Here's an article on where the Proton checkbox is in the Steam settings. Just now I'm playing CIV4 and I had completely forgotten to think that it probably doesn't work on Linux. Because it does now, absolutely fine :)
(The original FFVII doesn't, though. But that's the only Windows game I've encountered to not work!)
If you use Steam, there's an option in the settings to always enable using Proton to handle Windows games. Works very well! Many games work faster than on Windows, but sometimes there are minor bugs.
About half are Americans, about half are in non-US Western countries, 5% other
everyone here hates the current US admin
everyone uses adblockers
everyone is anti-surveillance (except like 1 or 2 users you find occasionally defending mass surveillance that get downvoted into oblivion)
everyone is either a Marxist Leninist, Left Anarchist, Social Democrat, or Democratic Socialist, except like a handful of liberals and like 2 conservatives
almost everyone here supports vigilantism
Germans... Germans Memes Everywhere
BEANS
Frequently, you get extreme CCP shills falsely accusing you of Sinophobia, and simultaneously some are actually some closeted Sinophobes.
Liberal and Liberalist are two different terms, though. Very few liberalists are liberal.
If you support basic human rights, liberalism is diametrically opposed to your thinking. You can't have human rights if Nestlé is allowed to own all the ground water underneath your village.
Frequently, you get extreme CCP shills falsely accusing you of Sinophobia, and simultaneously some are actually some closeted Sinophobes.
Let me guess. You went to one of the .ml instances and got accused of being "Orientalist" after saying something that someone politically disagreed with?
Yeah, I still don't completely understand that crowd. I don't think that they're actually shilling, because then they wouldn't be advocating for North Korea. But there are a lot of people there who are clearly not interested in good-faith discussion. I just decided that it's not worth dealing with them very early on.
The !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works crowd is determined to keep plunging in, though.
My outsider impression is that this is just a long-standing hard-left tradition in general. Not really specific to anything on the Fediverse.
I remember going through the list of UK socialist and/or communist political parties. Lots of tiny, fragmented groups, many of which had split off from others over various disagreements.
The phenomenon is sometimes called the Naccism of Small Differences or the Law of Triviality. It appears in just about any group of people to some degree. It's a wild and weird little bit of human behavior.
A much more selective user base. People are very picky in what they upvote. I feel like in the Spez pool people upvoted or downvoted and would comment a lot easier. Here people vote with 3 options. Up, down or not. Feels much more deliberate. Also means you get a lot less comments (despite there being less users), because people follow the Bambi principle more here (if you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing at all)
AND, I think there are some fediverse issues with the various clients and the fact that language is per post setting, hindering discovery.
I always felt on R that if you commented, most of the time, it goes down a black hole. You come into something "late" and no one sees your comment. No up/down votes at all. Which can feel very bad if you spent a lot of time on your response.
I like that "Bambi principle". Thats a good way of putting it.
Ah. The default UI on lemmy.world warns against unselecting ‘undefined’, saying that many posts would be removed from the feed. Dunno how it is on other instances.
Your mention of unix_surrealism is a good point, it really is quite a unique community.
Also for me, the 3 day no poop question will forever be deeply tied to lemmy. It only unfolded days after I first joined, and I believe it was the first big piece of lemmy lore.
It's one of my favourite subreddits just because I like having "real" stuff to read. I was wondering recently if we should just make a community for reposting the best r/BORU posts to Lemmy? And then, assuming Lemmy gets big enough, we'll already have a spot for posting the best of Lemmy updates too.
there's already a !bestofredditorupdates@lemmit.online but a lot of instances block lemmit for being bot content since their whole purpose is to repost reddit content which like. bots are actually super useful for that kind of thing. A LOT of users don't seem to understand that they personally have the power to set instance blocks for their own account. so instead they push for defeds when like. just block the instance from your settings. it's a checkbox. it's not complicated! Sometimes I worry that all the defeds will create little insular echo chambers when the whole point of fedi is diversity.
I remember the the week I moved here that was in no stupid questions, there was not a lot of comments and post and that became big, references popped in other posts and comments and ultimately was forgotten.
This is akin of the poop in the shower, dunk in the toilet, guy from IMGUR in 2014 and I still think is legit as everyone is "anonymous" on the internet.
The mods are literally the same. The admins? That's absurd. The admins are people who are spending their own money to provide a service to you that we all collectively own. The admins of Reddit are employees of a corporation that are paid to enhance the exploitation of their users for third parties. If you can't see the fucking difference, you're better off at Reddit.
So many admins here are exactly like mods. They host themselves because then they have some modicum of power and nobody is above them. They don't host out of any altrustic or helpful desire; they host to be in charge.
I know exactly what admin Sapphic is referring to and I 100% agree with their statement.
Mostly niche interest ones. Especially when there's multiple communities for that interest. It's hard to point a finger at one but I think the last one I looked at was dubstep. I check the sidebar, only one mod. I check their user page, they're only moderating one comm. The odds of them being a terminally online psycho are greatly reduced than if they're moderating 10+ comms.
Not that comms with multiple mods are at all bad, or moderators operating a cluster of comms. It's just not the same instant green flag as when there's only 1-3. This is kind of why I like the current size fediverse is at. Like, I know people want it to grow but there's something kind of nice about small communities
If a person asks you to provide evidence that anything bad is happening in China, you are about to get banned in that Lemmy community before you can collect or post said evidence.
Reflexively being for or against (usually against) something based on certain keywords in the title independent of the content of the article itself. It could even be good news - doesn't matter. If it's about the wrong thing it's bad news.
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mesamunefire@piefed.social · 87 pts · 245d
Im sure there are others. Looking forward to what everyone else says!
.....Also Beans. Yeah didn't expect that.
pmk@piefed.ca · 34 pts · 245d
It may seem like we all run Linux, but some people run BSD too.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 18 pts · 245d
Ah yes, devil Linux.
Ill see myself out.
At some point im going to have to give it a try. I like playing around with alternative OSes for fun (like 9front, UXN, LFS, etc...).
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 245d
At the end of the day bsd and linux are cousins.
hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 245d
some also uses illumos :)
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
I don't always use BSD, but when I do
@
“unknown argument ‘--help’”
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 245d
it really feels like reddit in 2009
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 6 pts · 245d
It really does.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 245d
I recently posted the question "What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?" and I think it's interesting the spread of OSes people are talking about:
https://mander.xyz/post/44082963
Blisterexe@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 245d
I saw that thread! I really appreciated how I disagreed with a lot of the opinions there, it felt like a thread of actually unpopular opinions
tal@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 245d
I believe that the unix_surrealism guy is a BSD person.
pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 225d
I don't even use computers.
Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org · 2 pts · 224d
So NetBSD it is.
droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 245d
I dual boot because I still haven't figured out how to game on Linux because im dumb :P
Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org · 4 pts · 245d
Here's an article on where the Proton checkbox is in the Steam settings. Just now I'm playing CIV4 and I had completely forgotten to think that it probably doesn't work on Linux. Because it does now, absolutely fine :)
(The original FFVII doesn't, though. But that's the only Windows game I've encountered to not work!)
Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org · 3 pts · 245d
If you use Steam, there's an option in the settings to always enable using Proton to handle Windows games. Works very well! Many games work faster than on Windows, but sometimes there are minor bugs.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 245d
You must have never run into r/beansinthings or r/ooer then
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 244d
And moth
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 244d
Bröther, I nëëd lämp
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 63 pts · 245d
kingofras@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 245d
You’re going to write beans in caps, not even mentioning corn in passing? This one right here officer!
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 245d
Sorry my Internet Explorer is lagging
kingofras@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 245d
What’s your ICQ? I’ll send you the 32bit version, feels snappier.
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 245d
BEANS,CORN, ONIONOur memes feel very old internet and I miss those times.
Samsy@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 245d
Next will be meat? Are we making a chili?
KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 245d
Dieser Kommentar ist Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi · 1 pts · 245d
Guten Tag!
TheBat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 245d
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 245d
Liberalism was originally about economics.
Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org · 2 pts · 245d
Liberal and Liberalist are two different terms, though. Very few liberalists are liberal.
If you support basic human rights, liberalism is diametrically opposed to your thinking. You can't have human rights if Nestlé is allowed to own all the ground water underneath your village.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 245d
Yeah proper term for people that don't want to discriminate based on gender, race, or sexual preference should be "normal" anyways.
tal@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 245d
Let me guess. You went to one of the .ml instances and got accused of being "Orientalist" after saying something that someone politically disagreed with?
Yeah, I still don't completely understand that crowd. I don't think that they're actually shilling, because then they wouldn't be advocating for North Korea. But there are a lot of people there who are clearly not interested in good-faith discussion. I just decided that it's not worth dealing with them very early on.
The !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works crowd is determined to keep plunging in, though.
Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org · 3 pts · 245d
Mehr als ein Fünftel der Einwohnern in der EU sprechen Deutsch als Muttersprache. Durchwegs zu erwarten also!
Jedoch sind gar nicht alle deutschsprachige Deutscher! Calling all German-speakers German is like calling all English-speakers American.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 50 pts · 245d
Two leftists with minute political differences calling each other fascists.
tal@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 245d
My outsider impression is that this is just a long-standing hard-left tradition in general. Not really specific to anything on the Fediverse.
I remember going through the list of UK socialist and/or communist political parties. Lots of tiny, fragmented groups, many of which had split off from others over various disagreements.
harcesz@szmer.info · 4 pts · 245d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-0Az7dgRY
tal@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 245d
I knew what this was before even clicking on it. :-)
harcesz@szmer.info · 3 pts · 245d
BranBucket@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
The phenomenon is sometimes called the Naccism of Small Differences or the Law of Triviality. It appears in just about any group of people to some degree. It's a wild and weird little bit of human behavior.
Hylactor@sopuli.xyz · 48 pts · 245d
That weird bot that assumed that woman's identity and was messaging everyone?
kopasu22@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 245d
Nicole noticed me once, that's the only time in my life I ever felt special.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 15 pts · 245d
Glad thats gone. It was very strange!
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 245d
I guess somebody finally replied to her and they’re off happily married. Good for her!
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 245d
I can say Luigi Mangione all I want.
Even the idiots here are pretty smart.
Carnelian@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 245d
Appreciate the compliment!
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 244d
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 245d
Dude did nothing wrong.
Samsy@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 245d
Because its not easy to find for the Normie's. Btw. The older your account is, the smarter you are.
kingofras@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 245d
A much more selective user base. People are very picky in what they upvote. I feel like in the Spez pool people upvoted or downvoted and would comment a lot easier. Here people vote with 3 options. Up, down or not. Feels much more deliberate. Also means you get a lot less comments (despite there being less users), because people follow the Bambi principle more here (if you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing at all)
AND, I think there are some fediverse issues with the various clients and the fact that language is per post setting, hindering discovery.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 11 pts · 245d
I always felt on R that if you commented, most of the time, it goes down a black hole. You come into something "late" and no one sees your comment. No up/down votes at all. Which can feel very bad if you spent a lot of time on your response.
I like that "Bambi principle". Thats a good way of putting it.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d
Could you please elaborate on this a bit? It feels interesting for me, but I don't quite see how the language setting impedes discovery.
kingofras@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
https://lemmy.world/comment/21172973
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
Ah. The default UI on lemmy.world warns against unselecting ‘undefined’, saying that many posts would be removed from the feed. Dunno how it is on other instances.
kingofras@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
It’s not about instances, but about Lemmy clients not supporting the language setting.
eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de · 21 pts · 245d
Your mention of unix_surrealism is a good point, it really is quite a unique community.
Also for me, the 3 day no poop question will forever be deeply tied to lemmy. It only unfolded days after I first joined, and I believe it was the first big piece of lemmy lore.
naught101@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 245d
Archived version:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230628184548/https://lemmy.world/post/440073
Tuuktuuk@kbin.melroy.org · 2 pts · 245d
The Internet Archive rewrites people's home instances?! Wut?
naught101@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
It rewrites links so they point to the archive. I guess the instance URL just got caught up in that..
XiELEd@piefed.social · 3 pts · 245d
I have been looking for this post for a very long time. I was on Kbin back then lol
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 2 pts · 245d
WTF! New rabbit hole?
Oh no.
Routhinator@startrek.website · 1 pts · 244d
Lol, this post has everything, even Sherlock holmes fan fiction.
Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 245d
Don't @ me, but I soak in the drama of Best of Redditor Updates and the fediverse isn't quite suited to sagas like that yet.
But the guy who needed to not shit for 3 days made it over there. So that feels pretty noteworthy.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 245d
It's one of my favourite subreddits just because I like having "real" stuff to read. I was wondering recently if we should just make a community for reposting the best r/BORU posts to Lemmy? And then, assuming Lemmy gets big enough, we'll already have a spot for posting the best of Lemmy updates too.
ethaver@kbin.earth · 8 pts · 245d
there's already a !bestofredditorupdates@lemmit.online but a lot of instances block lemmit for being bot content since their whole purpose is to repost reddit content which like. bots are actually super useful for that kind of thing. A LOT of users don't seem to understand that they personally have the power to set instance blocks for their own account. so instead they push for defeds when like. just block the instance from your settings. it's a checkbox. it's not complicated! Sometimes I worry that all the defeds will create little insular echo chambers when the whole point of fedi is diversity.
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 245d
They guy who asked how not to poop for a week.
I remember the the week I moved here that was in no stupid questions, there was not a lot of comments and post and that became big, references popped in other posts and comments and ultimately was forgotten.
This is akin of the poop in the shower, dunk in the toilet, guy from IMGUR in 2014 and I still think is legit as everyone is "anonymous" on the internet.
KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 245d
I am using Arch, btw.
SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world · 4 pts · 245d
Do you have your programming socks on?
ollie@pawb.social · 2 pts · 244d
arch user here
yes
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 245d
The main LGBTQIA+ space is ran by a troll who bans anyone who doesn't kiss her boot.
Admins and mods are no different than any part of reddit.
They will be the death of their own spaces sadly.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 244d
The mods are literally the same. The admins? That's absurd. The admins are people who are spending their own money to provide a service to you that we all collectively own. The admins of Reddit are employees of a corporation that are paid to enhance the exploitation of their users for third parties. If you can't see the fucking difference, you're better off at Reddit.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 244d
So many admins here are exactly like mods. They host themselves because then they have some modicum of power and nobody is above them. They don't host out of any altrustic or helpful desire; they host to be in charge.
I know exactly what admin Sapphic is referring to and I 100% agree with their statement.
Redacted@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 244d
I know arch exists and is a type of linux, which is a type of computer for computer people.
I know there are a bunch of different types of linux but they all require the same socks to work right.
I know beans help corn grow.
korendian@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 245d
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 245d
It was EXACTLY what I thought
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 244d
This is now my new favourite thing.
ozoned@piefed.social · 8 pts · 245d
I run Fireside Fedi. A show where I talk with folks from around the Fediverse. It's all Fedi powered as well. Live stream, Owncast (https://stream.firesidefedi.live/), VOD Peertube (https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi), GoToSocial and testing Bonfire for the social accounts.
I'm obviously biased though. :-)
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 1 pts · 245d
Hell yeah, love your stuff!
ozoned@piefed.social · 1 pts · 245d
Thank you! <3 :-)
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 245d
The fact that most communities have a single unique moderator.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 17 pts · 245d
Most communities only have one user so this checks out /s
What kind of communities are you talking about?
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 245d
Mostly niche interest ones. Especially when there's multiple communities for that interest. It's hard to point a finger at one but I think the last one I looked at was dubstep. I check the sidebar, only one mod. I check their user page, they're only moderating one comm. The odds of them being a terminally online psycho are greatly reduced than if they're moderating 10+ comms.
Not that comms with multiple mods are at all bad, or moderators operating a cluster of comms. It's just not the same instant green flag as when there's only 1-3. This is kind of why I like the current size fediverse is at. Like, I know people want it to grow but there's something kind of nice about small communities
j4k3@piefed.world · 6 pts · 245d
Real people with well policed and purged bigotry.
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 5 pts · 245d
Its nice to recognize say Blase (with his super sonic profile) where he is hanging around in.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 245d
A furry wearing stockings while using Linux
ollie@pawb.social · 1 pts · 244d
you called?
mesamunefire@piefed.social · 1 pts · 245d
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d
I know how to not poop for 3 days.
I JUST DON'T KNOW WHY!
bigfondue@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 245d
RacerX@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 245d
Nintendo is a blight on this earth and must be abolished.
dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 245d
Corn I guess?
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 243d
If a person asks you to provide evidence that anything bad is happening in China, you are about to get banned in that Lemmy community before you can collect or post said evidence.
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network · 2 pts · 245d
Our Onion is the OC for all my satirical news articles. Little things like that are the seeds of a community.
PodPerson@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 244d
Beans. Not corn, but beans.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 245d
Reflexively being for or against (usually against) something based on certain keywords in the title independent of the content of the article itself. It could even be good news - doesn't matter. If it's about the wrong thing it's bad news.
Krudler@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 245d
Morons showing up to vandalize comments sections with "Linux!". We get it, you have absolutely nothing useful to add.
ollie@pawb.social · 1 pts · 244d
i love linux as much as the next guy but theres no point adding nothing new to the conversation