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Sad to see Reddit go

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I'd love more time to ease into the transition and let Lemmy grow more naturally. So if they did that 180 I'd probably still visit Lemmy first each day, then switch to Reddit once I ran out of new posts.

Hopefully after a few months all my favorite things from reddit would get ported over

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Guide: Write cool posts and comments with Markdown for newbies

Just want to plug markdown as a phenomenal resource. You can use it to write documentation both online and offline, and with pandoc you can even use it to create beautiful PDF documents from your computer. Here's some places I use markdown daily, some additional resources, and tips

  • GitHub parses markdown files from their web UI by default
  • Obsidian uses markdown for their note taking application
  • Pandoc can convert Markdown files to other formats including PDF
  • Because it's plaintext, there are fewer formatting errors when moving between applications and you don't even need an application to read them
  • Plaintext also means documents can be easily tracked via source control
  • Lemmy and Reddit both use Markdown
  • Discord uses a variation of Markdown
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Injunction blocking Florida law targeting drag shows applies to all venues, judge says

I just don't get why they've made drag shows and the trans community their new "policy" agenda. Why would you even care about whether a child sees a man (or woman) in drag?

This is why I struggle to empathize with the modern conservative movement. I just don't get it. They don't use logic or reason, they just attack whatever gives them the ick and I wish I could understand being so sure of something that all evidence points to as being incorrect.

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I hate battle royale games

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In my mind, it's because the game developers are catering to the "short attention span" gamers, which I think is a pretty large chunk. They want to get to "playing" fast and want that instant gratification.

In Apex Legends, there are hotspots where half the lobby drops, and you either are the one team out of four or five that comes out alive, or you die pretty immediately and have to queue up for the next game. It's just a different style of playing, which I don't fully understand.

But then again, I also don't want to drop in the middle of nowhere and loot for 20 minutes. I want moderate-paced action; an initial fight with one or two teams, then slowly rotate around the map picking intelligent fights where we can.

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Comfort games?

No one has said it yet, but I find Raft to be incredibly relaxing. Especially if you just ignore objectives and just sit there collecting debris. It can be so tranquil and a ton of fun

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Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1

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Reddit (and Boost, the app I used before) offered several different layout styles that you could pick from (e.g. cards, list). Are those the types of layouts you're referring to? Those could be added, I expect, and the more the merrier

Or do you mean more specific layout details like where the voting buttons are?