• Okapi@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      538·
      8 days ago

      If female nipples are still considered obscene, the same rules should apply to everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

        • Okapi@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
          402·
          9 days ago

          It’s rather meant to show the absurdity of censoring female nipples (in a small sidenote)

          • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldEnglish
            601·
            9 days ago

            I would propose censoring female nipples with male nipples then. Since the latter need not be censored.

          • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            11·
            8 days ago

            Sadly, a lot of people genuinely believe this. That all nipples should be censored/covered up.

            Look up some discussions about female toplessness online. Unless you are in a queer/very progressive space, a very large number of people would support banning men from being topless too. Most common argument I’ve found wasn’t equality but rather some people being ugly and not wanting to see them.

      • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        101·
        9 days ago

        Yeah, always better if all equally lose, instead of letting others win. Our society is doomed with a mindset like this.

          • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
            7·
            8 days ago

            It’s because the backslash is a special character called an “escape” character. The same way you make italics by putting *asterisks* around something, you can use backslashes to tell the system to ignore other special characters and use them literally. In this case, the underscore, which if you had no backslash would cause the face to be italic, becomes “escaped” by the backslash so we see the underscores as normal. But then you don’t see the backslash.

            So you need to “escape” the backslash itself. Put two backslashes, and you’ll see one. ¯\(ツ)/¯ ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

            But then you’re no longer escaping the underscores. So now you’ve got one backslash, but the face is italic and you don’t see any underscores.

            So instead, as a final step, add a third backslash. The first backslash escapes the second one, so we see the second one. Then the third escapes the underscore, so we see the underscore. (For a bit of extra security, you can optionally also escape the second underscore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

            ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    601·
    9 days ago

    Kinda funny; here on Lemmy they’re appreciated, while on Reddit we hated “power users” with a passion.

    That said, I really do feel like the posters on Lemmy are trying their very best to provide interesting content, and they do this by fostering their chosen communities by hand. I’m a fan.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      40·
      8 days ago

      Here on Lemmy we know there’s no financial incentive, no perverse conflict of interests - just people who cared enough to build the infrastructure, maintain it, and provide service for others.

      Feels nice for sure.

    • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
      181·
      9 days ago

      Yeah I had a realization that a lot of the things that used to bother me on reddit don’t worry me as much here. Something is fundamentally working better but I’m not sure what it is yet.

    • Ofiuco@piefed.caEnglish
      6·
      8 days ago

      On reddit there were powermods, who manipulate hundreds of subs by removing posts that made good karma and then reposting them themselves and removing any kind of unwanted discussion (backed by the admins).

      On the fediverse, we have power users that seem to post a lot, but it’s mostly because nobody else wants to post for some reason (not counting news comms that use bots or scripted users to automatically post).
      Sometimes a mod powertrips or we learn that someone is trying to manipulate a comm, so usually the instance owners just kick then out… And if it turns out they are backed by the owner, then people call it out and usually the instance gets defederated.

      There are consequences in the fediverse, so mods/owners are usually more careful about it and the power posters don’t go around removing posts to pass then as their own to farm karma.

    • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 days ago

      I wouldn’t say we appreciate all of them. Just depends on how they do it. If you post frequently that’s great. If you dump a dozen posts in under an hour on the other hand I think you’re an asshole. All it does is drown out communities. Leaves them dead.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
    54·
    8 days ago

    Are Atlas’ nips blurred? C’mon let me see the skittles don’t be g greedy

  • hotdogcharmer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    8 days ago

    Thank my lucky tuppence that those smashing knockers are pixelated or I would’ve spaffed right all over bloody Trafalgar Square and what a kerfuffle that would have been

  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
    36·
    9 days ago

    It’s damn hard to get other people to post. Every so often I like to go around and find smaller communities to share content to.

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
        13·
        9 days ago

        Nice! Commenting is the hardest part and the most vital to community.

        I’m nearing half that on this 3 month old account, I’d hate to think what my total has been over all instances these past 2 years.

        • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          9 days ago

          One of the reasons I do it is because it’s fun actually debating people and exchanging ideas. That simply wasn’t even possible anymore on Reddit in the last four years or so.

        • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          I love the heck out of my regular commenters. I might be the foundation of a community, but without the people commenting, it’s still an empty house. It needs the people there having fun to be a place that will keep attracting people. I’ve always put at least as much effort into making people that do comment feel appreciated for doing so, and I think that’s why I’ve found relative success on a very niche topic, as I focus on educational content rather than the major focus on more general jokes that a wider audience can more easily enjoy.

      • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        It’s tough because users here naturally use Linux more often which is incompatible with league. I stopped playing this season since I’m on Linux now, but haven’t really looked back.

        • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          That’s a damn good point I hadn’t considered.

          I was trying to run Windows for personal stuff and Ubuntu for work, but Ubuntu doesn’t like my monitors. X11 has issues with resolutions and detecting my new 2k monitor. Wayland doesn’t let me log in at all.

          I haven’t bothered to troubleshoot. So now I’m just in Windows. Maybe I should try a different distro.

          Monitors

        • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          8 days ago

          Who would’ve thought ripping out everything that made the game unique and interesting in favor of an easier more casual game would be a bad long term decision for a competitive game 🤣

          • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zipEnglish
            4·
            8 days ago

            This, but also most of the casual players seems to have left.

            We tried to play a couple of games back with my friends, every team we faced was much more skilled than us, and the match making couldn’t find anyone that was our level

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        8 days ago

        That’s meeeeeee! I always feel unworthy when you guys mention me, but I love that you have a fun time talking about grumpy birds with me.

          • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            8 days ago

            I’m glad to see some of you have really gotten impassioned about them that you come check them out every day. I’ve learned so much along with you guys doing this, and I has a lot of fun now working with animals from inspiring myself to do it bringing you all these photos and facts every day.

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 days ago

      I get so overjoyed when you guys are able to post sightings of your own, and Lady Butterfly’s Medieval owls the last couple weeks have been a nice addition as well.

  • n0respect@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    8 days ago

    I wonder if the internet culture of sharing has died off somewhat. Old guy here. Are people are so used to consuming they forget about sharing? Or maybe it’s just the type of person who uses the internet today is inherently more consumer then early adopters?

    In my day a big appeal of the internet was to share things. But now it is to consume things.

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      When people share they often receive highly negative feedback. Peraps a misspeling or an incorect punctuation And when that outweighs the good responses, either numerically or severity speaking, then it has an effect to curb the desire to post.

      Also why bother working hard when someone else will just respond to what you wrote with “I know you are but what am I” or “that’s what your mom told me last night”, and receive 10x more likes than the content that required actual effort.

      It is the same reason that such drivel has taken over television and movies, and fast food places abound around the world - people sell what others will buy, even independently of involvement of actual money and rather of attention.

      A fantastic article describing this phenomena: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb. TLDR it’s a race to the bottom. Lemmy was supposed to be different, but there were too many structural issues and now people are either leaving or or going more to quiet consumption mode. PieFed offers me more hope to help fix things, if people want to put in the effort required, because now at least the burden of making changes has been greatly lessened with its ability to make code changes more quickly (since it is written in Python rather than Rust).

      • n0respect@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        That is a fantastic article, thank you. I don’t know if there is a way around the ennui engine, not without massive systemic changes; seems like it’s part of human nature. It seems pretty rational too, from an animal-brain point of view … to take a sure win right now instead of a maybe-win later.

        It’s unfortunate that this feeds so many people’s anger cycle. I wonder if that’s cultural.

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          Unfortunately I think the rage aspect is likewise biological, it being one of the most basal of all human desires. It often pops up as someone pursues pleasure and having satisfied those desires, next turns to the even more basal ones below that (e.g. video). Which makes sense evolutionarily bc those apes that do it are more likely to survive than e.g. complete pacifists.

          That said, algorithms that specifically tap into that aspect of our animalistic desires feed forward that cycle, encouraging an ever-increasing amount, just like echo chambers decrease the allowable diversity of opinions (yes even here: just try saying that you like Windows and watch what happens, or that you enjoy driving a car, or eating meat, or in certain corners of Lemmy that you don’t support Russia, China, or North Korea hard enough), and both of those combine to form the modern social media experience.

          So, as with anything having a biological basis, I doubt that it will ever truly go away entirely, yet I do believe that it can be managed.

    • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      8 days ago

      You do a lot of great work as a poster and as a facilitator with getting the word out on a lot of things. You stepping up to do this macro level community building I think has really bolstered a lot of Fedi content, and I feel that’s crucial to all of us having continued success as a platform.

        • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          8 days ago

          Of course! Your work as a whole for Lemmy aside, you’ve been a great help to me personally many times when I get frustrated at things here, so my success is at least partially attributed to your support to me and my fellow posters.