Fair point. I said the biggest, but as you said, lemmy has been outgrowing the original instances. lemmy.ml hosting so many major communities is still a problem, but if that is slowly changing, I see a good future in Lemmy. OP seems decent so let’s hope it grows into a fine instance.

Fair moderation. The biggest problem with the largest instances is that they are heavily skewed towards communist ideals and censorship, and mods will ban you for holding (locally) controversal opinions despite not breaking any rules. And sometimes the rules are too arbitrary and get used as a scapegoat to ban you for your opinion.

Programming.dev has been a very good example of how moderation should be done, but it is for programmers, thus may not be appealing to the typical user, and they end up on lemmy.ml instead and get banned because the mod was in a bad mood and didn’t like your opinion.

All of them. I listen to japanese music.

My brother one time went like “you know what? I want to listen to some of your music. Show me a good one you listened to recently”

We listened to the full song, and then he went “this is shit.”

A manager position is easier to replace than a programmer position. By the time AI is smart enough to replace you, it is also smart enough for you to replace the entire company with and run solo.

Drink verification can

Our grandkids’ personal AI assistants are going to get scammed by scammers’ personal AI assistants, sending all their v-bucks to India.

It is a forum. A BBS.

Their website isn’t properly caching pages which is the real reason they’re having problems.

Firefox is a much easier icon to find.

As funny of a joke “all programmers copy and paste” is, after 9 years that impostor syndrome should be gone, and if you still can’t figure out a solution without copying and pasting, maybe it is time to go back to the basics and learn how to code.

I feel like this is more of an OCD issue, rather than addiction. Did he get an official diagnosis by anyone?

That’s gambling addiction, which is researched and does exist.

Gaming addiction, on the other hand, is purely speculative and often pushed by people who do not understand or like games.

While, yes, a game can have login bonuses and season passes to raise player retention, that also doesn’t become addiction, just as having a membership card with bonuses at a grocery store isn’t going to land you with a grocery addiction.

It doesn’t become gaming addiction just because the game utilizes exploitative mechanics, it becomes gambling addiction, or whatever addiction the mechanic was made to exploit. Gaming addiction in itself is as stupid of a concept as soccer addiction or book addiction.

Yes, but that’s not what this story is about, and they don’t cause gaming addiction, they cause gambling addiction. You can’t get addicted to gaming itself.

It would help the prosecution’s case if there first was scientific evidence of there being such a thing as gaming addiction, and not just boomers arguing it because they think kids these days should go outside more.

Ironically the most defederated instances are hexbear, lemmygrad and other tankie/lil’pink instances, and to them anyone who disagrees with them is a Nazi.

Do I get an achievement if I’m banned or my instance was defederated from all of these?

Would you trust your money with a bank in China? It was only a year ago that people lost their savings and couldn’t withdraw money for food after a major bank was on the brink of bankruptcy due to the Evergrande scheme.

I guess you can call it questionable, but if I buy a VPN, I’m not going to pay with a credit card linked to my name. I use Monero. If I want to transfer money to my family in another country, crypto is faster, cheaper, and has no restrictions. I can’t even pay my student loans from my home country because my current bank blocks foreign credit card transactions, even if they are important.

This is very niche and not something an average Joe needs, but cryptocurrency isn’t for the average Joe to begin with.

If you want a trustless system, you have to sacrifice performance. At least the proof of stake blockchains like Ethereum don’t use that much energy, and you get a pretty cheap and fast transaction with layer 2 solutions on par with credit card transactions.

I have two mastodon accounts that I barely use. I realized that I just don’t like twitter style social media in general. Same with pixelfed. I didn’t have accounts on the centralized alternatives to begin with. And I think that is fine. Centralized or not, social media that focuses on displaying your personal image is a scourge on humanity.

Lemmy completely replaced Reddit for me because overall the userbase on Lemmy is friendlier, and the quality of the content is better here. I reckon that once the normies flood, so will the toxic people.

Both are the right picture