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I didn't hate it. I liked it. I didn't love it tbh and was disappointed because it had been overhyped in my opinion.

I think R.F. Kuang is a glorious writer if 1/ you like worldbuilding and extensive exposition and 2/ you don't mind messy and underwhelming endings.

Political maps are a terrible tool for visualizing cultural / linguistic practices (and on this one, colonization didn't make it even worse). Just gotta roll with it and enjoy the weird assumptions :)

I prefer to support smaller instances, but don't have a problem with lemmy.ml specifically (whereas I do sometimes go out of my way to avoid lemmy.world)

Ah bah j'ai fait pareil et je venais dire à peu près la même chose. Si j'avais su cuire des pâtes et des légumes et faire une liste de courses utile ma vie aurait été très différente.

I believe someone had asked for it and they said it was nearly impossible. You'd be able to do it in a single given app maybe, but the « download an episode by default » system, the (wonderful) variety of podcasting apps, and the variety of podcast ad services all make it nearly impossible. It's somewhere in the issues!

This extension really changed my life, or at least my fraught relationship with YouTube!

Yeah idk, I feel like last year's statement was good and if they said something more... questionable this year, probably some people were just being really pushy about "please shit on AI". As far as I'm concerned everyone looks pretty bad here.

Well it's about books. I'd be happy to crosspost to a better place if I missed it :)

Same same. I also really don't care that during an election people are trying to get votes and not discussing the most contentious issues. They can do that when they're in power, thank you very much.

Ni de fleuve, ni de falaise !!!

(C'est vraiment très beau !)

Yes, it does. It will keep suffering from the same issues as long as it encourages microblogging, and there are public upvotes and likes, and you can post links on Lemmy with a single-sentence summary that people can react to without reading the link. The Fediverse social media is built on the exact same premises as for-profit social media.

What has been done on the Fediverse is taking these systems and making them less addictive. Basically, they have all the problems of for-profit social media, but for-profit social media snowballs these problems and puts them at the core of their business model. The issue without the several layers of « making it worse because money » is not nearly as bad. But I do believe it's a « lesser evil » thing, at least for our brains and ability to interact with people.

Trop cool, et super initiative cette récolte sur ton blog. Merci !