Short answer? The service is still incredibly small and posts aren’t usually flooding in second-by-second like you may be used to on the much bigger sites, so one over-agressive user can easily dominate the front page for a while, purposefully or not. That’s just going to happen.
If you’d rather not block the whole community, hide the individual posts as you spot them to free up your feed again. If one user keeps dominating your feed, just block them. That’s the best we can do as regular users.
Aaaannnnd this just resolidifies my decision to not engage with streaming services. What a load of shit.
It absolutely was.
They did. And they’re already are rolling it back, specifically thanking trump for helping to “restore service”. It was all a political stunt, and nobody’s gonna care cause their skinner button got turned back on again.
Or “the company might get pissy with your government for any reason”. No reason to let them off the hook, either.
The only explicit limitations to being POTUS are
This is just a Project Zomboid screenshot.
I prefer it to most ui these days, tbh. Everything is either hypergeometric and boring, or forces mobile website design into desktop use for no good reason.
That’s not what I’m talking about.
Yep, sure do! But only on my own instance in accordance with our polices; communities I moderate elsewhere are modded according to those instances’ rules and TOS.
Your soft-banning of anyone fully participating in this community on LW belies that claim.
the upvotes-given to downvotes-given ratio threshold for the automated ban is quite generous
“Generous” downvote banning. Now that’s an oxymoron.
So you (self-admittedly maining on another instance (in reality the admin of that instance)) are locking an entire community on LW in protest of their admin policy on their instance? That’s bold, to put it mildly. You instance-ban users for downvoting, so it makes sense you find this change personally unreasonable.
Myself? I don’t think the new change is a great idea, but I prefer it to short-fuse blanket bannings like that.
Life has no meaning. That gives us the freedom to create what meaning we want.
Ah, right. Media is still hosted on its instance. Didn’t consider that. Bummer :/
“Facts” is a strong word for what most people choose.
Do I misunderstand how federation works, or should a block like that not do anything unless your home instance is hosted in that particular country? The instances communicate with each other, not directly with the users. It’s similar to viewing blocked content through a VPN.
Sure thing! Fwiw, I found most of those just digging through the bandcamp discover page. gglum I heard on KEXP, a great indie radio station based in Seattle who do internet broadcasts. Lots of good stuff coming from them.
It wasn’t a disparagement. Just explaining why it’s not as seemingly ubiquitous as it once was.
My favs from last year include:
Cheap Grills by Sincere Engineer (a great energetic, alt rock garage band vibe)
The Garden Dream by gglum (a moody alt rock album that would’ve fit perfectly on the Juno soundtrack)
Spiritual Cramps by Spiritual Cramps (a sound that feels simultaneously The Cure-ish, The Clash-ish, and The Ramones-ish)
Unicorn by Gunship (not an “unknown” band, but this album slaps if you enjoy synthwave at all)
There’s still great stuff out there. It’s just not mainstream, so it’s not gonna fall into our laps - we have to do the legwork and shuffle through the muck if we want more.
Personally, I made the conscious choice to do so last year and it’s been pretty rewarding.
Wonder how much they’ll raise it next when they lose additional sales to absurd prices.