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  1. Comment on Reddit appears to be down during blackout day 1 in ~tech

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    Sorry to revive a dead thread, but in case you’re curious Lemmy.world is at 25K users and still growing. It honestly is feeling pretty good for social content, although admittedly very...

    Sorry to revive a dead thread, but in case you’re curious Lemmy.world is at 25K users and still growing. It honestly is feeling pretty good for social content, although admittedly very reddit-focused right now. It’s been fascinating to watch.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Les Rallizes Dénudés (裸のラリーズ) - Enter the Mirror (1987) in ~music

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    Haven’t thought of these guys in a long while. Great band, very mysterious. Those of you who also like old-school RPG-style games like Earthbound, there’s a wonderfully odd homemade game called...

    Haven’t thought of these guys in a long while. Great band, very mysterious.

    Those of you who also like old-school RPG-style games like Earthbound, there’s a wonderfully odd homemade game called Space Funeral that utilizes their music to great effect.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Amazon's new Lord Of The Rings showrunners have never made a TV show before in ~tv

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    The show is set in the Age of Númenor, >3000 years before the Fellowship. So it will be an entirely new story.

    The show is set in the Age of Númenor, >3000 years before the Fellowship. So it will be an entirely new story.

    8 votes

  4. Comment on Lashana Lynch to take over James Bond's iconic 007 code name in ~movies

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    My god, did any of you RTFA? I'm disappointed in tildes. I thought we were better here. For those of you who are only here for the comments, Lynch is adopting the 007 codename, and is NOT...

    My god, did any of you RTFA?

    I'm disappointed in tildes. I thought we were better here.

    For those of you who are only here for the comments, Lynch is adopting the 007 codename, and is NOT portraying another "Bond". James Bond is still set to be a character in this film. Seems a lot of you are worried that she was actually playing as James Bond.

    5 votes

  5. Comment on iOS 13 redraws your eyes using ARKit so that you're looking at the camera instead of the screen in ~tech

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    Given how much of an unreliable narrator we are in our own lives, I suppose the next step would be to make us question it even more. It's a slippery slope to throw what is "real" out the window,...

    Given how much of an unreliable narrator we are in our own lives, I suppose the next step would be to make us question it even more. It's a slippery slope to throw what is "real" out the window, since we naturally will adapt to believe what we think is true.

    At the same time, with how fluid reality is already I can't say I can think of any good reason why we shouldn't other than that it makes me uncomfortable.

  6. Comment on Why there's so little left of the early internet. in ~tech

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    This is always a fun discussion so I'll throw in my favorite piece of the early web: the first webcamera on the internet. The Trojan Room Coffee Pot

    This is always a fun discussion so I'll throw in my favorite piece of the early web: the first webcamera on the internet. The Trojan Room Coffee Pot

    3 votes

  7. Idea: ranking alternate links to prevent linkspam and improve access to quality sources

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    I was reading this thread and the important concept of finding the original source came up. I think two things that a lot of content aggregators run into as they grow is people will often post...

    I was reading this thread and the important concept of finding the original source came up. I think two things that a lot of content aggregators run into as they grow is people will often post links from low-quality sources, and when a big newsworthy event happens a lot of similar links from multiple sources appear at once. Obviously not a big problem here now, but it may happen as Tildes grows.

    Both of these issues often require significant moderator input, either through deletion of duplicates or banning of unsavory sources. One way we could instead approach this issue could be to allow for "alternate sources" to a story. For example, if a user is unsatisfied with a link to a news article, they could submit an alternate source to the thread that would show up in the discussion. If enough other users prefer that source, it could replace the link in the OP. The original source would still be visible, but all alternate links themselves could be ranked within the thread.

    It seems the primary focus of Tildes is to be a discussion board, and so in my mind that means the link that engages the discussion doesn't matter much -- if we are voting on individual links anyway, this could be a way to automatically compile multiple similar threads into a single discussion.

    13 votes

  8. Comment on Remember the person: Effortposting about Tildes and anti-social UX patterns in social media in ~tildes

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    Only other potential "social" media format I can think of is the Wiki. Not necessarily made for conversations (although I have seen it used that way, informally) but it's definitely collaborative...

    Only other potential "social" media format I can think of is the Wiki. Not necessarily made for conversations (although I have seen it used that way, informally) but it's definitely collaborative and in a sense is kind of a social pooling of knowledge.

    11 votes

  9. Comment on Looking for a phone that doesn't follow recent trends in ~tech

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    As someone else said, I generally have a similar opinion as you in terms of what I'm looking for and bought the unlocked version of the Samsung Galaxy S8. You can unlock the bootloader to install...

    As someone else said, I generally have a similar opinion as you in terms of what I'm looking for and bought the unlocked version of the Samsung Galaxy S8. You can unlock the bootloader to install custom ROMs or root if you're inclined to do that, and has all the features you requested. Plus, it's a damn good phone -- great battery life, gorgeous screen, yadda yadda yadda.

    Doesn't have an official LineageOS unfortunately, although somebody ported an unofficial build. Also I'm sad that it won't get the new One UI, but what can you do :/

  10. Comment on HBO must get bigger and broader, says its new overseer in ~tv

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    Reading that article really points out the absurdity of executive profit drive. HBO makes $6 billion in profit, and this guy just handwaves that aside as if it's effectively meaningless. If I...

    Reading that article really points out the absurdity of executive profit drive. HBO makes $6 billion in profit, and this guy just handwaves that aside as if it's effectively meaningless. If I worked for HBO I would have been furious.

    As a user I'm mostly disappointed. Netflix was the model he's clearly after, and honestly in my opinion Netflix has been going downhill for awhile now. While they used to have quality content, I feel like so many of the shows they put out these days are low production quality, mediocre writing, etc more recently.

    Every company yearns for constant growth. It's never enough to just be profitable and maintain the status quo anymore.

    I can't imagine that America was always like this -- companies used to do things like make shower curtains in a small town for decades, now that little shower curtain company will inevitably grow so big, absorb every other shower curtain company on the market, and eventually start making shitty knock off versions at way lower cost. Just doesn't seem right.

    6 votes