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TIL: Iran put a 80 million dollar bounty on Donald Trump in 2020 in c/til

The extreme horror film [The Substance] causing mass cinema walkouts around the world in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 19 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

I’m never gonna bother watching this film as it’s just not my thing, can someone tell me what the worst scenes are?

Article has me intrigued at least 😆

Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Mate, they’re people too. They generally don’t care on a personal level, and as you say they prioritise everything else.

Nobody cares about people smoking weed except pearl clutchers.

Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

The fact that houses stink of weed and police walk straight past. There’s a notorious smoking spot around where I live, they don’t bother with it.

I’ve walked past police officers while I smell like weed, if they were to stop everyone like that they’d have their hands full.

As long as you don’t do it directly in front of them and they’re not looking for a reason to arrest you, they’re not gonna bother.

Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

It just surprises me how there seems to be almost no discussion about legalising weed in the UK. It’s really not talked about that much (besides medical use), and I don’t see much push for it either.

I think the government/police are generally happy to ignore it, and smokers are therefore happy to just get on with it.

Would be nice and convenient if I could just buy it from a store though :/

All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch in c/hardware

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Has any folding phone found a solution to the crease?

I’m not particularly interested in a folding phone, but I’ll definitely never touch one as long as that’s an issue.

Nap game in c/lemmyshitpost

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For me, it will always be four hours and I will somehow wake up with the driest mouth on the planet.

Someone here that has never being in a date or asked someone to a date... Why? in c/asklemmy

Sike! in c/microblogmemes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

So’s leaving the house.

Stay in, bolt the doors, board up the windows, stay safe.

Star Wars Outlaws sales were 'softer than expected,' so Ubisoft is slamming the release-it-on-Steam button early [will come to Steam in November] in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

From what I’ve seen and heard it’s an okay game, just seems like it could be so much more.

Ubisoft is basically a franchise at this point, so companies with IPs can give them to Ubisoft and they’ll make it fit their game formula.

Problem is, even though they might try and tweak it occasionally, that formula is now 12 years old.

Yes, It’s Still Really Worth Avoiding COVID—Even If You’ve Already Had It a Few Times in c/[email protected]

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An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issued (blog.playstation.com)

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How is Lemmy supposed to replace Reddit? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just don't get how Lemmy is going to act as a proper replacement for Reddit.

I understand the basic concept of Lemmy and the Fediverse, and people are touting the concept of it being federated and not centrally controlled, but it is an absolute mess and nobody seems to have an idea about what to do with it.

How are communities going to grow if there isn't at least some form of central management. Other than there being an underlying framework that connects the servers, they're all just doing what they want.

Outside of the underlying framework, there's no 'guidelines' or consistency. The servers have random names, and the main Lemmy.ml is telling people to register elsewhere.

How is this going to bring in a wider audience if people are being directed to lemmy.fmhy.ml, sopuli.xyz, or sh.itjust.works?

What is the purpose of the Fediverse when forums for niche interests already exist on the internet?

Does it make sense to have something like a 'sports' server that has communities for soccer, NFL, basketball, MMA? But then how do you get a consistent naming scheme that lets people know it's part of the fediverse?

Maybe Lemmy could work as a replacement, but it seems like it needs a 'flagship' server with a group of people maintaining it to set an example. Then other servers that cover more specific areas, such as sports, can be set up and potentially work closely with that flagship group.

If this doesn't happen, then I can't see how this doesn't just fizzle out.

P.S. I've also compared two different Lemmy servers and looked at the same post in a community, and there are different numbers of comments on each where they haven't synced up...

I also wanted to post this to the main Lemmy community, but as I had to register via a different server, I'm not able to access that community from the server I'm using for some reason...