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The Internet gained steam through hobbyists and is now that corporate shell as described. In my opinion it absolutely was a better place 25 years ago. Today the internet is filled with social engineering everyone’s trying to influence something and it’s terrible.

Just wanted to comment to say this is one of the most awesome music videos ever made. Never tire of the song or video.

When people are content what is there to say? People tend to post about topics that anger or frustrate them. The quality of the post varies on the sincerity of the user. Anything from shitposting to actually articulate arguments. You’re unlikely to find the latter on any form of social media. Most constructive conversation happens face to face. It’s just too easy to derail an online conversation and there are powers that be that are literally troll farms because it works.

There was a message yesterday about the game werewolf. An informed minority will generally control the uninformed majority. You get a small number of people to troll and that’s all it takes to derail conversation around any topic they don’t like.

RIP Norn

Win11 is why I’m using Linux Mint. Gaming was the last barrier for me and Steam is doing God’s work.

MS is positioning Windows as an ad platform. Start menu is now a cluster fuck without regedit and deep dive into settings.

I prefer an OS that doesn’t ask about advertisement IDs on install.

That’s fair. I know the onion is satire …I was just stunned it was the top result for a generic search term for “baseball.” To be fair I’m fucking wasted and was just looking for a place to shout and be rowdy … omgergd AZ tied the series up. … but alas … was met with some shit about guns.

as the top result on “baseball” … that’s the point of the post :)

I just wanted to find a thread to talk about AZ comeback on Philly.

We agree. Though, I’m getting down-voted. My reddit days are coming back to me… I’m sweating. I made a point that I think is valid and it’s unpopular. What do I do now? Omergd… guess i’ll just go to sleep. My first post ever is at -3. :: shrug ::

Are you suggesting that’s the lemmy algorithm for baseball? I just wanted to talk about sports and the search result provided the top result as a discussion about weapons. I hope you don’t misunderstand me, as I think we’re taking the same position, that something needs to change because what was desired is certainly not what was provided.

A prophet in these troubled times.

Yeah, I’m fine with the admins using some due diligence. There is some wild s*** out there that no one needs to see terrible and grotesque without warning. The most recent example that I came across was AI generated porn of “jailbait.”

Speaking only for myself but if content like that shows up in my feed I will not continue using Lemmy. So I am appreciative of the admins being proactive and if there’s something I want to find I’ll search for it but the example that I quoted showing up in my feed is absolutely unacceptable to me.

I’m not saying that piracy rises to the level of the quoted example but I don’t manage the server and I’m not willing to manage a server so if there are people out there willing to do it to spare me from nefarious things then power to them. They have to do what’s right and legal.

Can someone translate this for us morons? I got confused when I read about breeding cats so …

The ERC-721 standard enabled an explosion of non-fungible token applications. Some notable use cases have included breedable cats, generative artwork, and exchange liquidity positions.

Maybe I’m wrong but isn’t there a drm free version of baldurs gate on GOG? Out of all the games to pirate this isn’t the one. I get that not everyone can afford it but I suspect a lot of people who do, can.

Came here to say this and glad someone else mentioned it. You first need to focus on yourself so a simple outdoor activity such as walking, cycling, hiking , etc and then slow introduction to social settings and tabletop d&d is a fantastic forum for that. There are tons of online games (ie roll20) that you can look into if you have anxiety when meeting people in person.