I sometimes play "Beneath Apple Manor" (1978) and similar-era games via Apple emulator. Believe it or not, it's a "roguelike" that actually predated Epyx' Rogue (1980) and NetHack (1987).
But I'm also thankful that Epyx' Rogue happened to become used for the overall genre name. "BeneathAppleManorLike" is just too much of a mouthful!
I'd heard about them before, but prefer to reserve judgement until I see things with my own eyes, or at least directly see how they're treating others.
Eventually, at my community, I posted a comic examining some of the various self-strife between Israeli folk, and from out of nowhere 3-4 Hexbear users who'd never taken part before materialised and began ranting about Israel and calling me and the community some pretty awful things. After that, I started paying a little more attention to their user comments across the Fediverse. Just... yikes.
Hexbear is run and populated by toxic extremists largely unable to deal with middle ground and a spectrum of opinion, last I checked. I'd consider this a fortuitous omen to block the whole instance and dust your hands off as a job well done.
So I took 5$ and tossed it in her bag...
I kinda wish you'd take another $5 and toss it in to finding a better user name.
Thanks, AI slop.
Would it help if I slammed it EXTRA-HARD, my lil' cutey...?
I mean, you're kind of lifting my point in to a broader area that I wasn't speaking to at the time.
Of course I agree with all that you said. But I was talking strictly in the context of OP's framework.
One seemingly enormous difference is that YT is a for-profit platform owned by a huge business (Google), not a decentralised network run by many small volunteers. FWIW.
I don't have strong feelings either way, but money does touch everything, overtly or not, when it comes to civilisation. Time spent volunteering on Fediverse projects is effectively money spent (at least to some degree), and instances cost time & fees to maintain.
But I guess to argue against myself-- you have to think that without some kind of ongoing responsible oversight, then the worst aspects of capitalism might predictably find a way to screw it all up if left to its own devices. Then again, maybe the scale involved makes that less likely. *shrug*
Couple simple ones, but maybe not as known as they could be:
Holy hell, that was both hilarious and awesome!
Also, that caused me to remember that one Eddie Vedder tune. (now added to the list, above)