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Chozo

@ Chozo @fedia.io

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  • What movie is in your top list despite its absolute shit rating?

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  • Sucker Punch. Objectively, it's not really that great of a movie. But it's one of the most fun movies I've ever seen. It's got over-the-top action sequences, an amazing soundtrack, and a genuinely unique idea for a story that I haven't really seen done before.

    The final cut ended up removing a very key scene that ties a lot of the story together, which I honestly feel is part of why the movie was so poorly-received, because the theatrical release just doesn't make sense and ends abruptly. If you decide to watch it, try to find a version that has the deleted scene with the High Roller near the end. It's a full five minutes of dialogue that ties the entire story together and Warner Brothers scrapped it and it drives me so crazy. It's like an "I Am Legend's deleted ending" level of directorial blunder, IMO.

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  • I just hope that in the future people will avoid using software names in their server branding, because it only confuses people.

    100% this. For instance, one would think that "Lemmy World" is something that's officially related to the Lemmy project development. But in actuality, the "official" Lemmy instance would be Lemmy.ML, which is notoriously defederated from many of the big players in this space. It's all very misleading to the uninitiated user.

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  • Herein lies a problem I've had for a while, actually. It's hard to tell people about Lemmy, because "Lemmy" isn't really a website, or an app, or even a platform, really. It's a protocol that anybody can use. For instance, we're not really posting comments here on Lemmy, as much as we are posting comments via Lemmy. Right now, I'm posting a comment on Lemmy World via Lemmy, from Fedia. The average new user is very quickly gonna get lost in the sauce with that.

    So even the main recruitment page, "Join Lemmy", is kinda misleading because how do you join a protocol? It's kinda like saying "enlist with TCP/IP" or "create an account on HTTPS". Like... what does that even mean to a user? It leads most people into thinking that "Lemmy" is some centralized community with a hub of some sort, which is ironically antithetical to everything Lemmy stands for in the first place.

    I think one solution to this would be to stop referring to things as being "on Lemmy", and instead use terms like "a Lemmy site" or "a Lemmy instance", which I think would help articulate the fact that "Lemmy" is a piece of software and not the community, itself. So when trying to refer friends to join a Lemmy instance, we should use the instance's name, instead of "Lemmy". But this brings about another problem; how does an instance form an identity to begin with?

    Take Lemmy World here, for example: What is LW's "identity"? What kind of site is this? What's it about? What is the community here for? It's called Lemmy World, so is it about the Lemmy software? To the outsider, it just looks like an off-brand Reddit; which may be what some are looking for, but there's no real identity to be found in that.

    You do have some instances that are a bit more focused, however, and have a distinct "identity" about them. Unfortunately, a lot of those are defederated from the major instances because of those identities (Lemmy.ML, Hexbear, etc). But there are also a lot of really good ones like the solarpunk or literature instances, and interestingly enough, LemmyNSFW, which all have their own focused subject matters but are still part of the Fediverse at large. When you sign up to one of those instances, you know what kind of community you're getting involved with. You're there for a reason, just like everybody else.

    I think Beehaw does a good job in this, specifically; even though they're a "general purpose" instance much like Lemmy World, they have very clear guidelines and expectations for how users behave and what they post, which helps solidify its identity. If I tell you "think of a Beehaw user", you can probably concoct an idea in your head about what that person is like. If I tell you "think of a Lemmy World user"... can you even narrow it down enough to create a caricature at all?

    I don't have any real point to all this, just rambling about some frustrations I've had for a while with the terminology of things around here. I dunno what the solution should really be.

  • Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch

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  • That's true, but I don't think we'll see that sort of rapid growth on Mastodon. At least not for a while. For now, Bluesky is sucking up most of the users seeking Twitter alternatives. I imagine that the growth will be slow enough that it'll be easy enough for mod teams to scale up to.

  • Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch

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  • Haha, what a bozo! Now we're going to relentlessly shit-talk them in this sub-thread that OP has no ability to moderate nor stem the flow of vitriol from.

    (Further continuing the example.)

  • Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch

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  • Good. I get why they were originally resistant to it, but fringe, outlier situations can be dealt with when you have actual mods maintaining things. The reason quote-retweeting was used so heavily for bullying on Twitter was because there were no repercussions for it, and Twitter never enforced their bullying rules for the practice. Mastodon instances have their own mods enforcing their own rules, to a much better degree than Twitter ever has. While the potential for bullying still exists, it's far easier to mitigate on Mastodon.

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    What would you consider the 3 greatest movies ever made?

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  • The Princess Bride, Requiem For A Dream, and Hot Fuzz.

    I usually won't rewatch a movie I've already seen, but I make exceptions for these ones.

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    What's the purpose of Loops?

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  • Right now, half the content posted to Loops is just freebooted TikTok videos, so browsing the main feed is kind of obnoxious. The lack of any algorithms also shows just how important curation is to a platform's user experience.

  • Rivals sure is one of the experiences of time

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  • Everybody worse than me is a scrub, anybody better than me is a tryhard.

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    Is it moral to vandalize Teslas?

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  • And there is no world in which the AfD takes majority.

    Yeah, about that... we said that about Trump, too. Twice, actually.

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  • Here in Texas, it'd fall under criminal mischief

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    Whether or not a court will spend the time hearing such a case is another story

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  • I mean, AFD is gaining a scary amount of traction there, so yeah kinda.

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    Is it moral to vandalize Teslas?

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  • No, it doesn't hurt Tesla. There's no such thing as bad publicity; if there was, Tesla's owner wouldn't have been able to throw up two nazi salutes at the inauguration and then be given access to all of the American people's personal data.

    Who do you think gets paid when the owner repairs the car? Tesla makes money every time somebody scratches up a Cybertruck.

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  • Y'all act like OP wrote the damn laws.

    In many places, "writing" with the dust on a car is legally considered vandalism. It doesn't matter how temporary it is, or if it washes off with a stiff breeze or a light rain. Here in Texas, it'd fall under criminal mischief for "intentionally or knowingly makes markings, including inscriptions, slogans, drawings, or paintings, on the tangible property of the owner". Whether or not a court will spend the time hearing such a case is another story, but it's technically illegal, as the laws are written.

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    Is it moral to vandalize Teslas?

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  • No. It doesn't hurt Tesla, it just hurts an individual, and you don't know their reasoning for buying the car in the first place.

    Many Tesla owners are Uber drivers who got their Tesla through Uber because they didn't have any other car to use. And they usually don't get a lot of choices on that car they get. Damaging their car is damaging their livelihood.

    Obviously that's not the case for every Tesla owner, but I'm not about to risk ruining the income of somebody who is likely already struggling, just because I'm mad at a billionaire nazi. And neither should you.

    If you want to break things, break things that matter.

  • Microsoft Bing Testing Dropping AI Labels From AI Answers.

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  • Does it matter when half the authentic results on any search engine these days always take you to pages with AI content, anyway?

  • Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps

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  • The article says as much. But it's also definitely both. While the dating app scene has been abysmal for the last 10 years or so, Gen Z is also a lot less sexually active than previous generations were at their age. There've been a few reports on how Gen Z is having less sex, and how they have less demand for sex in media because they grew up inundated with sexualized media their whole lives. It's pretty interesting to see the attitude shift toward sex with the generations.

  • What sounds like a double standard but isn't?

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  • I remember seeing some neckbeard-ass post on Reddit when the live-action Little Mermaid trailer came out, saying how it wouldn't make sense for somebody living in that region of the ocean to have dark skin because of the longitude and depth of the water, etc...

    Like... You're really trying to argue the scientific accuracy of... [checks notes] ... a fucking MERMAID? Spare everybody the mental gymnastics and just say you don't like black people.