You can say anything, but always better to have an account on two or three politically different instances in case you want to critisize USA, China, or any controversial thing in the world.

But if you ain’t an asshole, you’re welcome! Have a nice journey into the fediverse!

Every so often, teleport some random person who is alone in its location 3000 meter beyond the floor, and let them fall until they’re about 100 meter high, to then slow them down and put them back where they were as if nothing happened.

Would be interesting to see how such thing would be viewed by society as the number of reports would grow.

Anime is quite tied to video game, so interesting question. I know only few anime coming from visual novels adaptations (clannad), video game references (about 3/4 of isekais i’ve seen, but except for this genre, it’s pretty rare), or just promotional anime for games (pokémon). So without video games, we would still have all of the series focusing on others things, in addition to movies, like some from Ghibli which had a lot of influence and are definitely part of culture.

On the other hand, anime never existing would basically mean the artstyle itself never existed in the first place, so no Osamu Tezuka to introduce it, or a Japan which never recovered from war. That would mean Atari still crashing in 83, but no famicom to introduce video game consoles as we know it, so it is probable the world would have stayed for arcades and computer video gaming for a long time.

My argumentations seem favorable for anime, but i’d still pick video games, even if about half of my steam library would then cease to exist. I like interacting stories most of all.

I guess manga and light novels doesn’t count either huh?

I’d just give a LGM-118A Peacekeeper MIRV to the Aztecs and say nothing more. I wonder if they would eventually manage to do something with it.

Looked up on an encyclopedia, i admit i have been actually confusing communism with communalism, or communism at its primal sense. I had the idea that communism is the abolishment of private property and the equal repartition of remuneration between people, wether they work hard or not. Kind of like the functionning of ants. Simply got this idea from high school honestly (heh).

Though, if communism is only about collectivised production and distribution, i can see why it would be interesting to successfully implement it.

Honestly, i haven’t got a good enough knowledge of political alignments yet to be able to answer your question correctly, thank you for making me understand that. Do you reccomand any reads/authors who approached this topic?

Because pure communism breaks as soon as you have more than a few hundreds of people living together, in my opinion.

We are not ants, and we as a specie are doing things more for ourselves than for others.

A hypothetical society wanting to approach to the closest version of communism would need to be terribly authoritarian and selective, and would be very vulnerable to non workers pushing down the economy. To live in communism means to not let freedom to the workers. It is as unsustainable as fordism.

Aigh’t, while i don’t believe in the premise of communism in human civilisation, i think socialism, without it getting over the freedom of people, is one of the way to ensure the future of humanity.

I believe a balanced amount of anarchism and socialism can, for a medium sized population, be good and sustainable on the long run.

Tho to be honest, i don’t know enough in politics to say an answer.

I was going to say fourside, but you beat me to it, and the emptiness of it definitely played on the feeling of largeness.

There’s also Castellia city in pokemon b&w, the people wandering and the 3d buildings made it look like a real city, alive and busy.

Idk if it counts, but in Professor Layton, when i didn’t know what to do, i would desperately walk across the locations of the city and then realise it’s quite big for there to be buses and streets.

About 19 undecillion should be enough

Go to the fediring, and start exploring! The 8831 will be your guides. They have been expecting you.

As a person from pacific, we could choose between Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and the local austronesian language, in addition to mandatory english, for high school.

Pacific economy relies a lot on tourism, and it mainly comes from Asia or America, so knowing how to talk to tourists can be handy.

Not really. Time flies fast, they are newborn today, but in 60 years, they’ll be the elderly every yougster wished do be (if there’s no war) and we, will be the misunderstood great grandfathers who lived an unknown time.

Whatever the world would become, they would live an interesting but very harsh time of population shrinking, due to demographic transition (except african children), and even if we fear about their early ipad brainrotting process, they’ll figure out how to make their way in life, because it’ll be chaos if they don’t.

They’ll be the beta generation who were born with the ol’ AI generative tools, knew a bit about life without mass surveillance, lived the VR revolution, and worked to make nuclear fusion possible. (some guesses about future, let’s be optimists)

To be honest, the only answer i have to say is: “we’ll see”. Wheter it’s nothing or not, the second option would imply that there is effectively something beyond what we know about the universe.

What even is the soul? YOU from now think very different than YOU from ten years ago. Can we say that those two people are the same? Not really. Yet you share common memories with this early you, who doesn’t exist anynore. Is it technically correct in this point of view to say that you are the reincarnation of you from ten years ago?

If someone in the far future were to think like you, to remember exact memories from yours, would act the same way you would act in the same situation, it would not we wrong to say they are your reincarnation, no?

Again i’m just supposing.

Gotta say, nobody knows this game and rare are thoses who even played it, can it even be considered as a video game track, but i will say the first theme from Irisu Syndrome!

No matter how i think about it, my guess would be that an “accidental conciousness” inside a neural network would be very different and very far from our kind of conciousness.

We inherited a large part of our reasoning from animal instincts and life. We like water, we know what water is, we can see water, we can touch water, we can doubt on the edibility of water, we can recognise the sound of flowing water, and this sound even gives us a feeling of comfort.

What concepts would a sentient neural network even be familliar with? It doesn’t see, smell, touch, ear, taste, it doesn’t have the feeling of stress, pain, boredom, joy, the thoughts it would potentially have would be very different from its training material, and would inevitably be very far from our common sense. How would it want to enter in contact with us, if it has no interface with the real world? How would it even understand its situation, or start a reasoning at all if it doesn’t get any concepts of reality?

I think the only way a digital consciousness would even exist would be directly from human intent. If we design a cyber brain, inject emotions, feelings, concepts, self-awareness and will, this is probably the only way to get something conscious relatively close to our way of reasoning, and with a maybe humane will of dominating the world and destroy humans because they are a threat for themselves.

Id say K first because developped countries and low poverty areas.

G second because i lived the island life for a few years and it’s pretty chill, beyond the underdevelopment and obesity.

H, B and E third, poor countries but not that bad, beyond overpopulated poor areas, Argentina is great and Mexico is good, US is neutral, Canada is win.

D and J fourth, you can live a decent life in those aera but with a very large bit of luck, majority of people live in poverty, oppression, or starvation. South Africa has some racism, but it’s not that bad as a place to live.

A>F>I>C

is this loss?

I understand the motive, I too am on some niche communities that sometimes didn’t have posts for months. For that i use reddit (but the old interface). Now let’s see your question.

No, we can’t make lemmy as popular as reddit, but we can turn lemmy into a reddit twin, and make it popular, by pushing only one instance like .world.

The social media that popularised fediverse the most was mastodon, and yet it’s because they pushed mastodon.social as the default, making a large part of the userbase think that mastodon is only mastodon.social.

People do not even notice things more complicated than buttons “join”, “login”, or “post”. They are lost on join-lemmy.org because they don’t know why they should choose a server, read description, understand whatever is federation, and they’ll prefer going back to their comfort zone.

But hey, social media experience enshittifies as the userbase gets bigger, and i came here by fleeing reddit so please don’t

I was also desperate like you a few years ago.

Now I prepared for all that mentally and physically and i just do with it. They want to get you by isolation. Isolation gives loneliness and allow more control on you. Internet is perfect to make the world your enemy, as long as you are only spoonfed by their algorithms. After all, anger and hopelessness are the most impactful emotions.

The solution? You also already have it. Choosing what you want to see. The fediverse is that. The others who ignore warnings? They will figure it out the hard way. Or not. Anyways victims are always needed in large numbers for resistance to hide.

Talking about it, now is the time to gather your “resistance”! A common accessory, gesture, try to organize a local network of truth to preserve values of freedom and knowledge safe from corporate control and to not be isolated!

Personally, already living on a place where internet is slow and unstable, I would not be too bothered about stopping using internet at all.

Kiwix for wikipedia at home, ytmp3 downloaders or bandcamp to own your music, piracy and artist support (instead of buying without owning and giving half your money to some corporation) to own your films and games.

(But most of all, support your local library/media library/culture space! And don’t hesitate to make sometimes public essays about things of your interests, many cultural spaces accept that on some hours! I made IRL friends who love astronomy like me that way! The social media brainrotted people won’t come to theses places so it’ll be easier.)

As for the web, this is a place to share your thoughts, but not too much. A paper diary or a notebook is the best place to write and share your thoughts without letting them be used against you. Plus it allows to calm down and be yourself. A secred garden, where your free speech will always exist, hidable or destroyable in a matter of seconds from authorities. You should always have some freedom on your hands. But don’t tell about it to anyone IRL!

It will become boring if you think that nothing can be done. Even if creating isn’t a profession anymore (as in doing comissions or paid media like someone else said), the simple fact of drawing to show your love to something, to give a visual representation of your thoughts, it will never dissapear. Everyone seems hopeless, by the fact that they are all trapped in the social media loop. Life seem empty and boring if your only source of entertainment come from media consumption (which is the case for a lot from the rat race unfortunately)

But we all will find a way out, and creativity will always matter. Maybe not for the next decades, but someday it will. Trust me ;)

I just think theses people(who use AI to make “art”) does not have enough courage and perfectionism to get into drawing.

“Why bother putting hours in drawing learning, if the magical AI can draw the meme I ask it instantly?”

“Why bother buying a telescope and putting hours in astronomy theory if you can see better space images for free on internet?”

“Why bother doing a marathon, if i can just take my car and go there faster?”

For everything, you need to invest enough of your time in it so start liking it. The majority of people only have a few hobbies.

They see art as a way to be popular for the nerds who are skilled enough to draw. They see astronomy as a way to be popular for the nerds who learned astrophotography. They see sport as a way to be popular for the nerds who are fit enough to run.

For them, one thing that seemed innaccessible, became accessible with AI. I know it’s sad, but theses people don’t care if something has a soul or not. They just want their eye-appealing ghibli portrait.

Here’s a good blog article that better conveys my point of view.