But you don’t get to see how many dislikes a video has

The main tell in non-realistic photos are the colors and excessive gradients. There’s a lot of gray midtones in the shacks and rocks.

I’m willing to bet the water was sold to an AI datacenter and won’t be refilled, thus why its being painted blue, so it can fake being full of water

Seems like you replied to my comment by mistake? I never said young adults aren’t any of those things

I’d say it’s closer to 50/50. Immature or unprepared parents can absolutely wreck a childhood; if all they have is money, you can expect either an arrogant little shit or a kid with lots of mental health problems.

People talk a lot about the protocols that power Bluesky vs. ActivityPub, because we’re nerds and we believe deep in our hearts that the superior protocol will win. This is adorable. It flies in the face of literally all of human history, where the more convenient thing always wins regardless of technical merit. VHS beat Betamax. USB-C took twenty years.

Hopefully, unlike betamax and laserdisc, the fediverse will trudge on despite the megacorporate protocols

People are fucking addicted to instagram and I’m the annoying “get rid of that shit” preacher to everyone I can. My gf has reduced her usage, but still checks it from time to time.

I always ask “Do you really need to use it?” - and almost always, their answer is “not really, but it’s the only place I can find X”. Some of my gf’s friends use it to find new places to go. Some of my boardgaming friends still use it, mostly to “know what events are coming up” or what new games are being released.

Instagram is essentially this age’s yellow pages of a telephone list, small businesses are super dependent on it and they’re forced to post fucking stories everyday or get erased by the algorithm

What exactly is the fediverse?

Servers that can federate over ActivityPub protocol. Any server that uses ActivityPub can be considered part of the fediverse.

What’s included in it?

Clones of corporate owned sites: twitter (mastodon, misskey), tumblr (wafrn), reddit (lemmy, piefed), facebook (friendica), plus others

I’ve hear much about fediverse and Lemmy, but is Lemmy part of it or not?

Yes, it is

Are other systems like Blue sky a part of it or not?

Bluesky isn’t, since they use a different protocol, but it’s possible to bridge and interact with it. Wafrn does it.

Do I transparently see posts from all those different systems?

This is the biggest “it depends” situation. For instance, by default, lemmy ignores most posts from mastodon and similars. However, mastodon users can post to lemmy communities if they use the proper @, but they cannot specify a title - their post body will also double as the title. They can also reply to comments, they’re easy to spot because they always have an @user when replying.

Some server types integrate the different things better than others. Friendica and Wafrn seem to be the best for “variety integration”.

But I enjoy farting in my coworkers’ general direction

On second thought, don’t

Bloodborne, Gran Turismo, Infamous, The Order 1886

Buy a used PC that can run anything released up to ~2014 and you’re golden.

Huh, I vaguely recall micro$lop wanting something similar with their XB1, back in 2013.

Might start a web series called “My journey into becoming a mangaka online but the evil CEO of 《SEO CORP》has stolen my creativity and now I must fight an army of robots!”

Whatever the hell people would expect from that title, it won’t be that.

Nor does the gun have 3 barrels

Ankh-Morporkian democracy of one man, one vote: the Patrician is the man and he has the vote.

Hey, I’ve seen that hint on The Sims!

Point us to the right direction

Dangerous Drake’s Daring Cage

To make up for our disappointment