Haunting_Tale_5150

@Haunting_Tale_5150@kbin.social
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Joined 1 years ago

As much as I hate twitter, I think this is a bad thing. As far as I can tell, the suit is about those uploading music to twitter, which counts as sharing of content and shouldn't be illegal.

Unless I am missing something, if the lawsuit went through, it would be a terrible thing for everyone.

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Doing that! But still would like an alternative for reddit.

It's because, and no offense to anyone who likes the movie, it looks bland. Especially when you directly compare it to all the competition that came out or will arrive within the past year. Puss in Boots, Spiderverse 2, Mario, Ninja Turtles, even the upcoming Migration all not only look more interesting visually than Elemental, but also proven to be more interesting stories than Elemental so far too.

Elemental just seems to be another Zootopia or Inside Out. Why watch that when you have the originals?

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When I find a website I find interesting, I usually use the firefox addon feedbro to find an rss feed in the site. I create folders based on domains or website type to help categorize things. It has worked for a lot more websites than I expected.

Had no idea! Thanks for informing me. I will keep this post up because I think it is an interesting discussion to have

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In that moment, I will use piped. If piped goes down, I will use nebula. Anything over paying youtube.

This is why I don't use searxng as my daily driver! I'm too lazy to self host and they're always down.

I am not sure what interface(s) or the conditions are, but apparently every post now has a reddit watermark. Presumably for people trying to repost their work to other sites.

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Not rage bait, I haven't used the official app...well ever and I trust that my source is telling me the truth. Here's a fuller screenshot with context (though credentials blurred out) if it helps.

Edit: added a image with more context

When people migrated from Digg to reddit, they thought reddit looked strange. New UIs aren't too hard to get into, people browse multiple different UIs per website every day.

Of all the features added since I joined in 2018, only two I found truly useful, especially with the death of other sites. Gallery uploads and polls. That's it.

Everything else? Useless cruft or stuff that died out where that time and resources could've been used to fix new reddit and the app.

I was a bit sad about the API changes, but I kept official app around for uploading video/image posts since those hosted on reddit started to get more views than imgur/other host website ones. So I wouldn't have minded switching apps full time. What got me angry was Spez's mistreatment of the Apollo dev. I am absolutely not a fan of the Apollo app, but no one should be treated that way. Plus the realization that many websites that use reddit API that I use frequently will go away as well (such as saving videos, pushshift reddit search, and spotlistr). That's what got me initially away from reddit.

There used to be a very janky waterslides on a hilltop that closed down. The place was notorious for giving kids scrapes and bruises and other injuries for years, my parents were surprised it hadn't closed earlier.

Shit this is huge, any good alternatives? I feel bad for all the wikis that moved over looking for an alternative to fandom.

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My first thought is a raccoon after the bin in kbin. Cause that's where they like to hang out. Maybe a bit undignified, but cute.

Same, just unsubscribed from m/random cause I'm ace and really don't wanna see people's pusses and weiners.

Nah I disagree, perhaps cause I am a zoomer but all the zoomers I know and communicated with online have been way more civil and understanding than previous generations. They even apologize to each other when a conversation goes way out of hand. Toxicity can go across every generation, but the millennial internet was/is a lot worse.

I make it a point to play mario 64 ds at least once a year

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Yeah this is the message I intend. I still check reddit occassionally for the random question (and also to work on my userstyle since it's inspired by the colorscheme). However, I don't stay in too long, don't upvote, comment, or create posts, since that adds traffic to the site.

It was fine when there was three (some comments here say back when there was one...or two which I guess depends on joining point haha). But I personally found the balance between gold, silver, and platinum the sweet spot. Gold for really good posts, silver for posts that, while not as good as gold, were still pretty helpful/decent, platinum being the best of the three, where the post was so extraordinary it deserved more than gold.

When they added more rewards it removed the whole flow. All of them were the most worthless, cringworthy memes, and a lot of them were given out for literally free. To make things worse, they were often misused as well, there were a ton of posts marked with the cringe "wholesome" award that were very not wholesome because the users awarding didn't have any of the other free awards and couldn't pay.

Getting reddit gold beforehand was already having a perception of being "cringe" but I think the addition of the many "meme awards" only made things worse. I think it would have been better if a system was implemented where awards could have been voted upon to posts that truly deserved it or were considered "historic" in some way.

Safari allows you to install adblockers, there's multiple options too. Most vpns these days also come with adblock even if your browser doesn't allow it.

I used Narwhal most of the years I used reddit, it also had ads like the official app, but the difference is it ran so much smoother for many years! Main reason why I switched off it was slow development was causing it to become a bit buggy, not the ads.

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My favorite one is this one from Linux Mint. It's the closest thing Linux ever had to a "bliss" in my opinion.

Of the ones I tried, my top 3 would be cinnamon, budgie, and kde. KDE is probably the best bet for modern features ATM, cinnamon for simplicity.

My top ones:

DuckDuckGo - may not be as private as they claim, but has been my go-to for years. Simple, but feature-full and still mostly decent for search.

Marginalia - a search engine that favors text heavy websites, perfect for research

Searx instance - not my main due to how spotty the instances can be and lazy to set up mine. But can basically grab stuff from all the "big" search engines, which saves a lot of time. I don't consider it a godsend like most people do, though. As since big engines can give poor results.

frogfind - a duckduckgo interface meant for older computers that converts webpages to basic html. Perfect for news articles and tutorials where you want to skip the "fluff".

Hold on, I am not here to spread misinformation! Like I said before, I genuinely had no idea about the trend of Tiananmen square posts since I don't browse r/all. As for why I haven't retitled it yet...didn't know you could!

Also the 3 week old twitter post, I got from a discord friend.

Same one cuz lazy

I'm not a furry, I'm chill with furries, but I do wish there was more variety in the art style. A lot of it is human anime-esque with furry features or too mascot-y. I think I would be a furry if more of them were drawn like disney, looney toon, and other western cartoons. But not much is.

So even though I like cartoon animals, I can only consider myself maybe 5% furry at best.

kbin enhancement script is the closest thing right now I think, but /m/kbinStyles has a lot that are worth looking into

Kinda, it also adds 3 new characters: wario, yoshi, and luigi. You unlock certain characters (mario himself, somehow, luigi, and wario) during portions of the game. Various missions require certain characters to be unlocked, but most of the game can be beaten with just mario. It also has some new levels too. It's a childhood favorite of mine, though best way to play it would be on 3DS or emulator cause the original ds lacked a joystick.

The niche communities that haven't moved over. Mainly r/twobestfriendsplay and r/regards. Only reason why I will probably keep my reddit account despite everything

Edit: also no rss on kbin makes me sad. It's my favorite way to quickly view my subscribed communities.

New album is fantastic! Their best stuff in a long time.

subreddits that have jumped ship from reddit entirely that I am aware of:

r/traaas - to raddle
r/popheads (maybe) - to discord
r/mashup - to discord
r/disneyland - to discord and kbin
r/gameboy - to discord

While the official communities (as in backed by the original mods) all seemingly went to discord, a lot of users I notice have been going to a little bit of everything.

List of software I am aware of: tildes, kbin, lemmy, raddle, squabbles, discord, hacker news (for the techies)