There are at least 2 open source dating apps that I’ve seen, although one of them has 4chan branding. Not sure about the other.

None of the above because I’m no longer a teenage edgelord

Do we need experts to tell us what the average enthusiastic gamer has been saying for years?

Vampire Survivors and the SMT gacha game.

I have a few emulators but the touch screen controls are torture.

My friends and I have “gaming nights” that involve about 45 mins of gaming before we all watch a Ken Russell movie or something similarly offbeat.

I watched on BBC iPlayer because I’m in the UK but someone might have posted them on YT.

Man, what a sad way to live their lives. I love “scaring the bros” music. Was watching Glastonbury festival on tv last weekend and the two best sets I caught were Charli XCX and Doechii.

le wrong generation. more like cRAP music, amirite?

Nabbed: Ninja Gaiden Collection, Auto Modellista, DOA6

Bonus game: Not really on sale (10% off) but Burggeist after seeing it in the new Iron Pineapple video. I’m a sucker for games inspired by Team Ico.

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They have people on talkshows every so often who claim to remember being born but they are clearly fantasists since consciousness doesn’t start in earnest until we are ~2.

Personally, it feels like I’ve got a limited amount of memory and the older I get the more years I cram into it. The early memories are starting to get crowded out.

I get your point that reddit nominally has more privacy. I only said “arguably” because I think privacy is an illusion in both cases (which, admittedly, is a bit of an orthogonal take). If there isn’t true privacy anywhere then there is the additional downside of reddit data being actively marketed/presented to 3rd parties.

Arguably, lemmy is going to be more private than reddit because your data are being queried, refined, quantified and categorised by reddit to be sold off to the highest bidder. If a different actor is just scraping activitypub they need to do all of that themselves.

More generally, I’m not sure if we should ever think about something posted online as being private. You can post form data that is secured to your bank or whatever but they are analysing all of that data on their side. Similarly the large email providers are aware of the contents of all your emails.

“Social media” is a really vague term. I think there are broadly 3 categories:

• Web2.0 social media: facebook, twitter, discord, reddit

• Forums: Old school web fora, (mastodon & lemmy?)

• Debateable social media: IRC, email chains/threads

Only the first category is relatively new and has captured the attention of the general public outside of nerds. The other two are either decentralised or are niche centralised sites. IMO it seems like the web 2.0 stuff is most problematic but not sure if it’s the hyper-centralisation or their general popularity that is the issue.

Nothing is private on Fediverse. Everything is public so that there is maximum interoperability between applications and instances of the same application. I’ve seen people use this image to describe what the “security” is like for DMs -

France is particularly patriotic out of Western countries I’ve visited. Not an expert but it’s a bit of a hangover from the French revolution, they have a strong focus on integration and preserving their shared culture.

IMO it’s ban/block evasion which is the biggest con to decentralization. It’s a problem on centralized platforms but the many servers design makes it easier on fediverse.

It’s not a huge deal to me because I don’t block many things but might be a consideration for people with a sensitive disposition.

Hard to have a nuanced opinion on this issue since I’m not directly affected by it. From what I can observe some of my gay friends use slurs in a humourous way to make light of the reality that not everyone in society is cool with them being themselves. They seem to enjoy being transgressive and think they have a license to do so in this case (I’d probably argue that they do). idk maybe “reclaiming” was the wrong phrase; it’s more like gallows humour or something.

That game looked fine to me tbh. I think it might have been the point that their yearly release schedule had begun to saturate the brand as opposed to the games getting worse.

Is that the Call Of Doggy one? To be honest I’ve only actually finished COD4.