Yes! We have learned that video killed the radio star

Huh? That makes no sense based on the comment you’re responding to

It’s that they came here, to PTB to ask about how to block someone instead of just looking up the community and blocking it directly.

There’s way easier paths to the same result

And I said it was impressive in a strange way. Strange was modifying impressive, not standing on its own. A tad different

My thoughts exactly

Ahhhh, are you the same person that’s posted this before? This pic has made the rounds a few times.

I’m not sure if you’re mildly irritated at the compilations themselves, or that the “franchises” involved went way too long.

I’m a f an of compilations tbh. It’s a solid way to snag the whole schmear cheap (usually). I can just choose to ignore the ones I don’t like, same as I did when a given series started going to shit.

Spider-Man though, that’s a different kettle of fish. Comics run for decades, lifetimes in some cases. Movies about the same characters are going to be as likely to have extended production, with as many ups and downs as the comics do (and there are some horrible runs of even the best comic titles).

I’m with you on the laziness and risk aversion that makes 9 American pie movies happen. Or most franchises that start in a similar way. The first was a great movie, but it really didn’t need a sequel, much less multiplies that not only abandoned the characters and what little storyline there was, but stopped putting in effort to good writing.

Not that a successful one-off can’t spawn a decent franchise, it’s just that studios don’t put in the investment to make it happen.

Look at the Bond series. While there have been plenty of stinkers, it was approached as a long term thing early on and has also managed to have some great movies even as it aged. No high art or anything, but still some solid escapist action.

Bad body lol.

Between arthritis, a deteriorating back, and the extra clean-up and work involved in maintaining bread making (be it sourdough or with commercial yeast), it was just too many spoons.

I keep hoping my household will settle down enough that I have the inner and physical resources to get back to it though! There’s so much peace in the process.

At the time I made the comment, there were no statements from admins in the thread at all.

But if they don’t care, it’s all good :)

Because if you haven’t bothered to follow the internal process for that instance, then you’re just stirring shit, no matter how bad lund is.

Apparently the admins are fine with your post, so I’m fine with it too. Just saying that shit stirring is a pain in the ass and if you want to actually try to get a change made, you don’t start off by ignoring the established avenues of action.

It’s just a bad idea to essentially flip off the very admins that would be the ones to take any action when trying to get them to do so. People have limited patience for fuckery to begin with.

You do you I guess. But being real, this kind of thing is more likely to end up with people blocking you the same way they have lund and then what have you achieved? Nothing.

Hypothetically, having access to older gene stock could make sense. As would a source of disposable labor. Or repopulation after a catastrophe.

Plenty of reasons.

But I can about damn guarantee it wouldn’t be just because they want to be nice

Have you even bothered trying to contact admins before starting this up?

They have contact info that you’re supposed to use for shit like this

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Ngl, my sense of humor runs dark as fuck, so I got a laugh out of this.

Which might piss people off, but IDGAF. I’ve had brains on my hands before, I no longer have to GAF about others’ opinions of my humor

Allaya’ll damn yankees go back!

How would that work?

Like, digital isn’t super hard, but it does take some doing. There’s always Amazon it b&n, kobo wishlists, but that seems like a hard ask here on lemmy.

Damn, I miss making bread. Just seeing the title makes me want to restart my sourdough culture

This isn’t an “anything but metric” though.

They’re using a visual example of the size they described.

They didn’t say “that’s 22 meters” or twelve bananas, or whatever silly example unit might be subbed in.

Most people don’t have good spatial sense based off of raw units, no matter what those units are.

American football fans tend to be good with yardage, so I assume regular football fans probably are similarly capable with meters, but I doubt if you gave a soccer hooligan an length in centimeters they’d automatically grasp what that looks like, even though the metric units should make that easier. It’s a mental barrier you have to overcome with familiarity/practice.

A football field, however, is familiar enough to most Americans to be used as a rough sketch of lengths. We use school busses too, even when not dealing with metric units. There’s just some things so visually familiar that they make good comparitors. That would be the same if the US used metric, because raw units just don’t “fit” most people’s brains in a way that lets them visualize what it really means.

I get where you’re coming from, but I don’t think this fits the vibe of the c/very well.

Well, there’s actually been research into it.

Since that shit is dry as hell, and there’s available articles about it, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/fulfillment-any-age/202202/why-it-feels-so-good-confess

This one gives a nice overview.

So, I’d say it’s pretty realistic to say that “confession” has mental health benefits.

That being said, true anonymity is going to be vital if you’re going to try to build something online. Not just for the people that might want to use it, but for you too. You really don’t want the legal issues if someone were to confess on your service and it became part of trial evidence. You may be thinking it’s not a big deal, that it’ll never happen, but it does happen already with social media.

The less you’ll be able to provide, the less hassle you’ll have. So keep that in mind. Reddit, Facebook, VPNs, they all deal with legal requests regularly, but they have legal departments to handle those to keep a barrier between the people running things and the consequences of users’ actions/words.

Me? No fucking way I’d even confess to jaywalking online, period. And I have never done that (that’s actually true, I’ve never been in a situation where it was useful. Small towns and infrequent visits to cities ftw?). I’d also advise anyone else to never do so.

Also, if you’re a priest/minister and your religion has a confessional seal, you have pretty robust legal protection about not having to break it, in many places. Therapists also have a degree of confidentiality that they’re legally required to maintain. Your online service has neither. So you’ll also have responsibilities above and beyond what therapists or ministers have. Well, you may, since local laws vary, and I’ve never heard of a lot of legal precedent around mandatory reporting for online services. But even if you aren’t currently required to report a range of things, not doing so might open you up to lawsuits and/or eager prosecutors looking to set a precedent.

I guess what it comes down to is: yeah, it could help people. But better you than me

Gotcha :)

Yeah, I think it comes down to what I said. No good reason to try and compete when they could scrape all the data that they would have wanted without having to build their own.

It isn’t like any of the big social media companies wanted competition anyway. They wanted to dominate their niche. Twitter for short messages publicly transmitted. Instagram for image based posting. Facebook for mixed media sharing, etc. You find a niche, dominate it, then leverage that dominance into cash flow, usually via ads.

If you go into the niche someone else already dominates, it’s an uphill struggle. You’re better off just waiting and either buying out the other companies, or otherwise gaining access to what they have that’s valuable.

Hell, that’s meta’s playbook for sure, that’s what they keep doing.

Google did try to kinda horn in on the Facebook style social media, can’t remember what it was called, but it flopped and they killed it. You’d think their greed for data for ad targeting might have made it attractive to at least try, but the fact that they eventually just paid reddit for access after a bit of a stink shows they had previously been hoovering it for free. Why invest millions or even billions when it’s already available without the investment?

I think that part of it was also that reddit didn’t start as a forum. It was digg mark2. A link aggregator. It kept expanding its scope and turned into a forum. It was a big deal when comments were added to reddit, a major shift in how it worked. A lot of people hated it.

That’s my take anyway.

I think the other comments assume you mean a big tech focused forum.

But did you actually mean a big tech forum, as in something like a meta owned and operated version of reddit?

If so, I suspect that it comes down to timing and relative benefit. By the time anyone realized reddit was going to be what it became, trying to edge into that kind of threaded ecosystem just wasn’t useful to them.

Google, meta, whatever, all they had to do to get the benefits that reddit could have given them was to scrape reddit. Trying to create a competitor would have been pointless.

Damn, thanks for the primer and links. I had no idea I was so far behind current research. I mean, I usually lag year or two on average, but this is a body of information I totally missed.

Thanks again!