And if you haven’t used it in a while, we recently made a blog post giving a rundown of the changes leading up to our most recent major release.

Is there such a community here? Maybe you could start one.

Haha, yup, you’re right; had a brain fart.

Parents killing reaping their zombie children was a favorite one of mine.

inb4 one of these gets improperly installed and gives someone an existential crisis (still looks pretty and useful for the directionally challenged, though!)

• The Captcha extension allows you to automatically bypass Captcha prompts by clicking an extension-exclusive icon that pops up on the Captcha.
• When you’re completing a Captcha manually, what you’re actually doing is being given samples from a dataset and training AI to be able to accurately pick patterns out of images. Essentially, you’re doing free labor for Google.

The actual reason is that Google wants free training for their AI. Here you go:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/

Not really. In terms of engaging with posts, oh my god, absolutely it’s worse. Twitter and its clones suck when it comes to engaging with things people post (but Mastodon at least makes it a bit better by increasing the character limit). But there’s just something different about following a hashtag versus following a Lemmy community. Like for example, when it comes to getting highly detailed, up-to-the-minute news about things, Mastodon beats Lemmy every time. Additionally, I can see people’s random, one-off takes that wouldn’t really warrant a post on Lemmy.

I would argue too that it’s not even true that you should just be focused on following hashtags, but rather that you should be trying to do both.

To me, Lemmy is the type of place I could kill two hours; for Mastodon, it’s maybe 15 minutes, but that doesn’t make it inferior, just a different use-case. It’s pretty apples-to-oranges.

Quick, someone post “Cascade” from Homestuck and bring down the entire fediverse.

This community in like 5 seconds (which sounds funny as fuck; amazing idea)

• !sonicthehedgehog@lemmy.world
• !metroid@lemmy.world
• !slycooper@lemmy.world

So you’re telling me that you didn’t have to give the filmmakers a trigger warning that they’d see the animal abuse that you pay for and actively advocate for paying for? That in much the same way one might expect animal abuse going into a documentary on animal abuse, the filmmakers might have expected animal abuse going into the animal ag industry? Peculiar.

Your arguments are bad-faith nonsense, and I’m disengaging from this clownish conversation.

They’re just filming what you paid for. You should’ve warned the camera crew of the documentary before endangering them.

I feel like I’m being trolled right now. It’s a documentary which is expressly about the extensive, systemic animal abuse that happens in the industry, and the first instance of that is over 5 minutes in. Did you not expect gore? Is this not like the most fundamentally obvious thing you could possibly expect from such a documentary?

Edit: oh, comment history tells me that I am being trolled. Interesting. Have a nice day.

But aren’t you the one advocating that this is okay? Why do I need a trigger warning for something so deeply and obviously ethical?

You really just have no idea what you’re talking about, huh?

Watch the documentary above and tell me that dairy and eggs have “not the slightest bit” of ethical concern for animal products other than meat.

“A race… A special race. There’ll be something happening. Gawd. Do you see this? This is the diamond that I’m going to give to my brand new husband, and/or wife. It’ll be theirs for the rest of time with the GameCube 2. So if you want–”

Fun fact about Eggman in Unleashed: there’s this line in Mazuri (the Africa stand-in) where he says “I should’ve known you’d still be alive” to Sonic after having fought him in the Tornado earlier, but this was apparently a continuity issue that was caused by them introducing the Tornado segment into the game (I think Unwiished doesn’t have it and thus the line makes sense?) But Eggman in that pre-boss cutscene before the Mazuri boss has no excuse for being perplexed; a competent player will take around 2 to 3 minutes to complete the level just before this.

Interesting! I’d feel a lot more comfortable with it if it were FOSS, but it still looks like a good host. I’ll add a link to it in the sidebars with the non-FOSS disclaimer and suggest that users posting videos or very large images use it. Thank you. :)

For sure; much appreciated! And of course if I’m considering any communities going forward, deference will go to searching exhaustively for existing communities. If there’s no functional difference, I’d much prefer to revive a community and make Lemmy more resilient through decentralization.

For the time being, of course, these are the first communities I’m moderating, and so I’ll stick to these for right now.

It makes sense that centralization around a specific instance can be touchy because a lot of us are refugees from another platform whose centralized administration ruined it. I’ll explain for each one of these I mentioned why I didn’t go for it.

I will not be trying to personally revive pawb.social, as I’m not a furry and have no interest in moderating a community whose unifying identity I do not and cannot relate to. That is, I’d want to help foster a community that I’d want to be a part of, which is one about Sonic rather than about how Sonic fits into the context of being a furry. I put that one in there just to address all of the ones I could possibly find. If someone does revive this community, though, I’d be happy to link it in the sidebar for the Lemmy.World one for those looking for that more specific kind of Sonic community.

As for lemm.ee, I decided against getting in contact with the admins and trying to work something out (I’m not unfamiliar with this, as I had to contact one of the administrators of Lemmy.World to work out the Sonic community since it had been previously deleted) predominantly because I felt the 500 kB image upload limit could be detrimental to those wanting to post fan art. That is, I thought it’d give users a better experience all while being easier to create on my home instance, making it a no-brainer to me.

Lastly, although you didn’t bring these ones up, I thought about asking to revive the SDF Sonic community, but I decided against this one just because of the name. I just really, really don’t like using underscores in community names where it’s not actually necessary. The .ml /c/sonic community just has nothing worth salvaging. And the .ml /c/metroid community has three posts that are all a few years old.

I don’t mind putting in the effort to contact moderators or administrators when I believe it will be in the best interest of the community. It’s just that for all of these, I felt like starting fresh on Lemmy.World was a better alternative (barring Sly, of course, who just strangely has nothing anywhere).