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Seems like an opportunity to lose users. The whole instance thing is already kinda confusing for new people (source: just joined yesterday), but making every instance only connect to a select few instances would mean having to make an account on multiple different instances if you wanted to see a disparate selection of content. As much as I enjoy debating politics and religion I wouldn’t join a server that only showed those communities because I also like videos of huskies being sassy, battletech memes, etc.

What’s hilarious is that my perma-ban got lifted on appeal, I can post and shit now, but the message they sent me said it was denied and would stay in place. They are so goddamnned confused over there.

Holy shit, that thing is a monster. They make cape buffalo look dainty and soft. :P

Thanks, that ought to get me started.

I had a similar realization about bison recently too, those things are goddamned huge, bigger even than that mid-sized SUV. Apparently they can get up to 3000lbs in weight.

The message about my perma-ban was actually 11 hours older than the message about my temp-ban being lifted, so they perma-banned me and then un-temp-banned me, which is… kinda fucky.

I haven’t used it in a couple years now, so maybe they’ve gotten better. shrug Also never tried it on my phone, I use duckduckgo’s browser.

Two reasons.

1. Because you don’t get what you want out of life by running from pain, you just have to embrace the suck.
2. Because I’ve had chronic back pain for the past ~20 years and there’s nothing my doctors can do about it, my only alternative to pushing through the pain is to make myself unable to feel pain anymore, and despite the pain I still quite enjoy life.

I’m new myself, thanks for the recommendations. While you’re at it, do you happen to know of any good political/religion debate … subs? what are they called here? I’m going to call them subs for now. Maybe some Anarchist and non-tankie Communist subs?

I just arrived today myself, after being temp-banned for 7 days for some bullshit reasons that the appeal team agreed were bullshit so they unbanned me, but not before someone else perma-banned me for violating the rules on ‘my other accounts’ – I’ve had a single reddit account for the entire 14 years I’ve been there, I don’t even make throwaways, so, even more bullshit. I appealed that one too, but even if it’s overturned I’m not sure I’m going back. They’ve gotten real fucking fashy all of a sudden with the censorship, banning people for upvoting shit and calling it ‘inciting violence.’ Fuck 'em.

Yeah, it’s textbook enshittification.

That headline should read ‘Capitalist enterprise unsurprisingly open to the idea of making shitloads of money, but we like money too so we wrote an article about something that shouldn’t be news even to small children.’

For me it’s MorningLightMountain and the Primes in general in Peter F. Hamilton’s Commonwealth trilogy. It was just a really cool and unique idea for an alien species, and Hamilton succeeded in making it feel truly alien, explaining its motivations, etc. It was just a really well-realized aspect of the world.

What a great album.

You know, I’m 52 years old and I don’t think I’ve ever seen an up-close picture of yak that gave a good sense of scale. Those things are just cold-weather banthas.

That’s not “racist”, that’s ’ " ’ racist ’ " ', which is just regular-ass racist.

The main issue I have with Firefox is that some pdfs have this side-by-side layout (especially rpg pdfs) that Firefox respects and I keep having to turn it off every time I load a new one. Chrome doesn’t respect it and shows it a page at a time like I want. My eyes don’t work too good so side by side the text is just too small.

I used Brave for a while and found I still needed to use ublock to cover some things, especially stuff like Youtube ads.

Windows user who turned that shit on within an hour of installing the OS:

I didn’t realize there were firefox forks, are any of them significantly better than firefox?