Yeah, the mention of AI is pretty ominous. It makes me wonder if AI would be used to fill in the gaps when the user base is too low.

Not just Europeans. I was talking to my roommate about how I deleted my Reddit accounts and fully committed to switching over to Lemmy, and his main concern was which instances were hosted in America so he could avoid them.

I keep seeing the bars around and I’m very tempted to try it, but I’m allergic lmao. It’ll probably be a lot better than sneaking a Hershey’s though.

Maybe one day they’ll make a carob one.

Soon you can’t say fired or terminated anymore either because that sounds too violent. It’s “unhiring” now. DOGE doesn’t fire government workers. It just unhires them. /s

My grandpa is allergic to garlic. I could probably be fine with cutting out most allergens but garlic? That draws the line there.

Most of the time, if I say “Luigi” I’m actually talking about the character. Mario’s brother. The lil green plumber. Not the real life guy.

I’m not sure what’s gonna happen to discussion about Nintendo games but if first names themselves can be banned from being said (even if they take on a new meaning due to slang) there’s something seriously wrong with the platform.

Excuse me, the terms of service says no strong language. You gotta say frick. Or do what everyone does on highly censored platforms and strt cnsring everth*ng. /s

Yeah I think I either have been officially diagnosed with it as a kid or suspected of having it.

I would become a vegetarian to avoid this, but then they also keep having listeria on the vegetables.

A hearing implant that works by audio mixing rather than just raising volume. I’m not deaf, but I have trouble filtering out background noise.

Wait, people got banned for upvoting that?

Welp. Rip my account

I used to use Kbin.social but eventually it started to get overrun by spam when the servers worked.

Back in my day, it was just called scene. Or as one of my scene kid friends called it, “Sceney-Weenies.”

I used to dress like a scene kid from 12-15 years old and dyed my hair bright red mostly. I had blue hair for a bit before that became a stereotype, but I think I looked the best with the red hair. I had it red regardless of length, and even a little after I stopped being “scene” and finally cut my hair short.

Partway through, I thought the alternative reality was going to be a metaphor for the brief time period of 2011-the first half of 2016 when it seemed like there was real progress for the community. It really does feel like a whole other timeline at this point because of just how different the vibes were. Unfortunately, it’s not and there’s historical precedent of huge cultural shifts like this.

Instead, I guess this post really is about alternative realities. I’m not sure if I should upvote it because it’s a perfect copypasta or downvote it because it’s either a troll or a schizophrenic episode.

It depends on the book. I think it works better with horror or books that are focused on music to have a playlist in the background.