A normal amount, but I also have a tendency to take things at face value right off the bat.
I did recognize the Shota name thing but at most that seemed like a single playful jab, not the whole thing being satire. And the "lolicon character is actually 943948 years old!" thing is common enough that it just passed me by. I didn't see enough parody to call this satire. And I have not seen anyone engage with this any differently than they would with non-satire content, so…
Why is it concerning that I didn't see this as satire? Does it imply low media literacy, or something negative about my morals?
Tried to see if this will have content that wasn't already in the anime. Unless I am forgetful, the trailer seems to signal that it covers manga content the anime did not get to.
I'm not sure how people are being trolled or baited here. People still seem to engage with Kanna (lolicon girl) as they would any other, nobody seems particularly upset that Shota is named that… am I just missing something?
Yeah I was honestly surprised this got posted and nobody said something like "the entire point of not automatically federating in new communities is to cut down on resource consumption," because to be honest? That was my first reaction. If nobody on a server is subbed to a certain community, it will not pull in its content, which is probably very helpful for smaller home-run instances. This kind of defeats that purpose. Although its damage is limited by the fact that only people actively engaged in creating a community will try to use it, and it will probably only be used by new communities.
I wonder if we could maybe try to get it in one of these places? I swear there were other guide sites I had saved but I lost them when my kbin.social account died.
People have to be willing to start those niche communities and slog it out alone for a bit.
Speaking as !otomegames@ani.social mod. Otome games don't strictly have to be visual novels but most are, so practically it's a subgenre of an already niche video game genre. Got a few subscribers and posters/commenters. Not nearly as big as Reddit's 100,000ish, but still something. There are more on Mastodon, which I super appreciate the muting and blocking features of.
I feel like the intent of this post is obvious. Whether you personally believe it's a good idea or not is one thing; but there seem to be quite a lot of people responding to "let's avoid politics!" with "everything is political". It frustrates me.
Yes, I understand and agree with the fact that every small little action is informed by unpleasantly political realities like our demographics, our own explicitly political beliefs, who it affects negatively, who it benefits, etc. But if I ask "hey, is this instance full of politics?" I think it's quite obvious I want to avoid a feed full of depressing news, threads about how [political candidate] and their supporters are being awful today (even if I agree). That even if my feed full of anime and cute animals and whatever else is still political (by my choice to avoid politics, ability to do so, the fact cute animals are prioritized for how they look while other important animals get less attention, by anime being Japanese and reflecting their culture and views, etc.), it's not really quite the same kind of political as what you would see in Politics or WorldNews or the like. I feel as if people are pointing out an unhelpful and depressing technical reality that runs counter to what I feel is the obvious intent.
I don't want to come in and assert that the posts I don't like must so obviously be made in bad faith, and would like to understand the intent behind these posts. Especially since to me they read less as "hey, you might want to consider this small little choice actually has effects… how everything can be political," a friendly informational statement, and more as "let us set up a community free of politics—BUT EVERYTHING IS POLITICS GOTCHA."
Once again I am astounded at mobile apps being the blocker. I use the Fediverse nearly exclusively from mobile on the browser and my experience is totally fine.
I'm honestly not sure where people get these images from. Yes, they do often post the source, but I wonder. Is someone specifically searching for art to post on all those communities? Does the art just turn up in their usual browsing and they pass it onto us here?
Something something people visual content engagement blah blah idk?
I see lots of at-least-weekly-active communities that aren't politics but also don't garner hundreds of upvotes. I'm not sure what the "dead" threshold for you is. Admittedly I also avoid political content like the plague and hide out in my little Subscribed-sometimes-Local hole, but the fact I can do this at all and come back to new posts every day means all the other communities are not dead. They just don't critical mass. Even without algorithms specifically tuned to push people to outrage bait, engagement bait, people still just naturally interact more with the outraging things.
I read it as a series of rhetorical questions intended to illustrate how crochet is political, even if nobody is going in with the intent of being political (e.g. a crochet group specifically for PoliticalPartyNameHereMembers, people creating crochet projects showing support for this or that politician's platform).
That said, if they approached me at a crochet group asking me those questions I would feel very uncomfortable. And then I'd torture myself over okay but are they doing that because the discomfort is needed to encourage you to make a change for the better? Or are they just enjoying making me feel bad for having enough privilege to have a hobby? Or am I just presuming bad intent on their part so I do not have to face the uncomfortable thing and make an inconvenient change? My own shocker I'm not white guilt complex may or may not be showing—I'm painfully aware how bad others have it while 1) I don't have it nearly as bad through no merit of my own but mere chance, and 2) I don't dedicate my every waking hour to optimizing these less fortunate peoples' outcomes. I guess what I was trying to get at here is, point gotten that crochet is political, but (perhaps because of my own personal hangups, as well as the usual issues involved in reading tone online, with no tone of voice or body language to guide us) it also reads kind of confrontational instead of just calmly informative.
I know that when I first arrived here I was grateful for "how federation works" guides. I don't know how I found !newcommunities@lemmy.world but was happy I did, and I think pointing newbies at that would be helpful too.
Because I was already used to Reddit and learned magazines/communities were like that, and I moved over when lists of magazines/communities that were equivalent to subreddits were still a thriving thing, I duplicated my Reddit habits and looked for communities with my interests, completely ignoring anything outside that (aka, always shunning All/Popular) because of how much of it would turn out to be in those four bullet points you outlined.
I only use Subscribed and sometimes Local on topic-specific instances. Do I run out of new stuff to see? Sure. But that is fine, there are other things to do with my time than scroll on social media. (Content discovery through !newcommunities@lemmy.world or just hopping around on the community list of an instance. But frankly, it is internet funtime, not meaningful inform myself time, so even if I only stuck to my few communities and buried my head in the sand—which to be honest is the majority of my strategy to avoid drowning in politics and angry/depressing memes that inevitably circle back to politics—it would be just fine.)
Part of my problem is my niche hobbies have not migrated over or are trying their damndest but 99.9% stayed on Reddit and only 0.1% is here. Lucky that it is 0.1% and not actually 0%. I do try to be part of that 0.1%, hence modding !otomegames@ani.social.
I never went to r/all or any aggregate of top posts. I just left because some of my bigger hobby communities seemed meaner all of a sudden—wait, no, they are not meaner, they just forcibly sorted my home feed on mobile by controversial… and also the API drama, which didn't impact me because the app always worked fine for me, but I figured with the ragebaiting, might as well dip in solidarity with people actually being affected.
These dev blog posts are always interesting to read. I just do not always comment because I do not have anything informative to add, but trust me, people are reading and valuing.
A normal amount, but I also have a tendency to take things at face value right off the bat.
I did recognize the Shota name thing but at most that seemed like a single playful jab, not the whole thing being satire. And the "lolicon character is actually 943948 years old!" thing is common enough that it just passed me by. I didn't see enough parody to call this satire. And I have not seen anyone engage with this any differently than they would with non-satire content, so…
Why is it concerning that I didn't see this as satire? Does it imply low media literacy, or something negative about my morals?