There are at least 2 open source dating apps that I’ve seen, although one of them has 4chan branding. Not sure about the other.

Thanks for explaining

None of the above because I’m no longer a teenage edgelord

Vampire Survivors and the SMT gacha game.

I have a few emulators but the touch screen controls are torture.

My friends and I have “gaming nights” that involve about 45 mins of gaming before we all watch a Ken Russell movie or something similarly offbeat.

NixOS sounds like ansible in OS form and that has never seemed appealing. Happy to hear why my impression is wrong though!

You need to check PorntonDB

I’m somewhat proud my generation is actively seeking out parody porn. Those videos tend to be higher budget and more sex positive (less gonzo misogyny).

Edit: well, should caveat that by saying relatively less misogynist

This is the monkey’s paw Year of the Linux desktop. I know we’re wankers but didn’t need reminding!

I watched on BBC iPlayer because I’m in the UK but someone might have posted them on YT.

Man, what a sad way to live their lives. I love “scaring the bros” music. Was watching Glastonbury festival on tv last weekend and the two best sets I caught were Charli XCX and Doechii.

le wrong generation. more like cRAP music, amirite?

upvote: comment is interesting or funny

downvote: user is being rude (try not to downvote people I disagree with)

They have people on talkshows every so often who claim to remember being born but they are clearly fantasists since consciousness doesn’t start in earnest until we are ~2.

Personally, it feels like I’ve got a limited amount of memory and the older I get the more years I cram into it. The early memories are starting to get crowded out.

I get your point that reddit nominally has more privacy. I only said “arguably” because I think privacy is an illusion in both cases (which, admittedly, is a bit of an orthogonal take). If there isn’t true privacy anywhere then there is the additional downside of reddit data being actively marketed/presented to 3rd parties.

Arguably, lemmy is going to be more private than reddit because your data are being queried, refined, quantified and categorised by reddit to be sold off to the highest bidder. If a different actor is just scraping activitypub they need to do all of that themselves.

More generally, I’m not sure if we should ever think about something posted online as being private. You can post form data that is secured to your bank or whatever but they are analysing all of that data on their side. Similarly the large email providers are aware of the contents of all your emails.

“Social media” is a really vague term. I think there are broadly 3 categories:

• Web2.0 social media: facebook, twitter, discord, reddit

• Forums: Old school web fora, (mastodon & lemmy?)

• Debateable social media: IRC, email chains/threads

Only the first category is relatively new and has captured the attention of the general public outside of nerds. The other two are either decentralised or are niche centralised sites. IMO it seems like the web 2.0 stuff is most problematic but not sure if it’s the hyper-centralisation or their general popularity that is the issue.

Mixture of people who use the same linux distro as me (gentoo), FOSS devs and people I find using hashtags with my interests in them (RPG & JRPG games, movies, sports, etc.)

Edit: also called steeznson on there, instance is glasgow.social if you want to find me

Ken Russell’s Lair of the White Worm

Gave it 3 stars.

Edit: also called steeznson on there

I don’t have a reddit account and only comment on lemmy. Although I do check the reddit frontpage every so often the actual communities I interact with are here.

Other than that, I have a mastodon account which I’m quite active on and a letterboxd too. Last thing would be linkedin but I don’t post there and maybe login to it once a quarter.