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  • I have multiple accounts, but only really for moderation purposes. Cross-instance moderation is semi-broken, so it’s easier to do it that way. Other than that, having an alt is useful in case your main instance goes down.

    I wouldn’t generally worry about impersonation, if someone tries it you could contact the admin of that instance and they’re generally pretty responsive.


  • Pixelfed/Mastodon/etc sort of work with Lemmy, in that they can see Lemmy posts. Lemmy can see posts from them if you tag them appropriately, which rarely happens. They only sort of federate properly. And yeah, Loops is like TikTok for the Fediverse.

    I’m not saying PieFed is better than Lemmy, just saying that apart from Lemmy, your best option is probably PieFed atm.



  • m_f@discuss.onlineOPtoCustom CardsEchoing Abyss
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    20 days ago

    Thanks! Yeah, I was aiming for powerful, but not obviously broken with an infinite combo, so it’s good to hear that it’s not immediately exploitable.

    I haven’t really made custom magic cards before and just went with the first search result and a lot of the frames didn’t have text background which made it impossible to read, and this was one of the few frames that didn’t have that issue.
















  • m_f@discuss.onlineOPMtoOglaf@midwest.socialChangeling
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    28 days ago

    Some interesting history of changelings:

    Among the diseases or disabilities with symptoms that match the description of changelings in various legends are spina bifida, cystic fibrosis, PKU, progeria, Down syndrome, homocystinuria, Williams syndrome, Hurler syndrome, Hunter syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, Prader-Willi Syndrome, and cerebral palsy. The greater incidence of congenital disabilities in boys correlates to the belief that male infants were more likely to be taken by fairies. Psychologist Stuart Vyse writes that modern parents have higher expectations of childbirth, and when “children don’t meet these expectations, parents sometimes find a different demon to blame.” A condition known as regressive autism, where children appear to follow normal development in their early years and then start to show symptoms of autism, can also be compared to marks of a changeling child.

    Some autistic adults have come to identify with changelings (or other replacements, such as aliens) due to their experiences of feeling out of place in the world.






  • Even non-profits aren’t immune to hostile takeovers. OpenAI is a for-profit company controlled by a non-profit, and that hasn’t stopped them from turning into something indistinguishable from a regular for-profit company. They’ve also been making noise about abandoning the fig leaf of the non-profit.

    Mozilla is another one where nominally they’re a for-profit controlled by a non-profit, but they’re now getting into shoving ads in your face just like any other company.

    It is harder to turn bad when you’re a non-profit but not impossible, without something of a poison pill that makes it unacceptable to for-profit takeovers.