Daily random discussion - Jun 25, 2023
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Today’s Ask PHlemmings: What is one conspiracy theory that you actually believe?
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Conspiracy theory talaga 🥲🥲🥲
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So far his predictions have come true. We entered the "Malacanang shitty" in 2016, Mrs. Marcos is back in power, Noynoy passed away (albeit not by decapitation), and we can now fight Gosling after he starred in Barbie.
I hope I'm still alive when the magnafanta computer is finally introduced in 2046.
Lagpas dalawang linggo na pala ang community na ito dito.
I've been checking Lemmy almost ever since the weekend just before the blackouts, replacing Reddit as my addiction (of sorts). I've also managed to subscribe to a good number of communities, such that my feed is now quite healthy with content. I almost never get the urge to browse Reddit anymore, not even with all the mention of it in my feed.
How about you guys? Kamusta naman ang Lemmy experience ninyo thus far?
Ever since the blackout, I barely go back. The only times that I do is 1) to look for AskReddit material for the RD thread, 2) when someone links to juicy content, 3) close down r/thevisoria, and 4) peek at r/PH's frontpage occasionally, particularly nung polling.
But I stopped posting and likely never will again. Wala rin ako itch to do so.
Edit: Ayan napasilip tuloy ako doon and found out that Couples For Christ have been gone for a while now, there's a courier called HBK, and questions about phone brand and opening an OnlyFans account.
Uhm.... 👀
You know what, after reading some of the replies here, I'm starting to think of this place as some kind of a safe zone, a lounge where people can just relax and take a break from all of the havoc happening elsewhere online.
Thank you for the effort maglagay ng content dito para maengage ang members.
It's been slow for lemmy communities to form. Partly na rin siguro madami parin fence sitters sa reddit debacle up until July I suppose. Kaunti palang nasasalihan kong communities tho.
Pansin ko lang, nag nose dive na moderation sa rph. I don't know if it's just me but the posts are all over.
Not wanting to toot my own horn but some of this is me, I think. I'm very unforgiving of low-effort posts that could be answered with just one reply. Tipong topics that belong in the Help Thread or already been asked/addressed several times before. Makukulong ka ba if hindi mo binayaran yung 800 pesos na balance sa PLDT or takbuhan mo Anytime Fitness membership. Best earphones for 200 pesos na goods na goods. IT o Accounting, ano kukunin ko na course? Innova o Avanza?
Karma farm or redundant threads bwisit rin kami. Yung mga "Ako lang ba naiinis sa utang na loob", "What's your favorite pancit canton?", "Toxic Filipino Culture", tinatanggal ko na lang without any explanation, lol.
The last month or so we were very consistent with this to the point na yung mga threads na otherwise matatabunan papunta sa third page, get a chance to shine. A good example was DENR planting the wrong Mangrove specie — it only had 11 replies on its first day and mushroomed to 195 in just a few days.
LMAO. I had to stop myself from flaming the Piattos flavor thread. If the mods really are quietly stepping away, I fully support it. We didn't get the chance to troll protest like the other cool subs. I guess this is my consolation.
r/philippines is no longer a valuable place for anything Philippines. Some PSAs, natatabunan na rin dahil sa mga bwisit na imported socmed dramas na wala naman tayo, mga Redditors, walang pake.
Karma points instigate how good or bad you are on Reddit, so kung negative karma ka, they'll proceed to call you as "troll" lol
Bruh...........................................
Yeah, r/ph is kinda shitty now. Sana ni-utilize nila yung other filipino subreddits instead of just lumping it in one place. There's AskPH, CasualPH, PHGaming etc. and if you like shitposting, there's 2philippines4u but because r/ph is the biggest filipino subreddit they flocked to it and posted there because where will they get their sweet, sweet karma? And then there's the screenshot posts. If screenshot ng news, sana man lang kahit dinagdag nila yung source instead na nagmamadali silang ipost para sa kuhhhrma. 😑😑
Just to add to this: us mods hate screenshot posts and editorialized titles because it makes it difficult to police duplicates and harms discussion.
Instead of just one thread from Philstar about (hypothetical lang) the onion cartel leader being arrested, you have three other threads. One is a link to a Twitter post by Philstar with the title "Unity pa more", the second is a screenshot of their post from FB titled "Thoughts?", and thirdly, the same link but with a slightly different headline. Then each thread has like 20 comments each that could have been collated into one.
Yung iba naman na kating kati mag-post, hindi nila masabi if may existing na ba kasi nga when they search for "onion cartels" hindi susulpot sa results yung tatlo because of the title... leading to more and more dupe threads.
One other thing about karma farming and why we're always on the lookout for it: people deliberately inflate it so they could sell the account. It is then used to astroturf or even more evil purposes like scamming in marketplaces. Sa r/thevisoria nga lang, we get those requests semi-regularly to the point I had to make a specific rule about it — pano pa kaya sa mga bigger classified ads subs?
Kaya sometimes may makakalusot na karma farm if it appears to be from a legit user. Annoying yes, but nothing nefarious per se. But someone na walang history sa r/PH at all, posting thread after thread after thread about "Anong kwentong commute mo" or "What is the best burger and why is it not Champ?" — we try to shut that shit down quickly.
Karma points are no different to YouTube's and Facebook's Internet points.
I'm still LMFAO when most kakampinks migrated from Facebook to Reddit, dahil "walang peknews at mindful" ang mga Redditor. Oh boy...
Yeah, bruh, those "points." Kung wala kang trillion Internet points, kawawa ka. lol
Sites like this has helped me greatly in checking out where my subscribed subreddits have gone to: https://sub.rehab/ I also find myself sometimes idly browsing
Allon the off chance that I'll discover some community I would like.And yeah, there might be a lot of fence sitters, but I think after the wave that's coming after the end of this month, things will quiet down. From then on, it's really up to us already here if Lemmy/Kbin will be a thing, or it'd just be a fad. Network effect is a hell of a drug, but if there ends up a stable and engaged population here, creating and consuming content, it's already a win in my book.
Hello, fellow all-browser.
Yeah, really interested how things will change by the end of the month. Pakiramdam ko nga ph irc days ulit at parang fresh nanaman ang community dito. Lmao
IRC!!! Parang mas magulo ata yung naging buhay ko nung nasa IRC pa ako eh. But then again, that cozy feeling kasi halos lahat kayo magkakakilala? Yeah!
Nung andun pa ako sa kabila, I never would have even dared think talking to other people in a thread like this. Di ko nga pinapansin yung Random Discussion threads dun eh.
onga buti dumami na users kaya dami na rin posts+comments, sana dumami pa sa July 1
Sana nga rin. At sana yung mga matitino ang dumagsa dito. Lol!
Haha! Seriously hoping hindi pumunta dito ang feeling mod at yung mra na apparently conspiracy theorist din.
Ay, teka, anuyan? Hahaha! Parang nakakatakot mag-usisa. Blissfully ignorant ako sa mga kaganapan dun sa kabila eh.
Don't worry about it nalang hahaha. Pero matagal na sila sa r/ph and sa opinion ko super problematic sila.
si pobautista ba ituu? Hahaha
Uy chismis 👀👀👀
Hindi kaya yung Redditor na pro-eugenics na palagi na-ba-ban nang more than 18 times using his alt accounts? Speaking of MRAs, wag nang pumunta si Shohei dito.
Oo nga, guys like cheese_sticks and also those who appeared to have opted out a long time ago like GuitarEater2. Sana they end up stumbling here.
Ano nga ba nangyari kay Guitareater? Alam ko nadelete ang original account niya for some reason, pero yung second account niya naging inactive lang ba?
Judging from his semi-return last year, I think nag-decide siya iabandon yung r/PH voluntarily and just checked back in that one time. He wasn't banned or anything.
Okay naman. Kaso ung dose of irl drama ko wala dito kaya I use libreddit for offmychestph and rel advice ph HAHAH
Hahahaha! Ang sama ng mental image na na-imagine ko! Parang pinapanood natin sila from a secure location, parang massive multiplayer online version ng Big Brother house, tapos tayo ang audience. 😅
I still go to reddit for some of my interests that aren't here yet, but for news, I use Lemmy na.
Ayun lang. Ayaw kong tignan yung mga subreddits for my interests na ala dito. Natatakot akong maging marupok at magbalik-loob kay Poong $₱€Ƶ eh. HAHAHA!
But i need my news about wrestliiiiing hahaha. Seriously though, I'm trying to limit my usage na. Siguro pag nagupgrade na ang Lemmy World to .18 mas magagamit ko since wala na dapat yung autopopulation ng bagong posts sa All.
I know, right? Not about wrestling, pero may ganyang itch din ako kahit papaano. Laking tulong ng Teddit at yung Privacy Redirect for those times na talagang di ako makapagpigil na sumilip (at di naman kailangang makihalubilo dun).
Lagi kong nakakalimutan na may Teddit nga pala, will try to use that nalang. Salamat sa reminder.
Try mo yung Privacy Redirect na addon para di mo na kailangang isipin. Meron siyang option to replace Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, and Reddit (among others). Para pag may ma-click kang link to any of those you opt to replace (say, Reddit) i-eedit nya yung link.
Now, I have to specifically temporary disable redirection for Reddit, to go to Reddit (if I am checking my accounts for any comments/posts for anything na nag-macArthur).
Aww, sana mabilis yung release ng 18.1.
Limang araw na lang (anim sa ibang bansa) tatanggalin na nila ang mga thrid party apps. Masaya na ako dito sa lemmy, medyo may bugs ang jeroba pero okay na man.
Oo nga eh. Wag na lang pansinin ang mga bugs and to an extent, di ko na rin talaga napapansin.
Ay! Thanks for reminding me of that. Tagal na rin akong may Mastodon, pero sobrang hirap makahanap ng PH content, lalo na yung news and current events. Umabot sa point na recently nag-iisip ako kung kakayanin ko bang gumawa ng bot pang-repost galing Philippine news sources as well as PAG-ASA and Philvolcs. Kaso may nag-remind sa akin ginto na pala ang API access sa Twitter.
Mag-tatanong-tanong nga sana ako dito kung may alam silang magandang i-follow for PH-related things sa Mastodon eh. Forgot all about that tho until your reply.
the search function of mastodon is easier to use than lemmys but i find conversations easier here. mas may community na vibe dito that is missing in mastodon. am now using this community more than reddit. edit: thanks for the news bots.
wanted to support the federation so after setting up mastodon, i also created a pixelfed account. i like the instance (pxlmo.com), just people sharing their photos and art. sa mga nagbabalak iwan ang instagram, join us.
Lemmy consists of 80% literacy and 20% of photos/GIFs. I love reading, especially the thread na pasok sa niche ko. Reddit was once like that, but now it becomes "hieroglyphic" and full of "imported stuffs."
Ok this is just hilarious. It's funny how some subreddits are being clever with their protests. r/dndmemes is just straight up goblin rule 34 now.
Another new Lemmy app has joined, simply called Lemming.
Just installed it. I'm not a fan of the tiled cards and you can't customize anything yet, but other than that it's not too bad. May distinction for the OP, pages are displayed like you'd want it to, and it's clean.
Ang anti-climactic nung nangyari kay Prigozhin/Wagner. Parang si Crabfeeder lang, haha.
Fuckin crabfeeder. Tagal ng hype pero walang ka kwenta kwenta nung nasa screen na.
I have a ton of basil and no idea what to do with it. Any suggestions that's not pesto?
Pista ng San Juan, more like Piste ng San Juan.
Good morning PHLemmies! Have a great sunday ✨
Good afternoon!
Nakakatamad pag Sunday, bukas May gagawin ulit.
Yup. Buried underneath most of the "ReTiReMeNt PlAn nG mAgUlAnG" circle jerk is the sad reality that retirement homes are not a thing here, and that it costs upwards to 1 million annually per person (looking at RainTree at least).
Bahalasiladun. Haha
Like I said awhile ago, the community was just an echo chamber. Para sa mga Pinoy, walang resemblance ang Reddit API changes and most of them galing rin sa Facebook na baguhan lang sa Reddit.
But I'm glad I found this fediverse. It is interesting concept we first-handed experience. The current Lemmy helped me minimize doomscrolling on the Internet.
I used to visit old.reddit back in a day, only read 5-10 threads. With redesigned Reddit, it felt like I was on Facebook noong may account pa ako. I concur my algorithm back then was shit to the core. lol
Well, it's not that there's a whole lot of us here, especially after the otherside has reopened. Also, mukhang tayong mga natira dito ay di rin naman ganun ka-daldal.
However, relatively speaking madada tayo compared to the other country subreddits here.
I'm proud of the fact that we only have 700 subscribers but the community is in the top 5 of most comments. Yung iba nasa 2-3k members but could barely muster half of that.
Nakakatuwa nga eh. Pero minsan parang napapa-"shet, ang ingay natin!" ako, lol!
I haven't crunched the numbers, but I am guessing this community has the most posts per subscriber sa lahat ng lemmy/kbin country communities/magazines.
EDIT:
I did some number crunching on some limited data (
AllCommunities list on Lemmy.world):From that limited data (just the first handful of pages), sadly, we're not the most talkative country community in Lemmy/Kbin. The Germans has got us beat by a wide margin, and the Canadians are right behind us.
That ranking is based on comments per subscriber though.
Hindi ko nakita yung Deutschland sa main page ah. They have half our members and just behind a little on comments.
Still, number two is pretty awesome considering it's only a handful of us from r/PH.
Di ko rin gets kung anong default sorting method na gamit for the community list (both all and local), but I checked just now and it's near the bottom of the first page here.
And yeah, I think it's not bad at all.
Tbf, mahina talaga RDs natin pag weekend, kahit nung sarado pa kabila. So, not surprised at all na career low yesterday now that the bulk of our members made a beeline back in there earlier this week.
It'll be interesting how post-June 30 plays out, though. Will more people migrate here or come back? Maybe. I'm not so sure the Lemmy mobile apps provide a better experience than the native Reddit app for them to abandon ship.
new app (
liftoff), apk available na sa github if you want to test, but install at your own riskhttps://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/releases/
Is this for iOS? They badly need more options there with Mlem restricting testers.
Spez going to smear those Redditors' analytics from mobile apps. It's juicier than Tender Juicy.
Akala ko ako lang. I'm not even subscribed to that.
Alam ko na breakfast sa umaga, toasted pandesal. Nakita ko kase sa box namin madami pang liver spread, nagpapalaman din kami ng egg, cheese or chiz whiz minsan. Kayo ano favorite palaman nyo sa pandesal sa umaga?
Sa amin rito, kung mayroon man, either peanut butter o mayonaise. Minsan, sinasawsaw pa namin ang mga 'di pa napahirang pandesal sa mainit-init na baso ng kape o Energen.
Pag may budget, (Purefoods) corned beef o di kaya (Reno) liver spread.
I'm more of a "kanin sa almusal" person though. So if I do eat pandesal for breakfast, I usually just eat it as it is (or slightly toasted for that extra crunch) with black coffee.
tinry ko din yan sa Firefox for my work, kaya lang bumabagal or nagha-hang habang tumatagal
Nakaka-bagal/hang pala yung Dark Reader?
I've been having some random slowdowns and the occasional hang the past few days eh. Kaso di ko na masyado inusisa since wala akong mapansin na commonality other than a slowdown, tapos hang.
good morning yawn, di pako tulog
Isle of Dawn grids rin po, Will Never! Sumisikat rin ba si Haring Araw diyan?
My twin sister constantly sends me updates about the dogs even when I wasn’t asking lol I appreciate it though
Gawain ko din to nung nakitira ko sa kapatid ko. Dami niya kasing dogs 😁🐶
that’s really sweet of you to do-
Baka nag-quit Reddit na, haha.
Saan instance sila?
Add ko sana sila sa PH fediverse sidebar.
Childish, meron! Joke!
Used to regularly take a peek at /r/childfree years back, pero di ko na rin kinaya yung tone nila dun. There's only enough ways to say "being childfree is a choice!" "It's a sin to make another soul undergo torment in this world!" or other stuff.
I get it, it's difficult to live a childfree life, especially when surrounded by the conservative, religious-minded. I get the need to rant about it, pero susmiyo… Like, uh, parang ang hirap mag-tambay dun nang matagal.
Sorry for the rant ah.
I was exposed to it and /r/antinatalism quite early on in my Reddit carreer. While I am sympathetic to their cause, I feel that the overall mood over at those subs are just a bit too much.
I suppose as more and more people find their way over here, a childfree community would arise here as well. I hope they won't have as much toxicity as their Reddit counterparts.
Ako rin. While karamihan sa friends and family members ko child-free, they're not in the same boat as the typical card-carrying child-free that are just as annoying and toxic as those who keep on pestering singles/couples when they're getting kids.
Tapos napanood ko pa yung kumakalat na vid about gen-Zs, and I just facepalmed hard on how cliche the answers were. Tbf, the "survey" was done in bad faith because why would you be asking inexperienced kids about something that's a product of adult/serious relationships? Lmao.
I'm childfree myself, mostly by circumstance, but also partly by principle. Mostly, I adhere to a "if you think you're up to it, best of luck!" kind of a stance. However, yeah, yung iba dun sa subs na yun (also /r/antinatalism) are just a bit too toxic in their beliefs to the point that it's alienating.
how is it that both Black Mirror S6E1 and S6E2 are dogshit? :((((((( this is the kind of dread i can only get from the show that i've been longing for, but this time it's from the show dying :((((((((((((((((((
idk?? if so maybe they can just expand on the previous episodes but like urgh i'd rather have just one episode every few years than have them put out these subpar idk parang mga comeback pag Kpop HAHA ganon na lang eurgh cmon :(
My speculation: I think the creator, Charlie Brooker, intentionally made this show worse because they don't own or don't have massive creative control on this show anymore. They made a nod in S06E05 by introducing a new label, "Red Mirror," focusing on horror-themed stories rather than sci-fi/techno-themed. "Loch Henry" and 'Demon '79" are clearly not belong to Black Mirror, and are uniquely made.
I don't know what happened to Charlie Brooker with Mazey Day. That was straight-up C-grade movie. lol
well i guess i'll just follow where they end up going when they get their creative control back. Netflix just fucks wth
Netflix has nothing to do with this. Charlie Brooker himself wants to reinvent the show. Kung napanood mo na ang Demon '79, yun na ang simula.
Yo... I fully agree with you this season has been meh. Episode 6 nalang hindi ko napapanood.
Lumang theme naman na kasi yung episode 1. Social media bad, internet bad. Rehashed over and over again every season.
Wala na yung moral dillema na nagpapa self reflect sa viewer. It's more on shock and awe now for the sake of it.
no shock and awe was felt
Kikuo - Gomenne Gomenne hit harder in a few minutes than these episodes did
Black Mirror to US was a really big mistake :( but idk SS Callister was good? Playtest was good??? wtf :(
Me and the wife have been huge fans ever since nasa
BBCChannel 4 pa siya. While the tone shifted drastically with the move to Netflix, I can sorta see why they nearly pivoted away from it completely this season by going absurdist and meta-humor. There's only so much you can do with "technology is bad" and being known for twists e.argh but grr idc give me back my tech future bleak dread shit
but i'd agree if they're worried people might emulate their ideas if they're too close to home
It wasn't aired on BBC. Black Mirror was first aired on Channel 4, counterpart ng BBC. Black Mirror is the reason I gained knowledge of Dogme 95 (typically an ultra-guerilla style of filmmakimg) from S01E01.
Yeah, I missed the vibe of S01 and S02 na napaka-bleak ng storytelling, and thick UK and Scottish accents. Haha
Channel 4 pala sorry, haha. Basta around 2010-13 we were binging British shows hard. Nagsimula sa Sherlock, napunta sa Happy Valley, The Fades, Utopia, The Shadow Line, and so on.
Black Mirror is also what got me into looking for similar shows, to no avail. People always recommend anthology shows, but it's a different type of anthology. There's nothing quite like it. It did get me into Jam, which was a series I never would have come across.
I recommend this show for its innovation. The animations are state-of-the-art. Be warn: intense graphics, flashing lights, explicit sexual content.
Yes! I loved the Three Robots episode, although the gut punch happens in the end.
and hindi lang siya diverse sa themes and genres. pati art style din. if you like animated movies, you will be spoiled by the variety. ganda ng art, ex- Jibaro.
Jibaro is a chef's kiss. I was astounded how "ultra-realistic" that episode.
Nakaka tempt mag gawa ng dating profile or post sa r4r pag ganitong hours, hold me huhu
Magpost ka na. Eto na yung sign na hinihintay mo. Go!🤡
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Nakaka-tempt yung Taho keycaps ng Zion kaso hindi ako fan ng sublegends (no offense to Baybayin ofc).
I deleted most of my posts and comments on reddit. It felt liberating.
I recently played Hill Climb Racing 2 on my smartphone and these Coin Master and TongIts Go whatever extensively popped during gameplays, and I never turned on my Google's personalized ads settings. I can assume our geo-based Internet ads are filled with gambling-themed
It's been awhile since I fully disconnected to a VPN tunnel, and I thought chocolate ads from EU and mobile plan ads and skin care products from JP and SG were shit. May mas malala pa pala... haha.
Scam ata yung iwanttfc. Haha Ako pa nasisi.
Sa web app pa nga lang, wala na. Kaya mej alinlangan ako pagbili ng sub eh. 🤦♀️