Fellow from Lansing, MI here. Joining as part of the reddit exodus, and because I like the concept of the fediverse.

Honestly seems like a lot of major sites are imploding. Stackoverflow’s mods are striking, Twitter is on a downward spiral and likely to go bankrupt this year, Reddit is axing itself, etc.

It’ll be interesting to see what ends up happening to the internet after. I think a return to more niche forums or community-run things like lemmy is unlikely to be fully mainstream, but I think enough folks will shake off the major platforms onto these to get them really active.

Interesting to hear all your thoughts on this! What’re some of the more interesting/useful software packages that are available for this thing that you can’t find elsewhere?

I remember using a TI calculator back in high school, but I never fully understood why they were the de facto standard with standardized testing and the like with how stale their calculators have been for a while now.

This is a good summary of whats going on and why the mods are striking.

I’m just not really sure what those other ways to make money could be. Other than monetizing a service outright via a subscription or selling a product to the users, I don’t really see a good way for online social media to be revenue neutral or positive.

I just picked up a copy of house of leaves. Saw it referenced a few times in some other media I liked and figured I may as well check out the book itself.

I feel like this is gonna be one I’ll need to make a few passes on to really get everything that’s going on

Obsidian is a personal favorite.

I was doing the same thing with driver combos back in XC2

I think I’d be fine with Wish proper being a ritual, but the arcane wildcard spell being renamed. I like the niche of “whatever spell you want” as a max level spell, and would be sad to see it gone.