Employee at the Black Mesa research facility in New Mexico. Recently we’ve dealt with 2 aliens trying to steal snacks.
Moved from kbin.social, here’s my old account: https://kbin.social/u/Mars2k21
I moderate the AI community over there (infrequently).
Hope your day is going well.
Came here to say exactly this. My favorite video game trilogy of all time, played through each campaign countless times and multiplayer on MCC from time to time. Never gets old.
I know some people who will buy vinyls but that’s as far as it goes for physical media in music. Music CDs are pretty much foreign objects in 2024 and people just stream instead.
A CD would be cool, but where am I ever going to use it? I don’t have a CD player at all…but I do have an Apple Music subscription. A vinyl at least is large and works better as a decoration. Don’t really see the point in using a CD.
If I want to support the artist I’m seeing, I just buy clothing instead.
P.S. we don’t know what a skibidi toilet is either. Ask gen alpha.
Preposterous. Sounds hilarious, and looks/sounds very sophisticated in a good way.
Windows 10 was half decent as an operating system to be honest, just doesn’t stack up to 7. 8/8.1 is where the enshittification began and it continued with 11.
Somebody here on Lemmy sent me a message calling me the hard R (I’m Black) after posting a pro-LGBT comment.
I read the message, marked the notification as read, and closed my Lemmy tab. Problem solved, no response needed. Just ignored them.
This person was banned from their instance on the same day.
Going to preface by saying I still use Reddit occasionally alongside Lemmy AND Tildes sometimes as well. I just like talking to people with similar interests.
Most of us came over to Lemmy (in my case, originally kbin) because of the 3rd party app shutdown and API apocalypse. I still use Reddit since it has a lot more communities I’m interested in so I wouldn’t be an ex-redditor per say. I’m not nearly as active as I used to before 3rd party apps got shut down.
I was always indifferent towards Reddit as a platform since I mostly just felt connected to the communities there. I only use more niche subreddits related to my interests and was never active on any with over 400k besides from askreddit, so I avoided most of the stereotypical bad things about Reddit’s community and the whole “Reddit is becoming like Facebook” stuff. If Lemmy gained these communities I love, I’d stop using Reddit completely.
The community and content matters to me a lot more with link aggregator type platforms, the software less so than it does with microblogging platforms like Twitter and such. Spez sucks for what he did but I really don’t care enough to criticize the dude one year after the Reddit migration and the failure of the blackout. I like Reddit’s sheer amount of content available and don’t care for the software/anything paid on there, and I like the technology behind Lemmy but the community offerings less so.
TL;DR I halfway switched.
A bit of a rant here.
Recently joined the wider Lemmy community (coming from kbin.social, o7). I like it, but the constant negativity and fear mongering/bait in large communities keeps me from engaging more. I just kind of wish there were more relaxed communities like how niche subreddits can be. I’ve seen a lot more arguments here than the kbin-specific communities or even Reddit honestly.
I’m going to continue using Lemmy at least for now, but I just hope this place can move past the negativity that plagues major social media platforms already. I get everybody has their views, but is it a requirement to share them every comment/post? It’s all jokes and no seriousness on Reddit to all seriousness here. Not very enjoyable. Feels like a lot of the users who created cool niche communities after the Reddit exodus got driven away by the negativity and frivolous downvoting.
Nothing to contribute honestly, I just want to say that this is the funniest post i’ve seen on lemmy