Ekkosangen

joined 1 year ago
[–] Ekkosangen@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

The context of this sign being in a sushi restaurant would be the key here. In higher-end, "omakase" sushi restaurants, you'll be served a set of sushi piece by piece as the chef makes it in front of you. Typically you'll want to eat it as soon as it is placed on your plate.

[–] Ekkosangen@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

It certainly doesn't subtract from the experience, that's for sure.

[–] Ekkosangen@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone currently hunting rentals in Calgary: single minimum wage earners, even a bit above minimum wage, are quickly losing their future here. If I made less than I do (about 3100) I would find it very difficult to find a place unless I'm rooming with more people than there are bedrooms.

People working remotely on median-level incomes trying to escape the GTA or Metro Vancouver will find it great though.

[–] Ekkosangen@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Dragonsong's Reprise (Ultimate) in Final Fantasy XIV. It's you and seven other people versus nineteen minutes of grueling, bonkers-difficulty fight across six phases where individual mistakes can easily cascade into a full wipe and reset back to the beginning.

But now I can tell people I'm an ultimate legend, btw.

[–] Ekkosangen@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

That really is the dream, where your mini-community can link up and be part of the mega-community. Mega-communities linking together so you aren't missing out on friends being on other sites you don't use. An actual web of social networks and communities accessible from your own.

Maybe the losses incurred by enshittification won't be as devastating if a community can just choose to uproot to their own instance without losing years, even decades, of historical content when the inevitable happens.

With Meta though, there's a deep and deserved mistrust to overcome before anyone remotely in the know will have anything to do with them. You could probably convince most sites to federate with anyone but Meta, Twitter, or Reddit if it happened tomorrow. TikTok is on thin ice, though.

[–] Ekkosangen@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As a note for Jerboa users: the above link may instantly crash the app. At least, it does for me.

[–] Ekkosangen@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I'm of the opinion that it has a time and a place, but I do agree that it's exceptionally intrusive to the site's normal experience and should be very rare and short-lived. Any more than a day and its runs afoul of the people who just aren't interested.

[–] Ekkosangen@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not literally take over a subreddit, takeover advertising campaigns are typically a high-key screen space domination type of advertising. Think of something like a video games news site where the homepage is completely covered in advertising for a new, high budget game. Ads at the top, ads at the bottom, ads in the normally-empty margins, and often a focus on articles about the subject.

How that reflects to Reddit I'd never know, it's likely something that's exclusive to the newer layout that I have no interest in using.