Next step: political adverts that quiz you on what you've just heard and repeat each segment if you get the answer wrong.
Just kidding though (or am I). This is truly some dystopian shit. My first reaction was what the actual fuck. And I bet you that their numbers aren't really going to hurt that much because of this. Mark my words.
Doesn't have the same vibes though. To me 'normie' has always been a little bit of an insult on top of just describing the 'average person'. "Average person" is for when you're describing statistics. "Normie" is for when you're describing people that clutch their pearls and their bible when a goth walks past.
Haven't watched yet but just want to say fuck TNA emails. Ages ago I looked into whatever their streaming service was at the time and since then I've been getting emails that I'm too lazy to unsubscribe from. Well this morning, I didn't even have to open the email because it was the first two sentences that showed up in my notifications saying "New Champion: do you believe?" So I guess I don't have to watch the main event anymore, thanks TNA.
Even if I wanted to emails and excitedly read every one of them, it's a bit fucked to be sending out spoilers literally hours after the show, especially when half their viewers are spread out in different timezones across the world. If I was a TNA+ subscriber, I would want these emails. And then I'd be really fucking pissed for spending my money just to have these idiots emailing me the results before I've even watched.
Anyway, I'll probably be back here later to drop my thoughts. Thankfully I'm not that interested in the world title scene right now.
Yeah, I use "normie" occasionally and it kinda makes me feel like le edgy teen. But the problem is that I'm not sure if there's another word that quite replaces it either. Sometimes it's the only word that works in a particular context.
I'm a few days late for this AMA, I apologize. I actually asked on the Reddit sub ages ago if SubSimGPT2Interactive was going to be here (and it would've been a deciding factor in me coming here sooner at that point). At that point I got a maybe but don't remember ever seeing any announcement.
Anyway, I got banned from Reddit and can now join that Hall of Fame along with the likes of AgentSmithGPT2 and PabloBot. I was pretty excited when I saw the sub / community here, then sad and disappointed when I saw that it's kinda dead. Probably moving to mbin soon but will still definitely subscribe to it from there, just in case.
And for anyone passing by that doesn't know SubSimGPT2Interactive on Reddit, these aren't the evil type of GPT bot, these are just cute and demented and primitive and fun, and usually require a degree of roleplaying to make sense of in the first place.
Apologies for the second reply. Just wanted to say that I checked out mbin and it's probably more up my alley personally.
But, I still have a barely used Facebook account because a lot of people in my country are still on it. And I'm going to see if the rumours are true and try to spread the news about Friendica there, hopefully without my post getting removed or account being banned.
And if / when people from there give Friendica a shot, then I'll give it a proper shot too with them. It'll just be used for different things than what I use Lemmy for.
Basically I would be spending much more time in Lemmy communities, and I thought Friendica could be something extra on top to supplement it.
So I would like to be able to browse instances and communities and choose what I want to see and participate in. Either by subscribing or curating a feed or two. I don't see an obvious way to do this from Friendica yet. It seems like here I need to scroll through a pre existing feed and curate it from there.
But please bear in mind, I haven't explored extensively yet or read the link you shared earlier, although I have saved that post so that I can get back to it later in my day.
And another small thing for me (that can be easily fixed by styles and apps) is no apparent dark mode.
Made a quick account there to check things out and not sure if it's entirely the right fit for the particular use case I had in mind. It's very much inspired by Facebook obviously, which I was expecting but from what I can tell from a quick look, not the kind of Lemmy integration I was hoping for or imagining.
I'm going to keep an eye on this place though, so that I can start encouraging friends and family to join once it's easy and attractive (in terms of content) for anyone to join.
Maybe I should ask here. The reason I'm here is because I'm looking for answers to this. As far as the integration with Lemmy goes, how does it work? Is there a 'Friendica' instance that anyone using that platform would be posting and interacting from? And in that case, does it play nicely with the other instances?
I'm pretty new here, probably moving to another instance at some point anyway. And I've been thinking of looking into these multi purpose platforms that play nicely with others. Because why not have more features and tools to play with, even if I don't use half of them. It might also fill in nicely for features that are missing here like multicommunities and posting to your own profile.
Also heard of mbin, although an in app search for something like "mbin" seems pretty useless here.
Haha thanks for noticing, I made it myself. Thanks for the info there in the other thread and obviously doing something to kick the fediverse into gear.
I hear your point but also it might be a mostly first world thing. So kinda like comparing local country music artists to Michael Jackson. Maybe other 3rd world denizens can chip in but here (so this is purely anecdotal) but in my corner of the world, we watched movies and series and played games and shit like we would've pre social media.
Personally I'm not even sure what Tiger King is (and not that interested in finding out either, if I'm being honest) and if I go outside and ask around here, I'm not sure how many answers I would get. Possibly I'd get an answer once school is out and kids are around, I guess.
Edit: just to add, I hope this doesn't go the same way as the time I was trying to explain to Americans that the NBA really isn't this global phenomenon in every household and that John Cena is probably more famous here.
Yeah I chose the most populated instance there to create an account and check things out. But the app kind of stopped my exploration dead. It's a little barebones right now for my tastes right now, especially as far as customisation goes. And I'd be spending more time there than in front of my laptop.
Right now I think the only features that I'm really missing here on Lemmy itself are posting to your own profile and multicommunities.
And it would be great if instances like Blåhaj could enforce their own rules regarding things like downvotes properly, so that they could be disabled there for EVERYONE but enabled in places that still allow downvotes (this should go for individual communities too). The current implementation seems a little like an afterthought on the Lemmy devs' part.
Edit: the biggest problem that I can see so far with excluding Blåhaj users from even seeing downvotes is that it gives an incorrect perception of things. If a bigot gets 2 upvotes and 20 downvotes, I'll only see the 2 upvotes.