I generally just listen to public broadcast radio, then follow up any stories that interest me with an internet search to get a general idea of the story and weed out the biases.
Lemmy. I really worry that any karma system will lead to lower-quality communities faster, because of the incentives it creates to gamify it. I appreciate that the Lemmy devs have intentionally stayed away from having a karma system at all.
You can mouse over the poster's name and it shows their instance. I think that should be more visible than it is, maybe another option to display it or hide it for those who want minimal space used.
Hmm, can’t mouse over it on mobile. ;_; I’m considering switching to a different instance because the more I try to use kbin, the more confusing and less user friendly it seems.
You have to find what works best for you. Lemmy has a few apps that people are liking, so once the latest version comes out you can try them and see if they work better for a mobile situation. No reason you can't have accounts in both places or more, just to find the best "final" home. We're all still figuring out stuff. :) Just make sure the Lemmy home(s) are connected to places you may want to see, some have been defederated and so don't get the full potential feeds (which could be good or bad for you).
It’ll be hard for you to know whether the people calling will know Hindi. If they’re calling from Delhi or New Delhi, the chances are high. If they’re calling from Mumbai, they might well be Marathi speakers instead. In Kolkata, the main language is Bengali. India is full of different languages.
It's primarily cringe culture. Some people choose to make themselves feel powerful by bullying and harassing others, and furries are often "easy targets."
The furries i have met irl seemed to be disproportionately socially awkward, and some people in the wider geek culture around them seemed to delight in having someone to look down on as less than.
I find the anthropomorphic children's cartoon aesthetic of furries to be extremely cringe. Its juvenile and ugly, and then when its sexualized or people are making fursuits, it becomes exponentially more cringe.
I think if furries had a better art style and less weirdly anthropomorphized, I might even be on board.
Edit: I just want to be clear that I don't hate furries at all and have friends who are furries who I love and respect. I'm just trying to be honest about what I find off-putting about it because I imagine there are other people who have a similar "cringe" reaction to the art style and translate that into hate.
That's a good question. Some anime styles, definitely not. Other anime styles, maybe. But it definitely doesn't feel "childish" to me in the same way anthropomorphic animals do. It may be my personal experience. I associate anthropomorphic animals, and the particular art style of furries, to media I consumed between the ages of like 2 and 8. I wasn't exposed to anime until I was a young teenager, so it doesn't really have that association with childhood for me.
I really do find it fascinating to analyze these biases, because I do consider it an irrational bias that I have. I can analyze the reasons for it, but it isn't really a logic, just a feeling.
I'm not a furry, I'm chill with furries, but I do wish there was more variety in the art style. A lot of it is human anime-esque with furry features or too mascot-y. I think I would be a furry if more of them were drawn like disney, looney toon, and other western cartoons. But not much is.
So even though I like cartoon animals, I can only consider myself maybe 5% furry at best.
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