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I remember in elementary school we had a lesson on sex organs. When I turned in my test paper, I curiously asked my teacher, “If the sperm is in the male, and the egg is in the female, how does the sperm transfer over?”

All she said was, “Well, what do you think?” To which I replied, “I don’t know.” Then I quietly returned to my desk. Later I discussed it with my friend and we concluded that a male must pee into a female. Because at the time, pee was the only thing we knew came out of the penis.

He has a Samson Meteor microphone. Same as mine. He is cool in my book :D

I love all the anime communities.

I remember this. Really crazy how this was all orchestrated. The girls were trained to be part of pranks unaware that they were going to commit murder at the end.

Have you tried the Caddyfile from Lemmy-Easy-Deploy?

I should clarify that NLnet is probably not a commercial company like Skeb is. I know translation exists but all the Lemmy support chatrooms are in English.

Reddit was (and still is) seen as foreign/overseas social media. Other social media platforms are much more diverse than Reddit. Twitter, TikTok, and Insta for example. YouTube and Facebook too.

Most people here in Lemmy come from Reddit. Reddit is very popular in the Western world. It’s not popular outside of it.

In the context of the larger Fediverse, I think Misskey is an interesting case study. It’s created and designed by Japanese people. The docs are in Japanese. It’s sponsored by a Japanese company. Resources and support are also in Japanese. Therefore it has a strong Japanese userbase.

On the other hand, Lemmy is created and designed by Western people. The docs are in English. It’s sponsored by a Western company. Resources and support are in English. Therefore it has a strong Western userbase.

Also I should point out that other than Twitter, Instagram, etc. there are some platforms operated by non-Western companies. China has a lot of those like Bilibili, Weibo, Baidu, etc. Korea has Katalk and Line, etc etc. They aren’t popular outside of the region.

edit: I should probably clarify. It’s not like we don’t use Reddit. It’s just not as popular.

It was 8mb then 25mb then 10mb now (for non-Nitro users)

I think Albert Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus addresses this somehow.

1. Sans Soleil

2. The End of Evangelion Love & Pop

3. Perfumed Nightmare

I can list a dozen more maybe but these three are really unique movies for the cinematography alone.

Lemmy needs to watch more movies outside of Hollywood! :P I removed EoE because for sure someone will say “You watch too much anime” lol

That’s exactly what I meant by:

The Fediverse demands a new kind of usership that understands how the network works.

It’s easy to make statements, suggestions, and opinions, but it’s really hard to actually do things in practice.

We all want more people here. The question is “How?”, and simply saying “Make good defaults” is easier said than done (what are good defaults?) and “good defaults” is too simple of an answer to a very complex issue.

The conversation has been stuck here for over a year already as very few people are actually willing to develop and test these solutions which takes a lot of resources too.

The irony of the situation is that a lot of these solutions that have been suggested also need a central authority. For example, people have suggested creating a central hub where everyone can sign up to. Another example is creating a little quiz which begs the question “Who decides which instances goes there?”.

The best effort I’ve seen in trying to implement a solution are Reddit mirrors which aren’t well-received because nobody likes talking to bots.

As a personal anectode on “lowering the barrier of entry”:

Since I started this instance (ani.social), my goal in mind was to make it very easy for users to sign up. There’s no manual approval here (except when it’s being flooded with trolls). Only email verification is needed – just like every social media platform.

But sometimes when new users sign up, they comment or post on communities in instances that defederated from us.

Now I have to think about how I’m supposed to explain defederation to people, and the moment I do try to explain, that’s a big turn off for many.

Trying to hide federation is impossible. The Fediverse demands a new kind of usership that understands how the network works.

Again, I’m not saying Lemmy can’t improve (it can in a lot of ways), but it all boils down to developer resources and who’s willing enough to test these solutions to see what works and what doesn’t. On the other hand, it takes minimal effort to say “It needs to be better”.

Oh I had a similar experience in elementary school. Our teacher knew and told us that Pluto wasn’t a planet anymore but because the textbook was out of date, she told us that if it came up on our tests, consider Pluto a planet anyway.

Maybe like 30 hours. I was feeling depressed and didn’t want to eat at the time.

I like PipePipe. You can log in with a YouTube account (which fixes a lot of the YouTube blocking for me) and it’s a fork of NewPipe too (just like Tubular but it regularly receives updates).

But understandable if you wouldn’t want to touch it, Doesn’t it make sense to let each user on the Fediverse to choose that?

There are already two projects that mirror/bridge Reddit posts to Lemmy. Unsurprisingly, they have very little interaction right now. I’ve subscribed to some, and even I don’t interact with those myself. Not because I hate it though, but because I find no reason to.

Good explanation. I think many people miss out the point of Shinji. Too many people assume that protagonists are always people that you should aspire to be, but Shinji’s messed up self and traumatic past is something that still resonates with many youth today.

Not the craziest thing in this thread but inside a train, arguing loudly on the phone.

It sounded like the tourist was scammed or something.

Last time a similar question was asked, I responded with Perfect Blue, The End of Evangelion, and Love & Pop.

So this time, I’m going to suggest Sans Soleil.

Maybe a small condenser microphone. The Samson Go is a bit old (not that consumer-grade microphone tech has changed much) but it’s small and just plugs into a laptop with a USB port. There are probably newer small models that do a better job and I’m not aware of its existence.

I suspect a conferencing type product will have the same issue since it’s made to record sound coming from like two feet away from the mic

This is the case with dynamic microphones (the microphones typically used for live events), but condenser microphones are usually very sensitive and will pick up almost every bit of noise with enough gain.

I’ve seen like giant fuzzy mics used on movie sets - should I look for something like that?

These are condenser shotgun microphones. The ones used in movie sets use XLR and need some kind of audio recorder (you’ll be carrying a lot of stuff with you). There are small ones that use 3.5mm connectors though (usually made for cameras). You need to have this pointed at the sound source at all times (hence why you see people manually operating these in a movie set).

Anyway, I recommend looking into handhelds with built-in microphones (like the Zoom H1) so you can move it around easily.

Disclaimer: I’m not an audio professional, just an audio hobbyist who works on student films sometimes. :D