There's an extra treat buried in this article...
The diarist John Evelyn, whose 1661 treatise Fumifugium focused on London’s growing pollution problem, had no doubt that Parr’s death was caused by “the Aer, which plainly wither’d him”
Fumifugium is such a great title!
Honestly this article gets better as you go...We could use a modern medical series like the old "Anatomy of Quackery" to debunk the insidious nonsense still being spread today!
I've seen this band name before, but not sure if I'd heard them before so gave "Young Wicked" a listen. They definitely sound like some other bands I've heard before...Albeit with their own touches.
Not too bad, not something I'd listen to all the time, but when you want this kind of rock grit, I can see the appeal. Appreciate the track suggestions and recommendation!
Yeah! The last anime that I thought was as comfy was maybe Little Witch Academia.
I don't know how I found myself watching Little Witch Academia, but it was a great choice. May have to rewatch it sometime...
Cryptocurrency orgs have done one job extremely well here, and that's blatantly demonstrate that the best way to try to fast track legislation is Big Money.
It's like how all the cryptocurrency screwups demonstrate why there are financial regulations to begin with, now they're inadvertently helping demonstrate extremely clearly why we need to get money out of politics.
This caught my eye as I hadn't read/heard of Ne Zha before, and while I imagine the video's only scraping the surface, I thought it was a decent overview of the character and their background. It's some cool insight into some ancient Chinese mythos/folklore.
"After forty years, we asked, what do the fans want? But instead we're making this movie."
The real satire would be for this to be a genuine, original story that's just using the name and has nothing else to do with the first.
Spaceballs 2, or how Hollywood's cowardly investors can only tolerate new, original material in an old suit.
As to more practical approaches to outreach:
* Moderators of these broader communities, if you're okay with people inviting others to more specific communities around here, clarify that somewhere easy to find. People coming from elsewhere may assume it's not and never ask due to their prior experiences.
Ultimately, have fun with it all! If you're not having fun and enjoying things here, why would anyone else want to join?
Archive link: https://archive.ph/N8QBu
Is there anything else you want people to know about Bluesky?
This is a choose-your-own-adventure game. You can get in there and customize the experience as much as you want. If you’re not finding what you want within the Bluesky app, there might be another app within the protocol ecosystem that will give you what you want. If you can’t find it, you can build it. You don’t get this level of control anywhere else.
Emphasis added on last sentence. If nothing else tells you an interview is as much marketing as it is aiming to be genuinely informative, it should be statements like this.
That last sentence is basically a lie, as anyone across ActivityPub networks can tell you. I would say I don't know why they would say this, but I do know at least one reason: marketing.
It can be argued ActivityPub doesn't enable the same level of control, but the problem is that it's so damn flexible that it'd be somewhat disingenuous to do so.
AuthTransfer has similar problems but of a different sort, primarily that too many people not using it don't realize how it's still rapidly changing and that already there are some independent and semi-independent platforms emerging built with it.
What remains important to keep an eye out for is if/when the AuthTransfer protocol is fully released from Bluesky's ownership/control and becomes an open standard. I think that's as important or more important than any fully independent "instance", to put it in ActivityPub terms, built with it.
There's something a little like this in the form of https://portal.alien.top/
However, as I understand it that currently only works with that specific site/instance (alien.top). Not aware of any others that may do so.
I prefer the all at once approach so I can watch it at my own pace. If it releases weekly, whether a few a week or one a week, I ignore it until the season is done and if I remember, then I watch at my pace.
Alternatively I wait till the show has run its course entirely and then whenever I remember, I watch it and finish it if it keeps my interest.
I've probably been through every release scheduling approach the distributors can try, so I'm done trying to follow them (especially when they make it unclear which they're trying this time). If the show catches my interest, I'll watch it whenever and however I prefer pending its availability.
See Rule 5: Posts concerning other instances’ activity/decisions are better suited to !fediverse@lemmy.world or !lemmydrama@lemmy.world communities.
I'll be locking this accordingly. That said, this post is also sort of a request to World's admins, which may be better directed to !support@lemmy.world.
Fred Luo from Outlaw Star, for those interested. Show's a tad dated in some respects, but there's still little else like it so far as I'm aware.
Like this show has catgirls that can kick your ass and transform into full on tiger-like creatures. Also spaceships with mechanical arms they call grappler arms, which leads to the occasional ship fistfight.
This article also misses the point somewhat.
It has a similar issue as attempts to respond to criticisms of Mastodon (or other federated software), the people criticizing it and in this situation Bluesky, are clearly criticizing them as social media and don't care about the technical foundations. They do not care if there's other software using the protocol, and other apps to interact with the protocol to filter out what they don't like.
If they cared enough, they might seek out that other software or those other apps, but either in what they're saying or doing (e.g. returning to Twitter/X or switching over to group chats or something else instead), they indicate they don't.
The real response to people's disinterest or distaste for a social media platform isn't anything easy to provide. Some of it can be moderation, clearer guidance around the interface to tailor your experience, more outreach to bring in a greater variety of conversation, and so on. However not much of it can be addressed by the underlying technology, because the vibes of social media are produced by the people there, and no amount of tech can ethically address that.
In the meantime, block and mute at will and stick to feeds you know you'll enjoy to better avoid the worst that may emerge from the net.