• grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
    53·
    6 months ago

    Are Atlas’ nips blurred? C’mon let me see the skittles don’t be g greedy

  • hotdogcharmer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    6 months ago

    Thank my lucky tuppence that those smashing knockers are pixelated or I would’ve spaffed right all over bloody Trafalgar Square and what a kerfuffle that would have been

  • lumpenproletariat@quokk.auEnglish
    33·
    6 months ago

    It’s damn hard to get other people to post. Every so often I like to go around and find smaller communities to share content to.

      • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
        7·
        6 months ago

        It’s tough because users here naturally use Linux more often which is incompatible with league. I stopped playing this season since I’m on Linux now, but haven’t really looked back.

        • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          That’s a damn good point I hadn’t considered.

          I was trying to run Windows for personal stuff and Ubuntu for work, but Ubuntu doesn’t like my monitors. X11 has issues with resolutions and detecting my new 2k monitor. Wayland doesn’t let me log in at all.

          I haven’t bothered to troubleshoot. So now I’m just in Windows. Maybe I should try a different distro.

          Monitors

        • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          Who would’ve thought ripping out everything that made the game unique and interesting in favor of an easier more casual game would be a bad long term decision for a competitive game 🤣

          • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zipEnglish
            4·
            6 months ago

            This, but also most of the casual players seems to have left.

            We tried to play a couple of games back with my friends, every team we faced was much more skilled than us, and the match making couldn’t find anyone that was our level

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        6 months ago

        That’s meeeeeee! I always feel unworthy when you guys mention me, but I love that you have a fun time talking about grumpy birds with me.

          • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            6 months ago

            I’m glad to see some of you have really gotten impassioned about them that you come check them out every day. I’ve learned so much along with you guys doing this, and I has a lot of fun now working with animals from inspiring myself to do it bringing you all these photos and facts every day.

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      I get so overjoyed when you guys are able to post sightings of your own, and Lady Butterfly’s Medieval owls the last couple weeks have been a nice addition as well.

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      You do a lot of great work as a poster and as a facilitator with getting the word out on a lot of things. You stepping up to do this macro level community building I think has really bolstered a lot of Fedi content, and I feel that’s crucial to all of us having continued success as a platform.

        • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          6 months ago

          Of course! Your work as a whole for Lemmy aside, you’ve been a great help to me personally many times when I get frustrated at things here, so my success is at least partially attributed to your support to me and my fellow posters.

  • n0respect@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    6 months ago

    I wonder if the internet culture of sharing has died off somewhat. Old guy here. Are people are so used to consuming they forget about sharing? Or maybe it’s just the type of person who uses the internet today is inherently more consumer then early adopters?

    In my day a big appeal of the internet was to share things. But now it is to consume things.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      When people share they often receive highly negative feedback. Peraps a misspeling or an incorect punctuation And when that outweighs the good responses, either numerically or severity speaking, then it has an effect to curb the desire to post.

      Also why bother working hard when someone else will just respond to what you wrote with “I know you are but what am I” or “that’s what your mom told me last night”, and receive 10x more likes than the content that required actual effort.

      It is the same reason that such drivel has taken over television and movies, and fast food places abound around the world - people sell what others will buy, even independently of involvement of actual money and rather of attention.

      A fantastic article describing this phenomena: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb. TLDR it’s a race to the bottom. Lemmy was supposed to be different, but there were too many structural issues and now people are either leaving or or going more to quiet consumption mode. PieFed offers me more hope to help fix things, if people want to put in the effort required, because now at least the burden of making changes has been greatly lessened with its ability to make code changes more quickly (since it is written in Python rather than Rust).

      • n0respect@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        That is a fantastic article, thank you. I don’t know if there is a way around the ennui engine, not without massive systemic changes; seems like it’s part of human nature. It seems pretty rational too, from an animal-brain point of view … to take a sure win right now instead of a maybe-win later.

        It’s unfortunate that this feeds so many people’s anger cycle. I wonder if that’s cultural.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Unfortunately I think the rage aspect is likewise biological, it being one of the most basal of all human desires. It often pops up as someone pursues pleasure and having satisfied those desires, next turns to the even more basal ones below that (e.g. video). Which makes sense evolutionarily bc those apes that do it are more likely to survive than e.g. complete pacifists.

          That said, algorithms that specifically tap into that aspect of our animalistic desires feed forward that cycle, encouraging an ever-increasing amount, just like echo chambers decrease the allowable diversity of opinions (yes even here: just try saying that you like Windows and watch what happens, or that you enjoy driving a car, or eating meat, or in certain corners of Lemmy that you don’t support Russia, China, or North Korea hard enough), and both of those combine to form the modern social media experience.

          So, as with anything having a biological basis, I doubt that it will ever truly go away entirely, yet I do believe that it can be managed.

  • ctry21@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    6 months ago

    I’ve been trying to keep !nebula@lemmy.world alive but it only has 356 members — if you use nebula or you watch any YouTubers like jet lag: the game, Todd in the shadows, any number of Breadtubers, it would be great to have more posters over there! You don’t necessarily need the streaming service since most of the content goes on YouTube as well.

    !taskmaster@feddit.uk is small as well but should hopefully be a bit busier with the new series starting tonight, it also has a user pretty much single handedly keeping it alive with posts from the official YouTube channel but it’s still a bit quiet for comments.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      I’ve been trying to keep !nebula@lemmy.world alive but it only has 356 members

      omg I had no idea! I was doing that early on but I got tired of it and stopped checking. Looking forward to the new Jet Lag season!

      • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Looking forward to the new Jet Lag season!

        Same! Three teams of two will be an interesting change.

        I didn’t know there was a Lemmy community for nebula.