SavvyWolf

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

While I hope Lemmy/Kbin takes off (heck, I'd love early internet forums to come back in style) and kicks off a second internet renaissance, the imminent collapse of Reddit legit is giving me anxiety. Hope y'all don't mind if I vent a bit.

Firstly, there are a lot of "niche" communities on Reddit, mostly dedicated to individual games and the like. The kind of thing where fanart, announcements and discussions happen. In the short term, I don't see them surviving the collapse. And if they do, they'll probably move to a not-great platform like Discord or whatever Facebook comes out with.

Secondly, with SEO optimized AI generated garbage topping search results, Reddit has become an important reference when looking for reviews and opinions on things. As well as that, it has become somewhat of an archive of internet culture in a way. With subreddits moving to black out permanently and a push for users shredding their own data, there's a very real chance that all of this content will be lost forever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hello! I don't get involved in the community much (because shy), but I would consider myself as some kind of wolf.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, that looks amazing. Well done!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For the third and fourth points, I think the comparison to email is apt here. If you do a GDPR data request/removal service on your email provider, it's unreasonable to expect that they chase down all the people you've sent emails to and ask them to delete them.

As far as I know, Lemmy doesn't send any data to other instances unless you explicitly request them to (by either subscribing to a community or sending a message/post).

(Also, I am not a lawyer or expert in GDPR, so don't take this as legal advice!)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Agreed, but I think the best way of doing that is to have an instance setting where NSFW subs/posts don't appear in the "All" list or similar. So people can (if they so choose) subscribe to these sorts of things from other instances, but it doesn't appear in public feeds.

I think one thing Lemmy is lacking is "Limited" federation a la Mastodon, where you can designate some servers (or communities?) as "limited", meaning that their messages don't apear in public feeds.

Of course, at the end of the day, instance admin makes the rules and if they don't like anything (NSFW or otherwise) they can just ban federating with it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

In addition to nobody really wanting to set one up for (non furry) smut, some instances don't allow you to subscribe to NSFW communities on any instance. I think lemmy.ml is one that doesn't allow it, but I'm not sure how you would check.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think I sticked to only using Fire type when I played one of the recent games, if only because a lot of my favorite pokemon (Ninetales, Arcanine, Houndoom, Salazzle) were that type.

Getting the TM for Flamethrower late in the game was a massive power spike. Type coverage isn't really an issue as well, because of sunny day + solarbeam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks!

I think all of my art at the time did, not really sure why. I think I wasn't that happy about how I did shading, so I got in a bad habit of choosing low contrast colours to try and "hide" it. I do think if I did it nowadays, I'd try and be bolder with selecting colours.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

5 for me. I remember being a young kid and not really understanding much about the game worked, and spending hours just wandering around Kokiri Forest and Hyrule.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Currently using vanilla Firefox with https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix to make the tabs look like actual tabs rather than weird floaty bubbles.

Used to use Chromium, but switched because they made it so that sites could autoplay videos in response to "user interactions", whatever that means.

TBH, not that happy with the current state of browsers; too much telemetry and not enough customizability.

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