IMO: I'm thinking that shit is complete AI "fake news" slop.

Turtle Island Liberation Force... Ha!

It's a hot summer afternoon. I'm sitting down on a hot afternoon, with a burger, and a cold beer.

What I'm looking for is something to replace that cold beer with. I want it to be crisp and fresh, but also not sweet. I love tart and bitter flavours. Unfortunately, my options are either cold and sweet, cold and alcoholic or hot and non sweet.

So threadiverse, what alternatives am I missing?

Tereré is great, but it's a bit of a pain to source in Australia. What else is there?

I don't understand, why are the next to nothing in terms of gif-based communities in the fediverse? I've checked lemmy.world and piefed and it only really seems to be NSFW gifs, everything else is mostly dead.

Is there a particular reason there's barely any gifs or am I just looking in the wrong spots?

I just get too overwhelmed if I have any important life things and can't start working on a hobby project because I'm too afraid I wouldn't have the time to finish it or that it might hurt my real obligations. I've never been able to balance these two.

Winter is coming in the northern hemisphere, time to ask some hard-hitting questions.

Are you a burrower with a hollowed out snow drift? A mason who shapes and packs each block? Do you have snowball caches in case of attack?

Share your style and techniques.

OQB @Wren@lemmy.today

It feels like the web is becoming more closed every year — fewer open forums, more platforms locking away data and communities behind logins. What do you think are the biggest forces driving the decline of the open internet? Are walled gardens like Discord the main problem, or is it something else like artificial intelligence, corporate consolidation, surveillance, or changing user habits?

OQB @PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com

Despite the harshness of reality, what motivates you?