habanhero @ habanhero @lemmy.ca

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Reddit was great because there wasn't really any benefit to getting "popular" on the platform

Strongly disagree. The whole Karma / award / Gold system combined with algorithms ensures a certain type of posts are favored, and comments / discourse of certain type gets upvotes and visibility. There is a pattern under the most popular Reddit posts and comments and it's not hard to see.

Lemmy has sort of a half-hearted voting system which I feel is actually beneficial to the experience and the fact there is no algorithm messing about is another big plus.

And that's totally fine. I have both and use both on a daily basis.

I just find it strange that people shitting on Tildes despite that it's overall a healthy and well run community. We should really be glad that other communities are coming up, they are not mutually exclusive after all.

But is it though? By definition moderation and adminstration means a certain set of standard and rules to keep the community / site runs well. Tildes simply has their own set of standards that so far I think is working well.

Lemmy has mods too and there are plenty of powertripping drama. Does that make Lemmy elitist? Or less so simply because it allows shitposts and memes?

I think that's an strong statement and overreaction on your part, but to that point mass adoption isn't always a good thing.

I find that the content on Tildes are generally more respectful, thoughtful and higher quality. Much better signal to noise ratio. Lemmy does have quality stuff but there is also a lot more low quality / low effort content to wade through. Just look at the state of Showerthoughts / AskLemmy if you are looking for examples.

Few times a week, way more often than any other devices that's not my phone. The way that it makes PC gaming accessible and portable is amazing.

That's how missteaks were made.

Pipe organ is a common instrument in church.

Loco = crazy in Spanish, and it's a play on words here referring to "local".

Then I went to see Oppenheimer and it was the bomb.

Dead Space. It's like the brutal lovechild of Bioshock and Resident Evil. Cannot recommend the trilogy enough if you like the horror shooter genre. Especially Dead Space 1 and 2, truly ahead of its time.

I recommend playing the Original Trilogy first, then play the recently released Dead Space Remake if you'd like (OR be a real patient gamer and wait ten years before playing the Remake). The original trilogy should be pretty affordable everywhere but they are also all on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate if you have that.

Edit: I played the entire trilogy on my Steam Deck. Chef's Kiss 👌

Can confirm, was not homeschooled.

I prefer Lemmy but it's down every once

Use an instance other than Lemmy.world. It's facing some growing pains as it's the most popular instance and one that new users tend to default to. Smaller instances won't have the same issues.

Why not both?

Does Voyager's search work that way though? Search is not consistent across the different instances I use (and it has nothing to do with federation).

Local team sports are really good ways to meet new people, and since it's all about teamwork, bonds form pretty naturally. Plus it's good to exercise!

Search a keyword, and several options will show up, choose the Community one.

Keep in mind if no one from your instance has ever visited the community it won't show up in this search. Then your best bet is to visit it directly from the browser then subscribe to it (that's my understanding, somebody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).

Hacking implies a lot more than simply adding fat and sugar, and that's all you gotta do.

In principle yes, but in reality it extends much farther than that and there is a whole industry built around this.

For example, the "Subway Sandwich smell" is something desired but not easily replicable, and is a guarded secrecy that corporate is pretty shush-shush about. It not only accentuates the flavor but can get people into the shop from blocks away.

Specially processed meat, cheese and bread. In the case of fast food these ingredients are basically "hacked" to make us crave more and consume more. These industries have "food scientists" working on exactly that.

Meat, cheese and bread in their more natural form is definitely healthy when consumed in moderation.

Google Photos is actually a far cry from Apple Photos and iCloud. Pretty interoperable across platforms and easy to take data elsewhere.

But it's the cashflow that keeps them afloat.

AI is a blanket term that is used to describe many different things and more recently used as a Bogeyman by the media to scare everyone's pants off.

The "AI" that's all the hype recently à la ChatGPT, Bard etc are "generative AI" based on Large Language Models. They seem really good at answering questions, creating content, rewriting text etc. The "threat" to humanity at the moment is more about industries being disrupted, jobs being replaced by these technologies, etc. Customer Service, Copywriting, Legal and creative industries are all impacted. In the longer term, as with all technologies, there is a concern that there will be an imbalance in the access of this tech and for example, only the rich and powerful can truly harness the power of these tools.

There is also the more Doomsday interpretation of "AI" which in this case, really means AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), where the AI actually becomes sentient and can think / reason for itself. I think this is still in the realm of science fiction today but who knows about the future. The worry here is that if such a sentient being become malevolent for one reason or another, we would be dealing with an AI Overlord kind of scenario with the superior computing power, access and knowledge that it will have.