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  • I just tested it out by typing in "Sonic the hedgehog fanart". For once, I was able to get some decent images without being bombarded by uncanny valley ai-generated images of Sonic wearing Rouge's outfit or poorly-drawn inflation art. So it seems to be off to a good start.

  • Yep, defintely not a bad person
  • People probably post ragebait here too, but there's a built-in incentive on Reddit, particularly on subreddits like AITA or the Tenth Dentist, where users are encouraged to up vote the most 'interesting' posts, even if they find it offensive. Maybe the equivalents here also have this policy, but upvotes mean a lot more on Reddit than here---some subreddits require a high amount of karma to post, and posting something that's guaranteed to get passed around and upvoted a ton can get people enough karma to make many more posts, have a buffer in place in case a different comment gets downvoted, or just want a lot of karma for bragging rights. Hell, you can even monetize upvotes now, in some cases.

    Here on Lemmy, upvotes mainly just pass your content around for the sake of passing it around. Maybe there's an algorithm that is more likely to push an unrelated post you made to the top, but the benefits for posting ragebait here aren't as many as they are on Reddit.

  • Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time
  • That's a really good site too, though I suggest using fedipact.veganism.social if you're specifically interested in which instances are defederated from Threads. Some instances have hidden blocklists and won't show if they have defederated Threads if you search through defed.xyz.

    For example: You can only see that retro.pizza and masto.ai have hidden blocklists if you look through defed.xyz. However, if you look on fedipact.veganism.social, you can see that retro.pizza has joined the Fedipact against Threads, while masto.ai is fully federated with them.

  • Yep, defintely not a bad person
  • Was this on Reddit? I know there are some communities there that actively reward users with upvotes for ragebaitey content.

  • Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time
  • You can find servers based on Threads defederation through this site. Since you don't want anything to do with Threads, I suggest filtering by 'blocked' and 'Fedipact' I'm not sure what the difference is between the two is though, so I'd appreciate if someone would explain.

  • I wonder if the Rule continues
  • Ah, I didn't look at the dates very closely, thanks for clarifying. I didn't lose my smell after having covid, but I know others did, and I'd honestly forgotten about that symptom until you mentioned it. (Edit: it was actually @SmoochyPit@beehaw.org who mentioned that. Sorry. It's been a long day ...

  • I wonder if the Rule continues
  • So I'm guessing a competing company bought a bunch of bad reviews at the same time. But how did the second person put it in a graph? Is he really that passionate about protecting Yankee Candle from slander, or are those review reliability things more advanced than I thought...?

  • Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative
  • I can get why that user might have a pro-communist bias themself due to being from a pro-communist instance, but the articles they linked seemed to be an accurate enough representation of how the far left and far right see Wikipedia.

    Maybe not completely accurate to how it really is in all aspects, but I don't really care enough about Wikipedia's biases to fact check each contradictory claim in each article. I barely use it as a point of reference anymore anyways. (Though I've found it tends to have a liberal bias, like both the articles stated. I seem to remember that during the past election, some sections of the articles about Trump or featuring him in some way used very emotionally charged language)

    But accurate or not, I still find it hilarious to look at the articles side by side. One claims the articles are written mainly by teenagers and the unemployed and supports communism, and the other claims they're written mostly by privileged White men who hate communism.

  • Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative
  • ...are these people writing about the same website?! 😂

  • Amazon "search through reviews" is blindly just running an AI model now
  • I tried to get it to write a fanfiction about that camera falling in love with my sister's GoPro, but it didn't work. Evidently, this feature is only on the mobile app 😑 And I ain't downloading it. An article about it from CNBC

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  • sniffle Beautiful 🥺

    spoiler

    Maybe we should devote a sub to sappy edits of dark/snarky things that are brain-rottingly sweet or completely ruin the point of the original

  • A label I made for a 5 year old Mead with Lapsang Souchong tea and maple syrup
  • Not part of this community, so maybe this is a stupid question, but...wouldn't those things taste terrible mixed together?

    Edit: just looked up whether you could mix mead with tea, and apparently it is a thing people do. I guess the reason why I thought it would taste terrible is because I've tasted tea mixed with coffee, and it tasted terrible. I also just looked up whether you could mix tea with coffee, and apparently it can taste good too. My whole world of not mixing beverages has been flipped upside down. I'm sleep deprived. I will probably regret this comment.

  • pissing in the sink is one of the final few ethical pleasures left to us in the modern world

    woven into the grotesque canvas of late capitalist society, where the threads of broken ethics, unmet greeds and ill-sought pleasures intertwine, the act of urinating in the sink emerges as a shimmering thread of defiance and liberation amidst the drab canvas of sultry conformity. this post is an imploration to cast aside the mundane facade, for behold! within the confines of this commonplace act, yet still on its outer reaches at the kitchen drain, lies a symphony of ethical resonance and poetic dignity.

    lo! the sink—a vessel of utility and containment, yet also a sanctuary of rebellion and ecological stewardship. as the liquid streams cascade into its stainless steel or porcelain embrace, they whisper a sonnet of conservation, a hymn to the sanctity of every precious droplet in a world parched and exposed, drained and razed. here, amidst the confines of domesticity, i invite you to become custodians of the earth, embroidering each your golden thread into the communal tapestry of environmental consciousness with each clandestine release.

    in the quiet dribble of this intimate rebellion, there exists a neat elegance—a dignity that transcends both the banality of bodily functions and the opulence of human excess, and elevates them to the realm of the sublime. for within the sink-piss lies but a kernel, and yet a testament to the ironic intensity of the human spirit, a reminder to the lost of the beauty of the other.

    keep pissing, and may your streams be strong 🙏

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    Man avoids LGBT
  • A stable man isn’t effected by another mans sexual preference. Allowing that which you disagree with to control your mental state is the definition of powerlessness

    I mean that's what makes it funny, isn't it? This guy is making a complete fool out of himself dragging himself up a railing, simply because he's annoyed by a symbol of identities different from his own.

  • Man avoids LGBT
  • Yeah, just added a cw for the comments upon someone else's advice. I only skimmed a few, and I thought they were satire before I posted it. It's always concerning when something you think is satire is really serious...

  • Man avoids LGBT
  • I read the first few comments thinking they were being sarcastic, but reading further they genuinely seem to view...whatever the heck this guy is doing...as some kind of heroic stand against wokeness or something. What. Edit: Also, if I were to include a content warning about reading the comments, what do you think would be a good thing to warn for specifically? Cause they seem to be hating on pretty much everything LGBT related.

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    Man avoids LGBT

    CW: Pretty much all the comments are vitriollically anti-LGBT. Proceed with caution.

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    Man avoids LGBT

    CW: Pretty much all the comments are vitriollically anti-LGBT. Proceed with caution.

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    The Pact
  • Hear hear. I'm often disturbed by how many upvotes these comments that show hate towards religious people in general get, and as much as I hate blocking people, I often block the posters on sight. I guarantee that if I still followed that religion, and heard someone say my beliefs were a mental disorder, it would do nothing to change my mind. In fact, depending on what phase I stayed in, I might decide to retaliate by spamming more threads with proselytizing in hopes of getting an even worse reaction to confirm that all nonreligious people are like that, that they were the ones who needed to change or be eliminated.

  • Why are are some posts called "Title"?
  • Thanks for explaining the Mastodon-Lemmy compatibility thing. I've been confused about it for quite awhile. My alt's instance blocks a bunch of Mastodon servers, and I've always wondered why, since I almost never see any content from Mastodon users on here anyway. I always assumed it was simply a gesture for the admins show that they disapprove of that server's policies or something.

  • Why are are some posts called "Title"?
  • I looked through several of these 'title' posts, and that does seem to be the most common use for that now that I look at it. Though I do occassionally come across stuff that you could probably come up with a decent title for, but might take longer than is worthwhile. Thank you!

  • Why are are some posts called "Title"?
  • I see now, thank you. I was just wondering. Now that I look a little more at the 'Title' posts as examples for others to look at, the more I see that it's usually for stuff that's hard to title without spoiling the content of the post (e.g. typing out the entire text of a meme would be really annoying)

  • Growing up
  • Is Holly Horny meant to refer to a Sonic character or some other character famous for being flanderized?

  • Why are are some posts called "Title"?

    I haven't spent long on Lemmy, but I see a lot of posts with their title literally being "Title". Is it meant to be a joke? Is it because the title would otherwise be a quote ripped from the image/post itself, and the posters don't want their fellow Lemmites to get bored from reading the same bit of text twice? Reason why I ask is because I recently posted something where I took the title from the body of text in the post, and I'm wondering if people find it less annoying to read a single placeholder word before clicking into the main post than to end up rereading a bit of the body later.

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