Hanabie

Too bad it failed.

He does have a point tho. If you post stuff like this, post a link, not a screenshot. That’s just a shitty thing to do.

マシュマロ

Japanese

The only gymnastics here are happening in your head.

You need to return to lemmygrad.

Seriously, this reads like a piece from lemmygrad.

Maybe your Japanese isn’t quite at the level you think it is.

Depends on if there’s Russian soldiers inside.

It means “sword” (katana)

1D4 Piercing Damage

Unless you’re on Kbin, which is not federated.

You forgot
!japanese_metal@sh.itjust.works :)

An old internet saying is “if it’s free, you’re the product”, and that’s exactly the problem platforms like reddit are currently encountering. Users leave, delete their old posts, and move elsewhere.

It’s also a problem Lemmy/kbin see, from the other side: you need a critical mass of users to generate enough content to keep running and attracting and keeping users.

Given enough time, the corps will just continue going down the drain, since they’re 100% profit-driven, and short-term gains over long-term sustainability. We here just have to keep going, and preferably in a way that minimizes drama. If one of the big 5 shits the bed and takes a lot of communities with it, the now homeless users might be hesitant to just join somewhere else, at least partially.

That’s why I found it very unfortunate that beehaw defederated from .world and .works – it also happened at a very bad point in time, in the middle of a boom.

If the platform matures enough, and the userbase is stable, it will most certainly grow over time, as the corpo options get worse and worse over time.

We also have to be vigilant and isolate all bad actors immediately. The extremist instances, like lemmygrad and exploding-heads, and the corporate assimilators, like Meta. Else people will not join here, either because we have a bad rep, or because we just get swallowed and spit out again by a tech giant.

I believe a “unique identity” will develop organically, given enough time.

What I liked about reddit was its “googleability”. You had a question and found an answer without reading through an endless article that winds it’s way through rephrasing your question 5 times, adds extensive biographies of everyone mentioned, the wider history of the problem and the author’s grandmother, all to pad the article and have you scroll through more adds.

But now there’s ChatGPT, so most of my “googling” can be done that way, and I don’t have to scroll through walls of puns or “this is the way” or “thanks for the gold, kind stranger”, or “take my updoot and get out”. I wonder how much of that bullshit were bots, anyway.

I’ll definitely be on an instance that’s not federated with Meta. Right now, I have accounts on sh.itjust.works, .world and .ee, but I’d drop any and all of them the moment I find out they’ll federate with them.

Yeah, but Kbin has “reputation”, which is very similar to karma. The whole voting business, while useful for post/comment sorting and collection of metrics, also gives bad incentives and delivers data also great for bot farms. I’d be happy if it didn’t exist at all.

I’m using Liftoff.

I’ll check it out when I get home 👋

I like and use both. There’s no reason to just pick one and stick with it.

You’d think the tankies would keep it to lemmygrad.ml and Lemmy.ml, but they seem to run alts everywhere.