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but the point I'm trying to make is that there is more than enough content here, if you look for it.

If you're looking for Linux memes, American politics, or tumblr crossposts, absolutely. Lemmy has you covered in spades. But I miss some of my more niche communities. I miss memes and discussions about Deep Rock Galactic and Guilty Gear. I miss discussing Elden Ring pvp. I miss the Warhammer 40k nerds. I miss /r/JustRolledIntoTheShop. In the meantime I've been making do (ineffectively) with Discord groups but it's not a good replacement.

I'm not going back to reddit, especially now after recent news, but even you have to admit some types of content are lacking. For certain subjects, we've got it handled. For many, many others, we just don't have the mass of users required to build that community. And in some ways that's good. Not having Lemmy become the seething mass of infinite strangers that Reddit was helps keep us more personal, more manageable. I recognize names here sometimes that I'm happy to see, that rarely ever happened on reddit. But I've had radio silence on some of my favorite hobbies and communities for about a year now and it kind of sucks. It sucks to the point that I'm frequently tempted to return to reddit just to check up on some communities, but I'm always turned away by their most recent user-hostility.

Oh, sweet, a new RGME video. I know what I'm doing for the next half hour. Thanks for the heads up!

Mine has a habit of correcting "people" into "puerile", a word I've never used except for complaining in this context.

Seriously. Recognize a win when it's handed to you, people.

It's clearly a man pissing his name into the snow (in simplified Chinese)

They're really not that obnoxious. The folks getting their panties in wads about it are either fools, or astroturfers. You do you chief, and I for one support this. Folks get overly triggered about all sorts of stupid little shit, don't let them get you down. Someday soon a bunch of us will probably wish we did something like what you're doing.

Because when your scientific legalese is confidently wrong and then someone else tries to reference your paper for their research then you've just thrown an entire branch of science under the bus from faulty assumptions. And nobody knows what assumptions are faulty unless they start all over from the beginning.

That's how it worked on my old phone, you got a message notification but it cost you to actually read it. No clue if they sent the message content before the paywall or if it pulled it down afterward.

But it also meant you could use your phone basically as a beeper without paying for texts. Just see who sent you a message, ignore the actual message and call them.

You could ignore them and not recieve. But then you've got a billion pending messages that you don't know the content of.

It's a fun thing to talk about but everyone seems to forget that historically, that didn't actually end that well.

Eat the rich, yes, but you need to have a plan first for what comes after.

Local board game store is a good bet