It's an old (early-internet?) joke iirc. And yes, I think that's the answer

La loro strategia è quella dell'Embrace, extend, and extinguish (EEE).

È essenzialmente un cavallo di troia per uccidere la concorrenza mentre è ancora in fasce. Bisognerebbe non solo evitare questo Threads come la peste, ma anche sabotarlo attivamente nel nostro piccolo scoraggiando la gente dallo scaricarlo.

Chiaramente non si può vincere una guerra contro un gigante e il corporate web è una realtà che non farà che rafforzarsi in futuro, ma l'obbiettivo è quello di preservare e fare crescere spazi come questo per garantire a chiunque lo voglia un internet diverso

It kinda happened for me with Fallout New Vegas. I was maybe 11 and never played anything from the series. I spent my time killer hobo-ing my way through but I always felt like I was missing something, then I started reading negative opinions about it online and got influence by that, so I dropped it. After some time I played Fallout 3 after hearing people saying it was much better, I liked and I too thought it was much better than New Vegas but decided to give NV another shot (I was 12 or 13 by then). I loved it to the point where it is probably on the top of my emotional top 10. It got me into 50s/60s music, got me interested in politics and ethics, made me become a fan of science fiction and old school RPGs focused on story and a variety of approaches. Really a fantastic game.

EDIT: wanted to add that nowadays I really can't play FO3 without thinking that I could just play NV instead. That's how much I love that game

You guys read people’s usernames?

I'm Gen Z and when I was little my parents were (rightfully) very careful with how much time I spent on the internet. Even so, I saw from a distance the old internet, where forums were a thing and you could find lots of cool websites that people made for reasons that weren't limited to promoting or selling something.

When I discovered Reddit it was like I could somehow experience that time, but for many the decline had already started.

I love interacting with people, asking and answering questions, discovering and making others discover new things, but I just can't stand feeling like everything and everyone is trying to sell me something anymore.

Now that I'm here, I feel like this could be the place, at least for a while.

I'd like to add that it would be nice to warn about spoilers about very old games too. I don't think that should be a rule, but just nice.

The whole "dude that game came out 30 years ago" argument doesn't make sense because not everyone plays everything (and not everyone has your age).

I don't quite get how a "collective art piece" could get "hijacked". If it can be hijacked than it's only collective and collaborative for the ones that Reddit likes.

Of course this is the only way they could present it, but as far as I'm concerned the cool thing about r/place, in principle, is that you can see the chaos of the world, with opposite views, opinions, goals, tastes, interests sharing the same space, the same place, and interacting with each other.

I'd much rather see swastikas alongside sickles and hammers, stickmen being murdered alongside unicorns, dirty jokes alongside the Mona Lisa, than this corporate PR stunt.

I think it also shows that the protests have been somehow successful. Sure, Reddit won't fail, but if they decided to do another r/Place it's only because they know how loved it is by the community and hope to make people forget about the disaster.

Sure looks like it. It's probably better for their image to be down than to have users refreshing and not seeing new content

La "comodità" è di non dover stare dietro a resistenze che si bruciano, vetrini che si rompono e liquidi che finiscono. Da ex fumatore incallito di tabacco e attuale fumatore di sigaretta elettronica classica, oltre che uno spreco inenarrabile mi sembra anche una cosa assolutamente inutile e fine a sé stessa: paghi sta cosa tipo 8 euro per una sigaretta elettronica con nicotina bassissima che se sei un fumatore dopo una giornata devi buttarla. Ho l'impressione che il loro mercato non siano neanche gli ex fumatori, ma chi il tabacco non l'ha neanche mai toccato

Cats dying from alcohol poisoning

(I’m guessing Just Cause?)

EDIT: yup it's dwarf fortress

I don't know anything about it except for what you said, but yeah fuck them. I'd much rather donate my money (well, once I get a job that is) to a bunch of people to maintain a server and simply jump on another instance if anything weird happens than use another Meta's (or any other shitty corpo's) products

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, and I hated it.

It takes a very cool premise, then fills it with incongruences and predictable twists that you understand chapters ahead of the protagonist. Then it all ends up being (SPOILERS AHEAD) a "humans used to literally talk to nature, modern society bad" mumbojumbo with some kind of unexplained multiverse in it.

It’s one of those niche games you never see anyone talking about until you discover it and keep always seeing people talking about it

I'm out of the loop, could someone explain what happened?

All I know is that Beehaw defederated (or was defederated by) someone because of trolls?

I'm using Top 6 Hours since I'm trying to not use my phone that much, and when it gets boring I switch to Hot or New.

Sorting by New is particularly refreshing since the communitoes are smaller and it doesn't feel as a depressing ocean of posts no one will interact with.

Let me tell you, if your interests keep changing and you're easily bored, you'll get bored of every new hobby you find. Thing is, boredom is inevitable even when we do things that are pleasurable, so you might as well find something you actually like and "elevate" yourself in some way (be it physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, you name it).

I'm a psychology student and I love what I study. Is is fun? No. Do I get bored often? Hell yeah. But god I love doing it, because at the end of the day I feel enriched and with a new perspective on the world. Every single time I decide to persevere through difficult or boring material instead of booting up a game or watching YouTube I feel so much more myself.

And mind you, I'm terrible at this. I struggle so much to keep myself from getting into the hyperstimulation rabbit-hole, and I often spend whole afternoons jumping from one thing to the other (not necessarly games/social media, often I keep jumping between books and articles and projects every 10 minutes without ever finishing anything), but it's a process.

That said, I would suggest someting like music production. You can get as wild as you want with technicalities but it's also creative. I recently discovered Pure Data and it scratched that itch of both doing something creative and learning something technical.

Whatever you choose, embrace the boredom! It's part of everyone, it's part of life. The hardest thing is getting started (e.g. I stayed up late to work on a new hobby and the next day I have no desire to get back to it, but as soon as I start doing it again for as long as ten minutes I'm absorbed again), often you'll fail but it's not a race. You could also get back to an hobby you started a while back but approach it from a different perspective (for me Pure Data did it with music production and coding), so that you're not overwhelmed but don't have that feeling of "already seen" neither.

On a side note, mandatory "are you seeking professional help" question. If you're not, start doing it. If you already are, good job! It can feel slow at times, maybe you keep talking about the same thing (or change topic everytime) and feel like you're not making progress, but it will yield its result in the long run!

Good luck with everything man! I know you'll get something out of this situation :)

Yeah it feels like most right wing people are more progressive than they think.

I'm not from the U.S. but everytime I talk with a conservative we agree on a lot of things once they stop talking with slogans

Però mi domando se sia sostenibile per loro. Ok che qualcuno a cui di questa storia frega poco e che sia disposto a moderare lo trovi, ma è vero anche che gli utenti disposti a moderare e capaci di farlo sono generalmente anche quelli più incazzati con Reddit, almeno credo.

Quando i subreddit oscurati diventano così tanti che fai? Inizi a pagare della gente per moderare? Ma poi non rischi un appiattimento delle community e un peggioramento generale delle stesse? Perché se paghi qualcuno gli fai moderare più subreddit possibili e inevitabilmente il livello cala

The comment I read made it seem as some kind of pitiful faction war but it's pretty understandable, maybe it could even have a positive impact on Lemmy as a whole

Find interesting stuff -> not now -> leave tab open for later -> notice it hours/days/weeks later -> not now -> repeat untill closed without reading