Yeah unfortunately true. I used to be fine just rolling with Firefox but ever since making the switch to using apps instead, it’s undeniable that there’s a lot of advantages. At least for now while I wait for more Piefed app support, Summit is pretty great and fills in a couple of gaps missing from the native Lemmy experience.

I’ll definitely carry on keeping an eye on things on the Piefed front though.

Hey Blaze, just wanted to say, I’ve tried out Piefed a little more. Can confirm mobile theming is definitely fixed. Think I might hold out a little longer for an app or more of certain options. A couple of things I’ll miss right now from apps is pinning favourite communities or being able to tweak my UI just right.

So I’ll probably stick with base Lemmy for a while longer. Thinking of moving to crazypeople.online though. Less de-federation but downvotes still disabled, which might just suit me better right now. If I do that, I’ll probably use the screen name that I’m using on this account right now as a username there. Although I’ll take your advice and link my accounts in my bio.

As someone that likes to do a lot of scrolling, I’m also running into the same problem. There really just isn’t enough content here for it yet. There’s already a pretty small over all amount of users posting, and people have likes and dislikes and tastes and vibes, so out of that small amount, there’s only so much to interact with. Like, there’s a fair amount of content in ask and chat style communities and TV communities but no one likes everything or thinks the same topics are interesting.

So it really just needs more. So that there’s more of the same types of people watching the same shows and interested in the same topics. It doesn’t have to be packed in here, it could just do with a little more of something for everyone. It would’ve been nice if there were more than two people discussing Harley Quinn season 5 for example.

On Reddit I could spend all day every day interacting with my particular interests without ever feeling like I’m being a nuisance or repeating myself. It’s nice having a smaller crowd but I’d like something between this and Reddit.

Oof. I’d be me at the tail end of apartheid in my country. I’m going to assume (and hope) that this timeline magic also puts me in my home town of the vicinity of where I was at that time because then I’d at least know where to go to find the people I would want to be around. I’d go straight to where the alternative scene is and get in with the punks and goths and hippies, so that I’m at least around decent people. Might even meet some of the people that I knew when I got into the scene originally as their younger selves, which would actually be pretty cool.

As for what I’d do to survive, honestly not sure, considering that I would still be the same age that I am now with the same lack of career and shit. I guess I’d just keep doing this or that for a while. With my limited knowledge, maybe invest a little in Microsoft, then Facebook at the appropriate times. Until Bitcoin is a new thing, then I’d definitely dump whatever cash I had into a few Bit oin. Then be rich enough to never worry about anything again at like 70 years old or something lol.

Too many. I like to have favourites, not just one. So (I’ve probably missed stuff), I’m gonna list general favourites, going mostly by what I’ve rewatched and plan to rewatch more. My favourites could change over time and if I included stuff that was my favourite once but I’ve never had the urge to rewatch, this list would be much longer (I wish I could have simple answers to things).

Pre School nostalgia:

• The Neverending Story
• The Princess Bride
• Drop Dead Fred

'90s nostalgia:

• RoboCop ('80s movie but I first watched it in the '90s)
• The Crow
• Tank Girl
• Barb-Wire
• The Island of Dr. Moreau

Other:

• Hellraiser franchise (none are perfect, many are awful, some are pretty great; there’s just something I love about all of it)
• Candyman franchise (better quality films over all; between this and Hellraiser, Clive Barker is just my kind of horror)
• Studio Ghibli movies (all of these movies are worth watching more than once eventually)
• DC Comics animated movies (DC adaptations over all have been my main source for finding things to watch over the last few years)

Up and comer:

• I Kill Giants (looking through my personal rainy day collection, this is the most recent ‘new’ movie that I’ve absolutely loved and might watch again some time. Time will tell if this will be on my list in the future.

Tf is your problem. Asking questions is literally the point of this community. And it’s fun to have daily random questions around here and to read the answers. Not everything has to be political or serious all the time.

I love this wallpaper.

Whichever animal I’m currently looking at.

It would probably end up sounding the same or similar because it would be years worth of clubs and live music and band practise and listening to music in my earphones too loud all jumbled up together and playing at the same time.

Yeah I guess there’s two different categories of sci-fi in this regard. Personally, I think stuff that’s as far ahead in the future as Star Trek is pretty close to fantasy. But then there’s also the Philip K. Dick style near future dystopian sci-fi that serves more as a warning about the future we’re headed to (or instruction manual if you’re a techbro CEO).

Fantasy is probably the same actually. I usually think happy thoughts if I think about fantasy as a genre but then there’s also stuff like Game of Thrones.

I honestly liked Gen V more, personally. The Boys has kinda ended up in a position where it’s constantly trying to one up itself and do more and more outrageous things. Gen V had the gore and edge but doesn’t necessarily revolve around it. And it’s nice to watch a show where the people you’re supposed to be rooting for are actually likeable.

Don’t get me wrong, The Boys has been a wild ride, but at this point I’ll be glad to see a final season.

I don’t like things on my homescreen lol. And I like to have the time and any relevant symbols on the top left to match the way I have it on desktop. And I don’t like notifications and clutter on the other side. I use my homescreen in a similar way to my pc, for any app or file that might need attention. Otherwise I prefer it all tucked away in my app drawer, where I have everything categorised, with all of my most used apps showing first, so I have no real need for a dock either.

Might change my wallpaper soon. Chose it because I want dark and purple for dark themes and accent colours. But I’ve been lazy / demovated, so I just chose the first decent one (which looked a lot more purple before I set it). Yours is rad.

Oh nice, I never heard about that. I check into the Piefed community occasionally to check progress with apps and haven’t read through every feature and change but that’s good to hear. I’ll try it soon. Last I tried, it was adaptive too, so it scales perfectly to your screen and is as good as an app. The only issue I had was the weird theme issue at that time.

Yeah I tried the website in Firefox Android a while ago and there was something messed up in the theming of it for me. But at this rate, I might end up exclusively on desktop anyway. Dropped my phone the other day and now the bottom half of the screen is messed up, with big inky spots that are getting bigger. It’s getting harder and harder to type and see what I’m typing and I have to hit reply to read a lot of comments so that they go to the top of the screen lol. Gonna have to save up just for the absolute cheapest tier of phone that I hate sigh.

Nice, and I’ve been informed that there’s a working app for it currently too. I’m all for full blocking, personally. If I feel like I need to block someone, I shouldn’t need to justify it or petition admins to ban them, I should be able to just do it and be rid of them in all aspects. And vice versa too, if someone blocks me for whatever reason, I don’t want to be left commenting on their content and trying to interact like an idiot, I want to no longer see them. Why should my upvotes and contributions in the comments go to someone that has blocked me?

I’ve got a busy next couple of days but as soon as I’ve got time to play around and get used to new things, I’m definitely gonna try Piefed again and the app, Thunder I think.

Yeah, they just turn into ‘agree’ or ‘disagree’ buttons. Personally I have fun with it though. Upvoting content around here feels like one of the ways to contribute to this place, so that people who spend their time posting here get the psychological boost to carry on and feel like they’re appreciated.

As long as it’s part of how things work around here, like it or not, those votes and the direction they go in are going to make people feel like they belong or don’t. Especially when they’re new. And taking away the grand total doesn’t change that either, it just obfuscates some of it. So I like to try and be a positive user here in that regard, personally.

Edit: Just because most other people are assholes when it comes to this, doesn’t mean that I have to.

Voting systems are stupid; they never work because they’re so easily gamed.

Yeah this is definitely true. Probably more so for smaller platforms too. Blåhaj doesn’t have downvotes enabled and you couldn’t even if you wanted to (which I basically never do anyway). But after checking out an instance with them enabled for a while, I’m not all that impressed with how they’re used around here. They probably get used like that on Reddit too but you barely notice it there.

And I’m of the camp where yeah, they’re imaginary internet points but it’s also something built into the platform for a little fun and also to boost quality content. I like upvoting basically everyone that has a decent conversation with me, for example. To me it feels like it’s giving just a little extra acknowledgement, like an “I see you”. And it’s fun. Or should be. I’m a pretty gloomy person but not that cynical. This place is in a weird in between where people want it to be like a '90s forum site but also they want their ‘agree’ and ‘disagree’ buttons to mash.

I dunno, I’m over the event itself but I still have the bad taste in my mouth and a different impression of things and certain people now.

For what it’s worth, even though you don’t care lol, you’re one of the people that I always enjoy seeing around here. I actually tried checking out your Pixelfed, couldn’t figure out how to view it from my instance, wasn’t in the mood to look up FAQs and shit, and haven’t been back since lol.

Anything. People around here downvote memes they personally don’t like in meme cookies communities and songs they personally don’t like in song sharing communities. It seems like all of the types of people that never followed etiquette on Reddit either came here. And the problem is here is so much smaller, so every downvote is more noticeable and affects things more.

Not having 100% praise for Lemmy and criticizing certain things is a site fire way as well. And if you kick the hornets nest enough in that regard, they’ll actually start actively downvoting correct information and upvoting misinformation, as long as it suits the circlejerk.

If you talk about how someone went through your entire profile and downvoted everything, you guessed it, that results in even more people doing the same thing. And now your stupid innocent comments about your life or hopes and dreams in casual conversation are all sitting at minus points and this whole thing feels like a joke and waste of time, while the people who put you there go “who cares? It’s just imaginary internet points.”

And some of these people that I encountered in this, treating people this way and intentionally ruining the experience and fun for them were regular and familiar faces around here. Those familiar faces that people talk about that are so nice to see around here.

And the fact that there were so many familiar faces makes me wonder about other things too. In the middle of that, I had someone completely baselessly accuse me of being someone else with multiple accounts. Which of course got upvoted by probably the same people that upvoted misinformation on how blocking on Facebook works.

And that left me wondering about the times I’ve got a DM warning me that a user I’ve interacted with is a bot or someone with multiple accounts for nefarious reasons. And I normally believe them. But are they going to be doing this to me now? Is this what the power users around here that act like nice people do to anyone that pisses them off?

Edit: I bet this will get downvoted too. Not that I can see it from here.

Omg twinsies except for the doing well and having a good life part.

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