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Wow, I never knew the original was from 1942. I've never seen it before and I played that game a bunch.

Do they always spit out stuff that's too big? I put stuff that's bigger than my throat in my mouth all the time. That's what chewing is for.

I think the question at that point is "How often is there a completely new way to use the Internet socially, either inside or outside of the federated space?"

I don't think it happens very often. Blogs, messsage boards and dating sites in the '90s; microblogs, photo and video sharing in the '00s; short form video sharing in the '10s if that counts as a separate thing. There's only like seven types of social network in the three decades or so they've existed.

The article never suggests any physical violence, though. The problems he reported to CBS are a "hateful sticker", "threats online", "somebody tried to cut me off" and "three guys pointing the middle finger and [...] screaming at me". Not super cool either, but they're not physical violence. Those last two might even be legal, depending on the circumstances.

For anybody curious, since the article doesn't mention what the "hateful sticker" was, from a quick search it was: "NAZIS FUCK OFF".

What's the spring situation like here? Did mattresses not have them back then? Have they been removed?

UX means "user experience". It is distinct from the UI. OP is basically saying the process of signing up to federated social media is too complicated for the average user, not because of the way it looks and how you interact with it (the UI) but because of it's not as easy to understand the concepts behind how Lemmy works.

Same for Interstellar for Android, which supports both Lemmy and Mbin accounts.

If you're accessing via the official web viewers, you're out of luck, as far as I know. Both Lemmy and Mbin have open issues requesting keyword filtering, if anyone wants to follow progress or contribute.

Haha, that one ClickHole article has its own Wikipedia article:

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point - Wikipedia

Ooh, nice find! That's way more interesting.

Minor copy paste issue when bringing this over from GitHub, the reference to #1434 refers to this GitHub issue if anybody wants to see it there.

I wouldn't bother taking anyone who uses "this country" unqualified on the Internet seriously. Even if they are being serious.

Maybe they're just leaning into the Mastodon theming by talking like cavemen.