party-based VRARPG

dwarf fortress mentioned

The difference in brightness between day and night used to be a factor of ~a million, now it's a factor of less than 1,000 because of light pollution and spending time indoors in daylight.

Cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, sleep disruption, hormone imbalance, mood disorders, are all demonstrated to be caused or exacerbated by exposure to artificial light at night. Blue light is particularly bad.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

Confrontar el poder pot implicar repressió, reduim riscos.

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the “I also choose this guys dead wife” is what gave the site character

@sundogplanets
"sky brightness has increased by 10% at twilight due to space debris"

🤯 we broke twilight.

This hits me harder tbh.

Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

I noticed a profound change in moderating about the time TheDonald became popular. People started getting bans after this for things they would have never been banned for before and it wasn’t the racist/sexist people getting banned.

I eventually received a subreddit ban after leaving a comment in a conservative Reddit effectively stating the Republicans should take out Ron Desantis like the dirty diaper he was. When I pointed out to the moderators that what I said was rather tame compared to other comments they claimed I was harassing them (for exactly one appeal message). I received a 24hr site ban over this which was both bizarre and confusing. I started to disengage after this and after the API changes I stopped using it completely.

thats the same time i got bans, the gop in trumps first term was threatening social media platforms, if they dont “censor anti-right wing content, they would be liable to lawsuits”

@ciredutempsEsme Cuillère par destination.

@lowqualityfacts Tell that to the Koopa Paratroopa

I stopped talking about politics because I would be brigaded by western/capitalist bros.

With the Ghislaine Maxwell WorldNews moderation stuff I wouldn't doubt if there were more unknowns around banning generally cordial leftist/Pro Palestine/Anti capitalist voices. I mean also just look at the Luigi Mangione crackdown.

It bleeds into conspiracy, so I try not to push it much, but I'm sure there's some type of moderation aspect.

@dec_hl
Thank you!

Releasing fucking up political news on a Tuesday.

Rookie move Katie.

one sub i recently visited talking jobs/layoffs got meme-fied recently. because happen tor each the front page a couple times, it drawn into many trolls and bots.

That’s because they’re actually propagandists for those authoritarian governments pretending to be communist. They’re about as communist as the Nazis were socialist.