[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 3 points 11 months ago

I would encourage people to code switch rather than adhere to one style of language over another in every case. Imho, it's kind of problematic that language itself has become racialized in America to the point where people can actually be criticized or made fun of for speaking in the "wrong" style associated with their perceived ethnic background.

[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This isn't even a new phenomenon, accusations of antisemitism were also often thrown at anti-Zionists when there were plenty of good political reasons not to establish and prop up the state of Israel. (What's also funny about that is there were/are actually antisemites who were/are in favor of getting rid of Jews from their country by exporting them to Israel.)

[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 3 points 1 year ago

This lawsuit is not going anywhere because of Section 230.

[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 3 points 1 year ago

I really appreciate this response, I have basically no interest in spending time watching other people play games when I don't even have time to play them myself very often. As a result, I have no idea who the celebs are in this realm of culture, so thank you for getting me up to speed!

[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see, well I guess the real question is whether it can be improved at the server/protocol level and my answer is I don't know. There's some handshaking that clearly has to occur between your instance and the other instance to load the initial community state and I don't know where that process can be optimized. I think I've seen people mention tools that have been created to automatically subscribe a dummy account on your instance to all the communities on the largest instances to kind of bootstrap the process for other users, but I don't have a link to such a tool handy.

Edit, and there's never going to be a guarantee that your server can talk to their server until you try clicking the link because the other server could be overloaded, down, or blocking your server.

[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 3 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, and by that point they've released new content and side quests in the Cum Box update.

[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 3 points 1 year ago

I agree, and I think categorizing generations is always going to be messy. But I think the Oregon Trail Generation/Xennials just seems to be more distinct than most other micro generations. I'm pretty much in the middle of the commonly accepted millennial age bracket and would still consider myself more of a Xennial based off the broad characteristics that have been described, despite falling outside that rough '86 cutoff by a couple years. I know part of it is probably due to how much Millennials get shat on, but it feels like the "Millennial Generation" is an especially weird generation where half the people that are supposedly in it don't feel like they belong with the other half and many resent the label. To me, the Millennials born after '90 seem quite distinct from those born before '87 and I feel like I'm in the middle and identify more with the Xennials. I'm no sociologist, though, this is just my limited subjective experience.

[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 3 points 1 year ago

As long as they don't try to mandate that tech companies provide encryption backdoors, have at it.

[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 3 points 1 year ago

One problem I have with it is that topics can trend and spread so quickly that they get in front of facts and it can easily become a vehicle for misinformation and witch hunts. I think I've decided I'd rather get information a little later from fact checking sources than consume and potentially contribute to spreading false information. It just seems like it's the perfect vehicle for toxic behavior even if it has legitimate benefits when used correctly.

[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 3 points 1 year ago

They could call it Lock Jaws 🤣

[-] stu@lemmy.pit.ninja 3 points 1 year ago

Presumably they mean breaking css changes with lemmy-ui.

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