Do you know if they receive anything from non-purchased streams on bandcamp? I’m just curious

Yeah god forbid we judge people by the things they say, right?

And you’re fucking wrong. We don’t need the sterility of traditional social media because that only existed in the first place to be advertiser-friendly.

You aren’t better, more correct, or more valid because you play the respectability politics game, you’re just bitter that the game isn’t as effective here without the incentive of advertiser-friendliness to wield as a cudgel.

Either grow up and learn to meet people where they are instead of expecting people to play by and cater to your personal preferences, or fuck right off.

Get a thicker skin. The world is not designed to cater to your specific sensibilities. Taking a shitty opinion and gussying it up in pretty language isn’t some magic spell that makes you immune to push back, and the fact that some people are less than polite doesn’t invalidate their response.

You want to be able to push buttons with your edgy “it’s just a debate bro” opinions while being spared impassioned responses. Too fucking bad, bro. Either man up and get thick enough skin to wade in the water or stay the fuck off the beach.

Literally this.

I will never understand why we keep letting obviously disingenuous right wingers act like wizards casting spells by finding the right magic words. It’s this weird debate culture/internet argument behavior pattern thing that has somehow conditioned society to conflate making a defensible argument with being right.

It is possible to be not incorrect while still being entirely wrong, and I swear it feels like society not understanding that distinction is paramount to the strategy and culture of the right.

mlmym

I’m not familiar with what this is, but on desktop going to my instance, lemmy.zip to login definitely does not give me an option to expand all images when looking at the front page or any community page.

If you mean in the comments on a post page, yes those are expanded, but I mean without having to open the post.

Man for real, what I would give for a RES “show images” button to expand all images on the page…

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Because the assholes ruining the whole world genuinely think it’s funny to do shit like that right in our faces, let’s be honest

That’s probably true, but it’s worth noting that not all of the Rimu controversy is coming from tankies. I’m arguably pretty “moderate” for the fediverse and I and many others like me also find their conduct and software worthy of concern.

The way I see it, our options are this:

Lemmy, a neutral software developed and ran by people with some questionable politics that they keep separate from but hosted on Lemmy.

Or Piefed, a software with ideology built directly into it developed by people with probably much more palatable politics (for me at least) but who believes said politics should be systemic in the fediverse.

Tbh, I don’t 100% love either of these options, but I have no interest in trading overbearing corporate nannys for a homegrown farm-to-table nanny. I’m an adult, I don’t need or want somebody else dictating sensibilities for me.

So Lemmy it is.

Masterful comment delivery, kudos

“neesh” refers to something small, specialized, or insular and a “nitch” is a small recess in a wall, imo.

Mitch Hedberg

Tbh I think you can one time drop a very friendly but more direct: “hey have you guys thought about posting your stuff in a music community on Lemmy? It’s like reddit but smaller and with a very engaged audience. I think they’d dig you there!” Or something to that effect. Just don’t be a dick about it or spam them.

A lot of them don’t know about or don’t understand the fediverse. We need to be more proactive in asking this of the artists we love. I’ll try to be better about doing my part to mention the fediverse to artists in my sphere, an especially good fit given the DIY roots of the punk/hardcore lineage of much of it.

Absolutely, TT is scary and the take-over has been insanely obvious. Despite this people are still regularly making real content and connections on TT. Tiktok, the company and app themselves, are vile and disgusting, but Tiktok, the community, is still largely very decent, imo.

edit: misunderstood comment, thought it was replying to a later comment in the thread, sorry

Honestly Marketplace is the best argument for FB today. How it has usurped Craigslist I don’t understand, maybe because it’s easier to navigate, but you’re right that it is the defacto modern market.

I don’t use it so I forget about it, but this is a good counterpoint.

Tbh, I know this will be a hot take, but I do think Tiktok is a vastly better network. Tumblr too. These are still actual social media platforms.

Yes, they’re deeply algorithm-based, yes they’re for-profit, capitalist networks still, but I think they are miles better than FB/Insta or Twitter/X. Have you looked at somebody’s Facebook? 90%+ of posts are corporate, political, special interest. Almost nobody actually posts anything, they just reshare an endless stream of garbage content entirely divorced from the human experience.

At least Tiktok, despite its many legitimate problems and criticisms, is still largely a human-driven platform. It’s still a place where people are making, sharing, and consuming real human posts in the interest of connection.

Tiktok is still social media. I genuinely don’t think FB or X have been social media in many many years.

It remains insane to me that it’s so hard for so many to just, not use them. Truly, your life is not being enriched by twitter or Facebook. You can delete your account and I promise you won’t find yourself missing them.