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Cake day: June 1st, 2023

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  • The source is me. I’ve been following through somethingawful’s buttcoin thread since 2011 and then on and off through political subreddits. One of the biggest things is that they HATED government-backed “fiat” currency and saw bitcoin as a replacement for the dollar (Even though bitcoin is also fiat and had notorious stealing issues and was just as unstable then as it is now)












  • Its a big thing in the wrestling community: the fans of the evil empire lord over numbers over the little guy and concern troll about the “sustainability” of any competitor that threatens to take away from their empire. Dont worry about it. This kind of corporate tribalism doesnt lead to substantive discussions



  • Well i mean voat was a non-starter. I was there. Its creation was the tale as old as time, whiny toxic users complaining about “censorship” as whiny toxic people tend to do. I feel like comparing the fatpeoplehate lynch mob calling ellen pao “chairman pao” to the community’s hatred of reddit’s IPOification very bad faith. Lemmy is incredibly young which means its tools arent robust yet. It also means the devs(which given they had a slur filter is streets ahead of early reddit admins philosophy) have to battle bad actors and develop weapons and policies to combat them. I’ve done it before, it’s difficult. Give it time.








  • I’ve used duolingo for a while and I’m not really a fan, at least for japanese. They keep removing kanji and adding kana which isnt great for learning(especially when Furigana has been a thing since forever). I’ve moved to Hey Japan and am really only using Duolingo to maintain the streak. Hey Japan has more kanji and more diverse learning methods and less word banks. Eventually i want to add in Genki 1 but there’s some personal things in the way there