I’m all for getting into old school tech, I even like to browse neocities.org on occasion just for the hit of nostalgia for the old web rings. I never got into newsgroups though, and I’m wondering what reasons you might use that instead of something like Lemmy, Mastodon etc?

Apart from the piracy side, I know all about that already lol

Maybe to avoid confusion, they should just display units in GB instead of GiB? Or just display both

This is fucking amazing

I like the idea of calling it ex-twitter. I came up with the idea when I was having a shower… Hang on… there’s a community for that! brb

There’s nothing wrong with having active discussion about how the largest Lemmy instance is being run. Maybe it’ll even nudge the admin to reflect on their policy choices, you never know.

I mean I guess I do agree with the sentiment that defederating shouldn’t be the default response to finding offensive content on another instance.

If you check the highest scoring comment on this post you’ll see it’s also me, because I also find the content on that instance highly offensive. I’m just wary because Lemmy still feels very new, and the our behaviours now might set a precedent for the future, and I don’t want every disagreement to end up with another instance defederated.

And no I don’t use the N word regularly, I’m not even from the US

It’s always refreshing to read an intelligent and well thought out response. The world needs more nuance!

I just had a look at the main page, and saw a post with the line, “The lying cunts at shit Just Woke are trying to claim that we’re Nazis because we fight against their far lefty woke ass shit about transgenderism and how it’s used to groom and mutilate children”, and another that says, “Reeeeeeee!! Don’t you understand that unless I read soft porn children’s novels to five year olds about the joys of anal sex, that trans kids will literally be genocided!!?! Reeeeee!!”

Yeah I’m comfortable with people not wanting to associate with an instance like that. You wanna be a part of it, go for it. Doesn’t mean the rest of us need be exposed to that kind of ignorance, bigotry and hate.

I was skeptical of this claim so I went and had a look. Here’s some of the posts I saw:

“Polar Ice Sheets are thicker than ever despite predictions that the Arctic and Antarctic would be ‘Ice free’”

“Leftist Parents “Flee” Florida Because Of New Laws Blocking Child Mutilation”

“It’s strange how you never see pedophiles, im sorry, drag queens reading to old people instead of kids”

So yeah some pretty insane takes there

I feel like a physicist should study and write a paper on you lol

try making a conscious effort to get out of the house more and do more social stuff. There’s websites like meetup where you can meet folks with similar interests. Making real connections with other people and/or finding satisfaction in pursuing your interests will fill some of the hole which your fapping is trying to cover over. Also you won’t have as much time to yourself so it won’t be possible!

Do you have a metal plate in your head or something? I don’t get how that’s possible

Reminds me of that episode where Roy ends up involved in a robbery… “How about that ludicrous display last night?”

I can’t remember the details now, but I tried running Ubuntu on my desktop first but I had trouble with some software not running. Then I tried Arch, and it just worked 🤷‍♂️

5 years now and it’s still running fine. Any problems I have are fixed with a quick google, and maybe a copy and a paste lol

yeah I don’t have an answer but I’ve been constantly struggling with staying logged in to lemmy, both on the wefwef app and using the direct url in a browser

Rubbish is what they are! The texture of chickpeas is just awful

Right? More than half the stories are just made up, and designed just to capture people’s outrage so they comment more. It feels so toxic to me

Wow thanks that’s the best breakdown I’ve read! I’ve been torrenting for maybe 15 years and used to collect all the shows I watched until one day my external hard drive died and I lost everything :(

Nowadays I just delete a show after I’ve watched it, so Idon’t think I’ll worry about making my own server yet. I’ve had a look into it and think I’ll start off with NZB Geek as indexer and Frugal Usenet as a server. Drunken Slug seems pretty popular too but they don’t seem to be open for registrations atm

Can you recommend any good walk-throughs for noobs? I didn’t even know you needed a server lol

I’ve looked into doing that myself before, but it seemed like a lot of work and research to get it set up