I've had this sub open in my browser for the better part of two years and was always bummed it never sustained much activity. I have a few more clips like this that I was waiting to process and submit but I never felt like I had a good place to host them. Catbox has problems in some countries and also doesn't show thumbnails, so I was mostly holding out for native video hosting on-platform.

so much as expressing anger at what’s happening

Downvoting submissions that are appropriate, on-topic, and rules-following to the communities they're in is not using the platform sensibly.

Votes determine people's feeds, and people without the emotional self control to not manipulate other people's feeds for their own emotional regulation make the feeds of everyone else worse and I'm so fucking tired of seeing it. This lack of respect for how voting interacts with what other people see just creates an echo-chamber because the visibility of anything appropriate-but-disliked gets suppressed. Childish tribalist stupidity to sabotage not just one platform, but EVERYTHING connected to it because we're using interoperable federated platforms. To the best of my knowledge, having looked at how both lemmy and mbin process votes, none of the software involved here has sophisticated enough vote processing to enable people to use it in this way.

Then use the archived link that has been helpfully provided.

I think (and hope) people are downvoting you just because of the content of the article and not really paying attention to where it was posted.

Yes, it was my mistake to once again think that people might use the platform sensibly. On the other hand, maybe submitting should continue until platform usage improves.

Some other art I had in queue (was on the first about whether to submit the first three):

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/135953113 https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/135812759 https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/134216815 https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dywAGe https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1NDmeX

I maintain queues for places I actively submit in, but I actually exhausted mine with this link (not much gets published over the weekends). My current rotation of satire sources:

https://chaser.com.au/ https://theshovel.com.au/ https://www.betootaadvocate.com/(often has thumbnail problems) https://www.thebelltowertimes.com/ https://theonion.com/ https://clickhole.com/ https://thehardtimes.net/(seems to have died with Charlie Kirk) https://hard-drive.net/(seems to have died with Charlie Kirk) https://www.mcsweeneys.net/ https://newsthump.com/(partial paywall - please provide an archived link alongside the original submission if you use this source) https://theneedling.com/

Was evaluating adding this one in too: https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/

Nobody ever asked, but since I'm dumping everything else right now I might as well dump this alongside it too; the reason I made a consistent effort to submit here and not on the sister community on midwest.social is because although admins can run their instances how they want I didn't personally like how midwest.social was run:

• https://lemmy.ca/post/26560014
• https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33032063

It had been my hope to slowly displace it as the dominant onion community in the long-run, at least while the assumption of the admin(s) of this instance being preferable held true.

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Embrace satire (it's fun!) and truth (it's important!); reject tribalistic misinformation and inappropriate voting that ruins other people's feeds. If you don't, it will poison the platform and devolve it into more of an echo-chamber than it already is.

Based on current trajectories and the information I've gathered after 2 years of active use, I'm no longer convinced that the current threadiverse has a realistic chance of working out and I'm tired of trying (but it's always possible that I'll be proven wrong, or that it's already good enough for you personally). Good luck!

Keep an eye on the sukeban games page for random updates: https://sukeban.moe/

Here's the rest of the art I had in queue:

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/131411434 https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/131599227 https://www.artstation.com/artwork/WKQokN https://www.artstation.com/artwork/9m0W8N

Some other art I had in queue:

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/124754781(comic) https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/136340205 https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/136365576 https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/136231557

Keep an eye on the Mega Crit news page for updates: https://megacrit.com/news/(or on the steam news feed for slay the spire / slay the spire 2 if you prefer convenience over platform sovereignty)

The rest of the art I had in queue (probably wouldn't submit a few of them):

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/134031122 https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/127128665 https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/126442574 https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/134498019 https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/134632392 https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/135616643 https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/136245016 https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Gvnnqz https://www.deviantart.com/eteleu/art/Slay-the-Spire-Assert-Dominance-1169908813(this one's fun) https://www.deviantart.com/eteleu/art/Slay-the-Spire-Defect-vs-Champ-1149423080 https://www.deviantart.com/lovecpixels/art/Slay-the-Spire-Game-Boy-Demake-1111271283 https://www.deviantart.com/greev/art/Ironclad-vs-Slime-Boss-Exordium-is-no-more-919553468 https://www.deviantart.com/jasonwang7/art/Slay-the-Spire-Watcher-865135372 https://www.deviantart.com/jasonwang7/art/Slay-the-Spire-Ironclad-864882630

I had been hoping that it would be enough to keep the feed for this community [vaguely] active until StS 2

The other makings-of I had in queue to submit:

https://youtu.be/BJUB61P8ukM(woodkid - ashes and blood) https://youtu.be/ar6cv9SInJY(mako -- what have they done to us) https://youtu.be/SMWQVopajU4(riot - ma meilleeure nnemie)

(also keep an eye on the fortiche blog for the occasional interesting post https://forticheprod.com/blog/)