1. Sans Soleil

2. The End of Evangelion Love & Pop

3. Perfumed Nightmare

I can list a dozen more maybe but these three are really unique movies for the cinematography alone.

Lemmy needs to watch more movies outside of Hollywood! :P I removed EoE because for sure someone will say “You watch too much anime” lol

That’s exactly what I meant by:

The Fediverse demands a new kind of usership that understands how the network works.

It’s easy to make statements, suggestions, and opinions, but it’s really hard to actually do things in practice.

We all want more people here. The question is “How?”, and simply saying “Make good defaults” is easier said than done (what are good defaults?) and “good defaults” is too simple of an answer to a very complex issue.

The conversation has been stuck here for over a year already as very few people are actually willing to develop and test these solutions which takes a lot of resources too.

The irony of the situation is that a lot of these solutions that have been suggested also need a central authority. For example, people have suggested creating a central hub where everyone can sign up to. Another example is creating a little quiz which begs the question “Who decides which instances goes there?”.

The best effort I’ve seen in trying to implement a solution are Reddit mirrors which aren’t well-received because nobody likes talking to bots.

As a personal anectode on “lowering the barrier of entry”:

Since I started this instance (ani.social), my goal in mind was to make it very easy for users to sign up. There’s no manual approval here (except when it’s being flooded with trolls). Only email verification is needed – just like every social media platform.

But sometimes when new users sign up, they comment or post on communities in instances that defederated from us.

Now I have to think about how I’m supposed to explain defederation to people, and the moment I do try to explain, that’s a big turn off for many.

Trying to hide federation is impossible. The Fediverse demands a new kind of usership that understands how the network works.

Again, I’m not saying Lemmy can’t improve (it can in a lot of ways), but it all boils down to developer resources and who’s willing enough to test these solutions to see what works and what doesn’t. On the other hand, it takes minimal effort to say “It needs to be better”.

I think the irony here is that the user-friendliness experience of Bluesky stems from it being a centralized service (in practice). I seriously doubt most people who signed up for Bluesky even understand what “decentralized social media” means.

I’m not saying Lemmy (and the greater Fediverse) can’t improve, but it’s clear that the biggest barrier for most people is the decentralized aspect itself – the core of the Fediverse – which is something one shouldn’t really “hide”.

As long as the state of social media usership demands centralized practices, then the Fediverse will forever be at a disadvantage in gaining mass adoption in my opinion.

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I finished The Tatami Galaxy last week. It’s timely as I’m graduating next year and I have some regrets with my university life. Tatami Galaxy is a great show to cope with that. Masaaki Yuasa’s style is incredible by the way. Maybe at some point I’ll watch all of his works. If anyone here is a fan of DAN DA DAN, you should watch Yuasa.

Interestingly, NHK ni Youkoso is about moe, or at least it’s a major point of the show (otaku and moe). I hope you enjoy it. It’s one of my favorite anime.

I’ve caught up with the English translation of Asako.

I really like it. The first few pages might deter a lot of people but I think the author handles the age gap relationship quite well and the other themes in the book like sexuality, preadolescence, memories, adulthood, etc. I expected the entire story to revolve around the relationship of the two but it extends far past that.

Depending on how it goes from here, it might be up there with my other all time favorites like Flowers of Evil and Three Days of Happiness.

Maybe I’ll put up a post comparing it with “My Boy” some day as they’re both similar situations but handled differently.

Oh I had a similar experience in elementary school. Our teacher knew and told us that Pluto wasn’t a planet anymore but because the textbook was out of date, she told us that if it came up on our tests, consider Pluto a planet anyway.

The way of the future

I’m 30 hours in Persona 5 Royal. See you all in 2 months or so.

Maybe like 30 hours. I was feeling depressed and didn’t want to eat at the time.

I like PipePipe. You can log in with a YouTube account (which fixes a lot of the YouTube blocking for me) and it’s a fork of NewPipe too (just like Tubular but it regularly receives updates).

I didn’t realize you’ve been posting Asako here! I just wrote about it in the weekly thread. I just stumbled upon it while my friend and I were browsing Mangadex the other day lol. I’ll try to catch up when I can!

Wow I’m happy I clicked on this. The animation is so good.

I have no idea. The DLCs you can buy from Steam or Epic (or get the bundle).

This is the way. Civ 6 is so cheap when it goes on sale now. I bet it’s a more complete game than Civ 7 too but I might be wrong.

I finally found a new read that I might like. It’s called Asako. It’s an age gap manga so it might not be for everyone but I’ve read a few before (My Boy and After the Rain). It has a bit of mystery to it and the plot is non-linear so that makes it more enjoyable for me. Anyway, for those interested, it’s about a man who reminisces a woman he met when he was a young boy set in a small coastal town. Her identity is a mystery however. I’m only a few chapters in and I like it so far.

I was surprised when my friend casually brought up Pixelfed (he called it “Pixelfeed”) and Bluesky the other day.