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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I tried it out but I didn't really like it that much. It seems to be good for most people though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Go to the doc and get checked out. It could be anything from cancer to an anal fissure.

Even if it's not life threatening it will slowly get worse and the surgery to fix it if it does is one of the most painful experiences you can have. Better to address a hemorrhoid or fissure now using the various creams you can apply yourself rather than that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

No. My time is worth more than 10k and I'd rather spend it doing stuff I like to do.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people won't gel with the free version though as it uses ASCII.

[–] [email protected] 142 points 1 year ago (15 children)

The challenge will be finding an actual traditional conservative instance that isn't also a pro-Nazi fascist shithole.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

People are paid to work on it tho.

Paying people doesn't necessarily translate to what you might want from it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No no no it's just China doing you a solid and backing up your sensitive information just in case you lose your phone. It uses Blockchain technology where if you ever need it back they just block you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't hate anybody but I do hate their random bad takes and opinions on things and I don't care about their families either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Personally I don't care about the soccer moms, my main concern is all the problems that come with being a mainstream social media platform. Threads threatens to overwhelm the content being generated with all those problems where your Lemmy feed is just going to represent Instagram etc again. Screw that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

They can keep their 60 million threads, most of that is complete trash anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We're not even using their software now. It shows the power of open source that all of this can coexist peacefully despite differing opinions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

On their own instance, that they run. So again, who cares?

 

Reddit used to be a great platform to discuss some topic and get different points of few in a friendly but factual manner. However, slowly it seems like the platform has become a lot more like Facebook, where it's been invaded by toxic people that are constantly looking for opportunities to shit and hate on others.

The change has been gradual so I really didn't notice it creep up on me. It's become super evident now having used Kbin and others for a week or so where people generally seem to be more friendly again and willing to actually discuss things in a usually civil way.

The difference is stark too. Today I replied to a comment saying that I hope things turn out better for them and wound up in a weird comment chain about how people were apparently insensitive for wanting to get a basic haircut that they for some reason couldn't afford themselves. Meanwhile, Kbin and the Fediverse feels like a refreshing place to actually converse with people once you get past the clunk and figure it out.

I think Reddit may well have reached that main stream social media saturation point where it very objectively now sucks. It happened originally with the internet itself thanks to the rise of the smartphone and this is just another iteration of it. I feel like Spez might as well get that bag at this point because they've ruined what used to be the platform people went to for social media without the bullshit, without algorithms to drive "engagement" and to avoid the toxic culture that has prevailed.

Thanks for reading my rant.

 

I was looking into the API available for Kbin and it looks like it's currently just read-only, is this correct? Is this even the case for your own instance of it?

The reference can be found here if anyone is curious. I was hoping it allowed posting of comments/new posts in some fashion that I could play with.

 

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) are calling for marijuana reform that prioritizes communities most impacted by the drug war and prevents monopolization by large corporations like Amazon and big tobacco firms.

 

Video game streaming company Twitch has updated its branding policy for streamers, prohibiting promotions of marijuana businesses and products while explicitly allowing alcohol partnerships.

While the Amazon-owned livestreaming hub reversed course on other unrelated aspects of new branding policy changes rolled out this week after facing significant pushback from the gaming community, it’s currently maintaining the cannabis ban.

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