So what you're saying is, if I have a Twitter account and I start blocking many MANY people it costs Elon money? Interesting.

Not. A. Chance. I will also encourage my mastodon instance to not federate with them.

Take your work with you! Take your work home! Work while you "play" with your kids! now that's being productive! Your targets will be adjusted accordingly

This meme has never been more apt. Except for the entire pandemic. https://imgur.com/a/qTkwtvB

This isn't surprising. Todd Howard already stated that given the choice between fidelity or framerate they would choose fidelity every time. It's disappointing that he thinks that's still what people want in 2023, but it's not surprising.

The main site itself is more or less down

This is in British Columbia, Canada, fyi

It did! Look at us go! Yip-Bee-Kiyay!

So one of the defenses we have against this is the federated nature of lemmy. It's not "Lemmy" that you join. It's an instance run by some people you hopefully have found to align with your values. That instance does not need to grow large on its own for the whole network to be strong and you can maintain moderation in the instance by limiting then number of members joining. This doesn't weaken Lemmy, there are other instances that denied applicants can go to and they can all interact. Think of it like a bus service where if one bus is too full, you can just catch the next one. Except the next bus is already there waiting for you. It may just be enough of a disruption to stop a hivemind from moving in and taking over entirely, especially if instances are founded on a strong sense of culture. Beehaw certainly has its own culture compared to other instances and that's a great thing to hold on to when lot's of people show up and want things to work here exactly how they worked elsewhere.

Edit: We don't WANT to host the mass exodus from reddit. But if during that exodus a bunch of people who find they like our way of doing things better happen to join us then that's amazing.

True, and even if there were it would be a massive pain and probably the best thing to do is not engage with twitter at all.

It is so hard to keep seeing content that I'm subscribed to instead of youtube just deciding I've watched enough of that sort of content and flooding me with 100 videos that are tangentially related to one video I clicked on by accident.

Good recommendations! I love both of those channels!

Here's some others that I follow. Maybe we should start a thread for content creators to follow.

https://www.youtube.com/@CityNerd "CityNerd is a channel and community that embraces all things cities and transportation, approaching things with a profound love for urban environments and an analytical bent. " Ray's dry, sarcastic, delivery of Top 10 worst lists are amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes Stories of great urban planning and urban experiences from the Netherlands and beyond. There are a lot of reasons why Dutch cities are so great; it's not just bikes.

I'm sure I don't need to actually list this one, but for completeness here it is. The OG.

https://www.youtube.com/@alanthefisher "The Numbers don't lie, and they spell disaster for you suburbs." Alan posts content on rail and urban ideas. "Just one more lane bro" guy.

https://www.youtube.com/@Shifter_Cycling "A channel about urban cycling, bike commuting and the ways we get around our cities with author, journalist and creator Tom Babin." This is a channel that's great for getting familiar with the more practical aspects of using bicycles as a mode of transportation.

https://www.youtube.com/@AdamSomething Makes urbanist content sometimes, other times he rants about various topics

https://www.youtube.com/@OhTheUrbanity "Oh The Urbanity! traverses cities by foot, bike, and public transit and aims to make informative and (hopefully) entertaining videos combining streetscapes and demographic data." Montreal based duo posting urbanist content

https://www.youtube.com/@RMTransit "Ever wondered why your city's transit just doesn't seem quite up to snuff? RMTransit is here to answer that, and help you open your eyes to all of the different public transportation systems around the world! " I have never seen someone as passionate or informed about transit systems worldwide as Reece from RM Transit

I am working on making a shader for a concrete barrier with moss growing on it for blender. I can do it in other software owned by Adobe, but I'd like to figure out how to do it using blender's shader nodes.

I agree! I would love to get a carbon steel pan, but since my cast iron serves me so well I'll never really have a reason to retire it.

Same. Reddit borked

Do you remember when horse armour was $5 and people freaked out so badly Bethesda walked back on mtx until they felt ready for FO76?

OST's are my JAM!

Ori is a classic. - It's equal parts haunting and jubilant.

Death Stranding - Don't be so serious. Every song is a masterpiece.

Overwatch - It's just good fun

Witcher 3 - hey lele lelele lele lele ley!

Cyberpunk - Dark, broody, and invigorating

Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 - Absolute fantasy. If you want a VGM OST to plan your d&d session to, this is a great option

Red Dead Redemption 2 - Maybe it's partly because Arthur Morgan's story is so incredible but this soundtrack gives me the shivers. "May I stand unshaken... Amid, amidst a crash of the world?" omggg give it to me D'Angelo

There's tons more I'm missing here. But these ones stand out to me.

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I wish, but this one is particularly hard. Storing video takes a LOT more than hosting a text based service. There is peertube that you might want to check out though!

The title is also weirdly phrased to make it sound like science was wrong. Of course science was wrong. The whole process is based on realizing that our past assumptions were wrong. Every time scientists discover something new, it replaces an old incorrect assumption. These sorts of titles are how you get to the "Mainstream media/science is bogus" track.

I kind of want to check out my cities local pride events, but I also REALLY get overwhelmed by crowds, noise, and such. Also I don't really have anyone to go with. So I might just celebrate and online. I'll probably just buy a really trashy wlw book or two and read? I'll be open to reading suggestions lol.