Emperor

Emperor, 3 hours ago

They’re a strong choice - Timo Tjahjanto seems to have learnt all the right lessons from The Raid (he even worked with Gareth Evans on the best segment from VHS 2, possibly the best segment of the franchise) and he poised for a big breakout hit western cinema.

Emperor, 9 hours ago

Red trunks! Terrific!

Emperor, 9 hours ago

Definitely do, it’s a great film.

Emperor, 2 days ago

He only likes the white ones.

#NotAllTicTacs

Emperor, 1 day ago

Not now and not 20 years ago.

https://b.l3n.co/i/zliF17.jpeg

Emperor, 5 days ago

Still umming and ahing over the top 10 this year but a rough list so far would be:

1. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
2. Dune 2
3. Civil War
4. Late Night With the Devil
5. Abigail
6. Poor Things
7. Furiosa
8. The First Omen
9. Boy Kills World
10. Lisa Frankenstein

I expect Deadpool & Wolverine to steal the top slot. Other contenders: Longlegs, Joker 2, and possibly Alien: Romulus.

Worst: Madame Web

Emperor, 5 days ago

I just realised The Holdovers sneaks into 2024 - I was crudely sorting my ratings by year, which obscured it’s actual UK release date. I might throw it in at #7 and then consider moving it up.

Emperor, 18 days ago

I’m sure they are up for suggests as that name is not doing it any favours.

Emperor, 1 month ago

This seems to be sleazy conmen faking interactions with women to convince wannabe pick-up artists to pay for their app. It’s like some new circle of Hell.

Emperor, 1 month ago

If you are an open-minded cis dude who respects women and sees them as equal human beings you’ll have no problem finding anyone.

It’s not always that simple. For example, I cared for my Dad 24/7 which involved a convoluted pill regime (and a series of alarms throughout the day). My social life took a real hit. There are also mental and physical health issues, as well as financial aspects.

All that said, anyone thinking this is the solution deserves to be scammed because it is hardly informed consent.

Emperor, 1 month ago

Really the only trick they missed was turning it into a pyramid scheme but that might sneak in if you use the app a lot, although imagine the “success rate” on this is abysmal and a lot of users will drop out quickly.

Emperor, 1 month ago

My point was that cishet men may have it hard to find someone because they are not catching up with progressive and emancipatory values.

It’s worse than that - things seem to be regressing, with a widening political divide between men and women, especially noticeable in the younger adults.

It definitely feels like the modest progress that was made is now being eroded away

Emperor, 1 month ago

And being antifeminist doesn’t even benefit them that much.

The only people benefitting are those peddling the lies to disgruntled young men, partly as a grift and partly as misdirection from the real sources of their issues.

But at the same time I don’t see how much people who are not cis men can do so much to really help them.

And it shouldn’t be your job to fix young men but I am as stumped as you and I worry about people like my nephew who is early teens.

There’s !mensliberation but I don’t know if that’s not just preaching to the converted.

Emperor, 2 months ago

“If the Trump campaign doesn’t see this as a concern, then they’re delusional,”

🤔

Emperor, 2 months ago

Gone are the days of vast conquering armies and conventional military confrontations between two parties.

I’m sure they thought the same before the outbreak of WW2 as The-War-To-End-All-Wars had been so destructive.

I’ve heard other analysis that suggests the current state of play in the world resembles that in the run-up to WW1 and WW2. It would only take something like North Korea escalating aggression for the Trilateral Axis/Axis of Evil to become emboldened by the hope that the US is too distracted elsewhere and they could make their play for Taiwan, the Baltic states and/or Israel in the hope that they can radically change the status quo into one that better favours them going forward, shifting the balance of power away from the West. That could get messy very quickly.

Emperor, 3 months ago

This is the 3rd time he’s trying to break up with me, and last time he promised that he’d wait for me and that he won’t break up with me again and that I’d be the one to do so. Just my trust in him is shattered after this.

I know you like him, but that second time should have been the sign to walk (if the first one wasn’t enough).

I am just not sure which way to take this, try to continue with the visit and maybe still stay together or just decide not to go and cut him off from being friends.

If there’s no chance of a compromise between the two positions (ie don’t visit, say you get the message but you can stay friends. Just as long as you know that, a few months from now, you won’t be trying to talk him into giving it another chance) then I suppose you go with the latter option.

Emperor, 3 months ago

I don’t know either of you or your dynamic but it looks almost inevitable that, if you flew out there and talked it through, you’d agree to give things another go. Then a few months later you’d be right back at this point again.

He’s said he doesn’t want the relationship to continue three times, you need to accept that and do whatever you feel you need to do to ensure it doesn’t happen a fourth time as this isn’t good for either of you. If that means cutting off all contact then so be it.

Emperor, 3 months ago

We had a bunch of Japanese teenagers run scripts on their computers and half the Fediverse was full of spam. If someone really cared about spamming, this shit wouldn’t stop as quickly.

The upside of that attack is that instance Admins had to raise their game and now most of the big instances are running anti-spam bots and sharing intelligence. Next time we’ll be able to move quickly and shut it all down, where this time we were rather scrambling to catch up. Then the spammers will evolve their attack and we’ll raise our game again.

Emperor, 3 months ago

Unlike the author, I don’t think that the internet is dying, but instead entering a new phase that resembles in some aspects the old internet: search has become unreliable and those mega-platforms enshittify themselves to death, so people shift to smaller (often non-commercial) platforms and find new content to follow by the hyperlinks provided by other people. It’s a lot like the internet before Google Search.

It is definitely feeling like this is a trend, we are moving back to more curated ways of sharing information.

The Fediverse feels like a return to the old, open Web before it was captured by Big Tech, just with new bells and whistles attached. With all the enshittification, it seems like it is well-placed to be the solution to the problem. It’s not there yet but it’s a start.

Emperor, 5 months ago

It’s right here.

Emperor, 5 months ago

My feelings exactly. As far as I’m concerned this is what Web 2.0 should have been about - taking the energy and excitement of blogs and forums and federating them together into a collectively owned Fediverse that would have made corporate takeover almost impossible (they would have been forced into the half-assed federating some of them are now promising). Instead, the tech companies moved hard into the territory saying “if you liked that then you’ll love this even more as it’s convenient.” Unfortunately, they have now built the size and momentum that makes it difficult to stop or kill them entirely but that also means they reached the level the level where they felt confident to start enshittification and we’ll be waiting when people can’t take any more and leave. The bonus is it should help filter out a lot of the idiots who are happy in their walled garden.

I tried the various Web 2.0 offerings and it didn’t feel right. I jumped on dyaspora but it felt like it’s time had yet to come. Web 3.0 turned out to be a grift. So, as I have argued before, I think this is the start of Web 4.0 which will be about openness, collaboration and collectivity.

I’ll always want new services (I’m waiting on a federated IMDb replacement) and improvements to existing ones (we could really do with a wiki integrated into Lemmy) but I am already enthusiastic about the Fediverse (borderline evangelical sometimes) and I feel like we are building the next phase of the Web providing all the necessary tools for people to build the next great websites.

As another comment has said, the issue currently seems to be search engines not returning great links and the Fediverse isn’t ranking high in search engine results, yet. Perhaps we need a federated search engine - one you can add custom algorithms to…

Emperor, 5 months ago

Oh yes, just like that. I imagine there’s a lot you could do to with that as they’ve got the core engine looking solid.

Emperor, 3 months ago

Bit late to this one but see a more recent discussion:

feddit.uk/post/8910736

Emperor, 7 months ago

Musk faces major challenges to get there, though. Convincing people why they need such a platform is one. Getting them to trust X with their entire financial life is another.

It’s less about trusting X but trusting Musk. Trying to make an “everything app” with him in charge just feels dystopian.

Emperor, 8 months ago

That was my thinking when reading the above - Discord’s big advantage is numbers, a lot of people will be on Discord already so getting them to sign up is a really low bar. Sign-up is also simple (compared to federated options).

We’re moving instance and I set up a Matrix space as a fallback in case the current one goes down and as a way to have secure private messaging. We did discuss setting up a Discord channel and a Matrix bridge (as lemmy.world have done) but it may not currently be worth it as public discussion can shift to the new instance. However, if that wasn’t the case then it’s something we’d definitely do.

As Lemmy integrates nicely with Matrix, I’d like to think that future solutions would involve a Lemmy instance as as public web-friendly forum (especially if we can get wikis built in) with Matrix for secure and private discussion and possibly a bridge to Discord (and other messaging platforms) to make it easy for people to join in there.

Emperor, 8 months ago

It is already integrated - if you add your Matrix ID to the relevant bit of your settings in Lemmy you get a secure messaging button that takes you to Matrix. That’s why it makes sense to also start a space for a Lemmy instance there because there’s an existing incentive for Lemmy users to have a Matrix account.

Emperor, 8 months ago

It’s still built into Lemmy unlike other messaging platforms. You can, of course, provide a link to Matrix in your profile but the secure DMs button is part of the interface.

Emperor, 8 months ago

Yes, that’s the tricky bit - the low bar relies on a lot of people having accounts. I caved and signed up because of games and now I’m in a book club and a 3D printing channel too, as well as lemmy.world’s. For some of that, I do wonder if Discord is really the right tool for the job but it does allow you to create a kind of forum without having to get your hands dirty.