Ah whoops, I think I remember that now. Thank you.

Thanks for answering!

I don’t have much problem with “anarchists,” altho the term can mean a lot of things, and some of the typical core ideas are pie-in-the-sky to me. I certainly don’t think of tankies as leftist, either, so it’s troublesome that anyone would want to align with Hexbear.

Regardless, bad actors and toxic users will always get the gas face* from me. I’ll keep my eye on that stuff, thank you!

* semi-obscure rap phrase from ~1990 I suppose, i.e. a jaundiced look

Oof. One of my community’s moderators and an FV buddy is also an admin on db0. Absolutely no trace of tankie-ness detected there, as yet.

So far I just haven’t needed to block any particular instance. I just have zero participation with .ML and Hexbear /c’s, and that seems to work just fine. I don’t see any trace of them in my curated feed. I also want to make sure that if their users happen to post / comment in my community project (and they have in the past), I want to be sure I can see them doing that.

dbzer0, and quokk.au

What’s your issue with those instances, he asked quizzically.

I admit I’m a complete degenerate at this point.
I mainly eat food for two, and only two reasons-- garlic and chili heat.

I still get interested looks sometimes from the opposite sex, but then they catch a whiff, lol. They haven’t seen my bloodwork, though.

OMG, but that rush upon eating spicy food…

I upscale comics content pretty regularly, but it’s almost never webcomics, but graphic novel content where I haven’t found anything better-quality online. But yeah-- “Waifu2” and others can indeed fail pretty hard depending on your source. I’m still kinda experimenting with all that, and probably need to break out GIMP more often.

I have no problem with people calling out “Beep” for the chronic thing he does, but just in case someone is actually curious about the OP, I wanted to add that yes, it’s a real and useful option sometimes when your source is tiny and/or full of graphics artifacts.

You bet your bippy it is!

And dang-bone-it, I miss good ol’ Val Kilmer. (he used to post, sometimes)

I’m always searching to expand my feed, so it usually goes from “hidden gem” to completely normal!

That said, I find that the “scaled” search option is excellent upon making such discoveries…

The song’s about emotional ambivalence in relationships. That whole first album of hers is just fabulous.

Vendredi sur Mer (Switzerland) - catchy, original electropop with a lot of lullaby-ish spoken word. Much of Charline’s early work was co-written by wunderkind Lewis Ofman.

…having strong principles and actually sticking to them might be a common theme among the userbase here.

That’s what I’ve traditionally thought, but I’ve found there’s less of it that sentiment than I’d hoped for. A lot more people willing to be ‘content consumers’ or opinion-spewers without doing much to help make the FV work than I’d imagined. That said, some of that’s surely just whining on my part as someone who chronically wishes that more communities (including mine) received more help & participation, as well as someone on the ‘snappish-side’ due to constant pain. Also, not everyone here necessarily came from Reddit, or has any special respect for the Fediverse.

Rear Window, partly because he takes the ‘shot in the same location’ idea and makes the best possible movie out of it. Partly because he shines a fascinating camera on the phenomenon of people-watching. But also because the specially-built set (inside a warehouse stage IIRC) is incredibly intricate and becomes the 3rd star of the movie, effectively. All that said, viscerally I just loved it, as well.

Meanwhile, I caught a couple of Hitch’s movies later in his life and they didn’t do much for me. So, somewhere in that 4-film run of Marnie to Family Plot would be my least favorite.

For sure.

Once in a while scratches that itch. Otherwise I prefer potatoes in the air-fryer.

That’s not the pool, though. The pool is all the people doing MMA, looking to compete. Yes, the UFC is still arguably the pool’s top destination, but I’d argue that a lot of that’s due to past reputation, plus shutting viable competitors down over the years.

IMO fighters should absolutely have union rights, health insurance, a plan for their post-retirement, and earn a lot closer to half the revenue (like in other major sports) than they do now, which is still a pittance, often reliant on the whims of Dana and all. But the UFC has consistently resisted all that tooth & nail. What’s clear to me is that it’s just a profit system wrapped up in whatever business it happens to be conducting, modeled a lot on the WWF, apparently.

Every discipline of combat sports has shady pay structures.

True, but at least boxing consistently rewards the top draws. The UFC has in recent years tried to do everything they can to prevent names getting too big such as to kill their bargaining leverage. The hell with them. My love for MMA via the UFC is nothing but a smoking crater, anymore.

I’ll always respect MMA for being a modern attempt to pursue and refine the most effective practical fighting technique, but the UFC has pretty much gone out of its way to be the scummiest major MMA operation on the planet. They’re not even worth a dodgy stream to me, anymore.

My hope is not super-high, but in future, I’d like to see some other major organisation host a regular series of fairly-compensated fight cards.

Shrinkflation, or something like that I guess.

Chips are pretty unhealthy, so I try not to eat them much. So for me, less is generally better. Also, Munchos are salty as hell. But that said… gotta have 'em once in a while!

Pringles might be good for some kind of insulation project, maybe. They’re certainly not fit for human consumption, these days.

In terms of reconstituted potato-style chips, Munchos and Pop Chips are worlds better, IMO.

In the States there used to be something called a DustBuster vacuum.

Not sure what the current options are these days, nor how it looks in other countries. (i’m more of a wet rag, broom, and feather duster-type)

None of those things relate to the core definitions of tribalism AFAIK, and if they did, then you might as well just say that modern humans at heart are far more toxic and destructive than just about any other species ever known.

Humans have been tribal - social creatures for millions of years (but probably much longer) and have barely left a footprint across that time. It’s our natural state, same with chimps and various other creatures. Sure it’s ugly at times, but it’s not insanely destructive.

What you’re really talking about are various consequences of the development of sapiens, more specifically high-populace, higher-tech, late-stage organisations of such. There may not be one particular word to sum the whole thing up, but it certainly isn’t “tribalism.” That said, it might be described as ‘the very worst aspects of tribalism, narcissism, fear and hate on super-steroids, acting on the national and international level.’

Reddit doesn’t have the post scheduler that PieFed has, which integrates with Lemmy. As a community-runner that one’s super-useful to me. Also on the PieFed side, we can add both hashtags and flair to posts, whereas on Reddit there’s only post flair.

IIRC both Lemmy and PieFed have the ability to sort posts in more useful ways, for example there’s 8 different ways to sort “top” posts, as well as sorting by “scaled” and other criteria. TBF, Reddit’s 3rd-party “RES” extension is just plain awesome, and adds lots of things basic Reddit doesn’t have.

Anyway, each app and/or software means of looking at the Fediverse will offer a slightly different mix of features and characteristics. I’m not really the most knowledgeable on that stuff, so again, I urge you to take these questions to an AskLemmy thread, or similar. Could just search on them too, or ask an LLM.