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I can't sleep without my weighted blanket. Even in summer. We just compensate by having a large fan blowing directly onto the bed for me.

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really dating myself here, but I could not get enough of the OG Sims game. I used to play until I fell asleep at my keyboard. It felt so innovative at the time.

Spam and porn are flooding kbin already

There is a substantial amount of spam and NSFW posts on the All page coming through already. Most NSFW posts aren't being tagged as such and are coming right through. I am not sure how this can be weathered but we need something in place fairly soon, I feel like we are days away from rivers of bad stuff, especially via some of...

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Is there a way to block an entire instance? Because in my kbin.social settings I have "hide adult content" turned ON and yet I keep getting posts from lemmynsfw in my feed and my sidebar of random recent posts.

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There's this option for me in the main settings page on kbin.

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No worries, we all just want the same thing I guess. The ability to block a complete instance from our feed.

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@Mugox

THANK YOU so much! I'm very new to kbin so I had no idea that existed. Much appreciation!

Curious, if you were/are a Reddit user, will you be leaving the platform for good or have you already? CEO has called unpaid moderators' concerns "noise", that will be "passing soon."

There's a lot of noise with this one. Among the noisiest we've seen. Please know that our teams are on it, and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. The most important things we can do right now are stay focused, adapt to challenges, and keep moving forward. We absolutely must ship what we said we would....

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On a personal level, I am done with Reddit. I am on kbin for general news and sports and stuff and my Science-Fiction/Fantasy community is creating a lemmy instance for us to cater to that niche of people, so between that I will be set.

But I am a mod on some very special fan sites on Reddit and I gave my word to the communities there to be there for them and I won't abandon my mod duties, so my only reddit activity will be mod actions and modmail responding. Some of our members are migrating and some are staying but it's a tight-knit fandom and I'm not going to abandon those that stay.

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I don't have a screen protector on my phone, and I wasn't going to get a case but had to because the camera on the back of it sticks out and my phone wouldn't lay flat and it just wanted to scratch the camera lens. The case makes it so my phone can lay flat, and I have better grip I guess. It's just a slim case, nothing bulky.

Former Spitfire Weber returns to the NHL as an assistant coach with St. Louis Blues (www.msn.com)

Less than six years after retiring from professional hockey, former Windsor Spitfires’ player, captain and assistant coach Mike Weber is heading back to the NHL. The 35-year-old Weber, who still makes his off-season home in the area, has been hired as an assistant coach with the NHL’s St. Louis Blues replacing Mike Van Ryn,...

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Maybe he will be stronger as a coach than a player? Some people's talents lie in other places. I guess we will see.

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That sounds promising then and hopefully this leads to good things and improvement.

Blues to launch Blockchain-based Fan Engagement Program (www.nhl.com)

The St. Louis Blues are entering into a multiyear agreement with Credenza, Inc. to launch a first-of-its-kind integration of Credenza's web3 software and proprietary open source technology into the team's popular app-based fan engagement program, Bluenatics.

thedoctor, to brandonsanderson

Has Sanderson commented on these fediverse magazines? Seems like it's the kind of thing he would support, like how he's taking on Audible...

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@thedoctor Not on fediverse migration no, but he did respond to one of my comments on Reddit saying that if the community moved to another platform he would follow. I'm a mod over on Reddit and we have been researching alternatives for the part of the community that is done with Reddit completely. He did openly support the protest and even closed his own sub r/Sanderson as well.

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@PhilipJFry That sounds really goo! And I would appreciate the help a lot. I'm split between 2 fandoms (that's a story lol) and on reddit only lurked and I would like a friendly accepting place where it's ok I've only been watching hockey a few years, root for 2 teams in the same damn division and don't know shit about hockey but I can be active in anyway.

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@PhilipJFry The Avalanche (and due to them being new and the state I live in, the Kraken, mildly. I cant' watch Kraken games because of blackout though).

Basically, a few years back I decided I wanted to start watching hockey as a second sport. The place I lovedbest when I lived there was Colorado so I decided to be an Avs fan. The playoffs started... I was rooting for the Avs. Which meant I ha to root against the Sharks. Then the Sharks won, so I had to root against the Sharks even harder and they played the Blues next. Then I rooted for the Blues and they kept just winning and by the time they won the cup I was hooked LOL

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Kadri left to go play for Calgary last year, so now we just have Kroekne to feel shitty about. But yeah MacKinnon is fantastic to watch. I just wish we weren't going anther full season without Landeskog.

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It's not sanctimonious. We care what our members think and feel. We have the open support of the author we're the fandom for, even saying he'd follow us to a new platform if the community decided to go to one. There's nothing sanctimonious about caring about a community and letting the collective decide what to do. We don't "own" the community, we caretake it. We don't exercise power without the fans being behind it.

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I don't have it, but if they ever added a way to play the older Pokemon games my husband would want to get it because he has no other way to play them (and doesn't like emulating). I just hope they don't skyrocket the cost if they do add Pokemon.

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Hello everyone! I'm excited to have found the Stormlight community here!

What's your favorite format for reading these books? I like to read them as ebooks but I like to have the hardcovers for displaying them

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@Firefirefly I buy my Stormlight all in hardcover, and so I read them like that the first time through. For re-reads I use ebook cause it's just so much easier to carry around lol

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