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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • In addition to the learning curve and the minor bugginess of Lemmy and Kbin, I feel like there may be some cognitive dissonance going on for users that are on the fence on whether they want to switch. To resolve the dissonance, one could either change their behavior (switch to Lemmy or kbin) or change their cognition (rationalize why they do not want to switch; for example by thinking that Lemmy or Kbin is too hard to use). Changing behavior can be hard especially if it is a habit built over a long period of time, so coming up with excuses for why one doesn’t want to switch would be the easier thing to do.



  • Reddit has already lost me as a user in the past month. I originally expected to switch using old reddit exclusively after July 1, but the blackout revealed to me just how bad reddit’s content quality has gone since I first started using it after trying out lemmy and kbin. Reddit’s response to the blackout and protests also showed me that they do not care about their community and that the quality will only go further downhill as the power users migrate away. Reddit was the only social media I used, and now kbin is now the only social media I use. There are still some subreddits I lurk in that have not seen activity here yet, so I still visit reddit once in a while but I only do so using RSS feed. I wish the remaining reddit protesters the best, but it appears to be a losing battle.



  • One browser that I think is promising for power users is Nyxt. It’s designed to support multiple browser back-ends with Webkit currently supported and Blink under experimental support. Nyxt also includes out of the box support for Vim, Emacs, and CUA keybindings for keyboard-centric navigation. The fact that is can also be extended and configured with Common Lisp makes it feel like the Emacs of web browsers. The only reason I haven’t switched to it yet is that it doesn’t include support for WebExtensions yet, but it’s a planned feature.


  • Oat Simulator: the most intense game about preparing breakfast.

    Ant-chamber: cleaning up an ant infestation in non-Euclidean space

    Stay: a cat tries to stop its owner from leaving the house

    Mincraft: a picture of a single block for minimalism

    Shove Knight: a game about a knight that fights by shoving enemies off of cliffs

    Udertale: goat mom starts a “business” after her teaching does not pay enough for the bills.

    Until DAW: only the power of music can defeat the wendigo

    Doki Doki literature cub: same game but all the characters are bears