overview for skylestia

How did crocs come back? in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[–] skylestia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

my crocs have an awesome space design and i got them almost for free

Owlet in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] skylestia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

🙂 😡

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[–] skylestia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

ya, im with you there. i had a twitter account but it was mostly to follow friends and internet celebrities. i created a mastodon account when elon did elon things but my friends didnt join mastodon and while many of the internet celebrities i follow did create mastodon accounts, i dont have much interest in social media broadly so i dont engage much there without friends. im mostly online for to find funny memes. i feel i dont have much of interest to post so it's hard to find ways to engage outside of liking and voting stuff. i am much more interested in blogging tho, as at least sometimes ill want to talk at length about something but not have the room to do it on most existing platforms. i use tumblr currently to that end but id love if the fediverse had a blogging platform.

i did join the hajkey instance here though, mostly out of curiosity as i had wanted to check out calckey for a while and the blahaj instances seem like a good fit for me. but as you can see i have a tendency to ramble and im not sure even 3,000 characters is enough for me! lol

i did hear a while ago that tumblr was thinking of federating but im not sure if anything came of that

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[–] skylestia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

interesting, thanks for the info, i didnt know that.

also idk why but the url you linked to goes to an empty page for me, but i found what i assume is the same page here: https://joinfediverse.wiki/index.php?title=What_is_Calckey

not to ramble but it might be more appropriate to call Calckey and its siblings a blogging software then, ya? excepting where individual instance admins limit the character limit to smaller limits. altho idk if there's any broadly accepted rule of thumb necessarily at what the cutoff between micro and full blogging is, but for me 3,000 characters sounds more like proper blogging so ill probably start calling it blogging instead of micro moving forward

edit: interestingly the link i pasted doesnt work for me when i click it either, idk what's happening there lol

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[–] skylestia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

is a fork of Calckey which is a fork of Misskey iirc. it's kinda a microblogging software not dissimilar from Mastodon but a subjectively prettier interface and most instances in my experience allow longer posts than most Mastodon instances in my experience

Remember what "subscription" used to mean? in c/fucksubscriptions@lemmy.world

[–] skylestia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I hope that if/when that happens, I will have the strength to live with the boredom and just not be subscribed to those services or have those products :c

On the other hand, it's always possible that pirates will find a way. For example, there's an open source project that lets you download encrypted Wii U files (games) directly from official Nintendo servers. Of course, it may not be a permanent solution if those servers go down or those files are removed from the servers. Also for example, the Internet Archive has archives of at least some games that were only available for purchase and download as far as I know from Xbox Live Arcade. I, uh, know someone who downloaded Fable Heroes (Xbox 360) from the Internet Archive and now plays it through the Xenia emulator.

I recently heard of a movie called Crater that Disney made as an exclusive for Disney+. It was well received by critics and many viewers reviewed it well too, however apparently it didn't perform well enough by Disney's standards and they completely removed it from their platform after only 48 days. It is no longer possible to watch Crater legally as far as I know. Maybe the best we can do is hope that archival and piracy projects continue to find ways to work, and contribute to those efforts when and where we can. Because as long as people continue to pay for these services and these companies are still making profit even while (imo) disrespecting their customers and their right to own things they buy, it will continue to get worse and not better.

-- I moved across the US last year, coast to coast, and I couldn't take my collections of movies, games, and books with me. I couldn't afford the space on the plane. I miss having physical copies of things!