Wandering Adventure Party

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  The horror of Age Verification is arriving in Canada 🚨🇨🇦
  K Kichae

  Alpha Male Martha Stewart 🍉🌈 These maassive, highly profitable companies should also be doing their part in actually moderating their platforms, or they should no longer have platforms.

  Moderated social media on smaller websites is what many of us grew up with, and it is manageable. Facebook, Twitter and Reddit just don’t want to do the job, so they shouldn’t have the privilege of hosting such platforms. This is just an attempt to shielld them from their responsibilities to their users.

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  A lot of liberals want to make it illegal for kids to be sad online and talk to their only friends (also online) about it rather than try to make the world someplace worth living in.
  K Kichae

  What they don’t like is that the solution is active moderation, and that’s too expensive for these stupidly large platforms to make a profit off of. So, they’d rather you be sad alone than Meta have to pay someone to protect its users.

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  I can't believe I got temp banned from RPG.net for using the word "barbarian" in a D&D thread.
  K Kichae

  Strangething Oh, that would piss me off something awful. I’ve both received and issued my fair share of “time-out” bans, but they have to come with an explanation. Even if that explanation is “I don’t have time to deall with all of this right now, but this fighting is getting unfriendly. We’ll have a chat after you’ve all had a break”.

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  Never call a Canadian an American.
  K Kichae

  I’m getting the popcorn and waiting for people to start Americasplaining our national identity to you.

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  The Path of Artemis II
  K Kichae

  200ok@lemmy.world Solar wind.

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  I’m not going to argue that the fediverse is bad.
  K Kichae

  Oh, this is one of those things I’ve been perpetually frustrated by around here. I think I’ve probably ranted at you about this in the past, even. The fact that all people seem to want out of these platforms is “Twitter, but more complicated” and “Reddit, but with more authoritarian communists” represents a deep failure of imagination.

  I gave up a couple of years ago on convincing people that we’re using the wrong mental model for community building, but I really, really wish we had more websites-as-communities, like how forums were back in the day, and that the inter-website communication was the secondary feature. But people seem really stuck on the idea of a wildly less efficient simulacrum of centralized platforms for some reason.

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  Inquiries from an NT (maybe)
  K Kichae

  So, a couple of things to keep in mind:

  • ADHD and Autism are fairly closely related, and can have significant overlaps in how they present. Special interests, collections, and knowledge cultivation are not uncommon among people with either condition.
  • Repetitive gestures can be very small things – I rock gently, squish my toes, tap my feet, crack my knuckles, and rub my thumb along my fingertips , and I do all of these things without thinking about our noticing them. I wasn’t aware I did any of these things until others called me out on them.
  • Rituals are often incredibly informal, and amount to “I like schedules”, “I like plans”, or even “I have strong preferences”. What things are are very difficult to identify by yourself, because they are just everyday life to you. It’s not like OCD-style rituals.
  • The reasons why you have difficulty doing things matter in things like this. Do you find doing your taxes painfully boring? Do you find them overwhelming? And if so, is it because you have too much on your plate?
  • Sensory issues are a cornerstone of ASD diagnoses, and you don’t mention having any. If you were to explore that option, it would come up. The issues do not have to be in any way crippling – at least, not all of the time – but they need to be there.
  • Social impairment is another cornerstone, and remains central to the actual diagnostic criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder, which you also don’t mention. This is the thing that usually most directly causes disordered lives (though the sensory issues can cause real impairments, too).
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  Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive
  K Kichae

  Cass🇨🇦 Well, the breech probably happened because Google dropped all investment in it. So, it’s all sort of the same thing, I’m sure.

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  Dual Wielding [Dungeons & Dragons]
  K Kichae

  theminions@lemmy.world The prone stuff also just seems unbelievable. Jabbing someone with your off-hand isn’t going to knock anyone over. It’s not a running body check against someone who isn’t bracing.

  I see this all of the time in the PF2r subreddit. Everyone wants to know why it’s so hard to push enemies around or knock them over, as if they’re pro-wrestlers desperate to oversell for you for a paycheque, and not creatures who are opposing your attempts to do those things.

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  I don't want the #Fediverse to grow because I see "growth" as an intrinsic good.
  K Kichae

  Annelies Kamran, Ph.D. The funky treehhouse comes from trying to build distributed social media in a way that prioritizes the distributed element. Too much of the focus has been on emulating centralized systems, making the federation element seem like a meaningless and superfluous complication of something else the big platforms have seemingly figured out.

  We need to make this a place that has a raison d’etra other than “we didn’t go to BlueSky” or “too edgy for Reddit”. That reason is smaller, more focused communities where you can actually talk to real, recognizable people, while also not missing out on the silly drama of the wider network.

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