Wandering Adventure Party

I’ve watched a few of them. I don’t like soccer, and I don’t like gridiron football, but the weird Aussie version? Yeah, I kinda enjoy that one for some reason.

Sarah Brown High, yes, sorry, as an Autism- and non-ADHD haver with a partner, I, uh, need to ask about the candles thing. For raisins.

Catelli I say it in real life, but only ironically. I use it unironically online. All y’all on the interwebs do be lovin’ quirky wordsing, and I’all be one o’y’all on the interwebs.

LinkedIn is such an oppressive space now. Avalanches of crap jobs with shit pay, fake jobs, and so, so, so many ChatGPT-authored posts about how AI is changing the world.

I grew up on the east coast eating fried bologna with peas and mashed potatoes. I have a very soft spot for bologna with peas and mashed potatoes.

I suddenly know what cultural appropriation feels like!

Geek Native It is nice that we have a space here where everything isn’t bots.

Moreau Vazh

the broader hobby doesn’t value analysis

You mean looking up RPGBOT and selecting all of the blue options isn’t rigorous study?

Blind Mapmaker

Also worlds should be big. The fact that one thing happened three hundred years ago two continents over might not be known to even a handful of folks from million strong ancestry that doesn’t live there.

This. We can’t even get people today, with instant global communication, to pay attention to things that are going on a few cities over, let alone on the other side of the globe. People focus on the problems they have, not the events going on outside their own bubbles.

Floaty Birb

this is to protect the children from big tech!"

It’s almost as if the people doing the thing that people need to be protected from should be forced to stop doing that thing, rather than the apparent victims having to be the ones restrained and restricted.

Besides, it’s not like the things that are harmful to children are somehow magically not harmful to adults. If big tech is hurting us, and they’re in an oligopoly position such that we can’t really avoid them, then arguments about adults getting to be free to make choices don’t really hold up. So… Burn them all.

Not that any of this is to protect people, children or otherwise.

degenerating degenerate So, you’re asking Claude Code for legal advice, is what I’m hearing.

I haven’t been active on it in a while – it’s been a rough year, and my photo excursions have mostly been put on hold – but I’ve not had any issues with Pixey.org. It’s run by the guy behind mstdn.social, IIRC.

Pixelfed.ca is run by the same group that operates lemmy.ca and piefed.ca, and I can speak to those other services being well run and maintained. I haven’t used their Pixelfed site, but I see no reason why it would be any different.

The KBO had a big boost in North American viewership during COVID-shortened MLB season a few years back, and were quick to accommodate that interest.

Moreau Vazh Rigid rules following and a pathological avoidance of what can feel like demands? Hmmm…

Chris Trottier I always had a heavy sigh for the old “you’d never have survived the MW2 lobby” line, but it’s clear that many of these guys wouldn’t have survived basic chatrooms back in the day. Or at least, they would have found themselves very quickly banned from them.

Chris Trottier I have some pretty far-out-there hopes for how I’d like to see the fesiverse structured, which will never be realized baased on discussions I’ve had, but which seem so obviously necessary. These hopes revolve around an instance-first framework, focusing on instance-as-community, which includes having the Local feed as the default for most fedi sites.

This is one of the key reasons why. There’s a pretty wild entitlement people seem to have over what rules, social or formal, are expected on fedi, even though it is an informal, opt-in, subscription based network. Ensuring your first point of contact each day is set to the same baseline as you radically changes the expectations, as does viewing your instance as a website and as the primary mediator in your interactions, rather than just a neutral conduit to “Mastodon”.

But, alas, the idea of the content network, rather than the omni-app,seems anathema to people these days.

neoluddite The thing is, you don’t really get to control what other people post to their own website. The control you have here is over who you follow. Expecting others to obey your own personal rules doesn’t really fly, and repporting people for not obeying them is petty censorship.

“I don’t want to see this” is a conversation you get to have with yourself.

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.

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.

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”.

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