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Question: People who still frequent Reddit, has it gone back to business as usual or are the protests still having effect? in c/reddit

[–] yumcake -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like I haven't seen enough of that happening in the past though. Can you share some examples of where you'd seen it? Maybe Steam? No Man's Sky?

What other apps debuted early to a poor public reception that got people to come back and try it again and successfully change their minds?

Question: People who still frequent Reddit, has it gone back to business as usual or are the protests still having effect? in c/reddit

[–] yumcake 1 points 2 years ago

Isn't it possible to also create a gatekept community on the fediverse by just filtering to "local" on an instance that has the same current state barriers to entry? That'd prevent you from seeing the posts on instances that have lower barriers to entry.

Is Lemmy THE reddit alternative for you? Are you thinking about moving somewhere else? in c/asklemmy

[–] yumcake 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that was my immediate next thought as well. I've gotten so much benefit, developed so many interests from large scale community postings. I don't know where such a thing will exist in the future for my kids, if at all. I hope time proves this to be a foolish concern and I'll look dumb for posting such a question on the platform that answers the question.

Is Lemmy THE reddit alternative for you? Are you thinking about moving somewhere else? in c/asklemmy

[–] yumcake 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I feel like Reddit had improved me a lot in other ways. It taught me a lot about the experiences of demographics that I don't deal with frequently, learned a lot of guitar, apps, shows, science, cooking, lawncare, etc, etc.

I used it to consume jokes and entertainment and stuff sure, but it also was my entry point into a lot of topics and really jump-started my ingestion of that information in a way that would be hard to replicate on any platform without a similar scale of adoption.

All the negative aspects of using electronics still applied, but I was getting a lot of positive results that I'll miss now.

YSK: You should dry off beef before cooking. Doing so promotes the Maillard Reaction, which will make the meat taste and look better. in c/youshouldknow

[–] yumcake 2 points 2 years ago

To a degree yes. Moisture in general will limit browning. Fresh ground beef is usually dry enough. Frozen and defrosted ground beefwill have ice/water. Patting it dry with a paper towel takes care of this.

Ground turkey in particular is super wet all the way through so paper towels won't really be able to get it all. To brown ground turkey, you put a big patty on the grill and don't break it up, then wait for several minutes. This allows the surface to evaporate the water and then begin browning. If you break it open it will release the water inside the big ball of meat and it'll take forever to evaporate enough for browning to start. You break it open later on after you've browned top and bottom.