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11 votes
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Isolation combined with an inhospitable environment can be a cause of stress on Greenland – but locals have found a way to deal with it: tuning into nature
3 votes -
r/antiwork seems to be back (was it really gone?)
tl;dr IDK what happened before, but r/antiwork is public now (again?). I just stumbled across this tildes thread from 2 weeks ago [EDIT: crap ... 1 year and 2 weeks ago; mixed up my "current year"...
tl;dr IDK what happened before, but r/antiwork is public now (again?).
I just stumbled across this tildes thread from 2 weeks ago [EDIT: crap ... 1 year and 2 weeks ago; mixed up my "current year" setting] ... which is right on the border between "keep posting in that thread" and "it's too old, start a new one" ... so here we are.
I'm familiar with the ideas, but never heard of that specific subreddit before. Looking through the Fox interview, I must be missing something, because I don't understand what all the fuss was about. What "mistake" did the mod make in the interview? Why did everyone suddenly hate her? etc. Seemed perfectly innocuous to me (apart from, why even bother with Fox).
But that aside, the previous thread indicates that r/antiwork was effectively bullied into going private. Looking at it this morning, it is not private. I am assuming that they just recently de-privatized it?
On a side-note, top comment on the thread is about not supporting r/cringetopia ... which ... that subreddit is private. Is that also new? It had me confused for quite awhile this morning, trying to figure out which subreddit was actually under controversy and forced to go private.
4 votes -
Our pride, our joy: An intersectional constructivist grounded theory analysis of resources that promote resilience in SGM communities
2 votes -
A Swedish town is on the move, one building at a time – subsidence from the world's biggest iron ore mine threatens to swallow up the Arctic town of Kiruna
6 votes -
Gaytopia: Fed up with the horrific discrimination and violence against his community, Don Jackson had a plan to turn a remote spot in Northern California into the world's first gay-majority county
7 votes -
A shared celebration of Orthodox Christmas deep in the Arctic, undimmed by war and the round-the-clock polar night
6 votes -
A photographer's journey through the Scandinavian ballroom scene – Chai Saeidi spent years capturing the most intimate, diverse and exciting queer functions
4 votes -
AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
6 votes -
The superheroes of beautiful Kinshasa
3 votes -
In Sweden reindeer herders say their animals are being affected by wind farms and other industry
4 votes -
Two pro wrestlers developed ‘The Progressive Liberal’ to be the bad guy at matches. Then the atmosphere turned far darker.
6 votes -
How online mobs act like flocks of birds
4 votes -
Soft reminder to read linked article when commenting
I don't think this has been much of an issue so far with this community, but I expect that with time people will be more and more likely to not read the linked article before commenting. We've...
I don't think this has been much of an issue so far with this community, but I expect that with time people will be more and more likely to not read the linked article before commenting. We've become so primed in general to consume information on the Internet in a way that makes us feel overconfident in our understanding based on just a few details, that I think it would be useful to have a soft reminder to actually read and engage with the things you're responding to instead of offering a "hot take".
10 votes -
AI-generated art sparks furious backlash from Japan’s anime community
10 votes -
World's northernmost permanent settlement, Longyearbyen, is estimated to be heating at six times the global average – so what is being done to save it?
8 votes -
I'm trying to find a blog about online communities and the paradox of tolerance
I remember I came across it here, probably posted by @Deimos in the course of a thread about Tildes' philosophy. The essence of the blog was that the truly nice, sweet people among us that make...
I remember I came across it here, probably posted by @Deimos in the course of a thread about Tildes' philosophy. The essence of the blog was that the truly nice, sweet people among us that make online forums a better place with their positive interactions are more sensitive to tensions and negative interactions than the average person, so they'd be likely to leave at a lower level of trolling than most of us would, resulting in a net negative for everyone on the site. Could have sworn I bookmarked it...
7 votes -
Minneapolis church still holds services in Norwegian – congregation was founded in 1922 at the tail end of a decades-long migration of Norwegians to Minnesota
6 votes -
Temperatures have risen faster in the Arctic region than elsewhere on earth – the impact of climate change is being felt on Greenland's local way of life
6 votes -
A ragtag community is keeping this aughts Wikipedia gadget alive
7 votes -
Any Tilde Town members here?
A few years ago when I was new to tildes a typed tildes.com directly in the URL bar. I realized I'd forgotten the correct domain extension and did a web search for "tildes community" or something...
A few years ago when I was new to tildes a typed tildes.com directly in the URL bar. I realized I'd forgotten the correct domain extension and did a web search for "tildes community" or something similar.
One of the results was for tilde town . At the time I glanced over it and thought about joining but I never got around to it. Last July I somehow stumbled over it again and this time I applied to join.
It's a pretty cool place.
The idea is that it's a Linux server that each user gets an account on. You then ssh into it - and that's where the community lives!
They have a chat system, a forum system, microblogging that's private to that community, command line games (some of which are multi-player) and a bunch of other really neat features. Each user even gets a folder in their home directory that let's them serve up public web pages.
Technically they have about 2,000 registered users, but the number of actual active users seems to be similar to our community here.
The vibe reminds me a lot of what we have here except that tilde town is casual "slice of life" only and doesn't do news articals at all. Some of their forum posts are similar to our own, with posts for what people are reading and watching and what projects they are working on.
Ive enjoyed my time there so far and I'd encourage any one who's interested to check it out. My username over there is grendel84, stop by and say hi!
17 votes -
This 100% solar community endured Hurricane Ian with no loss of power and minimal damage
12 votes -
Catching up with new Norwegians, twenty-five years on – in 1996, a group of young people living in Norway were interviewed about what it meant to be Norwegian
4 votes -
Metros with the most unoccupied homes in America
9 votes -
Investigating toxicity changes of cross-community Redditors from two billion posts and comments
9 votes -
Closed for maintenance – how the Faroe Islands shook up the voluntourism game
4 votes -
People don't want to hear about it – how the pandemic shaped Sweden's politics and left many feeling hopeless and disenfranchised
5 votes -
Visiting Canada’s $50 million 1980s ghost town
12 votes -
How “dementia villages” work
6 votes -
Instead of a field, hundreds of Danish growers now share patches of the ocean, growing mussels, sea kelp and more
6 votes -
Why a gang of Spanish grannies covered an entire street in woolly blankets
4 votes -
Indigenous reindeer herders fear the drive towards a more sustainable economy is destroying their traditional way of life and identity in Sweden
11 votes -
Finland is building the world's first permanent disposal site for nuclear waste, with no shortage of people wanting to be its neighbours
13 votes -
A mom’s campaign to ban library books divided a Texas town — and her own family
7 votes -
Californians and other Americans are flooding Mexico City. Some locals want them to go home.
13 votes -
Preppers: Sweden bracing for the worst
6 votes -
Tildes is awesome
I just joined, and although it’s not extremely active, I love Tildes already! Firstly, the user interface. This is what the reddit redesign should’ve been. Clean, simple and lightweight. Loading a...
I just joined, and although it’s not extremely active, I love Tildes already! Firstly, the user interface. This is what the reddit redesign should’ve been. Clean, simple and lightweight. Loading a post on new reddit takes 10 seconds or so, because of all the useless JavaScript, but posts loads instantly here. And there’s no ads here, which is a nice bonus.
I also like the fact that it’s much calmer here, people focus on through-provoking discussion instead of attacking each other.
To everyone who works on Tildes, keep up the great work! I’m sure this has been asked many times before, but do you ever plan on allowing anyone to register in order to grow Tildes?
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I can't thank you enough
Thanks After about a year-long absence I've hopped back on to Tildes again. There wasn't anything about the platform that made me "leave", it was purely external things in my life. With online...
Thanks
After about a year-long absence I've hopped back on to Tildes again. There wasn't anything about the platform that made me "leave", it was purely external things in my life. With online communities, you really don't expect people to recognize you from day to day, but people here do and it's one of the things I love about Tildes.
What has absolutely shocked me is that after being gone for a full year people recognize my username. They have been incredibly kind and welcoming. They are happy to see me again. They remember the photography posts that I made and said they look forward to seeing them again. They remember the hard times my family was experiencing and have wished me well.
I'm not trying to be dramatic, but I'm being serious when I say that this reception has made me tear up. I've never experienced this before in any community, anonymous or otherwise. In all of the noise of the internet I never really expected my voice to be heard, much less be remembered by anyone. I never anticipated strangers to care beyond the time it takes to comment on a post.
I am completely overwhelmed by this reception. This is the kind of place that I thought had gone extinct on the internet. All of you have made me feel like I matter, and I don't think there's any way I can ever express my gratitude for this.
Since I'm posting anyway, I'll give a quick update for everyone.
Family
My family is doing amazing right now. Both of my sons have flourished and made so much progress. I've been around other foster/adoptive parents and the transformation that has happened for them in such a short amount of time is nothing short of a true miracle. Neither of them has needed inpatient psych care for almost two years now, and my oldest is now able to go to a special school that can meet his needs. My youngest who has struggled his whole life with social interaction now has several friends and even a best friend. My wife and I's relationship, which was on the verge of total destruction is now back on track and stronger than ever. I really appreciate the awesome support this community gave me during the worst year of my life.
Photography
I also fell out of photography during that time, but with the new stability I have rebuilt my darkroom in our new home and I'm picking it up again. It has gone from a fun hobby to a driving passion, and I'm now partnered with a mentor who has decades of experience. With his guidance, I hope to start producing gallery-quality material. I don't know that I'll ever submit to a gallery, it's really just a personal goal to start making things I can be proud of.
Again I can't thank everyone enough for all that you've done for me. I'm excited to be here and get plugged back into this awesome place!
34 votes -
What's changed here on tildes?
So I've returned here after being gone for about a year. I didn't "leave" on purpose, just got distracted with some life stuff. I'm happy to be back and to see the community is still as awesome as...
So I've returned here after being gone for about a year. I didn't "leave" on purpose, just got distracted with some life stuff.
I'm happy to be back and to see the community is still as awesome as it was before. I'm also happy to see that on the technical side the site is still super minimalist and easy to use.
But what do you feel has changed here in the last year? Are there more users? Have the topics shifted? Are the opinions of users trending in a certain direction?
I'm really happy to be back and thanks for keeping me updated! :)
29 votes -
With Stalinist architecture, a prominent bust of Lenin and posters extolling the motherland, Pyramiden is the abandoned Soviet mining town in Norway's Arctic
10 votes -
Finland and Russia share more than 800 miles of land border, plus the archipelago sea – a photo journey through the border zone
4 votes -
Team Fortress 2 community peacefully protests bot problem with #SaveTF2 campaign, Valve responds
11 votes -
A trip to Gee’s Bend, Alabama, where masterpieces hang from clotheslines
7 votes -
Denmark forces refugees to return to Syria – under a more hostile immigration system, young volunteers fight to help fellow refugees stay
5 votes -
Women are splitting off from the doomsday prepper community
19 votes -
These Syrian refugees can't stay in Denmark, but they can't be sent home
5 votes -
Six people who were part of a failed 1950s social experiment have won compensation from Denmark's government and will receive a face-to-face apology from the prime minister
5 votes -
Keep your numbers off of me: Why tournaments support better communities than ladders
12 votes -
Disney to build a branded community promising “magic” in the California desert
7 votes -
/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
19 votes