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[–] metic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

/c/newusers would be glad to partner up

[–] metic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It happened sometimes, but it was easier to filter those people out. Now those people have become the norm. Tinder absolutely is to blame for this.

[–] metic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tinder ruined dating. It’s made interactions very transactional.

[–] metic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Several (attempted) murderers have owned copies of The Catcher in the Rye.

[–] metic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Ragebait like noahgettheboat, idiotsincars, publicfreakout. It’s the Jerry Springer of the 2020’s.

 

A community for onboarding new users.

New Users !newusers@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/newusers

 

I could list a bunch of general YTers that cover retro games among other gaming topics, but for those who mainly cover retro games I like Big Ole Words, Hungry Goriya, and Video Works.

 

I’ll go first.

When I was a kid my family had a TI-99/4A. The 99 series was Texas Instruments’ only real foray into the PC and video game market, and it failed to be competitive with Commodore, Atari, and Amiga. Most games were booted from cartridges.

My favorites were Hunt the Wumpus, a sort of early survival-horror with a turn-based grid system, and Alpiner, a mountain-climbing game with various hazards, kind of a reverse SkiFree. It also had the ability to read data from cassette tapes to load text-based games. The one I remember is Hammurabi, a sim/strategy game which I didn’t really get as a kid. Now that I’ve gotten into strategy games like Civilization and Romance of the Three Kingdoms it would be interesting to revisit.

 

Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt.

Is Lemmy buggy as heck? Absolutely.

But I don’t think that really justifies a lot of the comments I’m seeing in Reddit alternatives threads that it’s hard to figure out. The front page feed and sort options are very similar to Reddit. Searching for same-instance communities is not too difficult. Posting, commenting, and voting are all quite intuitive. What’s the problem?

Edit: I do think terminology is a bit of an issue. I can tell a lot of people don’t understand “instance” vs. “community” at first. “Magazine” is the biggest offender here. That’s a very unintuitive term.

[–] metic@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago
  • nuclear fusion power
  • male birth control
  • Metroid Prime 4
  • native accessibility features for Reddit
[–] metic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I tried to look up Tumblr’s present and past Alexa rankings, but it turns out that Alexa was closed last year.

[–] metic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My hope is that federation will be a good solution to these issues. Users can choose a home instance based on the types of content they do or don’t want to see. Instances with conflicting focuses or policies can defederate from one another.

[–] metic@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (11 children)

My hope is that this is a shift back to a more decentralized internet.

[–] metic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They’ve officially branched out to Lemmy: !debatereligion@lemmy.world

[–] metic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

All posts must be a request for advice.

Hope this rule gets applied to posts that pretend to be looking for advice but are really just seeking validation. People complain about the advice always being to break up, but IMO this is the bigger issue which keeps me away from all of the advice subreddits.

[–] metic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't remember anything wildly wrong. Closest I came to that was from a private tutor my parents had to hire to make up for too many days I missed due to health problems one semester. One day when we were covering evolutionary biology she goes, "Well, I don't believe in this, but I'm obligated to teach it to you." Doesn't inspire a lot of confidence, but I appreciate the candor. Also I remember a girl in my class in middle school saying her grandmother believed dinosaur bones were put there by the devil and the teacher had to give an awkward response to that.

There is one common misconception among English teachers that I think everyone has heard at some point, the difference between "effect" and "affect" being different parts of speech.

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