Mom (and onee-chan) weren’t worried about how well she might do on a problem on the chalkboard - they wanted to make sure she was enjoying herself with good people who cared about her. And she is.
It’s really impressive how the mangaka’s expanding on things in the serialized version.
IIRC, we did get to see Airu the first time through, but only briefly and in idol mode - we didn’t get even a hint of her background until just now. And the way it played out - slipping into her old delinquent mode just long enough to deal with those guys, then switching to idol mode to win then over as fans - was brilliant.
And the other girl covering Urumin’s eyes was a great touch, and funny to boot.
Not to discredit liberal Israel supporters, but it seems odd to see the left suddenly going mask-off on their antisemitism when historically it’s the far right that has been antisemitic. Maybe it’s a case of horseshoe theory, it wouldn’t surprise me.
Where are you seeing this supposed anti-semitism from the left?
I’ve literally seen zero anti-semitism from the left. Every single anti-semitic statement or action I’ve ever seen has been by someone on the right.
Now the left does tend to be anti-zionist, but much though warmongers like Netanyahu might want you to think so, that’s not by any stretch of the imagination the same thing as anti-semitism.
Personally, I think that Lemmy hit rock bottom relatively shortly after the main Reddit exodus in early July, and has steadily improved since. And more than anything else, I attribute that to users leaving.
The thing is that at least some significant part of the people who have left are people who couldn’t or wouldn’t appreciate the threadiverse for what it is and instead spent their time whining about the ways in which it isn’t the same as Reddit.
And honestly, good riddance to them.
There are always going to be people who can and do appreciate the threadiverse for what it is. Those who are already here will stay and at least some of those who haven’t discovered it yet will, and will move here. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
The Fediverse must be very careful to avoid getting branded as the "alternative to X". In my experience, platforms that have historically branded themselves as "alternative to" or "anti-" have generally not done well. Learned this from the last Reddit exodus: let's make this one different!...
I'd only add, just because I've been thinking this a lot lately and have been looking for a chance to shove it out of my brain and out into the world, that I find much of the focus on Reddit to be sort of creepy.
There's something about the behavior of some of the people I see around here that very much reminds me of an obsessed ex-lover - like they've gone through a messy breakup and now they just can't let it go. Every conversation ends up being diverted into them whinging about their ex some more, they're obsessively stalking the ex's social media, hoping to see signs that they're miserable without them or just having a hard time in general, and they're potentially even sending them nasty messages, trying (almost certainly vainly) to make them suffer. They can't just let it go and get on with their lives.
And they really need to. That part of their lives is over, and it's time to move on. Clinging to it is not healthy, and frankly, to others, it's tedious, and sort of creepy.
A growing number of instances (mainly of Mastodon so far) are signing an 'Anti-Meta Fedi Pact', pledging to block any instance owned by Meta in the fediverse....
In the first place, it's just a part of the nature of the fediverse that admins are free to manage their instances as they prefer and users are free to choose instances as they prefer, so it's no more significant in that sense than a restaurant not including some particular thing on its menu. It's their choice, and I'm entirely free to order something else or go to a different restaurant.
Specifically, to the degree that it matters (which is likely not at all), this is the decision I'd make too, just because even in a culture increasingly defined by corporate shitweasels, Meta stands out for being especially shitweaselish.
All that said, I keep wondering if it's going to be an issue anyway. The fediverse is a sort of technically and conceptually complex place, and uncharitably, Meta's customer base leans toward the lazy and stupid end of the spectrum.
I can definitely see some likelihood that a lot (most?) of the people who might end up following a link to a Meta-owned instance are just going to get confused and frustrated, then scurry back to Facebook.
Amusingly enough, your assertion here is functionally identical to the one you're criticizing.
Your assertion is that it's not worth engaging with those who advocate for preemptive defederation because their fundamental nature makes it such that you cannot legitimately expect a positive outcome.
And that's EXACTLY the position that those in favor of preemptive defederation have taken regarding Meta.
I have accounts so far with five instances, and I'll likely end up with more. I can and do just go to whichever one for whatever reason, as the mood hits me.
I presume that over time I'll come to use some notably more than others, and I might even end up using one exclusively, but that's something that'll just happen organically, if at all.
I see nothing to be gained from forcing a decision, particularly at this early stage.
Point being, all of us that are here are the ones cool enough to come here. We are unified by the desire for a better social media that is not-for-profit and user driven. And that makes this community unique compared to the scabs advocating for Reddit. The people who will belong here will come here. :)
Additionally, that's why I like the fact that the fediverse is sort of technically complex and not particularly user-friendly, and if I had my way about it, it would stay that way.
Bluntly, technical complexity serves as a barrier-to-entry for lazy and stupid people, and that's a good thing.
I'm old enough to remember when the internet as a whole was like that - when you had to have some technical knowledge and determination just to get online at all. And I remember how much and how quickly things went downhill when that was no longer the case.
I'm just curious, since I tend to get attached to my accounts but I also like having access to all information so I don't want to use a defederated instance. If, say, kbin got overrun by bad actors and was defederated by everyone else, is the only option to jump ship? Unfortunately I don't have the capability to selfhost or I...
I currently have accounts with four different instances, and I expect to have more. I jump between them as the mood hits me.
I presume that if one of them is defederated by another instance, that will just figure in to whether or not I'm in the mood to spend time there at a given moment. And if one of them turns toxic enough to drive me away... it'll drive me away.
I don't think any of it's worth worrying about. The whole fediverse thing seems to be very fluid, and I count that as a good thing.
Following the announcement by beehaw admins to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, there has been many posts and messages regarding that decisions and what other instances will do....
I just want to be able to control what I see. I have no desire to control what other people see and I sure as fuck don't want other people to control what I see.
That's it. That's my entire position on the matter.
Broadly, at this point, I couldn't care less what Reddit does. This is my new home.
In the weeks leading up to my move here though, it wasn't so much that I was concerned about the third party apps specifically. I did use one - RIF - and the official app is complete garbage, so it would've impacted me negatively, but it was more than that. And yes - the certain increase in censorship was another issue, but still, it's deeper than that.
Both of those things, and much more, are really just aspects of the process that Cory Doctorow has called enshittification, and that's the thing that drove me away. And if I was still on Reddit, that would be the thing I'd be concerned about.
So it is the case for me that it's not just about the third party apps, and that censorship is also a concern, but really those things, in my estimation, are just signs of a deeper, underlying issue.
Ads are everywhere, but I don't think I've ever bought something because of an ad. If anything they steer me away from their product. The amount of money, effort and bandwidth required to get all of these ads in front of my eyes only to be completely useless must be staggering.
I'm the same way. I have an essentially inverse relationship with ads - the more ads I see for something, the more convinced I become that it's not something I might want. After all, my reasoning goes, if it was actually a product worth having, they wouldn't be trying so hard to convince people to buy it.
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[DISC] Touhou - Go for It Gensokyo (Doujinshi) - Ch. 17.5 - Extras - MangaDex (mangadex.org)
[DISC] Ri-chan - Ch. 104 and 104.5 - MangaDex (mangadex.org)
[DISC] You Talk Too Much, So Just Shut It Already! - Ch. 37 - MangaDex (mangadex.org)
[DISC] Damedol to Sekai ni 1-ri Dake no Fan - Ch. 12 (mangadex.org)
Why did the left become so antisemitic?
Not to discredit liberal Israel supporters, but it seems odd to see the left suddenly going mask-off on their antisemitism when historically it’s the far right that has been antisemitic. Maybe it’s a case of horseshoe theory, it wouldn’t surprise me.
[DISC] Touhou - Go for It Gensokyo (Doujinshi) - Ch. 9 - MangaDex (mangadex.org)
[DISC] Ri-chan - Ch. 103 and 103.5 - MangaDex (mangadex.org)
Lemmy is slowly dying while Reddit is thriving
Isn’t it?
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The Fediverse must be very careful to avoid getting branded as the "alternative to X". In my experience, platforms that have historically branded themselves as "alternative to" or "anti-" have generally not done well. Learned this from the last Reddit exodus: let's make this one different!...
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A growing number of instances are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact
A growing number of instances (mainly of Mastodon so far) are signing an 'Anti-Meta Fedi Pact', pledging to block any instance owned by Meta in the fediverse....
Fediverse migrants are a self-selecting group
Point being, all of us that are here are the ones cool enough to come here. We are unified by the desire for a better social media that is not-for-profit and user driven. And that makes this community unique compared to the scabs advocating for Reddit. The people who will belong here will come here. :)
What would you do if your instance gets defederated?
I'm just curious, since I tend to get attached to my accounts but I also like having access to all information so I don't want to use a defederated instance. If, say, kbin got overrun by bad actors and was defederated by everyone else, is the only option to jump ship? Unfortunately I don't have the capability to selfhost or I...
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lemmy.fmhy.ml's stance on defederation
Following the announcement by beehaw admins to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, there has been many posts and messages regarding that decisions and what other instances will do....
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Ads are everywhere
Ads are everywhere, but I don't think I've ever bought something because of an ad. If anything they steer me away from their product. The amount of money, effort and bandwidth required to get all of these ads in front of my eyes only to be completely useless must be staggering.