✨Abigail Watson✨
I’d love to see some art stuff; some of my favorite subreddits were:
- minipainting
- sewing
- we are the music makers
- sketching
- art timelapse
- amateur room porn
- I’d recommend 9 parchments if you just want to play together. My roommate’s got a play list similar to yours and he’s obsessed with it right now.
- I’m not one for multiplayer, but if you ever do two player my favorite is wizard of legend. I usually play solo. If you play with friends it’s fun though since you can design complimenting loadouts and you get different dungeons.
- Trine is a puzzle platformer that’s fun but can be frustrating if you’ve got a “smash everything” friend with you. It’s 3 player IIRC.
Same here - loving it so far! I was an advanced computer user in the late 90s and early 00s. Front line for early internet, did some light programming, etc. although I never went into tech as a career. All of that changed with smart phones since they’re so much more locked down than a computer. I accepted that ads, data farming, and junk content were going to be a part of my life since everything moved towards corporate control. This year has been so great! Everything I use on PC officially has Linux support and I was able to ditch windows; now I’m moving away from websites with ads/trackers. Really feels like things are shifting back to how they should’ve been.
I will say it’s probably too soon to donate to instances. You might want to wait a few weeks until groups gain credibility.
Absolutely! A lot of people seem to think a protest is shooting yourself in the foot and complaining about it. No, a protest is causing a ruckus so that everyone - protestors or not - get frustrated with the target of the protest. The point is to screw up search results on Google. The point is to make the “front page of the internet” an empty shell.
I went on reddit briefly to see if anything I subscribe to is polling to extend their blackout. r/DCcomics had a poll filled to the brim with “stay open, I’m slightly inconvenienced!” comments. These guys have clearly never been a part of or needed to protest for their basic rights before.
Aging populations are definitely hitting Asian countries first, but this is indicative of a larger problem. I wonder how the west is going to handle dealing with this in 20 years while also not being able to rely on china for cheap labor. Governments and investors burying their heads in the sand until the last moment certainly inst helping.
Keep in mind that some subs are back online specifically to ask users what their next move should be. A few subs I’m subscribed to are considering rolling blackouts or allowing posts only one day a week. There’s still 2x the amount of subs currently private than total subs that originally signed up! Many news sites are reporting that the blackout is continuing today (shout-out to all the reddit journalists fighting back with the tools they have). Its way too soon to declare this whole thing “didn’t work”.
The two biggest contributors to the original lemmy code are pro china and pro russia respectively. No one is sure how strong their opinions are, but there is a lot of fear mongering because their PFPs on GitHub are political. They created the first instance, lemmy, and the second, lemmygrad, using the same ip address.
Now, there’s two important things to keep in mind. Lemmygrad, which is a “tankie” (highly political) group, is set up separately from the main lemmy group. Not only does this keep lemmy from being highly political, it also allows all other groups to defederate from lemmygrad while staying connected to lemmy. Most groups have lemmygrad defederated by default.
In my opinion, this is the right way to do things and there’s nothing to worry about. But there are some people who think that since the creators are pro china and russia that it could be an attempt to “poison the well” of federation from the beginning. It comes from a biased belief that anything to do with the red scare is bad by default. The creators are not funneling money into political campaigns. They’re not asking everyone to agree with their beliefs or pushing their opinions in non political groups. They’re not able to remove communities that disagree with their philosophies.
Lemmy’s code is open source and it is easy for moderators to block political content if they choose. There’s going to be people with differing opinions. People who are socialist, or conservative, or anarchist are capable of creating good things. Plenty of people still buy from chick fil a or nestle even if they disagree with the group’s politics. As of now there is no issue. However, reddit refugees are currently sensitive to a) preexisting problems from reddit that could carry over into fediverse and b) leaders disagreeing with their beliefs.
TL;DR: it’s something that could potentially be a concern in the future, but isn’t a problem right now. With new users on edge it’s likely being blown way out of proportion.
300? The tracking site is still showing 5k.
