For Brits: Swap “Mexican” for “Indian” or “Polish”

Also buy your spices from Indian supermarkets/shops/sections of Asda rather than getting Schwartz jars.

E.g. My local Asda sells a jar of Schwartz cinamon for £2.50. The next aisle sells cinammon in a bag of 3x the amount for £1! Same for rice, noodles and many other ‘foreign’ foods. Polish meat section can often be cheaper than the normal sections.

1. The top 3 most upvoted comments aren’t unfunny puns.
2. This feels mor elike a ‘community’ because there’s fewer people. I don’t feel like I’m screaming at a tornado.
3. More niche content. It’s more fractured and I liked that about the early internet and early-reddit.
4. My Reddit account got banned for a fucking ridiculous reason and every new account I make they re-ban. Fuck Reddit and it’s over-sanitised, Disney-bullshit.
5. I can speak British English without my comment getting deleted. E.g. “Can I bum a fag mate”?

Double-Schadenfreude.

I feel like my brain is detoxing since coming here. In the literal and figurative sense.

1. Addiction - I’d degenerated to just doom-scrolling reddit and rarely commenting cos the top 3 comments were unfunny puns with 12,000 others so it never felt worth it.
2. Regaining Self - I’d become so outwardly sanitised I didn’t realise I’d stopped swearing entirely in my older comments. I used to pepper my comments with fuck, bitch, shit, cunt as I do in the real woirld. But with heavy penalties against words like “faggot” (which is fucking idiotic for Brits) I’d started to self-censor to the point I wasn’t being “me”.

I’m not saying I hope it turns into 4chan.

But I do hope it grows into the early days of Reddit. Where people only downvoted things they found useless rather than disagreeable. There were less self-made echo chambers with ultra-sanitised ‘drone-like’ users where everyone had the same unfunny opinion.

Pretty sure Voat was based off the opensource version of Reddit. Which is basically old reddit with non of the Spam protection built into it.

On DM-Deck16 map!! Firing rockets at the ground to jump up and over to the other side and blasting your mate point blank with the frag gun mid air. God I loved that game and it wasted HOURS of my uni time playing LAN matches across campus.

I won every tournie we set up and played in the 1st year Halls.

When I first got the original CS thoguh I lost my skill. I didn’t have the patience for one-shot kills. I rage quit everytime I’d get headshot. I realised I was good at tanking a shot then crazy-dodging and countering. You couldn’t do that in CS. So in UT I could take a shot, rocket jump in their direction and shotgun the bastard from behind before they knew what was happening. None of those skills transffered to CS where accuracy and cover was the main aim.

Lemmy’s been up for all of 5mins and ppl are already gatekeeping the place?

I’ve not seen anything about “poop”.

So you’re one of those Reddit ‘comedians’ who post the puns and get upvoted to the top of threads?

Relax the rules to basic reddiquette and allow posting of anything. I think a few subs are doing that and you’ll get people posting stuff like Hong Kong awareness, reddit news, etc.

You could also start posting nsfw content which I think InterestingAsFuck were doing because it blocks Reddit ads and monetisation.

I like your avatar. I was such a huge Sonic fan since the original Sonic on Sega Master System that I spiked my hair from about 8yo to 18yo when I switched to wearing big 2in spiked hair when out clubbing.

Unfortunately middle age happened and my hair migrated from my head to my back which isn’t as good for spiking. :(