common, but sometimes someone can't think of exactly what to say and so just outlines the gist in a detached way - e.g. "I go on about how the safety of the city is top priority, allow us access so we can continue our search for the fugitive". Not specific, but general. Either works, and the general form is bare minimum IMO.

If someone's email domain is @ihateminorities.com, I'd say that's pretty fair grounds for blocking it.

There are some instances that actively promote hateful or extremist content, and exist for the purpose of hosting it. There are others that do not actively support that content but do allow it, anywhere, making blocking one community not enough. Defederation is an important tool and should be used wisely.

That's not democracy though. That's my only point here is that isn't related to the concept of democracy at all.

A vote for what, though? What is being decided, and by who?

What it's about, in my opinion, is trust. To tie it back to Reddit yet again - on Reddit, if the admins of the site did something, their word was final and there wasn't much you could do about it. On Lemmy, if the admins of an instance do something, even here on the biggest one, their reach is limited to their own space; they cannot affect what happens beyond. This means that instead of having to do a big ol exodus to try and prop up a new network, people can just pick another instance and continue where they left off, outside the reach of the admins that did the thing they dislike.

Therefore, the instance admins and the users (and also the mods) need to actually have trust in each other to stick around, as there are viable alternative spaces they can go to if that trust is broken. Additionally, the entire concept of federation is also built on trust - "we will allow an exchange of content between our instances because we trust you".

I don't agree with this decision, but I understand it, and I still trust LW admins because they've had a good track record so far. For those reasons I'll stay here. I don't fault anyone leaving, though, if their personal threshold of trust has been broken. The only thing I'm really wary of is the free-speech absolutists that insist no one should be defederated from; the tool exists for a reason. There's not many of them, though.

If you make your own instance, as a one-man thing, then it's not really democracy at all either. The only way it would be democracy is if you made your own instance and specifically said "all decisions will be made via vote" and you actually had users around to participate in those votes.

Because the fediverse i about democracy.

Isn't it, like, the opposite? With the main assumption being that you should find an instance that aligns with your interests and values, not find an instance and try to vote for it to become something you like? That is technically "voting with your feet" but instances don't actually need a large population to stay running.

Is there any indication this happened because of that? The reason people are downvoting is because such a link seems tenuous without proof.

There is a local piracy-focused community at !piracy@lemmy.world. It's pretty dead, of course, only 4 posts ever, but still. How does this square with those others being blocked?

You have won my goodwill with your track record of decisions so far. I don't agree with this one, but it is not a dealbreaker for me. Thank you for getting around to announcing this in a public space, but as you say, please make sure to do this first next time something of this caliber is put through.

At least with Lemmy it plainly is a Reddit clone. That's not an insult, it's just a fact. It has upvotes/downvotes, posts sorted into discrete communities that are volunteer made and run, crossposting, similar sorting options, and if you go to your own profile on Lemmy it displays your date of join as a "cake day". The similarities are both obvious and intentional.

I think Lemmy needs to add more unique features Reddit never had. The federation model is very novel and fundamentally different but also can be confusing. It needs more than just that to be different.

(I can't comment on Kbin as much because I don't use it.)

Other people should post more then, to be frank.

I've seen this specific account around enough I recognize the name, just from how much they post all across Lemmy. Same with a few other accounts. Hell, I'm trying to prop up a community or two myself with daily posts. We all gotta try to post, as much as we can without being spam, to keep the Lemmy network alive.

Whoever's doing the attacks. We don't know who.

Tried posting the video this time instead of a link to the news page.

Some welcome changes to the Lithoid species pack - tweaks to their unique origin, tweaks to Terravore to make it less fiddly. A new advanced space racism civic! (This is one of the weirder parts of talking about Stellaris.) Personally I'm a bit underwhelmed by the new portrait; It's good art, but I really prefer more out there non-humanoid designs, which is the opposite of what they're going for here. The quality of life changes to ascension perks and gestalt nodes are welcome as well. This kind of tidying up is why I like the whole concept of the custodian team.

Only real negative thing here is the increase on price for some older DLCs. It's only two dollars, and they are tweaking them to be better, but I still feel like it's gonna cause unnecessary backlash for little gain.

For the future, !outoftheloop@lemmy.world