I grew up watching the Heathcliff cartoon, but seeing the comics being posted on Lemmy (with or without Heathcliff) are not quite what I expected from the animation.
I've been using 4chan for longer than Reddit and Lemmy combined. Mostly /vg/ (games), /g/ (tech) and /a/ (anime, manga).
Mostly for discussion. /g/ and /vg/ are decent for asking stuff if there's a general about the topic that you want to ask info about, you want a relatively fast answer, and it isn't something overly asked (e.g. "which distro should I use?" "INSTALL GENTOO" tier). Just make sure to not trust anything said there.
Other boards are typically too slow (like /ck/) or cesspools (like /b/, /b corta/ /v/, /pol/).
Been thinking of making a post like this for some time, apologies if some of this is not completely relevant: this community seems more like it's about Reddit the platform/product than Reddit the social "thing", but I'm sure a lot of people have similar experiences to mine. Maybe on some instances more than others....
I was able to join up on sopuli, a local Finnish instance with a small but active number of users, who post about and occasionally comment on local things in !suomi. It's still quieter that reddit in that regard, but I do at least get some local news.
I've also made a huge effort to bootstrap an active anime community here on lemmy, and luckily I've not been alone in that. !anime has been growing steadily. Instead of getting my anime fanart on reddit like I used to, I upped my usage of pixiv significantly, and then translated that into several communities and activity on lemmy.
If you can, try and get your news from local outlets, and if you actually get into that habit, set up a community for your local area, and start curating articles worth sharing, and posting them there.
I miss the sheer size of the site only because I can no longer find my niche. If I want to talk or read about a specific anime unveiling, there's maybe a few communities on Lemmy but they're completely dead. Reddit had the benefit of having a single sub for X thing be modestly active instead of as many communities as you like but nobody keeps up with them.
This is literally the only reason I've kept using reddit. I hate reddit, but I love the communities I'm involved in and I want to give back to them. As someone that's at least a little recognizable, I can't do that on the fediverse, and that sucks. I'm doing my best to encourage people to move over to this side of the fediverse, as well as continuing to use it myself (granted, more mastodon than lemmy, given more of the communities I'm a part of congregate there -- anime fans, namely) but it sucks that the exodus wasn't as big as I'd hope. But i'm doing my best to contribute to the trickle of users over to a part of the internet that does actively feel more joyful than the wastelands of other services. It's a slow process, I just wish it wasn't so slow-going
Glad you enjoyed it! I feel much of the info is lost on me. I did pretty good at the game though. I think it said my rank beat 86% of players. I'm studying music right now though, so I do spend a fair bit of time working on my listening skills. Still, I feel I just got lucky.
When your life depends on these skills, you're only going to be left with the best of the best, so it's no wonder the animals can do it.
It's been almost a year now I've been Lemmy's amateur owl guru, and I still learn so much about these amazing animals every day. Such impressive creatures!
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The bear scenario is the perfect division inducing shitstorm.
On one side, it’s understandable what the memes portrays the danger that women face, daily. The fact that they frequently don’t feel comfortable or even just basic safety is definitely valid and worth discussion.
However, the bear vs man thing was just the worst vehicle to induce that discussion. On one is side men who may not be the most well informed about women issues; will get immediately defensive at being compared to a large animal known for tearing people apart and eating them alive.
The members of the otherside who see all the angry men getting defensive at them for expressing this view and think it’s purely because they aren’t empathetic to these issue, they “hate” women or they’re marginalising what is a real and daily danger.
Of course there are actual troll, toxic arsehole and people who have 0 interest actual discourse or understanding but fuck them, I agree ban em.
It was never going to end in a productive, calm or rational discussion and frankly I think tarring the entire of lemmy for it is equally as unproductive. I’ve seen plenty of people initially aggressive to the meme, come around. I’ve seen more and more people make light joke about the same meme without the accusatory tone. If you want discourse there space to do; it just has to be done better. Preferably without snark or accusatory tones.
You should also be able to use catbox as the host for the webp file, and still use that link as the main link in the post? I've used this to post small animated images.
Additionally, Lemmy already embeds videos if you link a video file directly, but some mobile clients have trouble.
Supposedly, the next major Lemmy version will come with video upload support.
The part about saying she would prefer being alone in the woods with an animal that would maul and eat her alive than being with [insert trait you were born with].
If you don't think it's insulting, switch out the word "men" with gay/jew/trans or any other group of people and ask if those people would feel insulted.
It's a statement that very likely would be removed by moderators and gotten you banned on certain instances on Lemmy if you did. I honestly don't believe you're asking that question in good faith.
Very valid point here. I've forgotten what an unfiltered Lemmy would look like at this point. Even with a filtered list, I just scrolled through my usual All, Top 6 Hours and didn't find a thing I wanted to read as it was all depressing news for the first 3 pages.
The critique about one community dominating is a good one also. I block just about all the meme comms, but I leave the Science Memes one unblocked because there are a few I enjoy, but there are days where it's just my whole front page and it's like, give someone else a chance guys!
Didn't Reddit have a "welcome pack" of pre-subscribbed subs like Blaze mentions in their reply? It might be nice if the main site or some of the app developers would have welcome packs so when you installed you could select a "Tech," "Humor," "Science and Nature," etc starter pack of subscribed comms to get you into it, and then you can adjust as you see fit. I'm thinking when we came on board, there wasn't as much we had to block at first so we could do it a bit at a time.
I'm not sure how NSFW is handled now. I have most of it blocked because if that's what you want, I'm not sure why you'd come here to it when the rest of the internet is right there, but I agree again with your point. I'm pretty open minded, but there is a lot available here that while I don't feel it shouldn't exist, I don't feel the need to be exposed to that much of fringe fetishes that aren't my thing! 😆
If NSFW started off hidden and you could either click an "I'm All In" setting to unleash it all, or just have access to a comm list and you can uncheck what you see fit, that might be more useful to most people than the all or nothing we have now.
Also, while I'm talking about it, I'd be welcome to some more granularity is the NSFW, like the perennial NSFW vs NSFL (life) where we split up things like porn and gore, or even medical gore vs violent imagery, etc. I'd be interested in some of the medical stuff, and even in Superbowl, there's medical things I'd be up to share and educate about that the general subscriber base isn't going to want to see there, but is animal rescue/rehab related. If that was something people could leave on or turn off, the same community could serve 2 overlapping audiences without making a seperate group.
I just looked at the stats quick and it's somewhat insightful.
Dogs has the most subs (3.4k), but only gets a post every 2-3 days, so not as many daily users (42).
Opossums has about half the subs (1.9k) , posts once or twice a day, and has over 500 daily users, which I don't know if I've ever gotten...great for them!
Bats and Raccoons fall in the middle of those numbers.
I'm killing it in total comments though and have more subs than all but Cats, which has an outstanding almost 18k. Out of 50k users, that is pretty dang impressive. I'd like to think at least a quarter of my subs are due to the work I put in, but I assume most of them came looking for a clone Reddit group.
Does any of it mean anything? Probably not. I'm glad to see them have a chance to shine. I like all the animals anyway. I enjoyed my ride on the first page of communities during Owl of the Year and picked up a lot of new subs during that, and I hope they make the most of it too. I don't know how hard it is to find new and unique pics of some of those animals day in and day out though. Again though, I feel that would make Dogs higher up as many people can just glance down and see a dog! I guess Lemmy folk are just cat people.
The milkdrop visualizer format is still around and kicking, but yeah, visualizers aren't built into nearly any desktop software anymore.
I have an old formative memory of a big crt TV sitting on the corner of the librarian front desk (I think in elementary school?) with really mesmerizing animations on it. Looking back, they were definitely some sort of procedurally animated art thing, or much more likely they were music visualizers. Maybe given the year they were just VHS's of trippy computer graphics in the same style that we'd eventually see with visualizers.
No matter what it was, it sparked a lifelong interest in that sort of art and style.
Damn, I should pick back up my old Processing language image manipulation projects. Can do some real trippy stuff really easily by just doing arbitrary math on pixel color values and x,y coordinates.
Anyone know of any glitch art communities on lemmy?
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