MHLoppy

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I maintain queues for places I actively submit in, but I actually exhausted mine with this link (not much gets published over the weekends). My current rotation of satire sources:

https://chaser.com.au/ https://theshovel.com.au/ https://www.betootaadvocate.com/ (often has thumbnail problems) https://www.thebelltowertimes.com/ https://theonion.com/ https://clickhole.com/ https://thehardtimes.net/ (seems to have died with Charlie Kirk) https://hard-drive.net/ (seems to have died with Charlie Kirk) https://www.mcsweeneys.net/ https://newsthump.com/ (partial paywall - please provide an archived link alongside the original submission if you use this source) https://theneedling.com/

Was evaluating adding this one in too: https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/

Nobody ever asked, but since I'm dumping everything else right now I might as well dump this alongside it too; the reason I made a consistent effort to submit here and not on the sister community on midwest.social is because although admins can run their instances how they want I didn't personally like how midwest.social was run:

It had been my hope to slowly displace it as the dominant onion community in the long-run, at least while the assumption of the admin(s) of this instance being preferable held true.


Embrace satire (it's fun!) and truth (it's important!); reject tribalistic misinformation and inappropriate voting that ruins other people's feeds. If you don't, it will poison the platform and devolve it into more of an echo-chamber than it already is.

Based on current trajectories and the information I've gathered after 2 years of active use, I'm no longer convinced that the current threadiverse has a realistic chance of working out and I'm tired of trying (but it's always possible that I'll be proven wrong, or that it's already good enough for you personally). Good luck!

I've had this sub open in my browser for the better part of two years and was always bummed it never sustained much activity. I have a few more clips like this that I was waiting to process and submit but I never felt like I had a good place to host them. Catbox has problems in some countries and also doesn't show thumbnails, so I was mostly holding out for native video hosting on-platform.

so much as expressing anger at what’s happening

Downvoting submissions that are appropriate, on-topic, and rules-following to the communities they're in is not using the platform sensibly.

Votes determine people's feeds, and people without the emotional self control to not manipulate other people's feeds for their own emotional regulation make the feeds of everyone else worse and I'm so fucking tired of seeing it. This lack of respect for how voting interacts with what other people see just creates an echo-chamber because the visibility of anything appropriate-but-disliked gets suppressed. Childish tribalist stupidity to sabotage not just one platform, but EVERYTHING connected to it because we're using interoperable federated platforms. To the best of my knowledge, having looked at how both lemmy and mbin process votes, none of the software involved here has sophisticated enough vote processing to enable people to use it in this way.

I think (and hope) people are downvoting you just because of the content of the article and not really paying attention to where it was posted.

Yes, it was my mistake to once again think that people might use the platform sensibly. On the other hand, maybe submitting should continue until platform usage improves.

In 2018, Tour and his colleagues discovered that this rapid heating process, called flash joule heating, can turn any carbon source—including coal, biochar, and mixed plastic—into graphene

Wait we discovered how to transform mixed plastic into graphene seven years ago wtf?

Looks pretty good at $30 USD, though even that price might be tough for patient buyers against dual towers that go on sale.

Tom's Hardware has the first review I read and I was quite surprised by the quality of the review, where they ("partly because our main testing 9950X3D system is encountering problems at the moment") compare it only against a Montech NX400 and an unnamed prototype dual-tower lmao

if they fall combined their money they could probably create/fund a new platform that is actually good

The closest equivalents I know of are Nebula (which doesn't do [live] streaming, and avoids moderation problems by just having no user discussion), and Floatplane. Even though each of the two platforms is "successful", afaik creators that use them still do so only as a secondary platform on top of their primary platform (YouTube). Based on that I'm not sure displacing (as opposed to augmenting) one of the big video/video streaming platforms is even practically possible right now without vc/saudi/gambling levels of money to burn.

Even Twitch -- despite its not-exactly-amazing state -- was not profitable as of 1.5 years ago: https://dotesports.com/streaming/news/twitch-ceo-confirms-company-is-still-not-profitable-but-amazon-has-been-extremely-supportive