Oh man do I have news for you...
Not a good meme I know but just finished Starship Troopers for the millionth time. My father died 20+ years ago... The one thing I really want!
and then those same people who want it banned close their curtains and start watching it.
It appears that it is getting close to a full release for Sync for Lemmy. My only concert is that it might go to a subscription only method of payment. I'd rather pay a lot for a one time unlock or even like a 2 year unlock instead of a monthly subscription.
Im getting subscription burnout and I'm sick of having to juggle literally a hundred subscriptions every month. If it does go subscription based, sadly I'll probably pass on it. Which would be a sad close to a long history of using sync.
My contribution to this new logo.
Im dyslexic and can confirm the font is ugly as hell but significantly helps readability.
Dyslexia varies person to person but the general concept is that letters can flip horizontally, vertically, change locations or jitter / fuzz. It's not that you actually see them that way, it's a brain interpretation issue. It's kind of like the difference between speed reading and normal reading out loud. You look at a word and your brain recognizes the word as a whole and what it means and how it sounds. A dyslexic generally cant make that connection and have to see words as individual letters that are sounded out in order to make the word. So you see soup and know its food and you see soap and know you wash with it. But a dyslexic those two words are almost exactly the same. So we need the rest of the sentence for context to know what that word is... and the rest of the sentence may require the previous sentence to know the context of other words...
Think of a word as a picture. Together all of the parts of the picture have to come together to form say the Mona Lisa. But if you took all the parts of her face and mixed them up... it would still be the Mona Lisa... but it wouldnt make any sense. Having the thickened parts on the bottom of each letter help anchor the letters as well as having every letter / number be unique helps your brain to interpret everything correctly "faster". Most dyslexic people, unless they have a really bad case, can learn to read but they end up reading a lot slower than a normal person. This font helps speed it up... to bad it's ugly as sin.
I dont know if that makes any sense or if it's just me rambling...
and what have I got to show for it?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
I think they dont like the fact that these awards also grant reddit premium to the user who receives them. But they cant just remove that feature of the rewards without killing rewards otherwise they look really bad. So the new award system will just be a community highlight. Maybe something that changes the background color of the post to highlight it on the front page. Like gold background. Then they will allow advertisers to also pay to make their "paid advertisements" also have background colors to generate a dark pattern where they trick you into clicking ads because you think they are awarded front page posts.
Thats my guess at least.
The biggest benefit I see so far is the lack of bots. I know there are still some bots out there but most of them are useful bots and not just karma farming bots or bots designed for propaganda.
This problem existed on reddit too still. You have r/games r/game r/gamers r/gamenews r/gamernews etc. All trying to do the exact same thing.
Can confirm... I didnt sign up for sh.itjust.works solely because of the name... I dont particularly want that attached to every post I make.
I also choose this guy's inside joke!
Good