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I'm with ya there, subs slowly zap away your money and when you stop paying for it, you have nothing to show for it, nothing you can keep! I'm just an old anki person, it's super ugly but gets the job done. I'll send this as a recommendation if someone's looking for a prettier flashcard app thank anki.

I'm all for one-off payments as long as the licence isn't taken away or the service isn't broken retroactively because a subscription version has come out, now that's the worst for me!

Hey there @[email protected] , it's a very exicitng time and we're sharing this excitement with you! It's so great to find more high-tech low-life people to hang with!

In addition to what Revengeday has said, regarding your question of which jurisdiction, we ask that folks atleast stick within the laws of Germany at the very least. We're an international community though so you might want to be wary of your own local laws too.

We've gotten along with people from other federated communities in the past and in the present, we hope this will continue with the idea of mutual respect in mind! If you see anything that you think is against the rules or bothers you because you think it might be breaking the rules, just send a report over to us.

The biggest unofficial rule is have fun and explore! (And if you find something cool, share it with the rest of us!)

Welcome to DATATERM, I saw a little bit about VA-11-Hall-A floating around lemmy, I think it was from you. Whatever you can share I'd love to see it! I think it will take time because this place is very new but I get that hesitant feeling too. I've followed the community so I can learn more about the game.

The fediverse can be a bit mind bending at first and it comes with it's own quirks that's for sure. Thanks for taking a moment to share your thoughts with us!

I felt that too, now there's less pressure for me lol.

Solid, I use the L-R method with netflix, disneyplus, amazon prime and youglish. I may move onto some audiobooks soon. I recently went on the refold immersion course and learned a lot from them like how to stay motivated and make things when you don't know much, how to minimise the pitfalls or even improve the experience. I highly recommend L-R.

I'm really glad to see this community.

Nice find! :D

It's only a matter of time before Lemmy gets hit with a bot problem so I do understand why there'd be concern about open sign ups on those large instances in addition to trolls. So far I've seen a lot of nice things from lemmy.world but that's not to say there isn't bad actors out there.

I find that I've had more meaningful engagement within decetralised spaces than the centralised ones. Sadly the corpos the type of engagement doesn't seem to matter too much as long as it's engagement on their site and not someone else's. I felt that same pressure to be honest.

You're right about the good use cases, it's nice within the marginalised communities / subreddits but outside of them it's not so great. Sometimes you want to engage in other communities in peace as well so I guess it comes down to moderation but I understand the karma points is a barrier to entry for trolls.

Community level point counts might not be too bad tbh because like you said, it would be a way of stopping people from using other communties that might not have the best intentions to farm karma so they're not in minus numbers. To be honest, a count did span across a site it would be a nice feature to have a breakdown as to what communities that positive and negative karma comes from..

I actually had no idea there was a subreddit for free karma but there's a subreddit for something haha.

Regarding the online abuse in regards to being trans, same here. I had this problem on twitter GC / TERF pileons so shinigami eyes was quite useful to have. When trolls learn you're trans it's like low hanging fruit to them so I get what you mean with low karma accounts being blocked from engaging in a community

Lemmy is in it's early days so they may actually add an overall count with a similar safety feature in the future or additional safety features for communities to use. If the Lemmy devs don't create something to help with this then it's possible that someone might write a bot to help with moderation as automod and the likes were quite popular on Reddit. I'm speaking from my own experiences here but I find that over time as a mod or admin who is a marginalised person, you tend to become friends with mods and admins from other marginalised communities within the fediverse and get a headsup on who's doing the damage and where before the abuse is aimed at the rest of the community. The fediverse is currently mostly reliant on these teams for user safety so for now, connecting with other communities and talking to each other is one of the best tools we have until more features are developed.

Thank you for your response btw, it has made me think about what Lemmy might need so communities can keep each othe safe. Some Lemmy instances will tolerate abuse like that and leave it upto the mods to govern their own communities but we've never been a fan of anti-LGBTQIA+ hate or TERFs here at DATATERM or any of the other fedi spaces run by @revengeday@[email protected] .

I'm hoping it'll make people more likely to engage in discussions where they might not have on reddit. Of course thre's no pressure to engage but I'm optimistic that some people might give it a go and the ones who did previously, I hope they can relax in this space. :D