Im on both loops and pixelfed but would like something like this as well.

This should be fun

Same!

1. (Freebie) Make a shitpost. - Done
2. Make a post about something other than technology or politics or a shitpost.
3. Make a post showcasing a thing or topic you find interesting.
4. Make a post to a community with fewer than 100 subscribers.
5. Make a post to a community in a small instance.
6. Make a post featuring a human-made piece of art.
   7, Make an on-topic comment to a post in a small community.
   8, Make a comment or post sharing news about a location relevant to you.
7. Make a high-quality long form text post or comment.
8. Post or comment a link from another part of the Fediverse.

Ooo cool. I’ve subscribed to both. Thanks

I personally don’t like microblogging platforms in general. It’s cool that there’s an alternative to twitter and the like, but I just have no pull towards platforms that emulate that kind of environment.
I think it’s great that it’s so popular and has introduced a lot of people to the fediverse and spread awareness of ethical alternatives to corporate slop, but is not for me.

Any intentional choice made to capture human attention functions as an algorithm.

For instance, when a creator posts an intentionally silly title, it triggers a predictable urge in users to comment on that silliness. This deliberate cause-and-effect cycle means the creator’s strategy itself is the engagement-driving algorithm. A good example of this human-designed system is ragebaiting which systematically uses manufactured outrage to multiply views and comments

Hmmmm.

How dare you come here with your sound logic and reason that makes sense

This is actually great!
Social media sites should do this. There’s never a good reason to be on [Insert Corporate Slop Social Media Website here] at 3AM.

Technology is healing

Spore was my hyperfixation for a good long while. It was off-beat, quirky, had an eccentric personality and was completely different than anything else out there and the creature creator was absolutely amazing. It was everything that a popular mainstream game wasn’t, which is exactly the reason why no profit-driven business would fund something like it. Nowadays, even if something is profitable, if the margin is big enough, it’s considered a flop. I am convinced though, that unfortunately for Spore, SecuROM is the reason it saw no future.

“How do you know someone’s not a vegan? They’ll tell a vegan.”

I appreciate that! I’m not sure which communities I could cross-post cel-damage content to, but I like that that’s a native feature.

I used to watch it every Sunday morning before church when I was a wee lad. The whole show is available on YT btw

Por que no los dos?

Random but in Afrikaans, oom means uncle. Thought that was mildly humorous.

Agreed. If I don’t want to watch a movie I’ll just watch the trailer to get a summary of the entire dang plot

Honestly? All of them.
Since I’ve stopped watching trailers / reading synopses etc. my enjoyment of most any movie has shot up exponentially

Any good thing is ruined once it’s co-opted by capitalism.
AI and LLMs (In my very very personal and completely subjective opinion) is the coolest shit humanity has ever invented and under the right system would’ve been unanimously celebrated.
But noooooooo, capitalism had to go and fucking turn a miraculous tool for human creativity and knowledge into a relentless driver of layoffs, corporate slop and copyright theft because some greedy fucks want more money for themselves than they know what to do with.
But, well, that’s just, like, my opinion, man.

I appreciate the heads-up, and honestly the original reddit community was pretty much completely dead as well, so I’m not really expecting much to come of it. I’m mainly creating this and some other communities here because there are subreddits dedicated to them, but since I don’t want to use reddit I’m creating them here instead. Whether they’re much busier if at all is not an expectation for me, i’d just like to centralize my communities here moving forward ^-