SemioticStandard

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[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago (8 children)

The Internet, sadly, has always been an awful place for women and minorities. I hope we can build a culture here where that kind of shit isn’t tolerated, and all (sans trolls, bigots, racists, and Nazis) are made to feel welcome and respected.

Except the Dutch. Fuck those guys.

[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Someone did, though there’s nothing on it now https://lemmynsfw.com/

[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Spammers and other bad actors are typically more likely to make the effort than people who might well add a lot of value.

Why do you think this?

[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I disagree with that. The larger subreddits have significant moderation problems. Only through extraordinary efforts by the mod teams, such as at /r/askhistorians, are things kept in line. It's simple math: the more users you have, the more likely you are to have people posting in bad faith. If a subreddit of 1 million users has only 0.05% of its users posting low quality content, that's still 50,000 people that need to be moderated for.

[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The more popular a community becomes, the shittier it gets. The easier you make it to join and interact with, the more popular it will become.

In the case of places like Gab, Truth Social, Parlor, and other right wing nut job havens, while the quality of users might not get higher if you raised the barrier to entry, those places certainly wouldn’t have become as popular as they have.

But the barrier to entry isn’t the only reason they’ve congregated there, they have other cultural reasons driving them, primarily the owners or moderators being friendly to that kind of mindset. I don’t think the same crowd would be able to gather here as they’d just get defederated.

[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I have high hopes for Alan Wake and Metal Gear

[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Okay. Well, we're all hungry. We're gonna get to our hotplates soon enough, alright?

 

How slick does this look? It’s even “affordable” at €234 (compared to the Sinn I someday want that cost thousands…)

[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ah I just don’t want to be spammy is all.

Are we allowed to submit other people’s pictures we come across here? I assume so? I’m going to miss /r/itookapicture and /r/earthporn terribly :( 99% of my wallpapers come from those two places.

 

I was riding my bike a few weeks ago and came across this couple parked in their old MG, watching the sun set. They allowed me to take a few pictures of them. Wish I hadn't cut off the back part of the car in the composition, but alas.

Taken with a Canon EOS R7, 18mm, f/5.6

(Also I know this is my 3rd upload in the past couple of days, but I'm trying to help get this community going!)

[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Makes you wonder how many absolutely awesome things that society has lost, or would otherwise have, if capitalism and greed hadn’t absolutely fucking ruined things. It’s tragic that we can’t have nice things just because they’re nice, someone has to make a buck in order for a thing to exist.

[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I want Lemmy to succeed, I want to be optimistic about it as an alternative to Reddit, but OP is correct, and we need to be honest about this very simple fact:

The Reddit we knew and loved is gone, and that’s a sad, tragic thing, and there likely won’t be a 1:1 replacement for a long time, if ever.

It’s okay to admit to ourselves that this whole situation sucks, because it absolutely does. That doesn’t mean that we can’t enjoy Lemmy and other federated things like it, and it doesn’t mean that federation doesn’t have advantages over Reddit, but let’s be honest: most of us were happy at Reddit, using our favorite 3rd party app (like Apollo), and we wouldn’t be here if the admins weren’t happy to kill what we once loved.

All we can do is try to make the best of it.

[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Agreed. This is depressing as hell. Apollo is a joy to use. There are so many niche communities on Reddit that I enjoy, and even if Lemmy or other federated things like it take off, those communities are largely going to die. This is a tragedy, no matter how you look at it. We are losing.

 

Evidently TST says they may consider opening a publicly funded school in OK after the state approved public funding for a Christian school. I hope they do.

 

These kinds of monsters are totally cliche, but even as a veteran horror fan and late-30s male, this one still creeped me the fuck out. Anyone else?

Supposedly Valak first appears in The Lesser Key of Solomon: https://allthatsinteresting.com/valak

Solomon features King Solomon of Old Testament fame who was renowned for his wisdom. At some point around the second century B.C., the idea spread that the king’s realm of knowledge had also included certain secrets of astrology and magic. The grimoire bearing his name lists the 72 demons that the king supposedly vanquished during his reign, providing readers with their names and instructions for expelling them should they come in contact with such spirits themselves. Valak, which is sometimes also spelled Ualac, Valu, Volac, Doolas or Volach, is the 62nd spirit listed in Solomon, according to which he “appeareth like a boy with angels wings, riding on a two-headed dragon.” His special power, according to the text, is finding snakes and hidden treasures while leading an army of 30 demons.

I don’t believe in any of that and I’m not at all religious, but it’s creepy and interesting to me anyway!

 

Taken with a Canon EOS R7, 24mm, 4/5.6

 

Saw this little fella in a bush outside my front door the other day.

Taken with a Canon EOS R7, 150mm, f/8

 

StokerCon is next week! I'm going, and will be moderating a panel on AI. I also have a story that's in an anthology (Mother: Tales of Love and Terror, by Weird Little Worlds) that's up for a Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Anthology. Is anyone else going?!

 

I would've loved to see him in the Premier League, but it'll really be something to see him in MLS. He's 'only' 35, still has a couple of seasons left in the tank. He'll be a monster for Miami.

 

Early impressions sound like Apple may have actually pulled this off. Here’s what The Verge had to say:

Was all this made better by the wildly superior Vision Pro hardware? Without question. But was it made more compelling? I don’t know, and I’m not sure I can know with just a short time wearing the headset. I do know that wearing this thing felt oddly lonely. How do you watch a movie with other people in a Vision Pro? What if you want to collaborate with people in the room with you and people on FaceTime? What does it mean that Apple wants you to wear a headset at your child’s birthday party? There are just more questions than answers here, and some of those questions get at the very nature of what it means for our lives to be literally mediated by screens.

I definitely agree with that. I’d like to try this but I don’t know if I’d ever want one.

 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3427252/

Saw this the other night, really enjoyed it. Don’t think it was particularly scary, although a few scenes were, but it was a fun watch regardless.

spoilerThe monster at the end was really neat. I liked how it opened its mouth and there was another monster inside, trying to come out. The way it would mimic others as well was unnerving! That and the tiny little pinpricks of eyes throughout various scenes were well done.

 

Oh, I would really miss the horror subreddit if I’m forced to move. Anyone around…?

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