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just another Redditrefugee who has been thinking too much about the internet lately.

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Electric Wizard - Saturnine

A black sun rises everyday / Shadows cross my path as if to say / “Change your life, change your ways, look up to the sky” / Tomorrow’ll soon be here then time to die

This is some loud stoner/doom metal. Cheesy? sure. Self indulgent? Absolutely. But when the mood strikes it hits the spot every time

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This by far my favourite album of theirs. Every one a banger. Especially those you listed.

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It’s a song that speaks to your flavour of depression. Makes you feel like someone feels the exact same way you do. That in turn makes you feel sane. Like you’re heard. Even understood.

Over time, songs (or movies or other things) can become a ritual - you feel awful, listen to the song, eventually you come out the other side as the depressive episode fades. Then the next time it happens you associate the song with your recovery. So over time it becomes What You Do when you Feel That Way.

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Here’s the closest I’ve got.

Priest - History In Black

Priest is an electronic music project originally formed by ex-members of the hugely popular band Ghost. I’d call this Darkwave, but the label doesn’t matter, it’s depeche mode-y and don’t let the gimp mask put you off, I believe the song is very sincere.


<span style="color:#323232;">I can't stop, it's too late, it pours out, it's my fate
</span><span style="color:#323232;">My legacy in black
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Looking in to my eyes, see the things i despise
</span><span style="color:#323232;">My soul is tainted black
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I'm free of all the lunacy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I never want it back, my history in black
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Silent screams longing voice, violent dreams, ringing noise
</span><span style="color:#323232;">My memory is black
</span><span style="color:#323232;">It's not a mask, it's my skin
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Please don't ask where i've been
</span><span style="color:#323232;">My heart is painted black
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I'm free of all the lunacy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I'm never want it back, my history in black
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I escaped from the cage inside
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I traveled with the enemy, i thought it was my destiny
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I'm free of all the lunacy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I never want it back, my history in black
</span><span style="color:#323232;">My history in black
</span>
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“well tell me now laddybuck, are you feeling especially fortunate…? Eh Kirk my boy?”

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As has been said I’m sure without Yahtzee the site is basically over.

Which is too bad I really enjoyed extra punctuation and the Slightly Something Else podcast. The whole point of having a subscriber model is that you’re not beholden to advertising or the algorithm or nebulous corporate goals, as the hosts have aid many times.

I guess it goes to show getting acquired by a corp only ever benefits the corp

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Is that Aftermath? I just started reading it today.

I’m also a fan of 404 media, started by motherboard defectors.

I worry about subscription fatigue setting in, but I do think it’s exciting that breakway independent media is seemingly having a moment right now

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I believe that that “cancel culture” is really just “consequence culture.” At one point users could hold powerful entities to account. The flattening of the public sphere twitter provided was a feature.

Absolutely there have been people who got targeted who did not deserve it - regular folks who posted a shit take that caught the mobs attention. But I think one of the motivations for Elon acquiring twitter and threads’ non-chronological feed is to clamp down on this kind of of organizing and centralize power.

As for hate speech, the problem that is that any solution at scale means AI and that reveals the biases of those who wrote it. These solutions can’t serve everyone.

And outrage fuels engagement - these companies are incentived to allow that.

So basically I think large networks can’t solve the problem. What’s needed is a decentralized approach with small interoperable communities vetting their members. Even if you get a hate filled instance it can be locked off so it can’t spread. Hate-motivated jerks have always existed, they just had no real access to the discourse until the internet. I really think the answer is the fediverse of tomorrow - if we make it that far.

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404 media in particular do great work. They’re all defectors from Motherboard (vice) and I think supporting them is both worthwhile and worth it.

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“Interesting.”

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Thrill me.

Tipping culture - what do you tip? (thetakeout.com)

Here in WA state, the minimum wage per hour is $15.74 (higher in some areas). Tipping culture says 20%, but that’s generally to support lower paid waitstaff in areas that can pay less than minimum wage by employers. Where/What are you tipping and what kind of service would you expect for a 20% tip?

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This is what I do, with one more category - I tip 22 or more to small, local businesses I use. Box stores or large franchises, not so much.

During covid, when I did order takeout we kept it to our favorite two places, hoping they’d survive, which they did. When we went back to in person it turns out I was known - it was a funny way to become a regular. So I feel like it must have made a difference.

Anyway. The landscape is increasingly complicated and I think we’ve got to choose the one or two things that are important.

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I’m waiting for all 4 to drop so I can binge them. I mostly don’t want to hear about him - need to be in the right angry mood, like shortly after he does something monumentally stupid.

While I don’t think he’s doing some kinda 4 dimensional chess, I think he is trying to stay talked about, like Trump does.

It’s a great podcast though. Been listening for awhile.

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i agree completely, and i’ve said it before, a small fee goes a long way to stopping spam and the bad kind of shitposting. It’s barrier that a lot of actors, good and bad, can climb, but they’ll be at least someone who can’t or won’t.

thing is, twitter has already eroded so much trust and relevance that i think for a lot of folks this might be the last straw. we’ll see - much like the reddit rebellion it’s hard to tell how many folks will actually quit from the noise alone.

For the fediverse i’m not certain at all. on the one hand many of us want the fediverse to grow and become more diverse. Fees are a barrier to entry. but i also agree, as you say, that mods and admins deserve something for their trouble - especially since their job is a lot harder on lemmy.

i hate to say, but maybe discord has it right? monetize cosmetics and stuff? i really don’t know. Disclosure i am nitro subscriber, mostly for the emoji.

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there’s a conspiracy theory - use the fee as a way to normalize paying X for things and then pivot to paying through X for things until it’s the fascist super app of elon’s sweaty fever dreams.

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As I said in the OG thread, I will stick with beehaw, but I’d also keep an eye on the fediverse with an alt. I would also support an eventual return to federation when/if some of the issues have been sorted.

For those who support the proposed move, this isn’t about mere technical issues. It’s about safety - it’s very easy right now for a bad actor to cause a lot of damage the way things are set up. The reasons things are as good as they are here is the tireless work of the admins and mods and they if they say enough is enough I believe them.

While I think something like the fediverse is where the internet is going, Lemmy on activity pub may or may not be the way. Well just have to see. I’m not gonna leave a positive community in favour of a certain tech, that’s backwards.

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It says something about the current relationship of large corporate apps and users when Slack makes an update - of particular annoyance is that the search bar at the top basically eats the entire border now making it impossible to move the window around unless you make the window sufficiently large - and my immediate thought is “this must have been deliberate in order to make sure Slack takes up as much of my screen as possible.”

It’s hard for me to think of a legitimate reason for how massive that search bar is and why it is so damn close to all the edges at the top making the window virtually immovable unless you greatly expand it.

It’s just malicious design as usual.

@technology

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Is it just me or is search on mobile worse too? I find the message I want is often the second or third result now when sorting by “relevant.” Switching back to newest helps.

I’m not put out by an extra step. It’s that, as OP correctly says, I can’t think of an update to a productivity that gave me anything I wanted. Instead updates seem to tell me I’ve been using the app wrong this whole time.

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Battle for Wesnoth!

Fantasy themed turn based strategy game with simple mechanics. And it’s (probably) already in your repo! Ships with some good campaigns, some not so good, but there’s more floating around.

I’m mostly an fps-rpg guy but when I get a tactical itch it’s hard to do better honestly. I unapologetically save scum my way through it and have a blast.

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If they do get a subsidy you know they’ll turn around and launch an ad campaign about how they are investing in a green revolution. Then they’ll raise fares.

Then a while later they’ll revert, say it’s infeasible, keep the money then pay a dividend.

Stadia's death spiral, according to the Google employee in charge of mopping up after its murder (www.pcgamer.com)

A statement from a Google employee, Dov Zimring, has been released as a part of the FTC vs Microsoft court case (via 9to5Google). Only minorly redacted, the statement gives us a run down of Google's position leading up to Stadia's closure and why, ultimately, Stadia was in a death spiral long before its actual demise....

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This. As a recovering google fanboy who got abandoned too many times I have zero trust in their commitment to any product aside from the core experiences like search and Gmail. Even then…

Slowly degoogling as a result.

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Awesome

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Too bad it doesnt actually have a gyro. I’m one of those gyro aiming weirdos. I like the ergo of the Xbox controllers better but I mostly use a dualsense because of this feature.

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Moving to a user supported service IS a good way to cut down on spam and wrest control from advertisers…

…IF you do it before you destroy all value, branding, community and cultural relevance

As so many others have said, this move at this point sounds like he’s trying to finally end this fiasco.

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I once again very much appreciate the transparency. Sounds like a not fun time. Thanks for doing what you do.

Are you able to read in your dreams?

I ask because it’s considered common knowledge that you can’t but I regularly have dreams where I continue books I’m reading irl (they usually devolve into naritive nonsense over time and then sometimes to blank pages, but the actual text is definitely deciferable), text messages, computer screens, and road signs, in both...

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I can’t, though I can lucid dream. When people say “read,” I feel like they’re thinking of printed text but I find some I have similar problem with technology use. Like sometimes I’m trying to find something on the internet, or to show something on my phone to someone and it keeps not making sense. And I keep trying it again and again and it just get worse until I realize I’m dreaming.

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That game blew my mind when I played it back in the day. Despite all the clunky mechanics it achieved a sense of place I don’t get from most modern games. I’m surprised they haven’t revisited or revived it in some way.

I mean, Bungie’s remaking Marathon! Anything is possible in this crazed timeline

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You’re right, it doesn’t really. But I bet if they revisited omikron it would be the same story, a different genre of game with many familiar trappings.

Kinda like how the newer Doom games purport to be more like the originals while simultaneously getting less like them. Although I absolutely love Doom Eternal, let me be clear.

The space is so saturated it feels like it’s only a matter of time before every game I’ve ever played is remastered, remade, revisited, or given a extremely late sequel

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Used a script to delete all my comments. Nuked two ten year old accounts.

Commenting for sake of a headcount lol

I’m no expert but best guess would be to get an estimate of all the new Lemmy users - there seem to be a few floating around - then run a poll in a few instances and estimate based on those results.

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There’s a good but at times strange podcast about a super app that takes over society. It’s sort of like histories told from the far future about our near future. Most of the tales are told in first person so it takes a some listening to get a sense of the timeline of the world.

programaudioseries.com

Beehaw on Lemmy: The long-term conundrum of staying here

Yesterday, you probably saw this informal post by one of our head admins (Chris Remington). This post lamented some of the difficulties we’re running into with the site at this point, and what the future might hold for us. This is a more formal post about those difficulties and the way we currently see things....

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Late to this discussion, but speaking as a Reddit refugee and a very average user, I’ll follow beehaw wherever it goes…

…but I will probably also fire up my nearly-forgotten kbin account as well.

The fediverse is far from ready for the challenges that it faces but I’m very interested in its development and future. I really think it or something like it is what the internet is trending towards. I’m quite lucky being in some of priveleged categories so I don’t face the level of harassment many fellow beeple do very day.

I think we have a good thing going here and it’s so freeing to read and comment without having to read past all the usual hate and bad behaviour.

So Im happy to lurk in one place and be myself in another. Do what you guys have to do. I’m in.

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Me too! I have a couple and I only use them on games that “need” them for fear for fear of breaking them. The rest of the time I use a PS5 controller.

Next time I have too much money I’m gonna get a scuf controller.

scufgaming.com

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you said it, bud

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I know the metaverse has been commented, and this overlaps, but I’d say VR as a gaming format. I remember all this hype in the 90s - Virtual Boy for example. Now we basically have the tech - like say playstation VR - but it’s still really such a niche thing without mainstream traction.

And since i’m in that zone - wearable AR devices like Google Glass, snapchat spectacles, apple vision. I like the idea of having access to a giant screen in a small space but I’m not gonna wear it to my niece’s birthday.

I'm so tired of the current state of the internet

Everywhere you browse, people have such strong opinions about everything and are so toxic or extremely negative. You start playing a game, want to check the forums or something and most of the posts are people being mean to each other. You open social media to keep in touch with people that you’d like to maintain a certain...

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I think there was a “snarkiness” to the earlier web that I still appreciate. I’m fine with a one-word answer or a shit post if it’s funny and not hateful. I think the tone became a more extreme and worse version of itself over time. The internet is a place for everyone, not just enthusiasts, we gotta do better.

Problem is, as other comments have rightly said, we’re incentivized to do the opposite. And bad actors find it useful to encourage extreme opinions and division.

While i think something has been lost now that twitter, reddit and centralized communities are in decline, i also think this is an opportunity to build better communities with different incentives. While i don’t the fediverse is going to take over the internet, i think it’s part of a broader and encouraging trend.

What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?

I was thinking about that when I was dropping my 6 year old off at some hobbies earlier - it’s pretty much expected to have learned how to ride a bicycle before starting school, and it massively expands the area you can go to by yourself. When she went to school by bicycle she can easily make a detour via a shop to spend some...

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Canoeing. I’m not an outdoorsy guy at all but everytime I see US tourists in a canoe they just spin in circles. It feels like Canadians are just born knowing.

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Why not a commune IN the city?

Not saying this is you, but I feel like a lotta people who wanna live in the country also want all the city amenities - internet, garbage pickup, municipal sewage, etc.

To me, the problem isn’t cities, it’s late stage capitalism - gentrifying neighbourhoods, driving rents beyond reach, displacing communities. Plus its zeal for car-focused infrastructure, conspicuous consumption. All that stuff.

Anyway communal life is very appealing - I long for my college days of living in a house full of peers. Even if i’m off-base with my capitalism ruins the city argument, I think we’d all do better at coping with modern life with a wider support network.

I hear they are growing more popular in the bay area? Gideon Lichfield, outgoing editor-in-chief at Wired, mentions he spends half his year living in a commune of sorts and would like to do it full time in this podcast.

www.wired.com/…/have-a-nice-future-podcast-19/

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Thanks, I had no idea it had been developing this long. While Toronto area prices have been ridiculous for a while, I feel like we’re only now hitting an inflection point where we might start seeing arrangements as you describe. There’s tons of unoccupied or under occupied properties due to airbnb as well.

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your firearms are useless against them!

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Kinda sounds like Night City from the Cyberpunk games too. These guys read the science fiction and miss the point entirely.

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Wishlisted!

As a fan of the Culture series and really any far, far future stuff, this looks to be my jam.

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They’re not really the same vibe, but they do have an extremely far future setting, vast intelligences called Minds that run society, and my favourite part, luxury space communism. Most people recommend you start on book two - The Player of Games since it’s a better example of what the series is. While that’s true I stated on book one - Consider Phlebas - and liked it, so up to you I guess.

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I met my wife playing Mage: the Ascension. Truly one in million. I know. Never got to try out M20 though. That should put a rough date on when this happened…

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Or FATE and its numerous incarnations. I feel like I get as far as saying “it’s like DnD except…” before it veers off irrevocably into talking about DnD

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Yet another Niagara launcher with Nothing icons. It’s a work in progress.

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/8928dd26-6f34-49f0-a774-ffbc7b7facec.webp

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They are called Nothing Adaptive icons ( not sure what’s “adaptive” about them) and I just found them in the play store for less than $2 CAD, which seems reasonable to me for an icon pack.

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Understandable, but for me it’s more… Respectful? I guess? OP’s not trying to push influence the organic reaction or waste’s anyone time.

Seems to me this is about what link aggregators are for. Is the goal to surface things from the internet or is the goal to discuss and build community? Surely it’s both, but different folks will emphasize one over another.

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