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Cake day: May 16th, 2025

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  • it would likely result in a large number of the currently active users here getting themselves banned from it

    Absolutely. People here can’t even help themselves when it comes to going into a community literally called “Reddit” to shit on people for talking about Reddit. Or going into a community called “WitchesvsPatriarchy” to not all men any conversation about the patriarchy.

    You can bet your ass that any community like one that you’re talking about would be flooded by smartass replies and jokes at first. And the moment moderators start banning people, they’ll be crying about their ‘free speech’.


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    4 days ago

    Sometimes it feels like that with social media and related platforms. Both Zoom and TikTok seemed to go from something I’d never of to things that everyone was talking about overnight. In Zoom’s case, it definitely seemed like guerrilla viral advertising. Like when everyone was talking about Stanley™ cups for a while, not flasks or water bottles but Stanley™ cups.






  • South Africa, Western Cape. Pretty shit actually. There’s like one month in the year that I actually get to dress up nicely without sweating and stripping off layers. And there’s barely any autumn or spring to speak of. It’s just hot weather into hotter weather into less hot weather again and into a month or two of cold. I preferred the weather on the eastern side of the country in Kwa-Zulu Natal. Winter and summer are more defined and there’s at least a hint of autumn and spring.

    Ultimately I want to be somewhere cold though. I feel like the older I get, the more I hate this endless fkn summer. I want to be cold and cozy and comfortable and wear all my jackets and cool shit daily.


  • I feel like they’ve probably all got pros and cons and probably require a little research. I recently signed up here on lemm.ee and the sign up process seemed pretty quick and simple. And they seem to do minimal de-federating. But the flip side to that is you can’t upload any images for your first 4 weeks on the server. 4 fkn weeks.

    And if I’d read that first, I might have reconsidered joining here. I think I’d rather be inconvenienced by sightly more in depth questions and a 1 day wait time for signing up than a 4 fkn week wait before I can even upload a profile pic and banner image.

    Edit: in fact I’m gonna go as far as saying that it’s false advertising. They advertise as general purpose instance but seemingly can’t even handle a thing that about 50% if this type of social media entails. They should change their blurb on join-lemmy to “We would like to be a general purpose reddit-like instance but our servers catch on fire every time someone uploads a meme, so we should actually be doing something smaller scale instead of pretending that we can hang with lemmy.world”.


    • Stardew Valley
    • Skyrim
    • ADOM
    • Burnout Paradise
    • Vegas Solitaire (or I think a decent Solitaire collection is a fair exception to that one rule because you can get many games out of a pack of cards)

    Stardew Valley, Skyrim and ADOM for games that you can keep going back to over years and playing in different ways and still discovering new things. Vegas Solitaire for more of a mindless time passer when you don’t want something immersive and involved. Burnout Paradise for something in between complex and mindless and something different once in a while.

    Edit: I hope I eventually get rescued though because there’s a LOT of shorter titles that I’d miss.





  • Absolute favourite:

    Kiki’s Delivery Service. Character and story that I relate with most of our of all of the movies. I wish I’d watched it when I was a kid.

    Other favourites:

    • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
    • Pom Poko
    • Whisper of the Heart
    • Howl’s Moving Castle
    • The Tale of Princess Kaguya
    • When Marnie Was There

    Almost favourites:

    • Princess Mononoke (I don’t like Ashitaka that much by the end)
    • Spirited Away (only because this is the only Ghibli that I ever came across in the wild before watching all of them, I’m over exposed to it)
    • Earwig and the Witch (love the concept and general story, not a fan of the animation style and a lot of specifics)