I saw someone recommending Aether aside from Lemmy and Kbin, what is it ? googling Aether give me...
"According to ancient and medieval science, aether, also known as the fifth element or quintessence, is the material that fills the region of the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere. "
@NormalTownLeader Hmm -- doesn't seem to me. They compare themselves to Reddit on their about page. I think it's just the fact that it is an app and has a similar layout to Discord that gives those vibes. The actual communities and posting style seem more Reddit/forum to me, or perhaps a hybrid of sorts.
@Quills its basically just chatrooms with synchronized video watching. I hate picking what to watch and i like to joke with other people about what we are watching. they also vote somehow but i haven't penetrated that far.
"How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history - The Verge"
Meanwhile #RedditMigration is still happening and there are more groups added to the #Fediverse by the day. #Malaysia even has a #Lemmy instance & members are really happy to be there. i suspect this is repeated everywhere in the Fediverse right now.
Honestly, I suspected they would never change the #Reddit CEO's mind.
But they sure made themselves heard on the way out 😏
@liztai They are seizing control of a dying site, replacing mods and reversing user’s decisions. All this for financial gain to overshadow the community and ultimately lose any trust left
Well, had my content curated on Reddit and despised the recommendation stuff on the official app (that I never used lul). But now that I'm on a new platform, I want to have recommendations lol. The Random stuff on the sidebar's pretty neat, could've sworn Reddit has similar like 10 years ago.
Ooh, just followed my first lemmy community from Mastodon. Seems I just have to replace the "!" with "@" when I search for them. They seem to show up as a "Group" here. Nice!
@veronica@startrek yep, and I follow some of those #startrek communities as well and it’s great. Just as a warning you will see every comment as a post, so make sure to click on them so you see the whole “thread” and get the context.
"The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance." - why does this appear and how can I turn it off? I cannot log in to other servers to post
I get the point, but the prominence of it makes it look like an error. Frankly, I find it a bit anti federation, like the only reliable content is on-instance.
@ABCDE it's just telling you that having subscribed to a community on another instance after it was created there may be older posts that are not present on your instance and providing you a link to the same community on the home instance if you want to look at older/not yet federated content.
Just be glad it’s not all attached to your optic nerves yet…
Bud knew a guy like that who’d somehow gotten infected with a meme that ran advertisements for roach motels, in Hindi, superimposed on the bottom right-hand corner of his visual field, twenty-four hours a day, until the guy whacked himself. -The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson
In Total Commander / Bejond All Reason apparently good players spend most of the match in a very zoomed out tactical map.
In general I think the Total Commander genre is one of the few that allows a somewhat usable total view. Another good candidate would be Homeworld, since there microng is not that important so you can probably play a whole game on the starmap.
Other cheating answer would include… Very small old rts on modern screens. I think a smallsized AoE II map on original resolution would fit on 4k panel…
Basically all the Total Annihilation clones allow you to zoom out to see the entire map and are designed to be controllable like that (units turn into small icons and such).
How many people have been playing Weird West? Playing through it right now and I've got to say; this game has so much modding potential. The additional plus of it being a easily modified inmsersive sim adds so much replay value like Doom and gameplay WADs
Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp) is joining the fediverse very soon and we have to seriously prepare. This isn't a theoretical scenario anymore.
Maybe I should try Emacs, the problem is, it's made to be use with the gui client, and I like my terminal apps better, as they work over ssh and in a tty if I need them too, I know emacs has a tui version but that's not the main way to use it afaik
there is no main way to use it. the tui version is perfectly fine.
pretty sure the gui version is just some kind of wrapper around the tui version, many ui elements are just text
@Haijo7 Oh ? okay thanks for the explanation, I remember someone (i don't remember who) saying that it was mean to be used with the gui client, granted it was doom emacs
Ik ben op zoek naar een paar (luister)boeken voor mijn vakantie. Genres die ik leuk vind zijn reisverhalen (meeste al gelezen), historische romans en spannende boeken (geen thrillers) die in andere landen of andere periodes spelen.
Auteurs die bekend zijn: Anya Niewierra, Judith Fanto, Paolo Cognetti, Sylvain Tesson, Frank van Zwol.
@jeffjarvis Thank you for calling attention to linguistic issues. As a longtime bilingualism researcher, I was surprised to see code-switching mentioned in a political context, as it means switching languages syntactically in a conversation, which I often do between English and Japanese strategically.
The video you shared clarifies that people switching ethnic dialects, registers, or accents should not be called code-switching but rather some alternative like style switching. As she emphasizes, everyone does it. Here in Japan where identity forefronts a person's role more than what they identify with, someone like my wife can have a different voice with each individual or type of interlocutor, like a bicycle with 50+ gears.
@SteveMcCarty@jeffjarvis@linguistics@academicchatter I have seen 'code-switching' used for more than 30 years to refer to dialect and register switching based on social contexts. I think that ship has sailed long ago, and trying to narrow the meaning is just going to cause confusion in non-academic contexts where the broader use is general.