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tomf , to mildlyinfuriating in This woman in front of me during Kendrick Lamar

how was the set? His last record is so good.

itinerantme OP ,

It was really good. It was just him and like 4 or 5 dancers on stage. I would’ve sworn that he had a live band playing, but it was the backing track rocking out! Was cool & everybody was really feeling it.

tomf ,

nice! weird to just have a backing track for big shows

cat , to pics in Finally they're here!

What are they called?

kokesh OP ,
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We call them wild strawberries, swedish call them smultron

Nowyn ,

And we in Finland call them metsämansikka which just means forest strawberries.

tox_solid ,
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Smultron sounds like a knock-off Transformers villain.

Boiglenoight , to retrogaming in Golden Axe: A home port comparison

This was a fun comparison and reminds me of the old gaming mags with ads that showed screenshots side by side of each system for a given game. There was an ad for Batman: The Movie and I always thought I was getting screwed with only having access to the NES version…

davetansley OP ,
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This was especially a problem with for ZX Spectrum owners… they were, shall we say, a little bit reluctant to show Speccy buyers exactly what they were getting.

Boiglenoight ,

While the Amiga and Atari (ST?) always had the best looking versions. I had no idea where to get one, much less have the means to do so.

art101 ,

I grew up on Sinclair machines and yeah the graphics looked like a ceefax page that had died a horrific death but the gameplay was generally great.

Other classic conversions that actually looked pretty good despite the Spectrum limitations and played great were Karnov and R-Type.

davetansley OP ,
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I did a post in this community the other day comparing R-Type versions… And yeah, the speccy version is great!

art101 ,

Sorry about that, following so many communities at first after joining Lemmy good stuff dropped off the bottom. Unsubscribed to a few so I can catch what I need.

I’ll look up that R-Type post, I spent a fortune on that cab as a bairn I should have shares in Irem.

Pagliacci , to memes in I'm tired of the inequality

Agreed, if a bear can eat a person why can’t I eat a person?!

dismalnow , to mildlyinfuriating in This comparison...
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I love comparing apples to orangutans. Really paints a clear picture.

Slayan , to fediverse in Lemmy.world reaches new milestone: 100k users and counting!

🥳

Feweroptions , to softwaregore in Stolen from wetdry.world

Congrats, you turned your oven into a Turkey. So it worked!

Heldenhirn , to memes in meme

When you are in a “try not to laugh” competition and your enemy is footage of billionaires brutally dying in an submarine implosion.

rob_t_firefly , to mildlyinfuriating in Online dating
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Something I was dearly hoping wouldn’t find its way over here from Reddit: screenshots of posts which erase the posters’ identity for no good reason.

Giving proper credit for content is cool, kids.

R51 ,

… nah. Doxxing is not cool kids.

ElectroNeutrino ,

There’s a difference between retaining the twitter handle of the person that publicly posted their conversation, and doxxing them.

R51 ,

yeah there’s also a difference in someone who is expecting private messages to stay private only to then have your handle get attention in a bigass community, did u forget the linked pic this thread is about lol

ElectroNeutrino ,

Wait, so you’re saying that someone publicly posting screenshots of their conversation expects the screenshots to stay private? Or do you honestly think that keeping the twitter handle will dox the other person in the conversation where their name isn’t visible in the first place?

Additionally, it’s not hard to find the original tweet by looking up the text. It took me all of 15 seconds.

R51 ,

im so confused. I thought a guy was saying the original poster should have unblocked the name of the guy being weird with his song, i was saying that would be bad

ElectroNeutrino ,

Ohh. That makes sense. I completely agree with that. I thought you were talking about the person that posted the screenshot originally.

required ,
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In reddit, not blurring the person can lead to the comment section being angry at the person for some reason and in that case the person will get death threats in the best case scenario. There are many past examples of this. So all names remotely related to the real discussion (like here) better be removed.
Maybe Lemmy would be cooler than that but I’m not sure.

rob_t_firefly ,
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In the “look at this foolish person posting something showing how stupid they are” situations that’s the case and it makes sense. In “this person openly posted content you’re removing the indicator of their rightful ownership from” situations it’s not cool.

intensely_human ,

Yeah but not in a private conversation

rob_t_firefly , (edited )
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An open post to their socials like this is not a private conversation.

intensely_human ,

Oh I see you mean the person who posted the convo screenshot. The girl in the circle pic.

rob_t_firefly ,
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That’s right. That person shared this and their username should have been left on it.

AnonymousLlama , to pics in Finally they're here!
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Get them before the bugs do. They're yours!

F1nn , to fediverse in Lemmy Just Reached 1 Million Posts
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I don’t wanna poo poo on this, but there are bots literally just scraping Reddit and reposting all of the content. Big grain of rice here, gents.

Nepoleon ,

I mean bots on reddit are copying reddit to paste it on Reddit. In the future bots on Lemmy will copy Lemmy posts and paste it on Lemmy too. that’s just how reddit and lemmy works

WarmSoda ,

That is not how it needs to work.

GaryPonderosa , to interestingasfuck in 1,500-year-old Ceramic Maya Figurine with Removable Helmet, from El Perú-Waka', Petén, Guatemala

Some kid took it out of the packaging so now it’s only worth $2.

Dr_Fetus_Jackson ,

Best I can give you is a quarter.

aranym , to fediverse in Lemmy.world reaches new milestone: 100k users and counting!

Congrats, ya’ll! 🥳

BigVault , to retrogaming in Golden Axe: A home port comparison
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These have been fantastic. I saved up my pocket money and got Golden Axe (I believe it was from John Menzes) for the speccy.

Sega Megadrive port was the best from me though.

Keep doing what you’re doing! All the memories and feels coming back in my old age.

DuckDuckGoneForGood , to fediverse in This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads
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I fucking KNEW it.

35 million users my asshole - they’re just counting existing Instagram accounts.

fer0n ,

Pretty sure they’re not. I mean those are instagram accounts, but only those who enabled threads. It’s also at 93 million now.

Why is it so hard to believe that people download the app and try it out? It’s easy to do, users don’t have to create a new account, the app is number one on the App Store, they’re probably advertising it in instagram, and it’s still just 20% of the instagram userbase.

Decentralization is nice, but most people don’t care about it and it’s too complicated or annoying to sign up there. Threads is dead simple and people want a Twitter replacement. It’s also “just” a fifth of the Twitter userbase.

RubberDucky ,

Most of the people just care for “the hot new thing” some just dislike twitter more, some are forced by friends to use it (me :( )

Is kinda weird seeing so many people on Lemmy just do not trust any data from social media.

The things of the fediverse is that everything is too complicated, seeing my friends signups for Threads they just downloaded 1 app, and max 7 clicks and they made an account, they thought Mastodon was too hard to use :(

zuhayr ,
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It isn’t very easy to get hold of for the “uninitiated”. Which is partially a good thing, in my opinion. Meaningful interactions require effort.

Cabrio ,

Barriers to entry improve the quality of participants.

damnYouSun ,

Setting things up on fediverse is overly complicated and could be made easier.

The biggest problem is it really isn’t all that clear what the pros and cons are various instances are, and the truth is that for the most part with the exception of a few particular instances it really doesn’t matter.

What might make the most sense is to have a website people can sign up on and then it just registers their account on one of a few instances to spread the load. Obviously that list I would have to be curated so it didn’t include obvious problematic instances,but it wouldn’t be that hard to do that. And that would make it as easy as threads is which basically is just an instance when all said and done.

CoderKat ,

And even if you do understand the pros and cons, it can be complicated because all these instances have differences and you have to figure out which one has the things you want and potentially make compromises.

Eg, I knew I absolutely must have downvotes and several instances disable those. I wanted to be federated with both lemmy.world and beehaw (and also lower my risk that beehaw is gonna defederate my instance in the future). I wanted as large of an instance as possible because by “fun” design, the “all” feed gets better the bigger the instance (IMO a design flaw), as does the ease of subscribing to communities (being first to subscribe is harder).

sudoreboot ,
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Something that would make it massively easier is portable/decentralised identities, or at least easy account migration. This should go for communities as well so that a community can exist independently of an instance, or be migrated to another instance with subscribers being redirected seamlessly.

Stovetop ,

Friends don’t make friends sign up for social media.

Thetimefarm ,

It’s weird to not distrust Meta, if you can’t see that idk what to tell you. In 70 years when a company is using detailed data collected about you since you were 13 to market nostalgia it’ll be too late. Even if laws get implemented in the interum between now and then banning data harvesting, whatever data is collected today will still be on the market and you’ll be an even juicier target.

DuckDuckGoneForGood ,
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Why?

Because Instagram did the same BS with their “Notes” feature recently and now nobody uses it.

You were automatically enrolled and it showed up on your feed and three months later, it’s crickets.

As much as I hate Twitter, I don’t think Threads is going to make a dent in the long run.

fer0n ,

I don’t see how that’s related to them lying about user numbers, which I really don’t think they are doing.

We’ll see where threads will be in a few months, I’m sure not everyone will stay active there.

DuckDuckGoneForGood ,
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I’m not sure how you can see it any other way.

They had a successful platform (Instagram) and piggybacked a new platform on top and are counting the users toward their numbers.

If Zuckerbag released Threads without being tied to Instagram, it’d be a queef in the wind of a userbase.

It’s a clever strategy. For sure. I won’t pretend it’s not.

But seeing how “Notes” went - I don’t think it’s gonna go very far.

It’s like if McDonald’s started selling hotdogs from their stores under a separate store within their restaurants.

“McDog’s has over 1 billion served!”

No, McDonald’s does - you just put another product under the same roof by a different name.

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