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@ hoagecko @sh.itjust.works

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  • Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit

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  • What I'm particularly concerned about lately is the growing share of online forums that don't even publish their content on the web.

    The most famous example of this type of forum is probably Discord.

    As those of you on Lemmy know, many people chose Discord as an alternative after Reddit's deterioration.

    Hasn't this problem already escalated to the point where access to content isn't guaranteed not only to some bots but even to individuals without accounts?

    Shouldn't those who love the web be extremely wary of online communities that don't even try to be based on the web?

    That's what I think.

    If search engines truly only show the "existence" of forums, then the open web is truly over.

  • What is your favourite hobby and what do you value it for?

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  • My website is still under development and not yet public.

    I hope to launch it sometime this year.

    I also maintain a link blog on Mastodon and Bluesky, focusing on personal websites, news, and academic research.

    This blog includes some of the results from my aforementioned website.

  • What is your favourite hobby and what do you value it for?

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  • What is your favourite hobby and what do you value it for?

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  • Music. Because it's sound, even when I'm at my most lethargic, depressed, and too exhausted to do anything, I can enjoy it just by feeling its vibrations in my body.

    Collecting rare and high-quality pages on the internet, especially personal websites. In this age of social media where information flow is manipulated by algorithms, the culture of personal link collections is all the more necessary.

  • What is your favorite youtube video?

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  • Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.

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  • This is a security issue, not a content issue.

    There is nothing wrong with universities posting pornography.

    This is evident from the fact that Japanese universities research traditional pornographic art from that country.

  • What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about?

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  • What tv show has the best theme song?

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  • Do you volunteer?

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  • Yes. I contribute to Wikipedia and MusicBrainz.

    I wanted to contribute to the online information sources that I always rely on, so I started activities on these two sites.

    Offline, I work on organizing 78rpm-record collections left by local collectors.

    I like music from before the LP era, and I learned about this activity through local media and decided to participate in the organizing work.

  • Whats your favourite non english song?

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  • What band did you hear one song of, check the rest of their music, and find it was a one-off and none of their other music sounds like that?

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  • Tamaki Miura, Ryukichi Sawada - O-edo Nihon-bashi before 1925

    A recording by Japan's first international opera singer and a professional pianist.

    The original piece is a folk song, but the arrangement by pianist Ryukichi Sawada is ingenious, allowing listeners to hear rhythmic expressions comparable to modern rock and roll.

    Due to Sawada's early death, the number of his known works is limited, and there are virtually no other works of this kind of vocal music.

    Recently, Sawada's music has been reissued under the revival label Sakuraphone.

  • The Small Website Discoverability Crisis

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  • What is an old movie that couldn't be made today?

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  • Silent films using tens of thousands of performers and large-scale stage sets will probably never be made again.

    This is because modern audiences take sound in films for granted, making it impossible to expect box office returns that match such an investment.

  • Do you post reviews for products or places? Why or why not?

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  • I generally only review Place as a place where I purchased artwork, often as an add-on to a review of the artwork itself.

    Specifically, this includes reviews of bookstores for novels and record stores for music.

    An exception would be my reviews of public libraries, where I focused primarily on the place itself.

    The collections of a town's public library often succinctly reflect the town's cultural policies and characteristics, making comparisons interesting.

  • What useful unknown website do you wish more people knew about?

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  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Drama: Oshin (JP, 1983-1984)Animation: Shaun the Sheep (UK, 2007-present)Kids: ETV 0655&2355 (JP, 2010-present)Special program: TV's TV (JP, 1987)

    Of these, the one I particularly recommend is "TV's TV."This is a program in which 100 TV channels each contain small video content, which is randomly introduced within a single TV program, an idea that was around 20 years ahead of YouTube.

    There's also an anecdote that Satoshi Tajiri, who would later create Pokémon, was involved in the production of this program.

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  • Johnny Kitagawa's child sexual abuse was confirmed in a trial over gossip magazine reports.

    Johnny & Associates, which continued to have him involved with minors for over 15 years, engaged in organized child sexual exploitation and should be defined as a mafia.

    Therefore, all organizations that did business with the company, including ISPs, universities, UMG, and Nintendo, should be defined as affiliated with the mafia.

  • What search engine do you guys use?

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  • The only independent search engines that support my native Japanese are Google, Bing, Brave, and Yep.

    Of these, I generally search using Brave, and if I'm not satisfied with the results, I search again using DuckDuckGo.I don't use Yep because of its strict bot restrictions.

    Also, on the rare occasions when I need to do an exact match or a search using site:, for some reason, Brave and DuckDuckGo are useless, so I reluctantly use Google, which is a shame.As someone living in Japan, I do not recommend QWant, which is recommended in this comment section.

    As I've commented before, this is because the service geoblocks countries that have non-Western languages ​​as their official languages.

    XユーザーのQwantさん: 「Some of you have reported difficulties using Qwant in several countries around the world. It is a difficult decision but we have decided to close access to our services in certain countries where we don’t believe to provide the expected quality of service. Our apologies for this.」 / X

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Microsoft Japan raided over suspected violation of anti-monopoly law, source says

    www.reuters.com /legal/litigation/microsoft-japan-raided-over-suspected-violation-anti-monopoly-law-nikkei-says-2026-02-25/

  • What are your top 5 favourite works of art?

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  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL Children’s eyewitness testimony can be as accurate as adults’ or more so – if interviewers follow these guidelines

    policinginsight.com /feature/analysis/childrens-eyewitness-testimony-can-be-as-accurate-as-adults-or-more-so-if-interviewers-follow-these-guidelines/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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