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Youtuber Sarah Z has a whole video about how this online "Narcissist" obsession is dumb.

That was my first thought, but messing with connection max and priority doesn't seem to really change the situation, although maybe it is X percent better, it's just not a panacea.

You are WAY better than .world

This is bullshit, flyingsquid banned me for saying Biden is too old and genocidal and the DNC will lose by running a "everything is fine and you're wrong" campaign. And then it happened. I've blocked your shit instance ever since.

Back when invidious generally worked you could bypass age restrictions with it, maybe if you ran an invidious instance or just tried random ones until it works?

I think most people's issue is with the Steven Seagal, but a lady, protagonists like Rey from Star Wars, where they are just expressions of what is basically a male power fantasy, but female, which virtually nobody actually wants. There's a fairly limited audience for even the original Seagal male version. While there DO exist better, Die Hard-style the protagonist gets their ass kicked female properties from this century, like Jessica Jones season 1, nobody wants to see a lady getting her ass kicked to the same degree as a man, so I can't think of another example after that, despite innumerable ill-conceived girlboss-powered action movies like G20. Nobody would try to do Hallmark movies for dudes, doing male power fantasy action for ladies is equally ill-conceived, as shown by box office numbers, and a still 70% or more male audience.

Flyingsquid for one

On lemmy.world you will get dogpiled if you ever diverge from the DNC/MSNBC line on anything. On lemmy.ml, you will get dogpiled if you ever diverge from the CCP party line, but the assholes flaming you are less likely to literally be the mods.

[edit: blahaj is also full of and moded by Likud partisans]

It is shocking how addicted people are to this app that no quantity of diminished functionality will make them leave. It's like that Russian opiate that makes all your skin fall off. Crazy shit.

In the case of Transmission, I've noticed that depending on server resources, there's an upper limit to how many seeds you can run and still get reasonable downloads. No idea why, but if you seed like 100-ish items, you basically never get decent downloads, and it's not like the upload speeds are great either, so it's not bandwidth.

I've lived through enough of these fake security panics to know it only ever gets worse

The fundamental model was naive trust... it was beautiful but doomed, like a cherry blossom on the wind...