Lemmy has flaws, but Reddit is a fucking cesspool.

There’s not going to be a replacement for what Reddit used to be. The world is shittier now, that’s just gone. The right way to think of it is that the replacement for Reddit is a combination of Lemmy (or another preferred option) and being less online, being less attached to any one site.

Have loud sex with a woman his age to turn the tables.

I’m just saying, in life there are contexts where your disagreement is meant to be part of the discussion, like a best song thread, and then there’s other contexts where criticizing what someone likes, even in a non mean spirited way, subtly depresses the fun of the situation.

When I was younger I didn’t get that, my friends would talk about things they liked and I’d instinctively disagree. And at a certain age I realized I’d be better company if I didn’t interrupt their enthusiasm. Because the world sucks and enthusiasm is hard to cultivate.

Do you get, though, how it doesn’t improve a thread asking people what they’re most excited about right now when you reply telling someone they’re wrong?

Sorry I posted the wrong songs.

I’ve been listening to Metallica’s One and …And Justice for All repeatedly, their two best tracks.

I wouldn’t even say it was bad, it just felt like a Netflix show which is some intangible quality I can’t articulate that made it feel cheap and rushed.

Only 11 episodes total for 2 “seasons”? They picked the right showrunners for rushing through the end of a series. It was never going to end well when it was Netflix that got the rights.

It’s stupid rage bait for morons.

It would actually be a really great thing if we could crowdsource a few hundred of the most truly valuable reddit posts because then they could be trivially scraped and put on a site somewhere.

On cable as long as you had a DVR you could skip every commercial. With streaming, ads are baked into the experience and commercials can be made unskippable. It sucks.

taps the sign

I don’t know why because I’ve never done it before today, but as I was about to post that I imagined someone taking it seriously and I was not in the mood to deal with that today so I cut it off proactively. And I’ve never liked /s.

To be fair though the Democrats tried to stop dumb shitheads from pushing horse paste on Twitter during a pandemic, so no one’s blameless in the censorship game.

(Please don’t make me reply clarifying the intent of this statement.)

Yeah I use foobar and it works fine, but it still sucks and still affects us that the culture is streaming based. It’s better when your habits aren’t niche and you’re not always fighting against the norm.

Before you comment I’m begging you to take the parent comment in the general spirit of digital “ownership” having taken over the culture and not point out that Winamp technically still exists.

We gave up Winamp for this.

I’m boycotting because the new chicken is a gross honey thing instead of last year’s Al Pastor which I liked. If I wanted chicken drowned in sugar sauce I’d go to Panda Express.

I also went through the phase where I thought I was an audiophile/videophile and everything I collected needed to be in ultra high quality. Eventually I realized it was stupid and now I spend a third as much money on storage and still have perfectly fine media that I have no issues with in practice despite the flaws I’m supposed to see in theory.

you’ll do nothing but bloat the file size

That’s very wrong. Going from h.264 to h.265 cuts file size down to 25-50% of the original. That’s what the HE is for in HEVC.