• Abzu - hated the underwater movement controls
• Deponia & MechaNika - the protagonist is an asshole
• Papers Please - too stressful (works well as a piece of art, but wasn’t an enjoyable experience)

I used Feedly for many years, but recently switched to Newsblur, and I love that it lets me filter out posts by tags or keywords, finally don’t have to use external tools for it.

this meme was my Facebook profile cover for a while 😁

Why not? I still look up information there too, but I use an adblocker, so it’s not like Spez is profiting from me.

If you don’t want to give them traffic, you can always visit the search result URL through the Wayback Machine or Archive.today.

I also have limited understanding, but these are huge corporations with huge userbases. If they start giving “helpful” input on how the ActivityPub protocol should develop, it may exert a strong pressure/influence due to their sheer size.

I know it’s not the same situation, but it reminds me of how Google keeps trying to push shady stuff into Chromium, even though it’s supposed to be free, open-source software.

I think this is their attempt to EEE (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) the Fediverse, so I’m strongly in favour of immediately defederating corporate instances as soon as they are created.

thanks!

Thanks, but I’m a PC only user.

I want to be able to ban/hide entire servers. Regularly seeing lemmynsfw celebrity communities pop up in All/Hot :| (I have nsfw disabled, so it’s just generic photos of random women.)

Also an option would be nice to hide downvoted posts, I had that on in RES.

OpenStreetMap is a joy to behold and fun to edit too, but for me where it really falls behind is its route planner :/ Google Maps lets us plan with public transport, shows multiple route options with journey times, and lets us edit walking paths by just dragging the line. OSM desktop doesn’t seem to have any of these features.

ooo I love that blog

https://terriblerealestateagentphotos.com/

check out the other posts in the right sidebar, there are so many great ones :D

btw the source of this is a fucking brilliant webcomic/blog thing: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/

This illustrates really well why word filters are a terrible idea; they have no regard for the conversational context.

Interesting that this sir/ma’am thing is very location-dependent. I’ve been living in Scotland more more than a decade now and I probably heard someone address me as “sir” a grand total of twice. I remember because it always felt so jarring, like why was this random shop assistant speaking to me so subserviently O.o

But I heard in some places (USA?) it’s very commonplace.

My high school class was in mid-'00s, and there was one girl who very much had that butch/tomboy vibe going on. I drifted away from the class, so only heard rumours after graduation, but I think she never actually came out as anything. On the other hand three others of us (two of whom, including myself, I never would have guessed back in high school) eventually came out as various shades of queer :D

I’m happy for your realisation, OP!

For me it was homophobic and ableist slurs as general words for “bad”. It’s very common in my native society, so after I started learning more about social justice issues, it took a few years to wean myself off.

Also, looking back, I realise now that in middle school I was lowkey cruel to some classmates, manipulated them for my own amusement. I was never one to bully others, but I was often a bystander entertained by others being bullied. (Even though I was being bullied myself by the same people on other occasions. But I somehow never made that connection with their other victims, I guess my empathy wasn’t fully developed back then. Or maybe it was a mental self-defence mechanism, idk.)

thanks :)

Yea, iirc I went IE -> Mozilla -> Firefox.

Are their Windows binaries safe to use? I don’t have the knowledge to compile it myself.