I’m not convinced at least half of those communities trust Reddit and Discord enough to leave forums, but then again I stopped using them mostly because I haven’t had time for those hobbies. My emulation groups are still active on forums, at least.

Not crazy if you want to advertise on the down low. I worked a summer once doing that shit, it’s insidious. Blockers don’t even block someone pretending to like a product.

Ya know, if a writer for Oliver gets the right push, it isn’t even to strange to get them to literally open an instance on the Fediverse. They love getting their names on shit and the dare “I bet you can’t get @oli.verse instance to become the top Lemmy instance” would be right up their ally. You’d see a million users in a week, lol.

Using it myself, this is technically true but also it’s literally Twitter pre-takeover-- like a fork all the tolerable people started using. You’ve got your George Takei and your Stephen King, etc, so it’s what left of center normies can enjoy without being a little too far (like us, here).

If I’m being honest, I prefer to mix the two communities because a little too much Fediverse can make you go crazy, plus I spread Lemmy ideology there cause someone’s gotta bring up class warfare and Linux, right?

That’s what I was wondering. For a while I swear naked images of Rinkunn were more prevalent than The Picard Maneuver. I’m an All user mostly out of curiosity but disappointed that I think world defederated from one of the major furry ones cause that dropped considerably.

Wait, is disappointed the right word? I guess it is, although maybe i just miss their positivity. I’m still cool with hexbear being defederated, after all. Lol

Everything pork belly is good, of course (although nothing beats my inlaws’ homemade pork belly). Okinawa cuisine is inspired largely by Chinese cuisine, so that sets it apart from the main island-- pork being the big thing. There’s also US military influence so you get some interesting hybrids like Taco Rice, or Spam and Bittermelon (Okinawa has it’s own type that’s different than the Chinese kind).

Sweets, hard to say. Purple yam is their specialty crop but it’s more novel then anything. I’m more partial to the milk flavor, which the small town of Nanjo is known for (although I wouldn’t go just for that). I have found very rich brown sugar and fresh pineapple to be very good, too, I think grown locally.

Hope that helps, as always quality varies place to place and usually the best places are off the usual tourist areas.

Edit: oh I also just remembered a place that has a deep fryer in the middle of the table and it’s like Korean BBQ but with a deep fryer. Now that was a unique experience, lol.

Oh snap, that looks lovely. I’m in Okinawa for the holidays myself, this might give me some ideas.

I know what you mean, especially news. I mostly do /all and it’s easily a problem there too. I think, possibly down the line, there might be a way to aggregate identical or similar posts, client side.

I made homemade Mac and Cheese for the holidays for the first time, absolutely shocked just how much cheese you use for 1lb of pasta. It’s practically a 2:1 ratio sauce to cheese. Extremely good, though, especially with good cheddar like yours.

Huh. Well, wouldn’t know. Kind of the point of defederating, I guess, you just stop thinking about them.

I can see it playing out fine either way, although it’s certainly more turbulent federating if we are to see their content and it washes out the other communities (which to my understanding is unlikely since it’s user based content like Mastodon). As others said, they already have our data, too.

Instead, I just wish the more… extreme communities didn’t defederate already. I’d love to see Meta users react to Hexbear or Exploding Heads in an unfiltered, unadulterated way (or those much much worse instances that everyone defederates from). Instead they get us relatively tame, generally nerdy Lemmy users. I didn’t even know what a Tankie was back in the before times!

Ah yes, those sweet bean memes will really show em! ;o