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Cake day: March 9th, 2025

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  • A1: Less bots, mods aren’t malevolent, no Karma points just a simple up/down.

    A2: Federation isn’t easy for newbs to understand, communities are often too quiet, I still have to visit Reddit as any tech-related questions I have actually have answers there and there’s SEO so it’s found. I did also enjoy reddit “badges” for some reason. If your instance gets defederated, or goes down, you lose everything on it. Bots that are here are Reddit scrapers rather than new Lemmy content





  • This isn’t something I’ve seen online either tbh. But the UK thing was certainly very popular having talked to people in their 30s-40s, though admittedly this was about 25 years ago. Nowadays life is much harder so just the idea of maybe one day affording a house and having survivable wages is more of concern! The dream of owning a pub is so far above what current 30yos could reach. Plus, pubs are all owned by breweries these days so the of the old freehold pub has died.

    In Japan, it’s something I’ve seen several times in Japanese documentaries on NHK, which have been translated. Again, I don’t know if this is still the dream of the younger folks - it was 50yos that wanted to do that previously. The US equivalent was “the American Dream” that people still wish for, even though it’s unlikely. It’s a similar feeling, or hope, that for most won’t come true, no matter what they do. These aren’t “specific online spaces”. These are the hopes and dreams for a better future - if you need to have those, you’re making a statement.








  • I had to update my Elgato Stream Deck software and it pointed to their new product - the Stream Deck + Lever.

    Admittedly I did do a WTF at first but then remembered what day it was. I didn’t check more, but I have to assume! There’s no way it could be real.

    Oh, that and today was the first I heard about the scope of the Artemis II mission, but it turned out that actually was real even though it seemed like an elaborate joke. Cue the conspiracy theories