Worst hypothesis they just need to mess around a bit. For example I don't think that queerasfu.ck would be registered.

Relevant reply from the developer. I'll transcribe it here.

@everyone // Our game "Infestation 88" is set in the 1980s, with the year 1988 chosen simply due to its symmetrical design in the game's artwork/logo. Unfortunately, we were unaware of any additional meaning the number '88' has. However, after learning about this, we're changing the game's name to "Infestation: Origins" We apologize for our ignorance on the and appreciate that this was brought to our attention so we could address it ASAP!

With respect to our Discord server, we also apologize for the current lack of moderation in place, and will be working on remedying this ASAP. As per the rules, any hateful speech or content in any regard will result in a ban. We also plan to update our FAQ soon when we have a chance to address common questions that pop up. We greatly appreciate your patience and support!

@here Due to the overwhelming number of posts and rule-breaking content, we're temporarily pausing discussion until we have better moderation in place. We hope to have things back online soon! Thank you again for your patience.

I fully agree that it doesn't matter for Lemmy right now. The issue is mostly Mastodon and Kbin, as both compete directly with Threads; and in a smaller scale Friendica, Matrix and PixelFed as they compete with FB/WhatsApp/IG.

The main reason why I support defederation is to not have users in Mastodon relying on contacts and content from Threads at all. Because, once Threads pulls off the plug (eventually they will want to), Mastodon won't be some small but stable network; it'll be a shrinking one, and that's way worse.

[some are] convinced that rock music is evil and will lead people to engage in witchcraft and draw pentagrams all over their home.

I think that it's pretty safe to say that at least some people around you are stone-cold fundamentalists. This sort of discourse doesn't come from non-fundamentalists.

That said as stupid as "rock is [from the d]evil" claim is, I don't think that it's rooted in racism. Instead I think that it's because some values often followed by rock bands, singers and fans clash directly with some values of Christianity.

Note that some sort of percussion pops up in almost every musical style, across the eras.

Slaves. They created the guitar

This was already addressed, but... come on, acoustic guitars are from Middle Ages Iberia, and they backtrack all the way into the lutes of the Ancient Egypt and Anatolia. (Probably. It's so old that the origins are hard to determine.)

Socks. If I'm at home you'll never see me wearing socks, not even if it's -5°C out there. But got to use them while wearing shoes, I guess.

People here are focusing too much on the examples and too little on the core complain (that Lemmy moderation is inconsistent and this frustrates users). I think that the later is worth investigating, IMO for two reasons:

1. The way that federation works, up to three groups can moderate your content: comm mods, admins of the comm's instance, admins of your instance. As such it's possible that users find mod problems far more often here than expected. And, while all those three groups are avoidable (unlike in a forum or Reddit), it's possible that users are having a hard time settling down in instances that work for them.
2. Lots of mods here were previously Reddit mods (inb4: myself included). It's perfectly possible that we brought Reddit's idiotic moderation culture into Lemmy, without even realising it. And... well, Reddit mods aren't exactly known for being transparent, smart, or consistent.

“Unless the woke mind virus, which is fundamentally anti-science, anti-merit, and anti-human in general, is stopped, civilisation will never become multi-planetary,” Mr Musk told Mr Isaacson.

“If you want ~~to just be a niche player~~ an iconic name, PayPal is a better name, But if you want ~~to take over the world’s financial system~~ it to be impossible to reliably websearch and talk about outside a very specific context, then X is the better name.”

Fixed that for you.

There's a reason why people still call it Twitter, you know.

He said in April: “Twitter could become what X.com should have been, and we can help save free speech in the process.”

And a potato could become a bell pepper to save my gulasch. Sadly it won't because reality doesn't magically revolve around my belly button, and it wouldn't even if I were rich. So instead I'm making some curry.

Musk should learn to cook.

Mr Musk suggested charging people to be verified to eliminate bots, bring in cash and help transform it into a payments platform - fulfilling his “original vision” for X.com

Ignorance on the nature of his own platform. Even if you demanded a single cent out of it, saner people won't put their credit card info there, simply because they want to reduce the amount of data that you can vulture out of them.

In other words he flushed the baby alongside the dirty bathtub water.

Mr Agrawal had tried to resign. // “But we beat him,” said Mr Musk’s lawyer, Alex Spiro.

TIL Musk behaves like an internet shitposter.

Reminder: Chrome is made by a company that got rich working as middleman for advertisements. Don't trust any claim that it's trying to keep your privacy or what have you, it does not. Anyone who cares about privacy should be avoiding Chrome as much as reasonable/possible. Firefox is easy to install.

That said, this tutorial is useful if for some reason you're "stuck" with Chrome, due to something broken that doesn't work in other browsers.

Comments from The Verge:

Serious question, why would I turn this off? // Ads are going to keep coming. I want ads to get better for me not worst or generic. I visit The Verge daily, I don't care if Google or Third-parties know that. If they use that information to target ads related to technology, excellent. // There's things that I always want to keep private, but I couldn't care less about my browsing habits. If I want to search for a subject and I don't want Google to target ads related to that later, I just use incognito mode.

You might not care about your browsing habits, but plenty people do, they want to minimise the amount of their personal information leaking to businesses. It's a mistake to associate incognito mode with any meaningful amount of privacy.

[Replying to the above] Exactly. this new feature is a win for privacy and it will only happen if advertisers and sites support it, and they will only support it if users use it. If you want to block ads you can still do that! But turning this feature off only signals to advertisers that our existing privacy-wrecking tracking-based advertising is the only way to go.

Most people will use it, as it's by default on, regardless of their best interests, so the tutorial still helps those who go out of their way to avoid it. Also, I think that we shouldn't assume that the Topics API will not be as privacy-wrecking as the "old" ways to vulture on your data.

My recs, roughly in order of what I'm predicting that you'll like the best, based on what you said.

• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann - mechas, action, epicness, plot twists? Yeah, you got all of them, while you follow the story of a bunch of people raised underground, fighting their way up.
• Chainsaw Man - fast-paced action in a world full of demons. The protagonist merges with one, after living in shit since childhood, and that changes his life. Expect lots of humour, and the intro becoming an earworm.
• Kimetsu no Yaiba - historical-ish setting. The protagonist is a demon killer, who's sided by his demonised sister (yup). Sword fighting, great visuals, interesting and atypical story.
• Dr. Stone - humanity has been petrified for thousands of years, and a single genius boy is trying to discover why, how, and how to revert it. The science there is 90% accurate, 10% fantasy.
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (2009) - you watched the "original" FMA (2003), right? This one has slightly better worldbuilding and plot, and it's better grounded in the manga, although the homunculi are more relatable in the original.
• Noragami - the story of a stray god, a girl who can see spirits and gods, and the spirit of a dead boy.
• Mairimashita! Iruma-kun - protag gets sold to a demon by his parents. And the demon actually treats him better than they did. So he goes to school, alongside demons, while pretending to be one.
• Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka - a boy who wants to be a hero, fighting in a dungeon full of monsters, in a world where the gods descended and granted their blessing to mortals of their liking. Which gods? Yes. Romantic comedy with epic vibes.
• Kill la Kill - watch this one if you watched TTGL and liked it. Heavy nudity, but the same "vibe" as TTGL. Hard to explain without giving you spoilers.

A few classics that I feel like they should be mentioned, but don't relate well to what you said that you liked:

• Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi - movie, not a series. About a girl who's spirited away to a world full of yokai, trying to save her piggyfied parents.
• Tonari no Totoro - also a movie, not a series, about children who move to a suburban neighbourhood full of magical creatures.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion - psychological drama pretending to be a mecha anime.

Some old style isekais, since you mentioned that you liked Overlord:

• Log Horizon - also "transported into a game", except that it happens with a fuckload of people at once. Most focus is how those people organise themselves in their former MMORPG, now real life, as well as how they handle the NPCs around them.
• Isekai Maou to Shoukan Shoujo no Dorei Majutsu - two girls in a fantasy world decide to summon someone, hoping to enslave him to help them out... only to get their magic deflected and end enslaved. The world is the same as the game world that the protagonist (the summoned guy) played.
• Re:Zero - protag gets transported to a fantasy world. He doesn't know how or why. His main ability is to go back in time, when he dies; so he experiences death over and over and over.
• Mushoku Tensei - the protag starts as completely scum, but he gets slightly less worse over time. Great worldbuilding and characterisation.
• Benriya Saitou-San, Isekai ni Iku - a handyman gets transported into a swords-and-magic world. Big focus on character relationship.

I don't recommend the anime, but check the manga if possible:

• Elfen Lied - a discussion on what makes a human "human", morals, and the likes. The anime adaptation is rather poor to be honest, but the manga is decent. Content warning: gore, sexual violence, a girl pissing herself right off the bat.
• Hoshi no Samidare - a great story, but poorly animated, about a bunch of people trying to save the world from a giant biscuit hammer that you only see if you know about it, that's going to hit Earth and destroy it. While subordinated to a girl who actually wants to destroy the world.

EDIT: GreenZanbato mentioned Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken, or "That Time that I Reincarnated as a Slime". It's also an isekai, roughly with the same vibe as Overlord; but the protagonist reincarnates as a slime, and he's far more self-aware than dummy Ainz. The novels are also great to read.

[Speaking as a mod]

This community is about Reddit and its downfall. I understand if you don't want to talk about this topic; but other people do.

Also, go easy on telling people what they should/shouldn't do. It's obnoxious.

Note that you can block whole communities from appearing on your feed, if you so desire. Check the settings.

[From another comment] Ah, you’re assuming I read the sublem title. I did not

Please, when commenting, make sure to check in which community you're commenting and the local rules.

What's in the box?

A cat, of course. Why else would boxes exist, if not for cats?

Oh look, another social/collaborative site leaving its userbase pissed.

The Fandom wiki, while no longer having its existing editors, will continue to remain up without any indication that it's moved, competing with and likely outranking the new wiki in Google search results due to Fandom's high SEO.

Small but periodic destructive changes to articles already ported should solve this. The changes should be small enough to not look like vandalism, but remove meaningful info off the wiki.