I don’t use Spotify personally, I just go with whatever seems to be the easiest to access for most people when I’m posting online. I don’t think Google / YouTube is exactly great either. Neither are the major record labels that existed before streaming. Unfortunately it’s all that most musicians have if they don’t want to stay in the garage.

Thank you! That worked perfectly. Hope I remember it for next time lol.

I don’t think this is simple or human friendly at all. I cannot think of a single example of where or how this is actually useful as default behaviour. If I want all of my text on a single line, I’ll use the space bar instead of the return key. This is just dumb and anti-intuitive.

Not only do I think I shouldn’t have to research how to make new lines on a forum site, I think this shouldn’t even be a ‘feature’ in the first place. I can understand looking up the markdown for italics / bullet points / other beautification though.

Side note: it’s really fucking annoying that you can’t format text with new lines, without knowing the secret markdown. Absolutely fucking stupid. How is it useful to anyone?

Personally, I think the concept of “talent” comes from people who think they were created by a magical man for a specific purpose. What I think talent is, is just practice, perseverance and passion. I’ll use guitar for example. Everyone fucking sucks in the beginning. There’s this very difficult barrier at the start that you can only get through by forcing your way through, before it starts becoming ‘fun’. And a lot of people don’t make it past this beginning phase and think they’re just too untalented, when what they’re actually lacking is the perseverance and the passion to want it hard enough.

Sure, some people have longer fingers (which also isn’t ‘talent’) but you don’t have to play on a wide neck classical guitar, there’s plenty of guitar shapes and sizes that are more suitable.

Because they’re burger citizens.

Just discovered these guys like a week or two ago! Came across their KEXP live recording on YouTube and sat through the whole thing from start to finish. Really awesome, planning on digging into their stuff more eventually.

Yeah I’ve seen people saying the creators are TERFs but apparently that’s just a lie because the creators are actually trans.

Can someone explain what the issue with this is? I’m sure there’s some legitimate gripe but so far, in between the memes about people joining forces to stop this cartoon, all I’ve been able to surmise is that people think the style is ugly (even though it looks the same as 80% of cartoon network stuff), and that there are people calling it “heterophobic” and crying that the villains are straight or something.

Are there any non manosphere people that can explain what the big fuss is?

I’ve been following this English teacher on Instagram, who has had every attempt at getting kids to read thwarted by the school admins, who don’t want anything ‘woke’ or ‘political’ or too challenging in any way. Which left this teacher with an empty library by the time the admin was done.

So it’s not the kids’ fault, it’s not social media’s fault, it’s not even the teacher’s fault. It’s pearl clutching, conservative, anti ‘woke’, horse dewormer enjoying, piss drinkers that want these kids to stay stupid and unquestioning, and to have the reading ability of 5th graders.

I guess that if you put a bunch of religious fruitcakes that think science and education are woke devil magic in charge of things, you’re going to end up with poorly educated children. Who would’ve thought?

Yeah, the pinned posts in multi communities are a scourge lol. Would be nice to be able to turn them off in this case.

As a single player gamer, I’m already dealing with aging hardware and the expensive prospect of ever replacing it by sticking to mainly ‘retro’ style cosy games. Or actual retro games via emulation.

I’m already so far out of the loop with modern 3D games with ray tracing and individual strands of hair rendered that need billion dollar super computers to run, that I ran out of FOMO long ago. That’s stuff for rich kids or people who landed a job that pays more than just to survive.

After spending the last year or so exploring mainstream social media, one of the biggest differences between Facebook and Instagram, is that Facebook has multiple reacts. And certain people, notably men, love to use the laugh react to bully people. You’ll find laugh reacts on everything from a trans person posting a selfie, to feminist pages posting about rape and abuse stats. On Instagram, the bigots are still there in the comment sections but they’re a lot easier to ignore because there’s a lot less noise in that regard, on how they’re allowed to react to things.

After this experience, I 100% believe that the people who rely on the downvote button so much on platforms like this and Reddit, are actually exactly the same kind of fucking people that laugh react news stories about rape. Stupid, mean, cruel, stupid people who can’t spar with their stupid ideas, so all they have is a panic button to make them feel better.

People downvote for absolutely stupid reasons. It’s original intention was for handling trolls and off topic content but most of these people just use it as a ‘dislike’ button. These days more than ever, I feel like it’s something that should just be done away with because it gets proven over and over again that it only really ever gets used in bad faith anyway, and therefore adds nothing of value to the platform.

That’s why I’m quite happy on an instance with downvotes simply disabled. Personally, between Reddit and Lemmy I’ve probably purposely downvoted about five things, when a person doesn’t know when to end an ‘argument’ and just becomes a troll.

Last time I was more active here, I did end up getting into the habit of checking votes and honestly, it just makes me want to block people, even if they haven’t been downvoting me. If you’re the kind of person that goes around downvoting everything all day for stupid fucking reasons, you’re probably an unlikeable, insufferable turd in ‘real’ life too.

The way I see it, this is just the nature of the meme. People make memes, people take memes, and they travel around the world wide web, and end up with ifunny and 9gag and collegehumor watermarks, and in the form of badly cropped screenshots. That logo is just a scar that this wild meme picked up somewhere along the way. It’s just nature.

I mean, it is a movie from the 1900s, so how did they do it?

Yeah all my MySpace friends were people I made friends with on forum sites. And we were actually friends that actually spoke and messaged other. Novel concept for ‘social’ media, I know.

Famously, married couples were shown to sleep in separate beds.

First thing I thought of was Bert and Ernie.

If they can’t get the zombie of Karl Marx risen from the grave to run, they would rather be led by right wing christian nationalist pedophiles.

Most ‘nerd’ stuff. Comic book movie discussion has gone to shit because people have become weird about it. When it’s not manosphere bullshit, it’s people expecting Endgame level quality and stakes for every single movie now, who would’ve shat on Iron Man if it came out today, and who need to be reminded of the absolute horse shit that we used to get. They’re starting to rival the Star Wars fans in terms of being insufferable.

Outside of the cosy games spaces that I’ve been hanging around, all I ever hear from Gamers™ is some controversy about a female character being a game. Or gasp a black character. They’re happy with the main protagonist being a woman if the jiggle psychics are set to max though.

And online at least, the alternative scene has gone to shit. People from the anti jock subcultures started listening to jocks with microphones on podcasts. People who grew up listening to Jonathan Davis singing about being called a “faget”, went on to become people who call others “betas”. Metal went from representing rebellion to representing people who go “stop making it political”.

And so many ‘punks’ seem to have become Joe Rogan fans too. I’ve even had to argue with people calling me a “woke lefty” in fan spaces for The Clash. We all laughed when Joe Rogan said “conservative is the new punk” but it’s an even bigger joke because half the people that took his word for it were punks.