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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023
  • Enttropy@kbin.socialtoMoving to: m/AskMbin!@kbin.social•Anyone else still kinda miss Reddit?
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    3 years ago

    Even then, “being the change you want to see” is futile if the platform itself has tons of issues and doesn’t provide incentives for people of all kinds to join and use over other platforms.

    It seems like only hardcore Redditors and hip techies pass the filter to discover the Fediverse and thrive on it, which makes certain communities outright impossible to grow. Case and point; the biggest solo RPG mag on the Fediverse has been running for over a year, and 98% of the ~40 posts have been made by a single dude, most of which have zero interactions. Why? Because the Fediverse’s demographic has no interest on the topic.

    And yeah, gaming stuff always make the keyboard wizards rush out of their towers. 🧙‍♂️

  • Enttropy@kbin.socialtoMoving to: m/AskMbin!@kbin.social•Anyone else still kinda miss Reddit?
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    3 years ago

    I don’t miss it because I keep using it. The communities I follow there are niche and they are completely dead on the Fediverse. I keep opening Kbin every other day just to find that my “new” feed still shows posts from 2 weeks ago without even scrolling.

    Also, most of what I dislike from Reddit is still here.

    Tons of people on the Fediverse craft their responses to fish upvotes, and circlejerking/echo-chambers are here too. Just last week I got a fresh breeze of downvotes and angry commenters because I expressed that I dislike Steam, on the PCgaming magazine, which is the same thing that would’ve happened on r/gaming, r/pcmasterrace or another similar toxic cesspool on Reddit.

  • Enttropy@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•China hits back in the chip war, imposing export curbs on crucial raw materials
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    3 years ago

    Oh, but look at those petty downvotes you fished.

    A similar thing was happening with Americans and Spaniards/Germans extracting oil from Mexico, just so the Mexicans bought it back from them, despite Mexico having the technology and infrastructure to do it all themselves.

    After all the military grade weapons that the Obama administration sponsored to the Narcos back in 2012, and Trump’s racism campaign, the current Mexican president took back the oil extraction and refinery industries and and nationalized them, which got a lot of people mad, especially the American press, like The NY Times which constantly publishes articles depicting Mexico as a dictatorship paradise on its way to become the next USSR.

    And now look how the Mexican “super” peso is doing…

  • Enttropy@kbin.socialtoChat@beehaw.org•How do y'all feel about writing things by hand?
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    3 years ago

    When I bought my iPad Pro I imagined I’d have this thing filled with gigabytes of handwritten text but that’s not the case at all. It’s not even the feeling of pen and paper that makes not want to use the iPad… it’s the immediate access to write and read what I want, that only a notebook and pen can provide. The iPad is filled with other apps and distractions, it heats up when you rest your palm on it, there’s always this anxiousness of balancing brightness and battery life.

    Also, with handwritten messages you can convey so much more that it’s impossible to do with typed text. You can determine how fast or how methodical the person was while writing. You can convey emotions by how much strength you use or by the size and kerning of the letters, and also, a lot of the personality traits of the writer are mirrored on their calligraphy.

    And yes, typing with a keyboard is so much faster, which enables me to ramble, which I often do I and I just did.