SemioticStandard

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Is this community alive? in c/horror@lemmy.ml
[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Shining

The Witch

Alien

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"Dead Space: Deep Cover" - Cineverse & Bloody Disgusting Announce Scripted Audio Series Based on EA's Video Game! (bloody-disgusting.com)
 

This'll be cool, I'm a huge fan of Dead Space

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Leitz camera at an antique store (lemmy.ml)
 

Taken with a Canon EOS R7, 62mm, f/6.3

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Clocks in an antique store (lemmy.ml)
 

Canon EOS R7, 18mm, f/3.5

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How is Xbox Game Pass on the Steam Deck? (lemmy.ml)
 

I actually have an Xbox Series X but I want to be able to play games from my Deck while in bed. How is the lag and performance?

metal ✊ in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who's the source artist for this? Would love to follow him on Instagram

Current daily at work in c/mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml
[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I'll admit that it looks cool, but man...I just have a hard time seeing how that could possibly be functional.

Reddit CEO tells employees that subreddit blackout “will pass” in c/news@beehaw.org
[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Fine. Let him have the place. The experience here on Lemmy has been vastly superior anyway. Engagement is 1,000x better. It’s night and day how much kinder, thoughtful, and intelligent people here have been.

Maybe one day I'll learn how to use Vim in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

This is exactly how I learned all those years ago, and to this day, I still use vim regularly. As in, literally, I was using it on a server this morning to make some changes. It's just become natural to me now.

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A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon (medium.com)
 

It’s beyond wild to me why anyone would have any kind of “loyalty” to Amazon. I’m also somewhat astonished at how popular it’s become to hook everything in your house up to the Internet, including door locks. I understand these aren’t new observations or concerns, but it still surprises me how people go “all in” on anything corporate, and anything smart home. (I say, posting from one of the many Apple devices in my Apple-only home. Well, I’m fairly agnostic about my servers, at least, running a mix of Rocky and Ubuntu, depending. Whatever gets the job done.)

Seems like corporations the last couple of years have been leaning HARD into giving people reasons why they can’t be trusted.

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A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon (medium.com)
 

It’s beyond wild to me why anyone would have any kind of “loyalty” to Amazon. I’m also somewhat astonished at how popular it’s become to hook everything in your house up to the Internet, including door locks. I understand these aren’t new observations or concerns, but it still surprises me how people go “all in” on anything corporate, and anything smart home. (I say, posting from one of the many Apple devices in my Apple-only home.)

Seems like corporations the last couple of years have been leaning HARD into giving people reasons why they can’t be trusted.

Is there a community for advertising new communities? in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

IMO it’s fine to just make a post about it in one of the larger communities that seems appropriate. Now is exactly the time for us to promote one another! And Lemmy doesn’t have an algorithm, so you’re going to have to do some leg work to get the word out. I think people will be appreciative and understanding of that, I would be.

Subreddits you are going to miss? in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

/r/whowouldwin :(

Also /r/tiktokcringe, so many of the videos there had me nearly in tears in laughter

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Hellebore, a small press devoted to British folk horror and the occult (helleborezine.bigcartel.com)
 

I saw Grady Hendrix recommend this on Facebook (sigh, yes, Facebook...I know, but plenty of people--like Grady Hendrix--still use it) and thought it looked fascinating.

Founded in 2019 by writer and editor Maria J. Pérez Cuervo, with art direction by Nathaniel Hébert, HELLEBORE is a small press devoted to British folk horror and the occult. As well as the magazine of the same name, HELLEBORE has published a travel guide (The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain) and a card game (The Magical Card Battle of Britain). A World Fantasy Awards finalist in 2022, HELLEBORE has been featured in Fortean Times, Starburst Magazine, Rue Morgue, SFX and others.

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Would there be interest in having someone maintain the infrastructure/scaling/security/load balancing of a Lemmy instance, while handing off the moderation duties to someone else? (lemmy.ml)
 

I'm nearly of a mind to start a couple of Lemmy instances and front them with a load balancer--I have the resources and technical ability to build a Lemmy instance for scale--but I have zero interest in moderating the thing. I don't want to deal with the headache of everything that goes along with that, and don't want any responsibility for the users or content.

Would anyone be interested in a 'Lemmy Infra as-a-Service,' where I keep things running but hand off the management keys to you?

Enjoying the New England sunset in a vintage MG in c/photography@lemmy.ml
What are you watching this weekend? in c/horror@lemmy.ml
[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

The Nun (rewatch). Scared the hell out of me when I first saw it. Valak is a fantastically creepy demon. The way they handled it in The Conjuring 2 (I think it was) with the painting was great. Creepy as hell.

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Is anyone else upvoting every comment and thread or is it just me? (lemmy.ml)
 

Whereas I might’ve been less generous with upvotes on Reddit, I think it’s important in these early formative stages to let others know that I appreciate their contributions. I hope it encourages growth and activity!

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Bring funny content from creators at /r/comics please! (lemmy.ml)
 

I'm one of the recent Reddit converts, and one of my favorite subs is /r/comics. It's one of the few places that makes me laugh, a bright spot in my day, and as someone with dogshit mental health (like everyone else I guess), losing access to that sub is going to hurt, bad. If you follow artists there, please consider posting their work here!

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oh thank fucking god (lemmy.ml)
 

The /r/earthporn subreddit was one of the top 5 subs I was desperately going to miss, thank you so much for making this!!

Don't tell people "it's easy", and six more things KBin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Spammers and other bad actors are typically more likely to make the effort than people who might well add a lot of value.

Why do you think this?

Don't tell people "it's easy", and six more things KBin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I disagree with that. The larger subreddits have significant moderation problems. Only through extraordinary efforts by the mod teams, such as at /r/askhistorians, are things kept in line. It's simple math: the more users you have, the more likely you are to have people posting in bad faith. If a subreddit of 1 million users has only 0.05% of its users posting low quality content, that's still 50,000 people that need to be moderated for.

Don't tell people "it's easy", and six more things KBin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The more popular a community becomes, the shittier it gets. The easier you make it to join and interact with, the more popular it will become.

In the case of places like Gab, Truth Social, Parlor, and other right wing nut job havens, while the quality of users might not get higher if you raised the barrier to entry, those places certainly wouldn’t have become as popular as they have.

But the barrier to entry isn’t the only reason they’ve congregated there, they have other cultural reasons driving them, primarily the owners or moderators being friendly to that kind of mindset. I don’t think the same crowd would be able to gather here as they’d just get defederated.

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Enjoying the New England sunset in a vintage MG (lemmy.ml)
 

I was riding my bike a few weeks ago and came across this couple parked in their old MG, watching the sun set. They allowed me to take a few pictures of them. Wish I hadn't cut off the back part of the car in the composition, but alas.

Taken with a Canon EOS R7, 18mm, f/5.6

(Also I know this is my 3rd upload in the past couple of days, but I'm trying to help get this community going!)

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