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cheddar , to noncredibledefense in up and to the right
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Look how they massacred my Pam šŸ˜­

MediaSensationalism , to asklemmy in Lemmings, which communities are you blocking?
@MediaSensationalism@lemmy.world avatar

I havenā€™t felt the need to just yet. That feature wouldā€™ve come in handy on Reddit when Kanye and Formula 1 were taking over.

SLfgb , to memes in Made a thread about what other social media Lemmings use, and I was shocked by the amount of Meta platforms in the replies.

Iā€™d rather be a loner than go back to that shitbook.

WJWARLOCK ,

At least itā€™s not X/Twitter

SLfgb ,

Yea, nah. Say what you want about X, but Meta is in a whole other league than X. In my communities itā€™s monopolising to a large degree:

  • finding housemates/sharehouses,
  • buying/selling second-hand goods online,
  • info on events,
  • news-updates for community groups, and even
  • shift swaps at work

amongs others. All essential services that Meta took over one by one.

X on the other hand is just a micro-blogging platform.

Lifebandit666 , to memes in Made a thread about what other social media Lemmings use, and I was shocked by the amount of Meta platforms in the replies.

I have up FaceFuck after Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

They brainwashed people into voting against their own interests by ā€œTargeted Advertisingā€ which is basically brain washing.

Of course nothing came of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and I canā€™t do anything about that as a Plebian, so I just left.

I left Reddit when they took my favourite app. I used it to Doomscroll and that wasnā€™t great for my mental health, so it was a no-brainer

So Lemmy and only Lemmy for me. I got over my addiction to social media by taking up the Rubikā€™s Cube.

Iā€™m currently working on getting an average solve under 30 secondsā€¦

So if you use your social media time to do something productive instead, you can do some crazy shit

xhrit ,

The only reason I go to Reddit anymore are the credible defense megathreads. It is the last subreddit that has not been taken over by partisan botfarms pushing an agenda.

Lifebandit666 ,

Iā€™m into home automation and self hosting services and the only time I go to Reddit is when a Google search of something Iā€™m researching takes me there.

I donā€™t log in (which sometimes fucks me, weed subreddits for example need a sign in for ages verification) so if I have to log in I just nope out, and I will actively try to not use Reddit if I can help it.

pineapplelover ,

Been using f2l and canā€™t even get under 1 min. How do you do it?

Lifebandit666 , (edited )

Honestly the short answer is practice.

Long answer is also practice, but with information lol.

I spent a long time moving from 2 look to 1 look (oll and pll) using this website jperm.net/algs/pll Iā€™ve linked the PLL but thereā€™s OLL there too.

On this page I learned as many of these as I could. You can click on the picture and change the status from unlearned to learning to learned, then go to the trainer and you can select those 3 statuses and it will show only things youā€™ve selected. You can also click on the alg to get alternatives or even put your own alg in.

So Iā€™ve gone to that page and set an alg as training, then just practiced that one alg until I have it in muscle memory. I aimed at trying to get each type of alg learned, so corners are there, or middles need moving, or headlights are there, or even that there is no pattern.

I was advised to learn PLL first then OLL algorithms, but I kinda picked out the patterns I see most in both, or algs that seemed the simplest first. So I have been learning both together and working from easiest to remember to hardest, and also making my own up for the ones that are most complicated.

This meant that I could practice a few, then go and do solves and when the patterns I knew came up Iā€™d get faster solves for those patterns.

Ok so thatā€™s the big time saving out of the way, takes a lot to learn all the algorithms so itā€™ll take time. But thereā€™s also taking time to plan your cross. That can save you a good chunk because thereā€™s less head scratching when you start.

Then thereā€™s the look ahead, which Iā€™m only just getting. I did a lot of slow solves to get this in my brain and itā€™s quite big. This is what Iā€™m practicing to get from my 40second average down to 25

So as youā€™re solving a corner and edge into the corner, once you have it set up into a 3 move insert, you donā€™t need to look at it anymore. Itā€™s 3 loves to insert, so instead of looking at it as you put it in, you have to train yourself to look for the next 2 pieces youā€™re putting together.

While your learning the OLL and PLL and just doing solves (not training algs), when you get one you donā€™t know, try and alg you do know on it. Sometimes this changes your top pattern to an easier pattern that you can solve. Itā€™s like a stopgap 2 look (pll or oll). Eventually as you learn all the algs youā€™ll find that you can ā€œwing itā€ with some of the harder algorithms by just doing a couple of easier ones, which is all the harder ones are anyway, a couple of easier algs with a connecting move in the middle.

Hope all that helps. Iā€™d also advise you have a ā€œtravel cube.ā€

I have an extra cube that lives in the pocket of my leather jacket (yes Iā€™m a metal-head Dad, doesnā€™t quite fit the stereotype does it?) and it comes in useful when Iā€™m stuck in a queue, or at the Dr waiting room or A and E (or emergency care as itā€™s called in the US). This allows me to cube instead of whipping my phone out when I have time to kill out of the house.

TwoBeeSan , to asklemmy in Lemmings, which communities are you blocking?

All porn.

All anime.

All communist fan clubs.

šŸ¤· I just like shitposting

ampersandcastles ,

Thatā€™s what Twitter is for.

xelar , to memes in Made a thread about what other social media Lemmings use, and I was shocked by the amount of Meta platforms in the replies.

People use Facebook for Messenger. Others got used to group chat via this app.

I had to create a random account after years to be be updated with uni group chat news. Otherwise I would feel like an outcast.

ray1992xd , to memes in Made a thread about what other social media Lemmings use, and I was shocked by the amount of Meta platforms in the replies.

Well most of the peopleI know are on there as well as Whatsapp so there isnā€™t really a choice unfortunately.

Iron_Lynx , to asklemmy in Lemmings, which communities are you blocking?

Iā€™ve blocked one page thatā€™s posting mostly in Russian, one page thatā€™s posting mostly in Croatian, and beyond that a number of overrepresented, locally US centric ones. About stuff like the NFL or the Bay Area.

Lila_Uraraka , to memes in Made a thread about what other social media Lemmings use, and I was shocked by the amount of Meta platforms in the replies.

I keep Facebook around specifically because thatā€™s how I know what is going on in my area, both with news, and events

clark , to asklemmy in Lemmings, which communities are you blocking?
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Most are anime communities, but I have some sport- and bot-post communities blocked too.

thurmite , to lemmyshitpost in up and to the right

Seems like you already know where

ampersandcastles , to asklemmy in Lemmings, which communities are you blocking?

Lol if I blocked Linux Iā€™d be very bored here. One of the few special interests I have.

JackbyDev , to asklemmy in Lemmings, which communities are you blocking?

I just block foreign language communities.

helenslunch , to fediverse in I had a scary thought: what if youtube decided to join the fediverse?
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Wouldnā€™t it be a game changer for the biggest websites to suddenly try to coax users and content creators with ā€œone account to rule them allā€ solution?

No, that would be ideal.

pennomi ,

Youā€™re getting downvoted but youā€™re right. If they joined the fediverse that means you can have an account on any other platform you choose, including one you own. And that one account can access all the content everywhere. So basically youā€™d get all the perks of YouTube but few if any of the problems.

CanadaPlus , (edited ) to asklemmy in Lemmings, which communities are you blocking?

My instance doesnā€™t really have enough traffic to browse locally anyway, so I mostly see my subs to start with. If I was going to block something here it would be the endless bunnyposting. Even the Oklahoma stuff is mildly interesting in the volume it comes through.

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