I experienced this when I got rid of facebook (or more accurately, when I wouldn’t provide them with my ID to get my account unlocked).
But the other side of it is that a lot of the social groups that I was involved with, and a lot of my contact with my friends, was done through facebook, and my real world social life has been impacted by losing facebook.
I still wouldn’t go back, but it’s a first hand example of just how wide the facebook network effect can reach.
Feishin. It’s a navidrome/jellyfin player.
I love it, because it has smart playlists that are actually smart! It lets me create “random” playlists from my music collection, in a way that works for me.
I grew up as a closeted queer kid in rural Australia, before the internet was widely available. I had zero connection with other queer kids, and no way to develop the language or connections that I needed to help me understand what was going on.
Social media gives that to queer kids. It lets them find their peers and know that they’re not alone. It gives them people to talk to and support them when they’re bullied (which they will be, even without social media).
This “protects” some vulnerable kids by throwing other vulnerable kids under the bus. Whilst at the same time, setting the way for legislation like this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/105516256, which is what it’s really about.
Transformers (the original G1 animated one).
Robocop
The Never Ending Story
The Dark Crystal
I got a new PC and felt dirty at the thought of installing windows on it. So I never did. Linux ever since.
Another problem is that cosmic expansion affects the wire itself.
Not if its mithril :P
Says the two day old account…
No no, that’s the straw neck ibis! This guy is WAY bigger than a bin chicken!
What’s interesting, is that I’ve been drinking coffee my whole life, but it’s only in the last few years that I’ve started to experience this effect.
I used to get out of bed, drink a coffee and then go for a run, but that order of events would be unthinkable now, because I could end up in a predicment…
So I’m curious about whether age and/or hormones also play a part in this story…
There was a tiny amount of light, enough for me to use manual focus to find the right focus point. And once I did that, I just did a long exposure (1 second in this case)
1 second would be WAY too long for most birds, because they don’t sit still, but Frogmouths are ambush predators, that sit perfectly still for hours on end until prey comes close. Also, the lens and the camera body are image stabalised, so I was able to hand hold the camera (with great care) to make it all work.
Steam often does it for me. But it should tell you what’s doing it in the task tray icon bar somewhere (not near a computer at the moment, so I can’t be specific)
Do you have your knife of Ogre Slaying?
Again, it depends on what you mean. You’re not really saying what these things are that you expect to disagree on, and that’s the important bit.
It depends what you mean. Individual instances have their own approach to moderation, which influences what you will see and have access to. Some are more hands off than others. But if your “free speech” is really just looking for a free pass to hate on folk, then you won’t have much luck with lemmy. There are instances that allow that, but most other instances block them.
I think its a big positive
That’s an ironic position to hold given your username…
In theory yes, in practice, no.
Nostr uses relays. In some ways, a relay is like an instance on the fediverse. Where they differ though, is that a) relays don’t talk to each other and b) users can sign up to many different relays and pull/push content to all of them.
So in practice, in order to see a wide amount of content, you need to end up connecting to multiple relays. And even though a relay does have some moderation capabilities to block content, unless every relay you use blocks the content from the bigoted account, you’ll see it.
If you signed up only to a single relay, and that relay had good moderation, then in theory, your Nostr experience wouldn’t be terrible, but a single niche relay like that will mean you see basically no content. And as soon as you connect to a larger public relay to get more content, you lose all of the moderation advantages offered by your first instance. Which means in practice, there is no incentive to run a well moderated instance.
And so all of the moderation ends up on the end user, who has to manually block accounts only after they appear and dump their load of hate (at which point, the bigot will just spin up another account). Some people prefer that experience, but when you’re the regular target of hate, that approach just doesn’t work for many folk.
Are you happy? Is your partner happy?
There’s your answer