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My favorite pastime is learning.

If something is unconventional it's typically better for it.

Music is crucial and experiencing it is mandatory - be it through listening or creating.

Reducing suffering is the best life goal I've come up with.

Can we shut up with the "EEE" shit already?

Meta exist to make a profit, however they’re never going to be able to advertise to most people in the fediverse, who also happen to be some of the most knowledgeable people in some fields. If they accept that they’re never going to be able to advertise to those people, they go for the next best thing: monetising their...

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Is this actually a "Quiet down about being exploited by a known bad actor!" post, or am I missing something?

Also, why should discussion stop concerning a current, ongoing development in a space where how we choose to interact with that development hasn't yet been set by many on an individual and a community level? Just because you're tired of seeing it, and some people are arriving at a conclusion that may be different than yours?

I personally haven't decided where I stand 100%. Nor have I seen this addressed by the person running my instance on what (if anything) they are considering concerning the entry of Meta into this space. Why on earth would it be warranted for discussion to cease and everyone take it as fate that the behemoth be allowed to roll over a reluctant userbase? This is absurd.

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Maybe a Waldorf Quantum MK2? I don't know, I'm not going to think about this too long. Never interacted with one, but I'd be aiming for something that's flexible with deep sound design capabilities, and wavetables are mandatory. The sounds are good from what I've heard. Voice count is probably adequate. Excellent variety of filter options. They haven't skimped on envelopes or lfo's. Fatar keybed with polyphonic after touch (which I haven't any experience with, but I'd need channel aftertouch for sure). Being a theoretical exercise I don't have to worry about the price, lol.

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My local grocery store carries an alternative, Lee Kum Kee brand, that I've found to be adequate. There's some stuff that I eat regularly that sriracha flavor profile works better than anything else, so I'll take what I can get for now. Not having tried the Lee Kum Kee brand before the shortage, I'm eager to actually do a side by side once I can get a bottle of Huy Fong.

VT4J23 - Day 24 - A song, album, or artist with a number in it (beehaw.org)

Over in the vinyl sub at the Bad Place, u/Folk_nurse had been doing a Vinyl Tunes for June thing. When the blackout started, I kept adding to my own list each day, and I’d love to carry on with you all. Below is the calendar, I’ll start a thread each day....

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Öröm - 8

Dark Ambient/Gothic Doom from Hungary. Incredible album with quite a unique ambience. Simultaneously melancholic and stoic. The textures between the chorused guitars, the synths with their emulated strings, brass, and piano, and the narrated vocal stylings vacillating between baritone spoken word and whispered rasps weave together an aural image of a remembered sorrow or a persistent longing for something always outside one's grasp. Slow and entrancing in its approach, not shy of sparse arrangements and repetitive passages.

It may suffer slightly from underproduction and less than perfect performances, but if you are so inclined you may find this to add to the character of the album. This was never destined for expensive studio time nor broad commercial appeal. This is niche music to fit the drear of the dark nights of a soul. A real gem for those receptive to its aesthetic.

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This is good to know. As long as the use of the second server profile was temporary due to something like server downtime my understanding is that any activity taking place on the second profile would sync to the primary profile once it comes back online. So it may mean delayed receipt of any of this activity to anyone not connected through Hubzilla, but it'd get there eventually upon syncing? Is this correct?

If the primary profile were to go down permanently though it sounds like it'd be a good idea to have a list of existing contacts backed up somewhere else to be able to duplicate on the secondary server profile if necessary.

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RIght on. Thanks for the input!

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Your post bolsters what I've taken away from the looking I've done so far. The feature set seems robust, to the point it's recognizably intended to be the place to set up shop for a central experience amongst different platforms; hence the name I guess. That's probably according to taste though as well. I never had a problem with the type of UX Facebook offered, but I got far away from all that long ago for all the obvious reasons.

I didn't know that creating an account allows for login access onto different instances, but I guess that makes sense and is probably required in order to setup your mirrored/synced account. I may be twisting that around into a way it doesn't actually work, but I'll figure it out. I think I'm going to set up an account between tonight and tomorrow.

I saw that plugins were available. Curious to see how broad and varied the options are for these. I have to imagine there's some good stuff developed that I'll be pleasantly surprised to find.

Thanks for the input!

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The way I've been going about it is keep two tabs open. One with my home instance on its search page, the second browsing the communities on another instance. If I find one I'd like to sub to it's easy to copy and paste between tabs. Everything posted to that community from there on will show up in my subs on my home instance for browsing and interacting with.

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Power metal isn't my vibe 99% of the time, but when I heard this band I was all about it. They strike just the right chord for me.

Showed up as a random YouTube suggestion for me. Not sure what that may say about any potential for broader international recognition for the band, but it got to a random American via the algorithm for some reason.

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If you're not already familiar, you should check out Entropia's Vesper album. They diverge a bit from this sound after that, but it's still very good, just a bit of a different flavor.

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Into all sorts of extreme metal, which was largely my gateway into more noisy stuff. I highly appreciate the weird, the unique, the dark and esoteric. Willing to weather the inaccessible as long as it brings something to the table.

As far as noisier stuff is concerned... power electronics are good for me, a fair amount of ambient noise and ritual ambient. All of this is dictated by my mood as I hop all over the place when it comes to what I listen to. Always looking for new and different stuff as well, in all genres. The search and when it rewards is a highest pleasure.

Namedrops = stuff like Murmuüre, Theologian, Gruntsplatter, Yen Pox, Funerary Call, DNA, Mars, Swans, Sutcliffe Jugend, Brighter Death Now etc., etc.

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Amélie, for sure.

Even with an element of loneliness/isolation being central to its plot, the storytelling, visual presentation, and performances make this an interminably uplifting movie for me that soothes even on the worst of days.

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Cool idea for a magazine!

I'm not very knowledgeable on the topic, but I find it quite interesting. Hope to see some good discussions pop up in here!

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If you're here from Reddiit, please remember to use the boost link in the post rather than the Upvote button, as the Upvote is meaningless to a user's reputation.

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100% agreed. I'd been hoping for a reddit alternative to build an adequate groundswell for quite a long time before this hullabaloo exactly because the level of discussion had degraded so severely. Pretty done with people rehashing the popular responses that they knew would get upvotes the same way they had gotten upvotes the preceding million times they'd been posted whether they were relevant to the topic of the op or not. This platform can only benefit from fostering more substantive discussions.

I don't think there's a reality where some personal tending of what shows up in our feeds isn't necessary to weed out different attitudes/conventions inherent to particular communities, but the more we can avoid a descent into similar behaviors by way of activating the reward center of the brain for frivolous posting the better.

tl;dr - If I never have to read about Brawndo in a post discussing world politics again I will be happier than I probably deserve.

@NotTheOnlyGamer

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Great band. Consistently excellent.

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If you visit your profile there is a bar beneath anything you may have put in your bio that lists options for overview / threads / comments etc. Subscriptions are included in this and if you click it will display what you've subscribed to. Mine is greyed out since I do not have that set to public view, but if I click on it myself they will still display for me. They seem to be in order of when you subbed right now. It would be nice if there was a way to show it alphabetized, but perhaps a different way to view your subs is coming, as this seems a bit of a workaround solution to what you're looking for. It's how I've found to do it.

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Yeah, something nebulously similar has crossed my mind. There's a lot of different directions this could be taken for people with the right technical and organizational skills, creativity and knack for game design. It's a lot to wrap one's mind around, but thoughts are swirling for sure.

Is this what the internet felt like? (lemmy.world)

I've been exploring the fediverse and subbing and posting all over the damn place. Realizing lemmy can federate with kbin blew my mind. Not to mention the possibility of turning my old laptop into a personal server to host my own instance. Is this what it felt like to discover how the internet worked in the 90s?

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The thing that's mostly missing from this that would make it way more 90's is a background pattern with overlapping circles, squares, lightning bolts, and squiggly lines all in different neon colors. Everything, you see, was EXTREME in the 90's.

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Start with the top botton, stop, button the cuffs, then you are good to go.

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Oh, wow, taking me back in time with that one.

They were so nice to work with.

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I, for one, am sufficiently horrored by this.

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Just think of it as an opportunity to watch something burn in the rearview mirror.

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