[–] 3 points 3 months ago

My grandmother was really really good at Dr. Mario. She played the NES version first and later got into a Wii Virtual Console version of Dr. Mario. She'd start at level 20 every time.

Eventually her eyesight got the better of her, but until that happened, she was damned good at it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    It still exists, it's just in archive mode with no new posts allowed. If including it complicates the graph too much then I won't (especially since its MAU count is dropping month-after-month as users switch to fedinsfw), though I thought it might be a helpful indicator of the defederation priorities of certain instances.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    As someone from sh.itjust.works informed me, their defederation of Beehaw was made at Beehaw's request to ensure 'complete' defederation, so I won't list it in my revision.

    Most bi-directional defederations are by Hexbear, as 25 of the 29 instances that defederate them are not on their allowlist. The remainder (among the top 60 instances) are lemmy.world ⇔ forum.guncadindex.com, quokk.au ⇔ awful.systems, quokk.au ⇔ feddit.org, startrek.website ⇔ anarchist.nexus, and fedinsfw.app ⇔ lemmygrad.ml.

    Exclusive to Piefed is the 'silenced' status (semi-defederation, in practical terms), where posts from silenced instances do not appear in the 'popular' or 'all' feeds, though users may view posts in their subscription feed if subscribed to specific communities from that instance. Piefed.social and anarchist.nexus are mutually silenced.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    In the process of expanding the chart to include the 60 instances with at least 50 MAU at the moment (significantly more complex than placing instances in essentially five boxes), though the expanded defederation rates (now accounting for 96.6% of users) for Lemmygrad and Hexbear are 73.18% and 70.61%, respectively. Both are defederated from 35 of the top 60 instances.

    Lemmynsfw.com technically has the highest defederation rate (90.6%), as like Hexbear it is in allowlist mode, only federating with fedinsfw.app. Next on the list are (unsurprisingly) the other two instances defederated from lemmy.world, forum.guncadindex.com (49.32%) and Beehaw (40.76%).

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Neat graph!

    If I understand correctly, the source instance is the start of the arrow, and the instance it has defederated from is at the destination. It's interesting that there are so few bidirectional defederations among the large instances.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    the image

    the description: Holy shit this is fantastic.

    I’ve seen similar posts before with like dark souls bonfires or cutesy photos or cozy fantasy stuff, but this? This is art. It’s so visceral, so raw, it’s positively dripping with the juices of a reality most people only dream of and yet completely and totally exists in this world. It slaps you upside the head and locks eyes with you, snapping you instantly out of whatever funk, demanding your attention and ordering you to double check your eyes. Yes that is a shotgun, yes they are gesturing to you specifically, and no it isn’t a gameplay screenshot or weird meta post or even a meme. There are no filters or edits on this. It’s real, realer than most things are on the internet. Someone got dressed, brought their rifle, and took a photo out in the wilderness. That fire? Real. That breakfast? Real. That person probably ate it. Shit, they might have literally shared it with someone. That someone could be you. Not in a “imagine you’re in this fictional setting” way but in a “if things were different I could genuinely, actually, be there, in the snowy wood” way, a way that drags you hand and foot into the imagination, into wondering what it’s like, to be there. The gentle, non-threatening invitation is starkly contrasted by the weapon in hand, a clear reminder of the possibility and reality of violence, and yet you somehow just know that no harm would ever come to you here. They’ve accepted you, just as you are, and all that’s left is to accept their invitation. Warm eggs. Bacon. Coffee. A simple fire, a real one, not one for show or aesthetics but built for function and warmth. And probably the best conversation you’ll ever have in your life.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    For everyone who cant understand the hype of eating avocado as anything other than a spread, I recommend splitting it in half and squeezing half a lemon on each avocado half (it collects in the hole where the pit was), then eating with a teaspoon. Here in Cyprus we are often teased (and we do a fair bit of self deprecating jokes about this) that we put lemon on everything, but I think it genuinely works with avocado, and its a great little snack.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    A very simple theory of innovation/development is cultural, specifically whether your empire will make you rich for developing military applications, and control more heretical heatens.

    ... simple to the point of absurdity.

    Motivation for the Wright brothers would simply have been great empire/government rewards for success.

    Fucking what.

    Eastern cultures were less expansionist driven.

    I really hate the re-emergence of orientalism.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    A very simple theory of innovation/development is cultural, specifically whether your empire will make you rich for developing military applications, and control more heretical heatens. Motivation for the Wright brothers would simply have been great empire/government rewards for success. Eastern cultures were less expansionist driven.

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