Check out !worldnews. The admin of lemmit.online has set up a bot that fetches reddit posts via RSS, making it much easier to make the switch and of course not getting any ads....
Presumably because everyone else just wants reddit but less shit. If spez hadn't decided to go insane and tank the usability of the site, yeah, I'd still be there. Fact of the matter is that reddit still has a bunch of content I want to see, but doesn't exist over here.
I, like many gamers, grew up playing Pokémon Red and Nintendo 64 and was obsessed with Nintendo products. I graduated to a PS2 and PS3 and became super into Metal Gear Solid and Call of Duty and Fallout. Also spent a ton of time with the Guitar Hero series. I loved the escape gaming brought me and it genuinely helped me relax....
And put health first. I know a good chunk of the time I spend browsing my Steam library and thinking "a thousand channels and nothing's on," is me being exhausted in disguise.
The best thing to do when gaming loses its magic is far and away to just stop gaming and find new ways to rest and wind down.
A folder isn't "fun." Like, reddit has the Snoo alien or whatever, and they went the extra mile of letting users represent themselves with custom Snoo avatars made up of preset parts like a character creator. It's fun, and having a mascot here would be fun too.
It looks like a new spamming tactic will be to set up your own instance and then just mass spam to other instances from there. Case in point, vive.im I've been noticing spam in one magazine from a user of this. I banned them, but they can still post for some reason. Decided to visit the instance and it looks like some default...
First of all, thank you @ljdawson for pursuing Sync for Lemmy. It’s honestly given me so much hope for Fediverse adoption to actually happen. I do have one thought to share with you to help with success:...
No, because Bud Light is only hated by weird bigots who care too much about stuff that doesn't affect them at all. Reddit is hated by normal people who never asked for their favorite discussion site to make the browsing experience worse. A better example would be Digg.
I can understand not wanting to be referred to as CIS, it's hardly like everyone associates good connotations with the prefix considering the high tensions that can come in relevant discussions, but to outright ban it is absurd. To be clear,
Banning use of a word that’s part of our daily vocabulary around the world
it's not part of everyone's daily vocabulary around the world, and that is precisely the problem. I grew up in shithole Oklahoma, and the only time I have ever heard or said the word in-person is when talking with my trans friend, and I literally had to remember what the prefix was last time I was having a discussion involving it. I learned about the word not from someone who was politely explaining to me the difference, but from a very openly hostile person referring to CIS people as "scum" online. That's a really shitty first impression. I get that it's not actually an offensive term, but the feelings I was experiencing when I learned the meaning have sure stuck around and I don't generally enjoy using the term. If, instead, the term was more normalized, it'd just be a normal run-of-the-mill word to me that I wouldn't have a problem associating with.
I feel like banning it and calling it a "slur" is literally only problematic for these sorts of reasons and will lead to continued pointless division of something that should just be a basic descriptor. It's misleading, will associate negative emotions with the word, and will in turn hamper LGBTQ+ acceptance as the phrase is continually thrown around.
tl;dr Musk is a dumb fucking idiot that is going to harm society.
It's really, really sad that this sort of stuff doesn't get picked up and funded for the greater good. Stuff like the NLnet Foundation exists, which has helped fund some pretty major projects (including the development of Lemmy), but something this critical I feel should be consistently funded by even larger entities in order to keep things working right.
I mix Coke and Orange Juice to wake up in the morning sometimes. My wife that dips steak in ranch dressing and friend that eats peanut butter and ham sandwiches hate it.
Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.
Gonna wait a bit because I wanna make sure there aren't any crazy unforeseen side effects on humans, but this is a tremendous step forward for several environmental and ecological problems and I'm ready for a minimal-kill future.
I've always found the "master race" moniker on Reddit subs really offputting/distrubing. Why repeat that here? It could just as easily be called "PC Enthusiast" or something totally normal.
Look at how butthurt everyone in this thread is over a joke name and bringing perceived politics into it where there is none. This was all started by one game reviewer making fun of people who took PC gaming too seriously and then the subreddit name leaning into the joke. That's it, that's the story. If you want to start your own """less nazi""" PC enthusiast community, you can feel perfectly free to do that just the same as you could've on reddit with exactly the same amount of relative success as it would've had back there.
The fact is that the community was always going to be named "pcmasterrace" because that's what it was on reddit. Someone, anyone, was always going to make a community called "pcmasterrace" because that is how all the PCMR reddit refugees would find it. What you're getting mad about is the equivalent to what happens when people get mad over road names and petition to have them renamed. The small fraction of people who petitioned for it to happen feel real proud of themselves, good job, and then everyone else who never cared about why the road was named the way it was and just wanted to be able to get from point A to point B are indifferent at best and annoyed or angry at worst. All most people really want is to find their community and get back to discussing, so a huge chunk are likely to come to any of these instances' version of "pcmasterrace" because it's a simple way to accomplish that.
I'm just saying, they do this and also demanded r/piracy open back up, so shouldn't that mean reddit is now involved with piracy and should be gone after by media companies?
I think it'll help me out that my hobbies are likely to be the hobbies my kid has. When they see me playing Minecraft or something and they ask to play, I'll be able to just slide them a controller or hand them my phone to play on or something and we can build a house together.
It's impressively usable, but there are certainly some problems with it right now. I haven't made a second account to use a Lemmy app because I don't want two accounts to access the same set of content, but I am eagerly awaiting the API coming online so that app devs can start working on a more polished mobile solution.
Like a 9. The ending gets a little drawn-out and there's a singular jumpscare that really pissed me off because the rest of the game is free of them, but otherwise my complaints were very minimal.
Yep, this is also the #1 reason I have no intention to buy games on Epic going forward. I had to do this for well over a year to use my Series X|S controller over Bluetooth with HITMAN III. They're paying for exclusivity explicitly so that I can't buy games on Steam, then I have to launch their launcher through Steam anyway because their platform sucks, so I just end up with an annoying middleman that makes me ask "why?"
You can now get reddit posts on lemmy via RSS, without any ads ;)
Check out !worldnews. The admin of lemmit.online has set up a bot that fetches reddit posts via RSS, making it much easier to make the switch and of course not getting any ads....
Let's Help Urban Dictionary With Their Definitions for spez (lemmy.world)
Just noticed that Urban Dictionary now has 17 definitions for spez....
I’ve fallen into a deep gaming rut lately. What helped “get you back into” gaming and rediscover the magic of video games?
I, like many gamers, grew up playing Pokémon Red and Nintendo 64 and was obsessed with Nintendo products. I graduated to a PS2 and PS3 and became super into Metal Gear Solid and Call of Duty and Fallout. Also spent a ton of time with the Guitar Hero series. I loved the escape gaming brought me and it genuinely helped me relax....
DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused browser is available for Windows now (www.theverge.com)
OC Here's my final idea for a Kbin mascot, I call it the "Kbird" (K = Kakatuá), since someone shared a Fediverse flag resembling a pirate flag I thought a bird mascot would fit.
Does anybody else feel dirty when they visit reddit?
I don't know man, but I feel like I'm supporting a maniac CEO with every second I spend on reddit.
How do we get an instance removed?
It looks like a new spamming tactic will be to set up your own instance and then just mass spam to other instances from there. Case in point, vive.im I've been noticing spam in one magazine from a user of this. I banned them, but they can still post for some reason. Decided to visit the instance and it looks like some default...
Using Sync for Reddit as a marketing tool come July 1st is more urgent than building the MVP
First of all, thank you @ljdawson for pursuing Sync for Lemmy. It’s honestly given me so much hope for Fediverse adoption to actually happen. I do have one thought to share with you to help with success:...
1Password: Rolling out telemetry this summer (blog.1password.com)
Infamous Reddit powermod, Awkwardtheturtle is permanently banned (www.reddit.com)
Researcher Who Coined 'Cis' Reacts To Elon Musk Labeling It 'A Slur' (www.huffpost.com)
"Free speech absolutist"
What are some examples of xkcd 2347? (xkcd.com)
I've heard people mention curl and imagemagick. Any others that you know about?
OC UPDATED: There are now multiple iOS / Android apps in development for kbin & lemmy!
The amount of apps being developed for iOS / Android is getting really crazy now and new apps keep popping up every day. Updated list below:...
What do you eat that other people think is odd?
I'll start: pesto as a bagel topping.
'No kill' meat, grown from animal cells, is now approved for sale in the U.S. (www.npr.org)
Two U.S. food companies have received the go-ahead to sell chicken grown from cultivated animal cells in a production facility. It's the first time meat grown this way will be sold in the U.S.
Reddit activated a word filter that whenever you say "fuck spez", your comment won't show up for anyone else. I just tested it on ModCoord. they're also deleting spez memes from the subs they nuked lol
r/ModCoord: The admins in charge of demodded subreddits are mass-removing images of Huffman previously shared on them...
Why repeat the "master race" nonsense?
I've always found the "master race" moniker on Reddit subs really offputting/distrubing. Why repeat that here? It could just as easily be called "PC Enthusiast" or something totally normal.
'Vampire Survivors' is getting four-player couch co-op | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
After criticizing the reddit admins I find all my posts and comments stuck in the mod queue forever, on any sub. even though I have thousands of karma on the account. anyone else?
The admins finally came for r/FreeAtheism
The usual admin threat to reopen here:...
METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION releases 2023-10-24 on Steam (www.konami.com)
TIL that millennial dads are spending 3 times as much times with their kids than their fathers spent with them. Back in 1982, 43% of fathers admitted they'd never changed a diaper. Today, that number is down to about 3%. (www.mother.ly)
"It's the content, stupid" - some #chaoticgood ways to encourage people to get off of Reddit and onto Kbin
Jotting some quick notes I've observed so far from running /m/scifi for a couple of weeks and getting to 3K subscribers:...
[Prime Gaming] Prey (GOG key) (Included With Prime) (gaming.amazon.com)
The only manned submersible that could reach the missing Titan is owned by Steam's Gabe Newell (wegotthiscovered.com)