For some reason listening to this immediately made me want to listen to Take 6 So Much To Say. I guess it put the thought "fast acapella" in my head. Anyways interesting song.
For a sec I thought I was in for some good old Irish diddly-eye. Nope, Scottish diddly. Song sounds like it'd be right at home on the Lord of The Rings soundtrack, almost has a sea shanty feel to it as well.
Yeah really Digg and Reddit both launched with millions of dollars in VC funding and before the term "social media" existed. They were first and second movers in a space who's only competition was a bunch of unfunded, non-linked forums spread across the internet that all required a search engine to find and separate logins to use. Growing a user base was like Mike Tyson vs second graders for them. Mainchan has to compete with a fully grown Reddit, the Fediverse, it's own 4chan inspired name scaring off a segment of potential users, and the rest of the billion dollar social media landscape that isn't giving up eyeballs without a fight. Growing in this environment, without deep pockets, in any meaningful way is remarkable.
There's a lot of truth to dead internet theory. As someone who's been online since there was an online to be on I've seen it dry up. The internet used to be vast, like incalculably vast. Once commercial interests got involved it began contracting into what we have today. Mega websites like social media hubs acted like black holes swallowing up huge swaths of smaller sites. Free hosting companies with huge user bases went under and companies managing the data storage of the net began purging sites who's owners hadn't accessed them in however long or who'd stopped paying the hosting bill. It's been like watching stars in the night sky blink out of existence one by one until mostly only the brightest stars remain.
It all comes down to how many house-like amenities you can build into a rig. If you can get solar, internet, AC, heat, hot & cold running water, a shower (preferably recirculating), a fridge, stove (and/or microwave and/or oven), and a toilet then you're on easy street. Then if you want to travel you need either savings or a mobile way of making money. It's only scary if you're living homeless style with few amenities, little money, and staying in a lot of urban areas, that's bottom barrel right there.
But you know vanlife is awesome when one of the biggest complaints from long time vanlifers is becoming jaded to waking up to scenic vistas.
Check out Foresty Forest and Vancity Vanlife on youtube. They're both Canadian and been at it a long time. Vancity Vanlife is a good kick off point since he started with the most basic build possible and shows the progression of how he built it up over time. Also, not Canadian but Ryan Twomey has a more full-amenity build. Otherwie just search for "van tour" to find a bazillion different builds to get an idea of what's possible.
BTW when searching the term "vanlife" on Youtube there's literally 10 anti-vanlife videos that are always near the top of the search regardless of whether you've watched them already or told YT not to recommend them, it's kinda weird.
Bad execution, should have handled the letters with gloves at all times, used a fake return address and mailed them from somewhere far from her home with no cameras around. Lady was amateur hour.
Hmm. Then I'm at a loss for suggesting a workable solution without being knowledgeable on the codebase.
I feel something like this will become a priority soon though. If we continue to have far right frens showing up to the party but still want people with other viewpoints to join as well those people will likely need to know they'll have tools to filter content to their liking. If the best on offer is hiding subs from /all and hiding things tagged NSFW/NSFL/P that still leaves enough vectors for people to see content they'd rather filter that it will turn away potential users.
The NSFL filter only works on posts/subs voluntarily tagged by their creator. And, as I've harassed you about before, filtering NSFL also removes violent content in addition to hate stuff. Since I personally don't care for the hate stuff but I'm fine with violence/gore/etc, the NSFL filter doesn't fit my particular use case just as an example.
Also blocking a user doesn't hide their content so let's say a user has a name like u/NiggerFaggot (sorry to single ya out NF, your name actually brings me back to Xbox live lobbies before everyone got all offended) and you block them. Well that does nothing (visible) because you've still got NiggerFaggot on your screen when the black guy you're blowing sees your phone screen and now your annual interracial gay gangbang is ruined... or something... just spitballing oddly specific situations here.
Guess this all boils down to a request for a more granular and air-tight method of content filtration than the current tags offer.
This was an objectively bad episode of Star Trek, however it was the first episode of this season of of SNW that didn't leave me deeply disappointed and angry at what Secret Hideout is doing to the franchise. Why? Because they tried. They put together their couple of braincells and tried to write a self-contained, episodic story that actually goes to a different planet and deals with an issue involving aliens and a sci-fi concept. They failed at everything they tried but I appreciate the effort. If one day they can do what they tried here but with an actually good, logical story and less nuTrek tropes they might have something.
Grats on your inaugural tug
For some reason listening to this immediately made me want to listen to Take 6 So Much To Say. I guess it put the thought "fast acapella" in my head. Anyways interesting song.
For a sec I thought I was in for some good old Irish diddly-eye. Nope, Scottish diddly. Song sounds like it'd be right at home on the Lord of The Rings soundtrack, almost has a sea shanty feel to it as well.
One day a rap producer is gonna find this song and sample it into a fire beat.
Best of both worlds, only show the separate upvote/downvote count when you hover the combined count.
Yeah really Digg and Reddit both launched with millions of dollars in VC funding and before the term "social media" existed. They were first and second movers in a space who's only competition was a bunch of unfunded, non-linked forums spread across the internet that all required a search engine to find and separate logins to use. Growing a user base was like Mike Tyson vs second graders for them. Mainchan has to compete with a fully grown Reddit, the Fediverse, it's own 4chan inspired name scaring off a segment of potential users, and the rest of the billion dollar social media landscape that isn't giving up eyeballs without a fight. Growing in this environment, without deep pockets, in any meaningful way is remarkable.
Back atcha mate.
I saved some AI faves of mine in hopes that I can one day use them as memes, like the attached
Was it a timed thing? Just tried and the register link just leads back to the homepage.
AI Pope has that Balenciaga coat, real Pope don't got that drip. AI Pope FTW.
There's a lot of truth to dead internet theory. As someone who's been online since there was an online to be on I've seen it dry up. The internet used to be vast, like incalculably vast. Once commercial interests got involved it began contracting into what we have today. Mega websites like social media hubs acted like black holes swallowing up huge swaths of smaller sites. Free hosting companies with huge user bases went under and companies managing the data storage of the net began purging sites who's owners hadn't accessed them in however long or who'd stopped paying the hosting bill. It's been like watching stars in the night sky blink out of existence one by one until mostly only the brightest stars remain.
It all comes down to how many house-like amenities you can build into a rig. If you can get solar, internet, AC, heat, hot & cold running water, a shower (preferably recirculating), a fridge, stove (and/or microwave and/or oven), and a toilet then you're on easy street. Then if you want to travel you need either savings or a mobile way of making money. It's only scary if you're living homeless style with few amenities, little money, and staying in a lot of urban areas, that's bottom barrel right there.
But you know vanlife is awesome when one of the biggest complaints from long time vanlifers is becoming jaded to waking up to scenic vistas.
Check out Foresty Forest and Vancity Vanlife on youtube. They're both Canadian and been at it a long time. Vancity Vanlife is a good kick off point since he started with the most basic build possible and shows the progression of how he built it up over time. Also, not Canadian but Ryan Twomey has a more full-amenity build. Otherwie just search for "van tour" to find a bazillion different builds to get an idea of what's possible.
BTW when searching the term "vanlife" on Youtube there's literally 10 anti-vanlife videos that are always near the top of the search regardless of whether you've watched them already or told YT not to recommend them, it's kinda weird.
Bad execution, should have handled the letters with gloves at all times, used a fake return address and mailed them from somewhere far from her home with no cameras around. Lady was amateur hour.
This video led me down a whole socialist/communist wormhole for a few hours yesterday. I'm probably on a list now. Thanks op.
It was chad IHOP vs virgin Denny's. The outcome was preordained.
Do not agree to perform in any underground art films while you're there.
Not I. Would be ironic if my ad blocker blocked their anti ad blocker ad.
Hadn't heard about this. All because of one DMCA. Sucks.
The way Elon is going Mainchan will eventually outrank Twitter.
He said on a website that doesn't run on ads
His name was Robert Paulson...
Hmm. Then I'm at a loss for suggesting a workable solution without being knowledgeable on the codebase.
I feel something like this will become a priority soon though. If we continue to have far right frens showing up to the party but still want people with other viewpoints to join as well those people will likely need to know they'll have tools to filter content to their liking. If the best on offer is hiding subs from /all and hiding things tagged NSFW/NSFL/P that still leaves enough vectors for people to see content they'd rather filter that it will turn away potential users.
The NSFL filter only works on posts/subs voluntarily tagged by their creator. And, as I've harassed you about before, filtering NSFL also removes violent content in addition to hate stuff. Since I personally don't care for the hate stuff but I'm fine with violence/gore/etc, the NSFL filter doesn't fit my particular use case just as an example.
Also blocking a user doesn't hide their content so let's say a user has a name like u/NiggerFaggot (sorry to single ya out NF, your name actually brings me back to Xbox live lobbies before everyone got all offended) and you block them. Well that does nothing (visible) because you've still got NiggerFaggot on your screen when the black guy you're blowing sees your phone screen and now your annual interracial gay gangbang is ruined... or something... just spitballing oddly specific situations here.
Guess this all boils down to a request for a more granular and air-tight method of content filtration than the current tags offer.
This was an objectively bad episode of Star Trek, however it was the first episode of this season of of SNW that didn't leave me deeply disappointed and angry at what Secret Hideout is doing to the franchise. Why? Because they tried. They put together their couple of braincells and tried to write a self-contained, episodic story that actually goes to a different planet and deals with an issue involving aliens and a sci-fi concept. They failed at everything they tried but I appreciate the effort. If one day they can do what they tried here but with an actually good, logical story and less nuTrek tropes they might have something.