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  • Heard about about the port literally today at 3 and immediately downloaded it, but I thought I'd have more time than literally disappearing the same day.

    Was inevitable though.

    Show's not quite over yet, as of writing this the itch.io page is still live.

    May that pseudonymous dev be blessed

  • The Last of Us Online is officially cancelled.
  • Suppose it just formalized the situation already effectively in place. Bungie giving a thumbs down + major staff loss on a live service is essentially game over.
    Glad they didn't double down.

  • America has lost its f*****g mind.
  • I didn't even know Ford trucks got up to 650. Very normal country

  • 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs
  • Hasbro being the worst, yet again

    BG3's only sin is having to be tied to the worst owner in tabletop gaming. Thank god Larian is independent.

  • Intel's Snake Oil & Completely Insane Anti-AMD Marketing
  • It's still refreshing that you can simply just edit a title now, lol

  • Canada Let in Thousands of Former Nazis. Files I’ve Seen Tell Why | The Tyee
  • Ah, no wonder they're exporting their fascist trash to the states these days. Had to cultivate it somehow.

  • Thousands rally in London in solidarity with Palestinians
  • There has not been an election by Palestine in Gaza for roughly 17 years. Hamas isn't exactly democratic.

  • Braincell rule
  • Samsung One UI moment

    You can do some heavy modifications to their skin, on par with some custom ROMs of old, but it seems that a third of the time all the users do is install The Ugliest Font You've Ever Seen

  • Firefish Mastodon alternative
  • Wish they had a native app. The misskey clients make my phone itch

  • Roblox’s CEO predicts “thousands” of adults will meet in Roblox dating experiences
  • Mmm yes, because when I think of dating apps for adults I think of the kids app with obby jump challenges and the oof sound. Mixing together vulnerable children with adults looking for sexual/romantic relationships will surely go well.

  • Durham Public Works Employees “Illegally” Strike for 1st Time
  • Take em to the trash (or don't!), UE local 150

  • Putin’s adviser says U.S. is using brainwashing to make gay Ukrainian super-soldiers
  • Welllllllllllllllllllll there is a stereotype with the armed forces 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨

  • Happy Labour Day to people who are not landlords.
  • Congratulations, you've sufficiently annoyed me enough to log in to my local instances to type this out.

    There is no ”one” way to speak and write English — we don't have an """official""" institute of our language like Spanish or French does (and even if we did, they would not have a monopoly on English). We don't speak in Received Pronunciation or keep the superfluous 'u' next to every 'o.'
    Like every language, English has multiple dialects with their own vocabulary, and even some with their own specific grammar. The sentence in the OP was likely written in one of them - African-American Vernacular English. This dialect codifies double negatives, the habitual be, and words like 'finna.' Many of its aspects are already integrated into 'standard' American English.

    This is part of the process of language in general. Many of the rules in 'proper form' come from shorthand, slang, and and crude versions of other languages and forms. Being aware of the rules shifting and changing as people shift and change how they speak will probably get you further than turning your nose up at rules you don't recognize.

  • Working on a guide to kbin. Would anyone else find something like this helpful?
  • @unofficial_kbin_guide i would consider it very helpful for encouraging user adoption

  • Canada's competition bureau ordered to pay nearly $10 mln to Rogers, Shaw
  • And I thought American antitrust was bad. What the hell is happening up there??

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  • I personally would not, partially for the aforementioned concerns about .zip and also because Lemmy IIRC has no migration path from one instance domain to another. This is partially due to ActivityPub and partially due to it not being addressed in Lemmy core.
    This is part of the reason why after FMHY.ml got disrupted, those communities could not come back online on that server.
    For the time being, whenever you choose a fediverse domain, you are stuck with it, especially if you run Lemmy.

    I'm not that confident in sites that choose .zip at this point in time.

  • /kbin meta @kbin.social quortez @kbin.social

    Is there a way to derank certain magazines on user side? Something between full blocking and full allowing a magazine?

    Some instances and groups are very chatty (\*gestures to /lemmyshitposts), so much so that they dominate the All page.

    I knew that there would be a point that browsing /all would no longer be a pleasant or feasible experience, but I quite liked having a pulse on what everyone in the #threadiverse (that kbin.social federates to, anyway) are thinking. But right now it seems @memes is dominating everything.

    I don't want to fully block them from showing up in my feed, but i don't want to let them full send either. Would it be feasible to add a feature in future releases to be able to adjust the algorhythm on the user-side that would allow for mutes, or deranking it in your feed, instead of outright blocking it?

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