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Today’s Ask PHlemmings: What is one conspiracy theory that you actually believe?
- Na minahal nya din ako
  
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- Our sidebar's featured photo.
  
  So far his predictions have come true. We entered the "Malacanang shitty" in 2016, Mrs. Marcos is back in power, Noynoy passed away (albeit not by decapitation), and we can now fight Gosling after he starred in Barbie.
  I hope I'm still alive when the magnafanta computer is finally introduced in 2046.
  
  Lol no, all he said was facts

Lagpas dalawang linggo na pala ang community na ito dito.
I've been checking Lemmy almost ever since the weekend just before the blackouts, replacing Reddit as my addiction (of sorts). I've also managed to subscribe to a good number of communities, such that my feed is now quite healthy with content. I almost never get the urge to browse Reddit anymore, not even with all the mention of it in my feed.
How about you guys? Kamusta naman ang Lemmy experience ninyo thus far?
- I still go to reddit for some of my interests that aren't here yet, but for news, I use Lemmy na.
  
  Ayun lang. Ayaw kong tignan yung mga subreddits for my interests na ala dito. Natatakot akong maging marupok at magbalik-loob kay Poong $₱€Ƶ eh. HAHAHA!
- Ever since the blackout, I barely go back. The only times that I do is 1) to look for AskReddit material for the RD thread, 2) when someone links to juicy content, 3) close down r/thevisoria, and 4) peek at r/PH's frontpage occasionally, particularly nung polling.
  But I stopped posting and likely never will again. Wala rin ako itch to do so.
  Edit: Ayan napasilip tuloy ako doon and found out that Couples For Christ have been gone for a while now, there's a courier called HBK, and questions about phone brand and opening an OnlyFans account.
  
  Thank you for the effort maglagay ng content dito para maengage ang members.
  
  opening an OnlyFans account
  Uhm.... 👀
  You know what, after reading some of the replies here, I'm starting to think of this place as some kind of a safe zone, a lounge where people can just relax and take a break from all of the havoc happening elsewhere online.
- onga buti dumami na users kaya dami na rin posts+comments, sana dumami pa sa July 1
  
  Sana nga rin. At sana yung mga matitino ang dumagsa dito. Lol!
- Limang araw na lang (anim sa ibang bansa) tatanggalin na nila ang mga thrid party apps. Masaya na ako dito sa lemmy, medyo may bugs ang jeroba pero okay na man.
  
  Oo nga eh. Wag na lang pansinin ang mga bugs and to an extent, di ko na rin talaga napapansin.
- Ay! Thanks for reminding me of that. Tagal na rin akong may Mastodon, pero sobrang hirap makahanap ng PH content, lalo na yung news and current events. Umabot sa point na recently nag-iisip ako kung kakayanin ko bang gumawa ng bot pang-repost galing Philippine news sources as well as PAG-ASA and Philvolcs. Kaso may nag-remind sa akin ginto na pala ang API access sa Twitter.
  Mag-tatanong-tanong nga sana ako dito kung may alam silang magandang i-follow for PH-related things sa Mastodon eh. Forgot all about that tho until your reply.
- Okay naman. Kaso ung dose of irl drama ko wala dito kaya I use libreddit for offmychestph and rel advice ph HAHAH
  
  Hahahaha! Ang sama ng mental image na na-imagine ko! Parang pinapanood natin sila from a secure location, parang massive multiplayer online version ng Big Brother house, tapos tayo ang audience. 😅
- It's been slow for lemmy communities to form. Partly na rin siguro madami parin fence sitters sa reddit debacle up until July I suppose. Kaunti palang nasasalihan kong communities tho.
  Pansin ko lang, nag nose dive na moderation sa rph. I don't know if it's just me but the posts are all over.
  
  Pansin ko lang, nag nose dive na moderation sa rph. I don’t know if it’s just me but the posts are all over.
  Yeah. Kaumay nga eh.
  There are people there who want escapism due to how things are now. So they come up with casual low-effort content, thinking it's fun than reading depressing or infuriating news headlines. Coping mechanism nila.
  
  Sites like this has helped me greatly in checking out where my subscribed subreddits have gone to: https://sub.rehab/ I also find myself sometimes idly browsing All on the off chance that I'll discover some community I would like.
  And yeah, there might be a lot of fence sitters, but I think after the wave that's coming after the end of this month, things will quiet down. From then on, it's really up to us already here if Lemmy/Kbin will be a thing, or it'd just be a fad. Network effect is a hell of a drug, but even if there ends up a stable and engaged population here, creating and consuming content, it's already a win in my book.
  
  Pansin ko lang, nag nose dive na moderation sa rph. I don’t know if it’s just me but the posts are all over.
  Not wanting to toot my own horn but some of this is me, I think. I'm very unforgiving of low-effort posts that could be answered with just one reply. Tipong topics that belong in the Help Thread or already been asked/addressed several times before. Makukulong ka ba if hindi mo binayaran yung 800 pesos na balance sa PLDT or takbuhan mo Anytime Fitness membership. Best earphones for 200 pesos na goods na goods. IT o Accounting, ano kukunin ko na course? Innova o Avanza?
  Karma farm or redundant threads bwisit rin kami. Yung mga "Ako lang ba naiinis sa utang na loob", "What's your favorite pancit canton?", "Toxic Filipino Culture", tinatanggal ko na lang without any explanation, lol.
  The last month or so we were very consistent with this to the point na yung mga threads na otherwise matatabunan papunta sa third page, get a chance to shine. A good example was DENR planting the wrong Mangrove specie — it only had 11 replies on its first day and mushroomed to 195 in just a few days.

Ok this is just hilarious. It's funny how some subreddits are being clever with their protests. r/dndmemes is just straight up goblin rule 34 now.

Protip: for those who use Dark Reader add-on/extension change your contrast to 115 and brightness to 85.
- tinry ko din yan sa Firefox for my work, kaya lang bumabagal or nagha-hang habang tumatagal
  
  Nakaka-bagal/hang pala yung Dark Reader?‌
  I've been having some random slowdowns and the occasional hang the past few days eh. Kaso di ko na masyado inusisa since wala akong mapansin na commonality other than a slowdown, tapos hang.

Something to think about: afaik this country only has one or two nursing homes, and they're not for everyone.
- That's why I said only a few, because the only decent one requires, yeah, money. While the other is government-funded... elderly care in New Bilibid for life-sentence convicts.
- Yup. Buried underneath most of the "ReTiReMeNt PlAn nG mAgUlAnG" circle jerk is the sad reality that retirement homes are not a thing here, and that it costs upwards to 1 million annually per person (looking at RainTree at least).
  
  I won't be surprised some of these are either of the YOLO mentality (like they want to do everything until 40), or planning to die young because they fear what's like to be past 60.
  Generally most of them would rather live the rest of their lives as overseas emigres.

Good morning PHLemmies! Have a great sunday ✨
- Good afternoon!

- Baka nag-quit Reddit na, haha.
- Childish, meron! Joke!
  Used to regularly take a peek at /r/childfree years back, pero di ko na rin kinaya yung tone nila dun. There's only enough ways to say "being childfree is a choice!" "It's a sin to make another soul undergo torment in this world!" or other stuff.
  I get it, it's difficult to live a childfree life, especially when surrounded by the conservative, religious-minded. I get the need to rant about it, pero susmiyo… Like, uh, parang ang hirap mag-tambay dun nang matagal.
  Sorry for the rant ah.
  
  Ako din. While karamihan sa friends and family members ko child-free, they're not in the same boat as the typical card-carrying child-free that are just as annoying and toxic as those who keep on pestering singles/couples when they're getting kids.
  Tapos napanood ko pa yung kumakalat na vid about gen-Zs, and I just facepalmed hard on how cliche the answers were. Tbf, the "survey" was done in bad faith because why would you be asking inexperienced kids about parenting? Lmao.

Nakakatamad pag Sunday, bukas May gagawin ulit.

Patumal ng patumal yung rd natin :(
- I don't mind. Better than dealing with self-haters and those avoiding reality.
  
  Bahalasiladun. Haha
- Tbf, mahina talaga RDs natin pag weekend, kahit nung sarado pa kabila. So, not surprised at all na career low yesterday now that the bulk of our members made a beeline back in there earlier this week.
  It'll be interesting how post-June 30 plays out, though. Will more people migrate here or come back? Maybe. I'm not so sure the Lemmy mobile apps provide a better experience than the native Reddit app for them to abandon ship.
- Like I said awhile ago, the community was just an echo chamber. Para sa mga Pinoy, walang resemblance ang Reddit API changes and most of them galing rin sa Facebook na baguhan lang sa Reddit.
  
  yep what the hive mind decide is what the hive mind will follow since nag vote ang hive ng back to normal
- Well, it's not that there's a whole lot of us here, especially after the otherside has reopened. Also, mukhang tayong mga natira dito ay di rin naman ganun ka-daldal.
  However, relatively speaking madada tayo compared to the other country subreddits here.
  
  I'm proud of the fact that we only have 700 subscribers but the community is in the top 5 of most comments. Yung iba nasa 2-3k members but could barely muster half of that.

Another new Lemmy app has joined, simply called Lemming.
- Just installed it. I'm not a fan of the tiled cards and you can't customize anything yet, but other than that it's not too bad. May distinction for the OP, pages are displayed like you'd want it to, and it's clean.

The hell we're getting MLB fandom crossposts?
- Akala ko ako lang. I'm not even subscribed to that.

I have a ton of basil and no idea what to do with it. Any suggestions that's not pesto?

Pista ng San Juan, more like Piste ng San Juan.

good morning yawn, di pako tulog
- Isle of Dawn grids rin po, Will Never! Sumisikat rin ba si Haring Araw diyan?

I recently played Hill Climb Racing 2 on my smartphone and these Coin Master and TongIts Go whatever extensively popped during gameplays, and I never turned on my Google's personalized ads settings. I can assume our geo-based Internet ads are filled with gambling-themed
It's been awhile since I fully disconnected to a VPN tunnel, and I thought chocolate ads from EU and mobile plan ads and skin care products from JP and SG were shit. May mas malala pa pala... haha.

naiinip na ako, sa end of july papala hearing about ufo
nagpprepare pa yata ng palusot yung MIB hahahaha
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/luna-lawmakers-bipartisan-ufo-hearing-july/

Nakaka tempt mag gawa ng dating profile or post sa r4r pag ganitong hours, hold me huhu

Ang anti-climactic nung nangyari kay Prigozhin/Wagner. Parang si Crabfeeder lang, haha.
- Fuckin crabfeeder. Tagal ng hype pero walang ka kwenta kwenta nung nasa screen na.

new app (liftoff), apk available na sa github if you want to test, but install at your own risk
https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/releases/
- Is this for iOS? They badly need more options there with Mlem restricting testers.

how is it that both Black Mirror S6E1 and S6E2 are dogshit? :((((((( this is the kind of dread i can only get from the show that i've been longing for, but this time it's from the show dying :((((((((((((((((((
- Yo... I fully agree with you this season has been meh. Episode 6 nalang hindi ko napapanood.
  Lumang theme naman na kasi yung episode 1. Social media bad, internet bad. Rehashed over and over again every season.
  Wala na yung moral dillema na nagpapa self reflect sa viewer. It's more on shock and awe now for the sake of it.
  
  no shock and awe was felt
  Kikuo - Gomenne Gomenne hit harder in a few minutes than these episodes did
  Black Mirror to US was a really big mistake :( but idk SS Callister was good? Playtest was good??? wtf :(
- Me and the wife have been huge fans ever since nasa BBC pa siya. While the tone shifted drastically with the move to Netflix, I can sorta see why they nearly pivoted away from it completely this season by going absurdist and meta-humor. There's only so much you can do with "technology is bad" and being known for twists e.
  
  argh but grr idc give me back my tech future bleak dread shit
  but i'd agree if they're worried people might emulate their ideas if they're too close to home
  
  BBC
  It wasn't aired on BBC. Black Mirror was first aired on Channel 4, counterpart ng BBC. Black Mirror is the reason I gained knowledge of Dogme 95 (typically an ultra-guerilla style of filmmakimg) from S01E01.
- My speculation: I think the creator, Charlie Brooker, intentionally made this show worse because they don't own or don't have massive creative control on this show anymore. They made a nod in S06E05 by introducing a new label, "Red Mirror," focusing on horror-themed stories rather than sci-fi/techno-themed. "Loch Henry" and 'Demon '79" are clearly not belong to Black Mirror, and are uniquely made.
  I don't know what happened to Charlie Brooker with Mazey Day. That was straight-up C-grade movie. lol
  
  well i guess i'll just follow where they end up going when they get their creative control back. Netflix just fucks wth
- Also a sign they're running out of material.
  
  idk?? if so maybe they can just expand on the previous episodes but like urgh i'd rather have just one episode every few years than have them put out these subpar idk parang mga comeback pag Kpop HAHA ganon na lang eurgh cmon :(

"I can't say my feelings for you will be the same, but one things for sure, I loved you, but you changed you want my heart back then but you want my money now"
POTANG INA MO SPEZ, ANG GANDA GANDA NG INFINITY SOBRANG SMOOTH, MAS SMOOTH PA SA JERBOA PERO ANO GINAWA MONG POTANG INA KA, I'LL MISS THIS FOR SURE, RIP INFINITY I USED THIS APP CIRCA 2020-2023
btw photo not mine nakita ko lang sa android community
- Spez going to smear those Redditors' analytics from mobile apps. It's juicier than Tender Juicy.

Alam ko na breakfast sa umaga, toasted pandesal. Nakita ko kase sa box namin madami pang liver spread, nagpapalaman din kami ng egg, cheese or chiz whiz minsan. Kayo ano favorite palaman nyo sa pandesal sa umaga?
- Sa amin rito, kung mayroon man, either peanut butter o mayonaise. Minsan, sinasawsaw pa namin ang mga 'di pa napahirang pandesal sa mainit-init na baso ng kape o Energen.
- Pag may budget, (Purefoods) corned beef o di kaya (Reno) liver spread.
  I'm more of a "kanin sa almusal" person though. So if I do eat pandesal for breakfast, I usually just eat it as it is (or slightly toasted for that extra crunch) with black coffee.

My twin sister constantly sends me updates about the dogs even when I wasn’t asking lol I appreciate it though

Nakaka-tempt yung Taho keycaps ng Zion kaso hindi ako fan ng sublegends (no offense to Baybayin ofc).

Scam ata yung iwanttfc. Haha Ako pa nasisi.
- A successful streaming service needs more bandwidth. If the service is faltering it's because either the app is poorly designed or their media servers cannot keep up with consumer demand. Much like how our telco-ISPs are "oversubscribed".
  
  Sa web app pa nga lang, wala na. Kaya mej alinlangan ako pagbili ng sub eh. 🤦‍♀️

Daily random discussion - Jun 25, 2023

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