Laxaria

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[–] Laxaria 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

From my PoV:

  1. The activity around memes, image sharing, memes, shitposting, memes, memes, and memes have not felt too different from Reddit, but unsurprising as it's very easy to consume content
  2. The typical communities that have coalesced in a grassroots fashion are thriving well as long as one can accept there's a lot of duplicate threads (like the Twitter related stuff in technology communities). Some communities are populated by Reddit content porting bots and these feel so barren because it's a wall of submissions with a small number of comments each and the bot owners have no visible intent to stop.
  3. Niche communities are incredibly quiet. That's understandable but also unfortunate, more so if it is a niche community that did not move over.

Things will hopefully get better with time.

[–] Laxaria 14 points 2 years ago

Possible? Yea.

Personally I've went ahead to block all the big bots doing it. It adds a lot of submissions but with few to no comments, and there's little point responding to a Reddit-ported question here when the person who asked it didn't even ask it here.

If you want more content then make submissions and start conversations.

[–] Laxaria 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The one on one exchanges continue to be a highlight of the show, between Talos and Gracvik as well as Talos and Fury.

This particular episode felt very episodic in nature (one singular episodic antagonist meant to advance the overarching plot further) alongside the typical cliffhanger moment.

The reference to another knife in hand moment in a different blockbuster action film was only made less squick by how much less time was spent on it.

By and large its probable the series, like so many others, will bulldoze headlong into a conclusion that will feel a bit rushed if we're getting breather episodes that are intended to be a microcosm of the series' plot as a whole, but don't really advance much other than more slices of brilliant character interaction. Which is great and all, but perhaps there's a lingering sense of "why should I care" echoing through the story.

[–] Laxaria 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Funnily enough, the first volume of Tour Lie in April was gifted to me and was my very first volume.

I'm more of a digital person, but I still have the volume.

[–] Laxaria 4 points 2 years ago

If you reveal the Sidebar or About (sidebar) of a community, you can block it there.

[–] Laxaria 1 points 2 years ago

Quite excited to see how these particular details start coming full circle with the characters involved.

[–] Laxaria 5 points 2 years ago

Yea "battery life" is the intersection of energy consumption and energy storage. Focusing purely on the spec sheet (the size of the battery) makes a very incomplete (and frequently biased) comparison.

[–] Laxaria 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I would love a version of "compact" that hides all thumbnails. It makes for an even more compact list of text rather than dedicating space for a square thumbnail, many of which are just empty because they are text posts and/or just outward going links, and I do enjoy the visual cleanliness that comes from not having a variety of different squares of colors against a black background lining the right side of the text.

Thanks for all the hard work on this!

[–] Laxaria 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The generic stuff that has a broad common denominator will easily take hold on Lemmy as they would in any growing community (like shitposts, question threads, gaming, technology, news, image focused communities and so on).

The niche stuff will take a while to grow, more so as the niche subs are those less likely to move from Reddit (or already have communities like Discord that they retreat to). More specific communities will need to build a new base here unfortunately.

Time will tell; it's not been that long.

[–] Laxaria 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Their antics seem to always be entertaining no matter how many romcom tropes get ticked off the list

[–] Laxaria 59 points 2 years ago

Yep since the first party app's primary goal is to generate revenue (over actually providing a good user experience), it's packed full of everything to achieve revenue generation:

  • Ads
  • Tons of tracking to figure out how long you viewed something, what you clicked on, and so on to build an advertising profile that can be sold
  • Obtrusive Ads
  • Lots of suggested/recommended stuff to get you to keep your eyeballs on the app longer
  • Ads masquerading as real submissions
  • Paid promotions

Third party apps don't have revenue generation as their sole highest priority (if at all), so naturally they strip out all of that stuff which makes for a terrible user experience.

[–] Laxaria 2 points 2 years ago

Beating The Feared in a week on my second ever league after returning. Sure it's nothing compared to the people who manage it in a weekend but I got it much faster than all of my peers at that time.

After that has been mostly chasing for 40/40 challenges, particularly in a group self found setting.

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