smoothbrain coldtakes @ canis_majoris @lemmy.ca

why would you take anything you see on the internet seriously?

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I've never seen my two favorite things combined like this before. Thank you, this is incredibly hilarious and I love it.

I need this in my life now.

They already released it on Steam and discounted it 25% - what a fall from grace.

BIO-NEURAL GEL PACKS BAYBEEEEEEEEE

Better keep the cheese away from them though.

I've used G2A for Windows Pro keys, which are legit OEM bulk keys, and also to buy my friend in AUS some Hearts of Iron DLC that I couldn't buy and gift normally because of the price difference between CAD and AUD.

Yeah except both of those things are in fucking dollars and not in random ass cryptocurrency

Monero: My experience (IT'S A SCAM)

Because this guy is a crypto moron. He's from monero.town which is a crypto instance. He tried to pay for this with crypto and got scammed, which garners zero sympathy from me, because it's not real money.

Oh no! I didn't pay real money to a provider and they didn't give me the product! This is a scam!

He keeps coming to other instances to "review" the ability to pay for things with monero, which is basically just an advert for trying to pump the crypto.

He's already ruined every technology subcommunity by being the only fucking thing people report on.

Bad.

It doesn't work natively on Windows without stressing even the highest end machines. I guarantee if you try to emulate it, the result will be even worse than the already terrible native experience.

Wonder if Crave still has it in Canada.

Edit: It's still there for me.

Do you have a source other than...like..fuckin tiktok?

Oh. Sorry. Read on! (since I clearly cannot)

It doesn't need to enshittify because it's already kind of shit in a lot of ways.

A lot of basic features for moderation are not worked on, not prioritized by the dev team, and left to the wayside while large instances deal with CSAM attacks. There are massive, expensive SQL queries that can lock instances into downtime. If something is federated across the network it gets replicated, regardless of if it's genuine/legal/proper content or not. That's a huge flaw in the CSAM attack vector because it complicates the situation for everybody federated with the server being attacked.

I don't have to worry about the platform getting shittier because it still needs to achieve a lot of basic functionality.

The only real place to go is up.

A lot of Lemmy's problems can be summed up in a question: how does this benefit from not being a dedicated forum?

I want to go back to the decentralized internet where hobbyists were running their own servers and communities. Lemmy, like reddit, encourages centralization onto a single major platform, and I don't like that.

Was this not the purpose of Literature.cafe? Did they not close down due to lack of users and merge into .world? Not sure how you're going to break that streak, given that Lemmy's numbers are going down and not up.

It works better with newer cards. I am currently using Wayland on my 3090 and it works about 75% of the way I want it to. Occasionally the taskbar and/or system clock will freeze, which is fixed by a relog. Also the translucency in themes does not render properly, but that's a small price to pay for full refresh rates across varied monitors.

I have a laptop with a 1650 and because it's kind of a weird half-niche card, Wayland does not work well with it forcing me to stick with X.

Not sure how that got deleted.

That's just what lemmynsfw is unfortunately. It's mostly bots reposting content or girls hocking their OF. There's like Sexmeat who used to be a redditor, with a far more vulgar name (Fuckmeat) and maybe a half a dozen others.

.world might not be federated with NSFW communities, as a lot of major instances don't want to deal with the legal ramifications of hosting pornography in any form. .ca has not defederated from the NSFW instances, however most of our userbase tends to block the communities when they do pop up, assuming they have NSFW enabled.

I started to find the porn side of things to be weird and pathetic. Outside of the random ass niche fetish communities popping up, it just feels really sad to see the same half a dozen girls trying to advertise to basically nobody. We have an infinitesimally smaller userbase than reddit, and as much as I like seeing naked ladies, OF ads get fucking tiresome and I think they are way less effective here than elsewhere.

My problem with niche communities, and most of Lemmy's content in general, is that people are using the most weird, random, out-there sources for all of their topics. It more often than not that I see some strange, clearly biased source, over more reliable or professional sources.