Great chapter.

Mom (and onee-chan) weren’t worried about how well she might do on a problem on the chalkboard - they wanted to make sure she was enjoying herself with good people who cared about her. And she is.

It’s really impressive how the mangaka’s expanding on things in the serialized version.

IIRC, we did get to see Airu the first time through, but only briefly and in idol mode - we didn’t get even a hint of her background until just now. And the way it played out - slipping into her old delinquent mode just long enough to deal with those guys, then switching to idol mode to win then over as fans - was brilliant.

And the other girl covering Urumin’s eyes was a great touch, and funny to boot.

Where are you seeing this supposed anti-semitism from the left?

I’ve literally seen zero anti-semitism from the left. Every single anti-semitic statement or action I’ve ever seen has been by someone on the right.

Now the left does tend to be anti-zionist, but much though warmongers like Netanyahu might want you to think so, that’s not by any stretch of the imagination the same thing as anti-semitism.

That was adorable.

Personally, I think that Lemmy hit rock bottom relatively shortly after the main Reddit exodus in early July, and has steadily improved since. And more than anything else, I attribute that to users leaving.

The thing is that at least some significant part of the people who have left are people who couldn’t or wouldn’t appreciate the threadiverse for what it is and instead spent their time whining about the ways in which it isn’t the same as Reddit.

And honestly, good riddance to them.

There are always going to be people who can and do appreciate the threadiverse for what it is. Those who are already here will stay and at least some of those who haven’t discovered it yet will, and will move here. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Additionally, that’s why I like the fact that the fediverse is sort of technically complex and not particularly user-friendly, and if I had my way about it, it would stay that way.

Bluntly, technical complexity serves as a barrier-to-entry for lazy and stupid people, and that’s a good thing.

I’m old enough to remember when the internet as a whole was like that - when you had to have some technical knowledge and determination just to get online at all. And I remember how much and how quickly things went downhill when that was no longer the case.

Their intent is irrelevant to my point.

Yes and no.

Broadly, at this point, I couldn’t care less what Reddit does. This is my new home.

In the weeks leading up to my move here though, it wasn’t so much that I was concerned about the third party apps specifically. I did use one - RIF - and the official app is complete garbage, so it would’ve impacted me negatively, but it was more than that. And yes - the certain increase in censorship was another issue, but still, it’s deeper than that.

Both of those things, and much more, are really just aspects of the process that Cory Doctorow has called enshittification, and that’s the thing that drove me away. And if I was still on Reddit, that would be the thing I’d be concerned about.

So it is the case for me that it’s not just about the third party apps, and that censorship is also a concern, but really those things, in my estimation, are just signs of a deeper, underlying issue.

Which I no longer have to care about.

I just want to be able to control what I see. I have no desire to control what other people see and I sure as fuck don’t want other people to control what I see.

That’s it. That’s my entire position on the matter.