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So far, same. I've been using social media here like it was originally designed, with real social interaction happening lol.
I agree with you, it feels great to have genuine conversions with folks without the constant feed distractions, obvious karma farming, and non-stop ads every few scrolls.
As for the Simpsons, I haven't watched enough to have an opinion yet haha. What are your top recommendations?
Now that you mention it, it is super nice not getting any ads. I'm digging this, I might not go back to the other site.
Even using ad block on most everything, some stuff still leaks through. It's so refreshing once that's all gone, I don't think I can go back either.
Feels like thats what a lot of people are experiencing right now. Super fun stuff!
Tbh I haven't watched much either. I just hopped on Disney+ this morning, hit play on the first episode available, and I haven't turned it off since. I like that this show has a lot of heart and family values, something I don't really see in TV today without being completely on the nose.
Totally! And lol yeah, feels fun to watch, especially the earlier episodes. I quote a lot of Simpsons lines even though I've watched far more snippets and compilations than full episodes haha.
"Sir, why did you wait until the last minute to do your taxes?"
"Because I'm an idiot!"
In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we, to believe that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something?
Boy I hope someone got fired for that blunder.
I'm all for this bit. How dare they misconstrue the vast complexities of a xylophone?
Maybe that's just how you're supposed to play a skelephone
I'm on the fence, personally. Being able to post across instances is nice, but Lemmy does also have some minor annoying problems that do get in the way of the experience a bit. Currently, I've run into a bug where some comments and posts don't send for some inexplicable reason, and the issue where Lemmy's web UI simply doesn't send errors messages and fails silently doesn't really help things. Kbin has a nicer UI, but it doesn't have the same kind of formatting options, which can be a little bothersome (Kbin doesn't do spoiler tagging, for example), and the Kbin instance I'm using seems prone to crashing as a result of load from the recent influx of users.
I personally can't wait until they start implementing the ability to move accounts, so I can jump to a different instance, and see if it's just an issue of high server load (My other account is on lemmy.world, which is one of the big ones), or whether there might be a deeper bug at play. Not being locked to the one instance would also be nice.
Personally, I'm rather partial to "Homer's Triple Bypass". The imagery of having Homer's heart in a little corner of a screen, like it's in a little camera/box is pretty unique, and not something that I've seen any other show do, even after all this time. The film is also good, and surprisingly poignant, considering recent climate events and all of that.