That's fucking ridiculous. Maybe we should all start posting this meme and get ourselves banned.

Reach out to The Verge, they've been covering the Reddit debacle pretty well and I bet they'd love to hear from you.

Man...it's been years, so I don't remember, but honestly it felt like it at the time. Everyone hated their massive V4 redesign, so people just...left. The Reddit situation is different, because it only really affected third-party app users, not every single user of the site.

Edit: I looked it up, and yeah, there was a "quit Digg day" on August 30, 2010 when pretty much everybody just left for Reddit and didn't look back. It helped that people actively bombed Digg's front page with links to Reddit that day, letting people know where to go. Two days later Digg's CEO was ousted by the board, two months later they laid off 37% of their staff. They basically died overnight. That's not happening to Reddit.

It's worth noting that Reddit has been around a lot longer than Digg had at the time, and has way more traffic than Digg ever did. Unseating Reddit is going to be a lot harder than quitting Digg was.

There's too much misinformation on this subject. I'm not an expert, but this is all based on what I've read from the most reliable scientific sources I can find.

Creatine timing doesn't matter at all since your body has to load it over the course of days or weeks anyway. Take it whenever. Just take 5g at some point every day.

Pre-workout obviously before working out. Ostensibly 30 minutes before, to give your body time to take it in. But be aware that caffeine is the only legal OTC pre workout chemical that's proven to be effective. A recent study even showed carbs didn't increase performance measurably.

Recent studies show protein timing doesn't really matter at all either. Your body will use the protein you give it. Now, you probably do want to get enough around the time you're triggering muscle protein synthesis... Like, within a few hours of exercise. Ie, don't fast all day, work out, then get your protein 8 hours later.

Other than that? The best pre workout is sleep. Get enough of that shit every night for your best gains in basically every area of your physical and mental health.

What I do not understand about this take is that they can already collect all of this data, today. They don't need to federate with the rest of the Fediverse to scrape basically all of the data they want. The only problematic thing they'd need an instance for is linking votes to users - which is something they could do just by spinning up a Lemmy instance. And they probably shouldn't be able to, Lemmy should try to figure out a way to anonymize votes.

Threads joining the Fediverse does not significantly increase their ability to collect data about existing Fediverse denizens.

Yeah. I hate Nancy Pelosi. I hate Trump MORE, but I hate him more than just about anyone. Pelosi is still a garbage person.

Before you're going to launch a tirade about the absolute necessity to be progressive diverse non-fascist

I'm going to regret asking this, but... What?

Right? How many mass-murdering psychopaths has God raised up in authority? What an idiot.

Valheim took 4 years to make.

I work in gamedev. Even with simple graphics, making a successful game generally takes a lot of time to make. It's not just graphics. Design, writing, QA, art, console compliance, and a huge amount of engineering effort especially in multiplayer games. It takes time to get right. And we've all seen what happens when "AAA" games are released before they're ready just because a bean counter said they had to.

The blockbuster hits with simple graphics that a solo dev made in a few months are the exception, not the rule.

Sorry, eating meat brings me too much raw, unbridled ecstasy to do that.

When do we stop wearing masks, in your estimation? Never, since airborne diseases will always exist?

I was on Reddit for 17 years. It was my home on the Internet. I used to go to Reddit meetup days and hang out with other Reddit nerds. It's natural for people to have sentimental feelings about something that's been such a big part of so many of our lives.

I haven't been back since the Lemmy exodus, except by accident a few times. But I miss what it was.

Sorry, not really into God fanfic anymore.

Sure, but that means on social issues (like the trans rights) he is very "progressive".

Voyager (formally Wefwef) is doing this. You can favorite communities and it will push them to the top. It's been useful for monitoring smaller communities.

Hey - thank you for this response, it's the first one I've seen that tried to take the question "How could they EEE?" seriously.

What I still don't really understand is - how is this different from just creating a better competitor, without the federation at all? If you're worried about people choosing a superior, shinier corporate product, then surely they'd do this even without federation. At least with federation, we're not excluded from the walled garden, and don't have to have an account on their platform to interact with users we know or like there.

I have a Facebook account because there are people in my life that I want to communicate with on there, and that is my only way of contacting them. If FB was a federated platform, then I wouldn't have to have that account to do that.

The only (EEE-related) risk I see is that if Threads federates, they could then choose to defederate one day. But that would just make them into a walled garden again, the situation we already have today.

I use Mixel, and I quite like it. Lots of great recipes, you can rate them and save them, it matches based off your ingredients. One of the few apps I've happily paid for premium on.

French press is always going to have some "mouth feel" because of the mesh filters.

I can highly, highly recommend the "Clever" dripper which James Hoffmann reviewed here. It's very similar to French press in method, great for single serve, almost totally foolproof, and uses paper filters for a very clean cup. I use Hoffmann's recipe and basically always have a good cup. There's a similar device called the Hario Switch which some people like more but I haven't tried it; the Clever has been great.

As for grinding your own, do it. Pre-ground coffee starts to go bad after a day, and just isn't as good. Start with an inexpensive burr grinder if you don't want to invest hundreds of dollars right away, but be aware that price/performance increases roughly linearly up to like $250, so spending more gets you a better result. Hand grinders like 1ZPresso can be even better for the price but are a little more work. The nice thing about immersion methods like the Clever though is that they're more forgiving of bad grinds, so you won't need to spend too much unless you want to use a drip method like V60.

You'll also need a cheap scale for weighing beans if you want consistent results. I recommend getting one that goes to 0.1 grams for single serve, with a large enough surface to hold your cup. It shouldn't cost more than about $20. I use this one.

You'll also want to experiment with beans. Modern coffee enthusiasts drift towards light to medium roasts instead of dark roasts, because you can extract more subtle interesting flavors and less bitterness. I have a penchant for very light, "natural" processed African coffees for their tart berry flavors. But it's all personal preference. There's way too much to get into in terms of processing, country of origin, blend vs single origin, etc. Try everything and see what you like. Coffee subscription services like Trade and Mistobox can be a convenient way to try a lot of things, or you can do what I do and just find a great local roaster to order from.

Btw, welcome! Check out James Hoffmann's channel on YouTube, it's my favorite coffee resource on the Internet. He has a ton of great advice in general. If you like print, he also has a small book called "How To Make The Best Coffee At Home" which is excellent and really all you need.

I've never heard about this drama, but I also intentionally didn't follow the game too closely so I can go into it relatively blind. This sounds strange to me, though.

As far as I'm concerned, there are many ways to play video games, and many ways to play D&D, and none of them are "wrong" (as long as they don't harm real life people in some way). If you want to minmax then go for it, that is a valid way to play.

As a "Johnny" in the MtG sense I like to play broken/unintuitive/combo type characters. Not necessarily minmaxing, since it's not just about efficiency, but...efficient creativity. So I'm looking for a build that's "fun" in an unusual way, viable, but not necessarily "optimal".

Yes. I am comfortable with that. Do you think most meat eaters don't know that?