Is any other app out there able to handle streaming games to your friends as easily as discord?

It seems like we should probably be looking for the next ship to jump to…

I was reading this reply from my inbox and took longer than I should’ve to realize this was about the Minecraft post.

I haven’t played Minecraft really since the alpha, but I can’t imagine why they shouldn’t. What am I missing?

I’m sure we all remember when our parents had the talk with us about this.

I had them! Hurt myself plenty…

Schools (both K-12 and university) keep loosening their expectations of students, and now we have kids starting college with 6th grade reading levels.

School administrators don’t want their graduation stats to look bad, and universities don’t want to lose $$ by flunking students out, so there’s a massive conflict of interest that is ultimately resulting in a disservice to students and society at large.

The other day, I saw this 8th grade graduation exam from a county in Kentucky in 1912, and it drives home how much things have changed:

Is this another terrible consequence downwind of Citizens United?

I think that’s what they did during his first term, right? I remember him skipping the event altogether.

Wait till it’s so enshittified it’s unusable

Discord is going public soon, so start the timer…

It’s the social media equivalent of supporting a bunch of Mom and Pop shops (or opening your own!) vs some hyper-sanitized, corporate monstrosity like Wal-Mart.

And every time I see you grin, I’m such a happy individual

Part of it seems to stem from people’s excitement to infodump about how federated social media works.

That’s relevant and interesting to learn about, but the average person just needs to hear “make and account here and start browsing memes” first.

I always debate whether to put these in c/tenforward or here, because they’re Trek characters, but the jokes aren’t technically about Star Trek.

Today I had two of them, so I put one here and one there.

People were predicting this a while back as a way that reddit would make themselves more “advertiser-friendly”.

I also wonder if there were some legal concerns in those states that now require porn sites to check IDs.