If I remember correctly, I had joined at a similar time. Not this account though, this one is fairly new. But I ended up going for Blahaj Zone and Beehaw. I went back and forth between the two, but in the end I think both of these were the right choice. The biggest issue I have with the latter is… It’s missing some pretty big federation, like Lemmy.World notably, and that’s kind of an issue for me. It makes the “all” timeline really quiet and kind of dull.

In the end, I think Blahaj is my home for many reasons, but I do remember Beehaw being quite recommended back then. It’s a great community and I really do enjoy their principles, in terms of rules and everything. When I was looking for what community to join, and people talking about it on Reddit, there was a bunch of, it doesn’t really matter, which is bullshit, it actually really does matter, in my opinion, but, uh, yeah. Beehaw came up enough for me to go there on my first account.

As for the drama, I have missed out on all of it. Like, people are talking about Hexbear, I have no idea what happened with that. In terms of drama, all I personally remember was the kind of like big panic over the threadiverse because of the mass influx from Reddit users, which I am on one of but that’s pretty much it. That being said, I personally do remember that most people had already some kind of apprehension towards Lemmy.ml. At least in my corner. Lemmygrad I’ve only learned of recently.

It’s not extraordinary but hey, small wins are still wins.

One doesn’t need to replace the other.:)

The big problem with matchmaking is that in the long run, it kills game. When people start to move on to a new thing, the population that stays because they’re attached to the game gets fucked over by matchmaking.

The less people they are, the worse it works. That’s when a server browser and the ability to run community server becomes crucial. It will keep a game alive for a decade after its last update.

Whereas if we built a giant highway… with like 10 lanes… that’d be perfectly quiet!

My point is that we shouldn’t even entertain the question in the first place. It doesn’t matter if it’s natural or not. If it was unnatural, it wouldn’t make it any less moral or okay.

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The level of pettiness on display here…

It’s cute and all but… I really hate that arguement. If it wasn’t natural, it wouldn’t make it any less moral. We don’t need to play by their rhetorical rules. I know that this is just a cute thing, but I see this kind of things all the time and I feel quite strongly about it. So what if I wasn’t born this way? So what if it’s not natural? Does it somehow make things worse? Or is just an excuse to justify hatred of something that just grosses the 'phobes out?.. y’know?

This experience is kind of a rite of passage in growing up, honestly.

I wish it was bigger, I wish the icons had some text right next to them to make it easier to tap on, and also, if we’re going with the expansion style like it is right now instead of a more like bubble menu I guess, I wish there was an option to put the text on the right.

I have honestly completely given up on streaming all together. It’s such a hassle. And looking for the thing that you want to watch always ends up the same way. It’s on another service that you’ve never heard of before and don’t pay for.

I watch the stuff I want to watch through other means. I don’t have enough money to give 15 bucks a month to every asshole who has enough money to hoard movies and TV shows rights.

I don’t follow this game at all, nor do I care about Bungie, but everything I’ve seen and heard about this game sounds like an incoming blunder. I can’t see this game succeed at all. But hey, best of luck, I guess.

Yup, can’t wait for the next BattleBit Remastered update.

These political parties never learn. It’s mind-boggling. How many failures of the Democrats in the U.S. or similar parties do you need to finally understand that trying to cater to the right wing will only validate the far right and alienate whoever is left to vote for you? The more a society shifts to the right, the harder left you must be. Double down!

People go to the far-right out of bigotry, but not just this, they go to them because in the end they always end up being the only ones proposing solutions, saying that they’re going to change their lives, whereas the rest of you are just saying, oh, vote for us or otherwise it’s gonna be the mean far-right in power, but we’re not planning on changing anything.

Capitalism is failing and crumbling all around us. People are begging for something to change. The far right is promising that they will change things, by throwing minorities under the bus, it’s a false promise, it’s not a solution, it’s not gonna change anything, but at least they’re saying something, while the rest of you are just… doing nothing. They lie, they cheat, they manipulate everyone, but in the end they’re still the only ones saying that they’re gonna do something!

There is one minority that deserves to be thrown under the bus and we all know which. It’s the wealthiest, the 1%, the billionaires, but all of you are too cowardly to take the fight to them so instead you throw us all to the wolves! You don’t care about the people, you don’t care about policy, all you care is keeping your fucking seat at the table.

I’m so fucking sick of seeing the same goddamn thing happen again and again and none of these people are taking any lessons from it! No one is coming to save us, that would require them to work and do something for once.

Damn, that’s so fucking bleak…

Oh yeah, definitely. The whole we want to have grandkids thing and so on.

No, it’s not a family decision. I’m not your property, you don’t own me that’s my girlfriends’s role :3.

A reminder that families are just people and that often the only things you have in common is DNA and blood. That’s it. You don’t have to be around people who hurt you. They’re just people. There is nothing more special about them than any stranger you cross in the street.

Would you force yourself to see someone you don’t like? Well, it’s the same thing with your family. I know it’s much easier said than done. Trust me, I struggle with it as well.

The victim is a black woman. Which is not surprising. Transphobic and misogynistic standards have a big racist bend to them and black women, especially athletes, have long been targeted with these kinds of things. In competitive sports, it’s been an issue for a very long time, black women get a lot of transphobic and misogynistic shit thrown at them because these standards are built on whiteness first and foremost.