• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    47·
    15 days ago

    Video game specific communities. Like any random game that is even semi-popular has an active sub on Reddit. Even the most popular games in the entire world rn don’t have much activity, if they even have communities, on Lemmy.

    I would rather argue the motivations of a souls boss than politics or what the best linux distro is 😮‍💨.

        • Stovetop@lemmy.world
          4·
          15 days ago

          I feel like there’s probably about 50 different directions that one could take that idea, and the story very clearly paints that act as a Bad Thing™ to have done.

          But to play devil’s advocate (just because I have also been missing this type of discussion), one could argue that experiencing love would compromise Miquella’s plans for his planned age of compassion. An age of compassion would be one which treats everyone equally, to try to universally end worldly suffering.

          Love, on the other hand, is what allows one to play favorites, and is also something that cannot really be controlled. Having a stronger attachment towards some people over others because of love would result in discontent, and sabotage the type of egalitarian compassion Miquella wanted to create.

          Marika’s reign became rocky because there were conflicts between those she favored and those she shunned. She absolutely played favorites, and did not love everyone equally. Her solution to break the cycle of suffering was to simply remove death from the world entirely, but as we saw, that just ended up making its own whole host of problems.

          So I think Miquella was trying to avoid making that same mistake of favoritism we saw under Marika, but ended up making another mistake which could have been just as potentially consequential as his mother’s decision to shatter the rune of death. A dispassionate “compassion” wouldn’t really be compassion at all.

  • Zugyuk@lemmy.world
    7·
    14 days ago

    Hide on vote was pretty nice. I used rif before they closed 3rd party apps, and I came to Lemmy

  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    14 days ago

    The app - Baconreader was so smooth. I’m getting used to the fediverse one, but there are still a lot of decisions by the devs that I hate.

    The sheer amount of queer porn - it wasn’t even enough because my tastes are… Varying. But the feed of porn on fediverse is weak as fuck, with a lot of it being really boring and aimed at boring people who are not me (cishet men). I’m confident this will eventually get remedied, but it DID also take like a decade for even Reddit to get good porn, with its own ups and downs.

    That being said, there’s still so much more to love on fediverse that I don’t need to look back to Reddit for. It feels like going from high school to a really big, really liberal college (Reddit->fediverse). I can openly do so much stuff, like say fuck nazis, which I regularly do, and very much mean. I can even say stuff like “the only good nazi…” and people will know what I’m talking about AND agree with, thank fuck. It’s just a much more grown up place here, and I’m much more comfortable being closer to being able to speak my mind without having to censor myself, and I’ve noticed this in other people, too, that there’s far less conformity to respectability politics, and people actually say what they think, regardless of how bizarre or unhinged it is, I truly love that.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      3·
      14 days ago

      Yup, the porn is lacking. I think part of the problem is all gay porn gets downvoted on World even if it’s posted on LemmyNSFW, and the one posted on World is simply not welcome. I tried but it didn’t catch on so I let it be. :/

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        21·
        14 days ago

        In like 2023 and a little last year, I tried out literally a dozen of them. Most of them were in earlier stages of development and were VERY space wasteful whilst also showing very little data AND having no customizations to fix that stuff. I’m currently using Sync, and as long as I customize the shit out of it, it’s bearable.

        I tried: jerboa, kbin, connect, voyager, lemmotif, thunder, liftoff, summit, sync, a different voyager, tundra, and artemis.

        I eventually got burnt out on trying and trying to customize each app, and settled on sync I guess.

          • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            14 days ago

            Son of a bitch. Gfdi seriously. Ugh. Well that sucks. Hopefully the dev either open source’s the app or comes back when it breaks, because I’m getting really sick of searching for new apps and platforms right now to turn to for momentary and intermittent dopamine hits, socializing, memes, and conversations.

            I just updated my summit app and I’ll have to look at how it handles now and I’ll need to import my multiple fediverse accounts and see if I can customize it to be functional for me, because it and every other app had ui problems like crazy. I tend to be a minimalist that hates huge previews, wasted space, waiting, and gestures. If it’s foss, maybe I’ll learn the platform and develop for it, because I’m seriously sick of half baked and funky designs and unintuitive ui/ux.

  • Lifecoach5000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    14 days ago

    I still browse and almost caught myself commenting recently. I quickly backspaced and exited out and came over here where I feel safe posting comments and interacting.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      its too easy to gett banned there now, even a simple comment removal will trigger a shadown ban in many cases, plus a VPN would result in a ban eventually.

  • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one
    51·
    14 days ago

    Activity that isn’t political shit.

    Convenience of blocking. Voyager is absolute ass in this regard.

    Being able to conveniently filter out entire subreddits. (Actually I say that but I did have multiple cases where the block list just straight up stopped working.)

    The echo chamber also feels way stronger here. It’s tiring. Especially the ACAB wank, which hasn’t improved with the rise of Nazi America.

    • aeharding@vger.social
      1·
      13 days ago

      Convenience of blocking. Voyager is absolute ass in this regard.

      Can you elaborate, what is bad?

    • nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      22·
      14 days ago

      if american: calling ACAB anything other than an extremely rational response to modern slavery is fucking absurd.

      otherwise: ok yeah your cops are almost definitely better than American cops but I’m not convinced cops anywhere are a net positive to society other than maybe Scandinavian countries where the main form of punishment is legitimately rehabilitation focused

      • Two2Tango@lemmy.ca
        42·
        13 days ago

        Are you okay with having all of your stuff stolen? Because no cops is how you have all your stuff stolen

        • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
          1·
          13 days ago

          There is an enormous difference between “police should be held responsible for their actions” and “we should have literally 0 police”.

          Believe it or not “ACAB” doesn’t mean the latter. Its just a fun little acronym. And just like all fun little acronym or protest chant, it doesn’t encapsulate the entirety of the movement, discussion, or belief(s).

          • Two2Tango@lemmy.ca
            11·
            13 days ago

            I guess to me as someone who doesn’t often join in that discussion, ACAB does sound a bit like “no cops are good”. I think most cops are trying to do good, but I’d love justice to find the corrupt or politically motivated ones… That being said I’m not American and haven’t had the pleasure of meeting that particular group.

            I agree with the overall sentiment that people of Lemmy can take these ideas a bit too far, calling for death of…well, everyone 😅

              • Two2Tango@lemmy.ca
                1·
                13 days ago

                Anything with “corruption” in it has too many syllables, so no I’m not that creative lol

    • invertedspear@lemm.ee
      12·
      14 days ago

      Active communities, period.

      Reddit started out without subreddits. Eventually grew too big for that so split into topical channels. Then the channel would get too big and a niche would subdivide out. When Lemmy started, or more so when there was the first big exodus from Reddit, all of that was recreated, but without the users. So we have a ton of dead communities that really need to be rolled up and cleaned up.