That nobody mentioned Transport Tycoon Deluxe is criminal. I recommend the live-action version recorded for the mobile release: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuJy9oCdUns
In the bustling city of Lumen, there were many crosswalks where people could safely cross from one side to another. However, there was one particular intersection that was known for its eerie presence - Crossroad X. It seemed normal at first glance: traffic lights, pedestrians, cars, and buses, but something about it gave the locals chills.
Every evening, as the sun dipped below the horizon, people would begin to avoid Crossroad X. The streets nearby became deserted, and the crosswalk’s lights seemed to flicker ominously. Rumors spread that the ghost of a young girl named Elisa haunted the intersection where she had been tragically hit by a car while trying to cross the street one fateful night.
Despite the warnings, there were always those who refused to believe in such things. They would venture through Crossroad X during the twilight hours, feeling an unnerving cold grip their hearts as they walked across it. Some claimed that they heard whispers echoing from the streetlights or saw a figure darting out of the corner of their eye.
One evening, a young man named Max decided to challenge these superstitions. He would prove to his friends that nothing could scare him away from Crossroad X. Armed with nothing but his courage and curiosity, he stepped onto the crosswalk as the sun set.
As he stood there, waiting for the traffic light to turn green, a strange feeling of unease washed over him. He tried to shrug it off, but it only grew stronger. Suddenly, the lights above him flickered violently, casting grotesque shadows on the ground. The wind howled through the empty streets, carrying with it the scent of decay and death.
Max could feel his heart pounding in his chest as he watched the traffic light turn red. With a deep breath, he stepped forward into the crosswalk. It was then that he saw her - Elisa’s ghostly apparition standing on the other side of the road. Her eyes were empty sockets, and her dress billowed around her like tattered lace.
In that moment, Max knew he had made a terrible mistake. The fear that had been building within him exploded into panic. He spun around to flee, but it was too late. A shadowy figure stepped out from the darkness, blocking his path back onto the sidewalk. It was the ghostly vision of Elisa’s mother, her face contorted in rage and sorrow for her lost daughter.
As the traffic light turned green once more, Max knew he had only one option: to cross. He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and leaped onto the crosswalk. As his foot hit the pavement, he felt a searing pain shoot up from his heel. When he opened his eyes, he was standing on the other side of Crossroad X, battered and bruised but alive.
From that day forward, Max never walked through Crossroad X again. He had faced the horrors of the intersection and lived to tell the tale. The ghostly figures that haunted it were no longer a mere story or legend; they were real, and he knew better than to ever test fate again at Crossroad X.
Geez I can’t believe a major group was nuked just like that. I never noticed anything about it being unmoderated but thank you for providing the explanation.
Geez even with decentralization we still have people making bone headed decisions. What is the best/strongest politics group that is not lemmy.ml nor lemmy.world?
Beehaw has a fairly active politics comm, their moderation is more on the strict side but it’s “hey be nice and dont use slurs” kind of strict and not “how dare you say Russia is bad, banned” kind of strict. Id recommend them. Otherwise it’s .world.
There are so many politics communities, but before you mentioned this I didn’t realize how concentrated they are on .ml and .world. These look like the most-subscribed USA and World politics communities that aren’t on .ml or .world:
[Edit: Though I listed them here, the hexbear and beehaw communities are not accessible to large swaths of the Lemmy user base due to instance defederations.]
I’ve heard bad things about hexbear and beehaw. But I looked at these other two.
!politics – unfortunately too many dumb restrictions.
Rule: Title must match the article headline <-- definitely a deal killer because often journalists use dumb headlines or leave the most important things out of the headline.
Rule Recent (Past 30 Days) <-- also a deal killer. Relevant is more important the recent. They are not the same things. “Recent” is only an imperfect proxy for “relevant”.
Rule: Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech. <-- perfect
I would also welcome suggestions for “news” groups outside of lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. [email protected] is okay so far but I’m always looking for possible alternatives.
It doesn’t matter where your account is. If someone kills your account you can quickly switch to another lemmy instance and resub to all your communities.
It’s too big. And it has dumb restrictions like no video content. But also, I had a very popular posting just completely nuked by the mod of [email protected] and the entire advanced discussion was suddenly lost, forcing me to recreate the discussion on [email protected]. Ever since I’ve been posting content to lemmy.ml instead of lemmy.world. Mainly important things missing from [email protected] or that they took down.
But aside from all that, we absolutely need redundancy on lemmy for major stuff like news and politics. Mods will abuse their power because they all want to “control the experience” instead of just do the basics. I’ve also had content nuked for no reason on [email protected] also and as a result I mostly use [email protected] instead although I’m open for alternate news site suggestions too.
!Pleasantpolitics might interest you. It’s an experimental community that employs a really interesting bot that scans users all across the lemmyverse, and prevents the most toxic people from participating. It seems to work fairly well, so far.
We need… something like a “transfer, merge, fork, split” for communities.
For example, if these guys are just going to nuke that content, another instance should have the opportunity to either fork it, or merge it with another community. Its mostly the same stuff as would have been in c/Politics here.
And what it does now, is it puts even more editorial power in the hands of fewer people (ones that ml probably) don’t vibe with.
We need… something like a “transfer, merge, fork, split” for communities.
People can do it currently. I’ve done it a few times, for all for cases. You just make an announcement on the community, or on !newcommunities if you are splitting from a power tripping mod.
Yeah idk. This was a criticism that I brought up of the fundamentals in lemmys structure early on: it selects for, effectively, clones of “whole reddits”, when it should be set up to support more balkanized instances.
Basically, lemmy.ml’s c/Politics is functionally redundant to .worlds c/politics; but thats by design.
What I think would be better would be adding tagging and taking federation a step further. Every post needs a ‘tag’; we steal that part from mastadon. It can have many, but it needs at least one, say #politics in this example.
Then, on instances, federation happens both at the instance level but also at the community level; communities can federate with other communtiies. But all posts get #tagged on the way in the door. Communtiies can then federate or defederate at will, and if neccessary, a community can “branch”; for example, maybe they want to split off US politics from politics; then you grab all the posts with the #US.
As far as an abuse vector. Thats just hang wringing. IF your mods are that abusive for a large sub, you’ve got way bigger issues. Which, if it did ever happen, is something that “forking” would solve. Mod on a power trip? No problem. Fork the community.
What I think would be better would be adding tagging and taking federation a step further. Every post needs a ‘tag’; we steal that part from mastadon. It can have many, but it needs at least one, say #politics in this example.
Tags also bring issues from a moderation perspective. Who can decide who can use tags to label which type content? Seems another way to have everyone spamming trending tags on all type of contents without control. I think tags work better on a microblog format than community format, where you can potentially reach out everyone following that community/tag much easily than crossposting each time.
As far as an abuse vector. Thats just hang wringing. IF your mods are that abusive for a large sub, you’ve got way bigger issues. Which, if it did ever happen, is something that “forking” would solve. Mod on a power trip? No problem. Fork the community.
I was more thinking about people wanting to ruin things by importing huge communities to small instances, consuming their space and resources, and making it confusing to people to know which one is the “legit” community.
And if you limit this feature to admins, then requesting communities is already possible from admins on most of the instances, so that covers the transfer. Fork/split (what is the difference, btw), as I said, can be done manually now.
Importing a community is the one use case remaining, but I see why it’s not a priority for the Lemmy devs, there is bigger fish to fry at the moment (multicommunities for instance)
Seems pretty easy, buy 100mil of gold bullion. It’s around 3100 lb (1400kg) and is relatively small. I think you could hit it under a bed or couch or two. Probably fit it into a couple awkward corners in your closet. Use one as a paper weight.
I like this one because, even though it’s a hypothetical, I always think these scenarios are going to involve me getting shafted somehow and it turns out they never had that billion and they just wanted you to experience having 100 mil for a short time so you know how much you lost and laugh while watching you piss it all away on things you didn’t even necessarily want.
Your way has a nice insurance policy to it if they weren’t good for the billion.
You can buy gold (and other precious metals) as exchange traded commodities, no reason to have them physically delivered to your home and risk damaging your floor.
It seems I often don’t get stuff in my inbox that should be there. Like direct replies. But honestly, I’d also like to get notifications for sibling posts or replies to replies and so on. I just want to subscribe to that discussion.
Another thing is that sometimes eternity forgets where I was doom scrolling, and it takes me forever to get back to that point. I probably just clicked away from the feed or closed all my apps.
Edit: Maybe with a bell button. It’s simple and gives control and it’s okay to not use it. In the settings you can say also enable the bell when you like sum. Afaik activity pub supports granular subscribing.
I’d also like to get notifications for sibling posts or replies to replies and so on. I just want to subscribe to that discussion.
Not sure if you use RSS feeds, but you can easily get one for any Lemmy discussion and subscribe to it. Here’s an RSS feed for this discussion, for example.
If you like prog metal and hard rock, I’ve yet to find a better soundtrack than Guilty Gear XX. The fan favorite is “Holy Orders (Be Just or Be Dead)”, but for my money, the best songs on the soundtrack are “Existence” and “Awe of She”.
First time I heard this was in a buddy’s car and it was bumpin’ hard. I asked him who the band was and was totally surprised when he told me it was from a video game. Very very solid stuff v all the way through
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