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Cake day: January 16th, 2025

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  • Hello… Hope you’re hanging in there and taking care of yourself this evening. Sorry for taking so long to respond to this, I meant to get back to this thread sooner.

    It’s a real pity that I can’t even see that community (and a couple of others there) from here. I wish you could convince your friend to open an alt community in more neutral ground. Or try to make some sort of amends with all of the instances that are de-federated with hilariouschaos. There’s some big ones de-federated from it, even piefed.social, which I tried the other day.

    If you’re interested, now that I’m attending to this post, it seems likely that my next fixation on something to categorise and make lists of is going to be this very topic lol. I’ll probably only be done in a couple of months from now but if you would like, I could post my results in Women’s Stuff (or I could pass it on to you to post, if you prefer). Otherwise if you think it’s a better idea, I could post it to gpral from another account, although I wish I could do that without feeling bad about Blåhaj people being blocked off from it.

    And, just gonna ping your new account in case you never look at the old one anymore: @[email protected]



  • Just want to say, after reading that, including the statement from the band themselves, it reads to me like these members got kicked out, then vented their frustrations. Maybe I’m missing something but this all sounds like pretty standard band politics to me, especially when egos and perfectionism are concerned. At least I don’t see anything about nazi salutes or groupie abuse or some shit in there.

    Anyway, sorry for the late reply. Got to this late. Finally got everything listed and categorized and decided to start to with the punk kind of stuff first. Just started listening this morning and I was hooked from the first track on the first album. I can even say it’s exactly the kind of punk rock I’ve been missing and looking for for a long time now. So thanks for this suggestion!




  • I got kinda (very) overwhelmed by this thread. I was expecting like 5 responses, so you thank you very much for all the suggestions. I have finally made a list from all of this and will be replacing just about my entire music rotation with everything here. Once I find my favourites, I’ll probably let you know some time in the future lol.

    Thought I might as well drop some names that are already in my collection that I haven’t seen mentioned here, for the sake of anyone that might come past here in future. Including stuff that’s more on the alternative / hard rock side of things.

    General Alternative / Rock:

    • 4 Non Blondes
    • Anneke van Giersbergen (singer of The Gathering)

    Old School:

    • Heart
    • Janis Joplin
    • Siouxsie Sioux and the Banshees

    Alternative because off-beat / weird:

    • Portishead
    • Tori Amos
    • Björk

    Punk:

    Hard Rock / Grunge:

    • DILLY DALLY
    • Guano Apes
    • Skunk Anansie

    Heavy:

    • Devilskin (band I discovered in New Zealand)
    • Octavia Sperati (singer went on to do an album or two for The Gathering)


  • Hey Blaze, just wanted to say, I’ve tried out Piefed a little more. Can confirm mobile theming is definitely fixed. Think I might hold out a little longer for an app or more of certain options. A couple of things I’ll miss right now from apps is pinning favourite communities or being able to tweak my UI just right.

    So I’ll probably stick with base Lemmy for a while longer. Thinking of moving to crazypeople.online though. Less de-federation but downvotes still disabled, which might just suit me better right now. If I do that, I’ll probably use the screen name that I’m using on this account right now as a username there. Although I’ll take your advice and link my accounts in my bio.


  • I think it’s a fun thought. Like, particularly when I’m thinking about past regrets and shit, there’s definitely a few key moments where things could’ve gone differently and my life would be drastically different right now. And I seem to be in the timeline where I made all the worst possible choices at these key moments lol.

    But I don’t particularly believe in different timelines or dwell on it. For all that I can do in this timeline that I’m in, the only direction that I can go is forwards, not backwards or sideways.


  • As someone that likes to do a lot of scrolling, I’m also running into the same problem. There really just isn’t enough content here for it yet. There’s already a pretty small over all amount of users posting, and people have likes and dislikes and tastes and vibes, so out of that small amount, there’s only so much to interact with. Like, there’s a fair amount of content in ask and chat style communities and TV communities but no one likes everything or thinks the same topics are interesting.

    So it really just needs more. So that there’s more of the same types of people watching the same shows and interested in the same topics. It doesn’t have to be packed in here, it could just do with a little more of something for everyone. It would’ve been nice if there were more than two people discussing Harley Quinn season 5 for example.

    On Reddit I could spend all day every day interacting with my particular interests without ever feeling like I’m being a nuisance or repeating myself. It’s nice having a smaller crowd but I’d like something between this and Reddit.



  • Oof. I’d be me at the tail end of apartheid in my country. I’m going to assume (and hope) that this timeline magic also puts me in my home town of the vicinity of where I was at that time because then I’d at least know where to go to find the people I would want to be around. I’d go straight to where the alternative scene is and get in with the punks and goths and hippies, so that I’m at least around decent people. Might even meet some of the people that I knew when I got into the scene originally as their younger selves, which would actually be pretty cool.

    As for what I’d do to survive, honestly not sure, considering that I would still be the same age that I am now with the same lack of career and shit. I guess I’d just keep doing this or that for a while. With my limited knowledge, maybe invest a little in Microsoft, then Facebook at the appropriate times. Until Bitcoin is a new thing, then I’d definitely dump whatever cash I had into a few Bit oin. Then be rich enough to never worry about anything again at like 70 years old or something lol.


  • Too many. I like to have favourites, not just one. So (I’ve probably missed stuff), I’m gonna list general favourites, going mostly by what I’ve rewatched and plan to rewatch more. My favourites could change over time and if I included stuff that was my favourite once but I’ve never had the urge to rewatch, this list would be much longer (I wish I could have simple answers to things).

    Pre School nostalgia:

    • The Neverending Story
    • The Princess Bride
    • Drop Dead Fred

    '90s nostalgia:

    • RoboCop ('80s movie but I first watched it in the '90s)
    • The Crow
    • Tank Girl
    • Barb-Wire
    • The Island of Dr. Moreau

    Other:

    • Hellraiser franchise (none are perfect, many are awful, some are pretty great; there’s just something I love about all of it)
    • Candyman franchise (better quality films over all; between this and Hellraiser, Clive Barker is just my kind of horror)
    • Studio Ghibli movies (all of these movies are worth watching more than once eventually)
    • DC Comics animated movies (DC adaptations over all have been my main source for finding things to watch over the last few years)

    Up and comer:

    • I Kill Giants (looking through my personal rainy day collection, this is the most recent ‘new’ movie that I’ve absolutely loved and might watch again some time. Time will tell if this will be on my list in the future.
























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