This is a very interesting thought: the Dowdy alien you mention has wiped out an entire race of 50 billion beings, but is aware of his crime and lives in self exile. He’s committed an atrocious crime in a rage fit.
On the other hand, the changelings committed a planned crime with intent to cause suffering.
I’m not sure who’s worse: the Dowd by magnitude of the crime, but the Changelings ruthlessly command their Dominion.
The developers of hit PS5 exclusive Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 say Miles Morales is the "main" Spider-Man from now on, which has caused some fans to speculate about what Insomniac may do with the inevitable Spider-Man 3.
It is however true Miles hasn’t really appeared in the MCU (for teenagers and adults) nor is it made to be the main character in “Spidey and his amazing friends” kid TV series (though he’s well featured).
I suppose the Spider verse movies are good at making Miles Morales even more popular and can turn the perception, but new generations still get to see an awful lot of Peter.
I’ve tried several clients now, and unlike Reddit clients I cannot locate any of the posts/comments I’ve upvoted in the past? Is that a bug/feature of the platform?
Are they front ends that strip YouTube of ads or straight different hosting websites, which will certainly incur in high costs to maintain the amount of videos posted to YouTube?
I guess I’ve also seen someone mention Piped. Is it the same thing as Newpipe (if you know)?
So they’re all front ends or apps, they’re not really alternative hosting services!
I have Android on my phone and MacOS on my laptop (I’ve been on Linux for several years, but I unfortunately don’t have time to work on installing it and making sure everything works. Just life changes)
I’m using a stock Samsung Galaxy 8 phone right now (with Android 10) and I disabled the YouTube app. I was basically sick of its s***. Since then, I never sign in to the app/site, and so may aspects of using the site are much better now....
Somewhat off topic, but related question for everyone: some time ago on Lemmy I saw somebody making a list of awesome Firefox extensions that would make the general browsing experience better. I was not smart and installed some add-ons right away and I forgot their names
I usually have unblock origin, no script, privacy badger always on, but I seem to remember one or two more that sounded cool, like one that should reject all cookies everywhere and never make me click them
Holy cow! This is a very long list of add-ons! I’ll try them out, thanks! I didn’t see either the Fennec or the Mull browsers on the Google Play Store. I suppose I need to install them separately
Lets say I want to ask Lemmitors a question. There might an AskLemmy community at my home server so I can ask there. But there might be a much larger AskLemmy community on a server elsewhere. Is there a way to ensure that people who subscribe to AskLemmy on the other server could also see my post on AskLemmy on my home server ?
Besides that, I think OP is asking whether certain communities could be joined together (say one mirrors the other, or one redirects to the other), but I suspect this cannot work the way the Fediverse works.
Since my favorite reddit app came to Lemmy I’m really keen on getting more people into the fediverse to pump up the volume of content around here. Are there any initiatives that we can assist to get folks onboard?...
I’ve been on Lemmy.World for a couple of months and I’ve been enjoying it. I’ve switched between 5 apps. Now I’m mostly on Eternity and I’m enjoying it. The whole experience for me feels like the first few times I was trying Linux out and wasn’t sure what distribution would be for me at the time. It’s true Lemmy.World has downtimes, but I am having a good experience so far. I find I’m less and less on Reddit.
It’s great you gave it several go’s. If it’s not for you now, try again in a while. Apps and instances will get better, they already have
I second this as a principle, though I have a hard time not showering once per day. It’s a complicated balance, between not drying your skin with water and soap and not smelling.
I lived in Brazil for quite some time and, it being a huge country, I behaved differently depending if I was in a tropical or subtropical climate. I would mostly have one shower in the morning, except when it was mad hot and humid, when no matter how lightly you dressed, you’d still be drenched in sweat after a while
I’ve never been able to read the manga or watch the anime for various reasons not depending on the content.
I was captivated by the trailers and watched it very quickly. I found it very enjoyable and can’t wait for a possible second series.
Not knowing the source material, I’m not sure if what I’m about to say is trivial, anyhow, I really loved how simplistic (in a good way) it is. The characters are finding out more about themselves and the protagonist wants everyone to achieve their dreams.
Everyone appears somehow one-sided and only bent on realizing their goal, but the actors give life to believable fantastic characters and you follow the fairy tale happily.
I’m not sure if I conveyed how I saw it, but I really liked it!
Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop and Death Note are hard to watch, in comparison
Days that nothing catastrophic happens, but lots of moderate things happen all in the same day? You wake up not feeling great, so the morning plans are toast. Then afternoon plans fall through. The stuff you do in the meantime doesn’t work out well either. To add insult to injury, dinner just doesn’t come out right. You feel...
Right! It would have been stunning if it tried to aquire every book published in every language… Though I suppose if certain books are imported and sold, then they would show up in this library
Like a lot of the new users here I too am a former Redditor. I was on Reddit for 15 years, it was my main source of news and information. I didn’t agree with many of the changes to reddit but kept on, till recently when I learned the app I’d been using “Infinity” would no longer work, I guess that was the final straw,...
I couldn’t find Eternity through the search feature of the Google Play Store, but your comment pushed me to look for it better via Google search. Here it is.
I’ll test it in the next few days. I haven’t found a simple app that works for me yet (but maybe this time it’s a charm). I use Jerboa, Liftoff and Connect for different features, because none of them has them all (and I didn’t fall in love with Sync)
I’ve been using Eternity for a week now and am honestly blown away! I believe their settings are a bit confusing, but they are granular and allow you to customize the app a lot. The final result is really nice. I got it to look similar to what RIF for Reddit was for me, while also trying out some new changes I like. Other apps are nice, for example Liftoff’s interface for settings is the best I’ve seen in any app, since it shows a pictorial demo of what the settings you’ve chosen will look like.
I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it’s hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the...
Hold on a sec, you don’t want them to use any of the Highlander 2 revolutionary ideas?
/s
Seriously though, trying to reboot Highlander might actually work. It’s a known property, but really only the first movie had any value (and some of the TV series) and it’s not that well known from younger generations. It’s also not such a classic that you cannot touch it without people screaming (like, say, Ghostbusters)
As a disclaimer, I am a passive hater of Twitter/X ie I don’t like it as a toxic social media platform and haven’t used it but I am not asking the users to move to Threads or some other fediverse alternative as a paid promoter. Also I don’t really intend to keep a strict tab on its status since I get any related major...
I still find Slashdot relevant! It doesn’t feel like it faded into irrelevance, only that it stopped growing (it reached its needed critical mass and that was it)
Lemmy.world is temporarily disabling open signups and moving to an application-required signup process, due to ongoing issues with malicious bot accounts....
It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust...
In previous times, I used to follow certain sites more closely, but then life happened and I lost track of things and now several sites have closed and I don’t know where to start.
For example, I used to dig GameSpy for game reviews, but it closed down. I rarely buy games these days, but I don’t know what to read when I do and want to inform myself (I remember IGN, but I don’t know if it’s good). I can check out reviews on Steam, but they’re short reviews.
Same deal goes for PC reviews or computer accessories. I don’t know where to look: everything looks like an ad site. I remember PCmag.com but I don’t know if itself is an ad site or what to compare it to, if I wanted to check a second opinion. Every YouTube video about technology feels like a sponsored ad, though some are legit
OT but related to the discussion: is there a way to track if and how the fediverse is increasing?
I looked on Wikipedia and it said it’s just about ~67000 users on Lemmy VS ~52 million users on Reddit.
I’m spending most of my time on my phone on Lemmy (and about 5 mins on Reddit) every day now, but it would be awesome to be slowly attracting more users from Reddit over time.
Sure, it’s better to be fewer users if it does lead to more quality conversations (which is what I find so far), but the fediverse still needs to grow!
Edit: fixed grammar and clarity in the last sentence.
I’ve been donating to the Wikimedia foundation regularly since 2016 since I believe it’s a resource everyone should have access to.
The Wikipedia is not perfect but, for several topics, it’s a great starting point or recap. I’ve used it for science related queries and, even if the style is not uniform and some entries are hard to read, it is an amazingly useful project which doesn’t get old (and the phone app is fantastic)
While the concepts you expounded are correct, their order is wrong.
Pizza did come after fire and wheel, but it is, of course, more important of them as it is encapsulating the concepts of “fire” in its forging and “wheel” in its shape.
Clearly, pizza represents the pinnacle of human evolution and, if you so desire, you can have it with a topping of penicillin.
Since I joined joined Lemmy, I signed up for two instances (Lemmy.World and Lemmy.Zip) because I didn’t entirely understand the fediverse and also because it seemed useful to be on multiple instances, since Lemmy.World sometimes has outages....
Reddit has a lot of international subreddits which don’t really exist here on Lemmy (they have like 10 users and they almost never post).
Reddit has huge lively communities. I’m having a ball here on Lemmy, but I too must check Reddit once a day to know if important stuff happened.
Sure, someone could say I should work on jumpstarting these Lemmy communities, but I’ve only been able to to what I can so far (that is, replying to posts and joining the conversation)
I tried Sync yesterday, but didn’t have a lot of time to fiddle with it. What makes it so great everyone’s excited? I checked it out and couldn’t immediately see it having a clear edge over Jerboa and Connect (but it looked nice)
I was further thrown off by the fact that if I wanted to buy it, I’d need to pay for a yearly subscription (and in that case it didn’t look cheap)
What's the funniest/strangest thing you have seen out your office/apartment window?
This just popped into my head after a similar question came up with a coworker…...
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Who is the cruelest fictional villain?
I’m not just talking cruelty in terms of their goals, but also how they went about achieving their goals
The Cool Guy saga (youtu.be)
They post a video every five years and it’s simple, but I like their imagination....
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Devs Say Miles Morales Is the 'Main' Spider-Man From Now On - IGN (www.ign.com)
The developers of hit PS5 exclusive Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 say Miles Morales is the "main" Spider-Man from now on, which has caused some fans to speculate about what Insomniac may do with the inevitable Spider-Man 3.
Does lemmy allow to search for my past upvotes?
I’ve tried several clients now, and unlike Reddit clients I cannot locate any of the posts/comments I’ve upvoted in the past? Is that a bug/feature of the platform?
People Want Threads to Be Old Twitter. Threads Would Prefer Not To. (gizmodo.com)
YouTube's anti-adblock rollout has finally arrived for Firefox users (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I’m sure many of you are already aware that YouTube has been rolling out anti-adblock detection for Chrome users for a few weeks now....
USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (www.pcgamer.com)
Smartest thing I've done this month: Disable the YouTube app
I’m using a stock Samsung Galaxy 8 phone right now (with Android 10) and I disabled the YouTube app. I was basically sick of its s***. Since then, I never sign in to the app/site, and so may aspects of using the site are much better now....
Any way to group communities across difference instances together ?
Lets say I want to ask Lemmitors a question. There might an AskLemmy community at my home server so I can ask there. But there might be a much larger AskLemmy community on a server elsewhere. Is there a way to ensure that people who subscribe to AskLemmy on the other server could also see my post on AskLemmy on my home server ?
How can we boost Lemmy membership?
Since my favorite reddit app came to Lemmy I’m really keen on getting more people into the fediverse to pump up the volume of content around here. Are there any initiatives that we can assist to get folks onboard?...
Why shouldn’t I just give up on Lemmy?
Or why Lemmy is too much like hard work...
The final nail in Reddit's coffin dropped today:
Dear User,...
How often do you write a reply but don't post it because the argument just isn't worth it?
It will be no longer be possible to opt-out of having Reddit account usage tracked for the purposes of advertising. (www.reddit.com)
Removing the ability to opt-out of ad personalization based on your Reddit activity, except in select countries....
How many showers do you take a day?
Curiosity only....
Is Netflix's One Piece good?
Just wondering what people who have watched Netflix’s new One Piece series think....
Ever have one of those days?
Days that nothing catastrophic happens, but lots of moderate things happen all in the same day? You wake up not feeling great, so the morning plans are toast. Then afternoon plans fall through. The stuff you do in the meantime doesn’t work out well either. To add insult to injury, dinner just doesn’t come out right. You feel...
Tom Scott - This library has every book ever published (www.youtube.com)
How long you been on lemmy?
I'm glad I left reddit
Like a lot of the new users here I too am a former Redditor. I was on Reddit for 15 years, it was my main source of news and information. I didn’t agree with many of the changes to reddit but kept on, till recently when I learned the app I’d been using “Infinity” would no longer work, I guess that was the final straw,...
I Tried Reddit Again and it Sucks Now
I installed the official Reddit app and went on it to see what the old place was looking like now. My inbox was filled with spam. The “home feed” shows subs I never subscribed to. There are so many ads. Between the ads and the the extra subs in the feed, it’s hard to just scroll. I also noted a lot of spam in some of the...
‘John Wick’ Director on How His Henry Cavill ‘Highlander’ Reboot Will Feel Like Prequel (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/1842280...
Is Twitter/X really going to shut down anytime soon?
As a disclaimer, I am a passive hater of Twitter/X ie I don’t like it as a toxic social media platform and haven’t used it but I am not asking the users to move to Threads or some other fediverse alternative as a paid promoter. Also I don’t really intend to keep a strict tab on its status since I get any related major...
Temporary Changes to our Sign-Up Policy
Lemmy.world is temporarily disabling open signups and moving to an application-required signup process, due to ongoing issues with malicious bot accounts....
How do people find good information on the internet these days?
It used to be that you would do a search on a relevant subject and get blog posts, forums posts, and maybe a couple of relevant companies offering the product or service. (And if you wanted more information on said company you could give them a call and actually talk to a real person about said service) You could even trust...
UK microchip giant Arm files to sell shares in US (www.bbc.com)
British microchip designing giant Arm has announced it has filed paperwork to sell its shares in the US....
One surviving Reddit app plans to charge based on how much you use it (www.theverge.com)
Do you donate to Wikipedia? Why or why not?
Every so often I give a few bucks(far less than the worth of knowledge I got from it)
How do you feel about pizza?
Why do I appear as "pending" forever in some communities and why can't I search for some instances I know to exist?
Since I joined joined Lemmy, I signed up for two instances (Lemmy.World and Lemmy.Zip) because I didn’t entirely understand the fediverse and also because it seemed useful to be on multiple instances, since Lemmy.World sometimes has outages....
On the future of Lemmy vs reddit
Please indulge a few shower thoughts I had:...
Why did you choose your username? (lemmy.world)
Google is charging its employees $99 a night to stay at its on-campus hotel to help "transition to the hybrid workplace." (gizmodo.com)
It Took 23 Days for Lemmy Posts to Double from 1 Million to 2 Million (lemmy.world)
Source: lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90