lori

Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if Barbie as a character is less popular with American kids than Mario in 2023. Hasn’t Barbie been struggling?

Good, Barbie was a movie where things actually happened and characters actually did things.

I don’t really understand Revolt, most people don’t want to self host an entire Discord (as in, a server full of servers), most people want to self host one server.

My problem with Kagi is that they’re still running at a loss and they think AI will be their savior.

And their AI currently gives extremely wrong information but the devs think that’s fine because the point of their AI is to be fast not accurate.

I liked it as a search engine but at this point I can’t see it surviving. If they raised the prices to where they lost a lot of customers and still can’t get to positive numbers they aren’t going to fix it by having AI give you wrong answers.

Right after getting home from this movie I went “man, this is going to be like Starship Troopers where it gets a ton of sequels that don’t understand what this movie was, huh?”

I already strongly felt that they shouldn’t reboot King of the Hill for a lot of reasons, but I especially can’t imagine them going through with it now.

I have only ever gotten suicide reports when I’ve defended trans people on reddit, meanwhile I get them almost every single time I’ve done that. It’s 100% transphobes hoping to make trans people think about suicide. I’m not trans or suicidal, so they’re wasting their time with me, but that’s the motivation behind it, hoping they might get someone in a dark place.

So I have to say I’m pretty on board with defederating from an instance that is full of posts that very much also want trans people eradicated.

I love Olauncher, I tried it out on a whim and never left

So you think grandmas and children and people with mental illness shouldn’t be allowed here, but people who call LGBT people slurs and make jokes about hanging them should be?

That’s…really not at all how SDF operates.

Kind of, basically we live in the era of every IP possible getting some kind of adaptation just out of name recognition (and there’s not a modern Twisted Metal game to justify it so it could easily have been a nostalgia ploy and nothing else) and frankly I don’t think Twisted Metal has the most compelling writing as a video game either so it was a low bar to begin with. Twisted Metal Black has some fun monkey paw ideas but it would be hard to adapt a TV series to just that given that you’d need every contestant to win to see how their wishes go.

So I didn’t have much reason to think it’d do well as a TV show but I think they took the best bits of it and let themselves get creative enough outside of it to make it work for the most part.

I’m in the weird middle ground of person who kind of knows some of the Twisted Metal game stories but doesn’t really care a lot about it, and I was shocked at how competent this show is. I definitely got the feeling they didn’t have the budget to do more car stuff but were fishing for a second season and more money for that. They did a great job with the car scenes they did have. But I think they made as good of a show as anyone is going to with Twisted Metal and it was a really fun watch. I was expecting way, way, way less from it.

Is the SDF instance not primarily SDF users? Why would random people need to join because they saw it from another instance?

There’s a lot of general purpose instances out there that aren’t full of pages of slurs, I’m pretty skeptical that people on the instance full of slurs don’t want to see those but if they don’t there’s other places they can find. Or they can find a new instance the same way any new user does, it’s weird to argue you need an unblocked account to find out where other people are talking, new users figure this out every day without leaving users here wide open to trolls who are already spewing garbage in this very thread.

They can see it logged out, and presumably would have to already know SDF exists to get registered anyway.

Then…great. If the posters who aren’t horrible are leaving then what’s the problem defederating the trolls left over?

Yeah, and defederating them makes it to where they can’t get the attention they want anymore.

I have to wonder if the people staunchly against defederation at any cost ever dealt with redditors from hate subs following them around reddit from sub to sub everywhere they posted to keep screaming at them about trans women not being women, while also repeatedly reporting them to Reddits suicide bot to try to make them think about suicide. It’s not exactly the nicest online experience and I had it more than once in my time on reddit.

To me the benefit of federation includes defederation. If it was easy to just say “get rid of all the users from r/hatesub” on reddit it would have been a lot nicer. I don’t know why people are clamoring to keep hateful shit around. Go join the hateful shit instance if you want to read it so bad but I’d rather the users of an instance like that not be able to see me at all since queer people like me are who they hate so bad, and I can’t exactly block all of them.