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  • Terms of service/privacy policies would be on a per-instance basis.

  • One of my biggest regrets in life was passing on an opportunity to see him perform. A friend had some tickets and invited me, but I wasn't able to get the day off work. "I'll catch him when he tours again next year", I thought. He died later that year.

  • You ever hoovered schneef off a sleeping cow's spine?

  • That's fine, I'll take that trade.

  • "Family" and "relation" aren't mutually exclusive; call the cops on your brother. You can't un-radicalize him, but you can at least keep him away from you.

  • Become a comedian. Make people pay to laugh at you.

  • Kbin/Mbin handle microblog posts kinda oddly. They're not actually attached to the magazine you see them in, in most cases, and it's instead bin auto-sorting posts by hashtag. bin will aggregate all of the microblog content and sort it by the first hashtag listed, and that'll determine which local magazine that post will appear in.

    So for instance, I could post:

    Just got the high score! #gaming

    And this will show up in /m/gaming for you, even though I didn't specify any magazine to post it to. I could do that from my Mastodon account, even, and you'd see it there, as well. You can subscribe to local magazines to effectively subscribe to Mastodon hashtags this way.

    Posting microblog content directly to a magazine is a bit weird, as bin basically just adds a "hidden" hashtag with the magazine's full address in the metadata. So if you wanted to post a microblog post to this magazine, for instance, you could do that by either selecting this magazine from the list when posting, or you could include #fediverse@lemmy.world as a hashtag from any Fediverse platform, and it'll show up in the microblog tab on bin.

    I hope that makes sense; I might not be explaining it properly lol

  • I haven't had the watermelon one yet, but the slushie one is legit, too! My roommate gets that one sometimes, so I'll occasionally sneak a scoop of it.

  • Miami Nights! I usually go between this one and the Diablo health potion flavor.

    1. An empty bottle of iced coffee that I started on at the beginning of my shift and just finished a few minutes ago. About to start moving to the shaker cup of G Fuel for more caffeine to carry me through the rest of the night. Last one's a steel water bottle.

    This is normal for me. I typically bring all 3 to my desk at the start of my shift and sip on them throughout the night.

  • I read that as "theatre actors" and thought the thespians were up to no good again.

  • I think you're underestimating who "we" includes when talking about the Fediverse. Normies want a place here, too.

  • Because wanting braindead content that you don't have to think about or form a critical opinion over is a valid request. There's a big reason the Fediverse doesn't see widespread adoption: the content sucks, it's all politics from the farther edges of every end of the spectrum and FOSSbro tech discussion that's about as insufferable as cryptobro subreddits.

    If the Fediverse wants to attract more people, then it needs to start expanding into what those other people actually want. They don't want to have a furry with a Stalin profile pic explain Linux kernel to them, they want to laugh at inconsequential videos of children falling into things that they can leave a "heart" on and quickly share a link to their friend with.

  • Don't worry, soon they'll catch on to "cooked".

  • Thanks for verifying that. Fandom has a documented history of pushing objectively false information, so it's reasonable for people to be skeptical of any unsourced posts on that site.

  • Deport him.

  • Ah, I had no idea that worked! Good to know.

  • Your account will only log you into your home instance. To interact with threads on other instances, you'd need to locate the post from within your own feed on your home instance.

  • While all of that may be true, it doesn't necessarily negate the adverse affects social media can also have on young people.

    I think you got lucky and found a community that accepted and welcomed you. But a lot of kids aren't as fortunate, and their experiences with social media are a lot more sinister. Children are more exposed to predators and harassment now than ever before.

    I dunno that a full "ban until ___ years old" policy is the cure, either. But it's a start.