Zero22xx

Yup, especially when we're all being bombarded by the same propaganda in the places that we meet online and spend a considerable amount of time in, we're all in this together. I've seen the discourse about the USA and the culture wars over the last decade in my own country. And from what I've gathered through my years of lurking is that shit is darkening the skies and affecting everyone from the UK to Sweden to Australia.

And as far as I can tell, all of our governments have been mostly happy to sit back and watch everything slide into enshittification and misinformation and ruin. Like they all thought the fight was won and the job was done and they could just spend the rest of their lives collecting bloated paychecks and sleeping in parliament. Even Australia's recent effort to curb social media for children is too little too late I fear.

Going to be a bit negative but this is something that's kinda annoyed me about Android in the last few years. BREAKING: new shortcut available! And then there's the articles and breaking news for them doing shit like changing the design of the clock slightly every now and then.

What annoys me about all of this is that the very first Android phone that I had, the S4 Mini, that started out on Android 4.3, had custom firmwares around that allowed you to customise every shortcut with anything and choose from multiple styles of clock. Amongst other things.

Which tells me that the folks working on Android could easily make things more customisable but they choose not to so that we can get these articles going on about how awesome a new shortcut is and they get to look like they're always working on these new 'innovations'.

They're running out of ways to add extra cameras, so now they're acting like adding a new shortcut to a button that should've been more configurable in the first place is some sort of technological breakthrough.

For me personally, it's something that I'm always activating in my pocket and have disabled now.

The way I see it, the slippery slope that we're currently on is tolerating nazis and bigots.

It's all good. Thank you for taking the time out to try and help out here. And for being involved in building cool platforms for people to get together. You guys behind the scenes here in this indie web (or whatever you may call it) are heroes for giving us alternatives to turn to for our Sonic the Hedgehog shitposts and whatnot. Now more than ever.

I'll report back if there's any difference when I get things sorted on my phone. Which is going to be a little bit of a job, so I'm not going to get it done now at 23:04. But it needs to be done.

Update: not entirely sure what else to try but one thing I've tried now is disabling the global dark theme in my settings as well as Firefox (aargh my eyes). This seems to make no difference either. I even switched to the "Trans Pride" theme and it remains the same. The only settings that I've modified in accessibility is to make text size smaller.

If you have any suggestions of what to try, I'd be happy to. Otherwise I've been needing an excuse to start over on this device. So a reflash might be in order.

Haha well this is odd. Definitely wasn't on the high contrast theme.

And after switching to the Card Shadow theme, the entire thing just stayed the same with the very dark background and white boxes.

Using cropped images to reduce the size of my post but basically it looks the same as the first screenshot in my previous post, regardless of the theme chosen and saved. Including the home page outside of settings.

I definitely don't have any accessibility settings enabled and haven't encountered this on other websites (yet), although my usage of Firefox is pretty low these days because it's fairly heavy duty for my phone. I'll play around with my settings and try a few things though.

Still torn on Haley and Leah, years later. If Haley didn't exist, Leah would be the obvious choice but Haley is a character that I didn't like at first, that just took me more and more by surprise with every cutscene. And made me realise that there was more to this snob that insulted my clothes when we first met.

Abigail is also my type but comes across as a little on the young side. Haley, Emily and Leah read as late 20s and up to me, Abigail is fresh out of school I'm pretty sure.

Haven't played in a while, actually. Been itching for a playthrough again but need to brace myself for the setting up of mods and completion lists first.

Edit: honestly if I could romance Abigail's mother Caroline and steal her from Pierre, I'd be pretty happy.

Very cool! I really hope it takes off because it's just what this place needs. I'm sure it's gonna be hard work for drag though.

Firstly the obligatory disclaimer that I'm not American, just someone that has been watching this unfold on the same world wide web that we all use.

Maybe I'm too radical but I would say fully. Whether they want a white christian nationalist country or just wanted cheaper eggs. Because that first thing was never a hidden objective, it was clear from the start. We had people who find secret illuminati pizza messages on bathroom walls take one look at Project 2025, an actual real conspiracy and go "doesn't look like anything to me".

So whether they're true right wingers, conspiracy theorists, or people that closed their eyes and ears and hearts while convincing themselves that this was all about cheaper groceries; I'd say they're all equally to blame.

We don't need to reach 1M MAU, but having 100k would already be a nice improvement

Definitely agreed with this. And less always (understandably) angry political posters, more escapists that want to chat about movies, games etc. It becomes like that snake eating itself because people that want a break from real life come here and see nothing but the same 24 news cycle as everywhere else. And then, speaking for myself, searching up certain niche communities and finding them either non-existent or with 3 posts from 1 and a half years ago.

I've been thinking of porting a couple of my old review posts over here from my banned but not yet closed Reddit account. Just so that, for example, the next time someone visits the Ghibli community there'll be 4 posts instead of 3.

And the Sonic communities are pretty disappointing too, considering I'm always seeing it mentioned in the wild these days. Makes me think (or hope) that there's a lot of people like me wishing there was more activity in these areas.

Reddit is sadly still unbeaten in searching up a TV show that you enjoy and finding an entire community built around it. And those communities never took a lot of members. So it shouldn't be impossible here.

It has been eye opening to say the least, how easily people are whipped up by obvious propaganda, as long as it gives them something to hate.

Even as far away as here in South Africa, I've come across people that have been clearly listening to Jordan Peterson or Joe Rogan or some shit; who want to 'chat' about transgender people.

As if it even concerns them in the first place. And as if being transgender is some sort of fad, and not talking about a miniscule percentage of people who are just trying to live their lives without bothering anybody. Because this 'fad' must be happening in some other town from what I can see. With my eyes. While not listening to self important 'gurus' on the podcast or some shit.

I just want to say that it has nothing to do with being transgender and it could've been any easy to single out group. People like to hate and look down on something different that they don't understand in order to feel superior in some way in their own shitty lives.

But I feel like that's empty and useless to say to someone while they're being actively targeted. Like telling a bullying victim to just suck it up because their bully has a bad home life or some shit.

So really all I can say is that I'm sorry this is happening to you. And that I wish there was a way to offer support other than with just words. Like a new country or island where the people are enlightened and not prejudiced, hateful and easily turned by easy to spot slimeballs.