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VoltasPistol

@ VoltasPistol @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • /r/AccidentalRenaissance moderators have all resigned. The subreddit has permanently shut down and moved to Lemmy.

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  • It wasn't the way images uploaded, it was more that kbin's image previews absolutely skullfucked the aspect ratio of anything that wasn't roughly in a 3:4 aspect ratio, making a bunch of deeply touching photos look like goofy funhouse mirrors.

    We were like, "Shit.... Is.... Is this on purpose? Are the people behind kbin some kind of weirdos who believe in 3:4 aspect ratio supremacy??" so we thought, "Eh..... Maybe we'd better make a Lemmy too, in case kbin doesn't figure their shit out".

    Because, honestly? Our faith in humanity was at an all-time low and we were running out of time before people began leaving reddit for new platforms. Throw everything against the wall and see what sticks, right?

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  • I stole it from Tank Girl first, but I don't think she'd mind.

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  • Oh damn, that's us!!

    We'd wondered where the nearly 1.9k subscribers came from completely out of nowhere!

    So, yeah, a lot of people are hating on us for creating one of Kbin and one on Lemmy, but we had our reasons: Basically, neither handled images very well and we saw that these two services did basically the same thing and that typically leads to the weaker project getting cancelled down the line, so we decided our safest bet was just to make one of each, just in case. Better safe than sorry.

    We might consolidate them later, but for now just pick whichever you like best. :)

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  • We didn't like how either handled images when we first signed up, and having been burned before? We decided to make two and maybe we'll consolidate them later.

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  • This right here.

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  • Queens, actually.

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  • We setup on Blahaj because when we were trying to setup AccidentalRenaissance, we didn't know we were one letter over the arbitrary 20 letter limit on community names, and there wasn't even an error message for it, so we were pounding our heads against the wall trying to figure out why we couldn't setup anywhere on any server.

    And we didn't make a big fuss about who we were either. We were just looking to setup an instance. Just some randos as far as anyone knew. So we asked for help.

    The admins of Blahaj personally told us what the problem was and when I asked if it was an absolute limit they said it wasn't, and raised their limit. Just for us. Some random-ass strangers. They changed their server just so someone wouldn't have to shorten their name.

    So that's how Blahaj scored AccidentalRenaissance.

    Given how many actual Renaissance artists were legitimately, deeply, obsessively queer? Yeah, it fits.

  • /r/AccidentalRenaissance moderators have all resigned. The subreddit has permanently shut down and moved to Lemmy.

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  • One mod team working on two communities. We may consolidate to one or the other at a later date.

    We were honestly afraid that either Lemmy or Kbin would self-destruct so we wanted to have one to fall back on and we weren't happy with how either handled images.

  • /r/AccidentalRenaissance moderators have all resigned. The subreddit has permanently shut down and moved to Lemmy.

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  • Because when this all happened, both had serious drawbacks and we were a bit afraid that either kbin or Lemmy might spontaneously combust altogether and we'd have nothing.

    Our trust in social networks was not exactly great at that moment.

    We might consolidate to one or the other in the future.

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  • Thank you!

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  • Actually, we did have a small contingent of visually impaired people who enjoyed the subreddit, even if they had to zoom way in to see the details. Most people who are legally blind still have some vision and they still love pleasing arrangements of pixels.

    That's why we're trying to make the Lemmy and kbin instances more accessible by adding image transcriptions where possible, a paragraph description explaining the details in the photo so mostly-blind people can enjoy them more.

    Also, like, half the mod team is some flavor of disabled, and us cripples gotta stick together.

  • Gunpla Maker with helper

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  • Image Transcription:

    [ A young person (roughly in their 20s or perhaps early 30s) in a black hoodie sweatshirt hunches over a deep-amber-colored wooden desktop, their neck craned and their glasses slipping down their nose as they attempt to assemble the plastic components of a do-it-yourself model kit, which we can see partially assembled in the foreground. An instruction book is laid out in front of them, with complicated diagrams and tiny eyestrain font. Beside it is a soft drink can on a coaster and the extruded plastic frame that the kit pieces shipped in. The kit appears to be some kind of Japanese-style robot with excitingly chunky limbs, but exact details are impossible to identify because the toy is sharply backlit by the midcentury-style adjustable desk lamp that illuminates the scene. Beside the person's hands which are flexed as they put the pieces together, a long-haired brown tabby cat is visible, it's attention focused on one of the small plastic parts,reaching a paw out to steal the transparent cap of a utility knife that is out of the cat's reach. The scene is softly lit and cozy with a certain mischievousness on the part of the cat. ]

  • Well-aimed sling shots can topple giants

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  • Image Transcription for the visually impaired:

    [ A young shirtless brown-skinned man in his 20s with a faced etched with concentration, tousled brown hair and a short, tidy beard is dramatically caught mid-action, his left arm raised and his biceps flexed in the moment before the snap of the wrist that will send the projectile inside the military-green rock sling hurling forwards towards its target, but for this instant that we see him, the olive-colored rock sling is suspended, taught, in the air above him at a rakish angle. In his right hand he holds the pole of a roughly 3' by 5" flag that unfurls above and behind him. The flag is a red right-facing triangle on the left edge overlaid over a horizontally-striped black, white, and green tricolor: The flag of Palestine. He is garbed only in black athletic shorts (a small white Adidas logo is visible) and a long-sleeved t-shirt that used to be red but has long ago faded to a rust color is tied around his waist giving the appearance of a loincloth. Behind him are two men in black tactical gear: Bulky stab-proof vests over their civilian t-shirts, their black military-grade gas masks pulled below their chin or above their face, their riot helmets secured at their sides-- They look bewildered and lost compared to the mostly naked youth in the foreground armed by little more than what the biblical David carried when he faced Goliath. Smaller figures, far away and out of focus on the far right are turned towards us, towards the youth, their attention seemingly fixed on him. Dark grey smoke billows in the background, suggesting that this battle has been raging for a while, though a bit of blue-grey sky can be faintly seen above the smoke. ]

  • Man with a Green Shroud

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  • That's absolutely uncanny,....

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    Millennial rule

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  • That's big talk from the generation that unironically said "RAWR :3" to each other.

    I was there.

    Livejournal? Emo? "Lol I'm so Random"? Leet speak?? And we took it SO seriously. Peak "No mom it's not a phase".

    We were criiiiiiinge.

    I just remembered that brief trend where teenage boys were wetting their pants in order to look more vulnerable and soft, took selfies of themselves looking vaguely ashamed with a giant wet spot, and a lot of girls really seemed to like it??

    And even if you weren't peak emo, Elder Millennials were wearing flannel and pretending to be just as jaded as Kurt Cobain because they were sad no one was playing POGs anymore, while Younger Millennials had skunk hair and that "greasy sk8r" look.

    So what if Zoomers are embracing "Coastal Grandma" looks and TikTok dances? We can't really point fingers.

  • Hound of the Woods

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  • Nope, I found it before AI had a good grasp on anatomy, like, back when it wasn't sure how trees worked and how many legs a dog had.

  • Accidental Giuseppe Castiglione

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  • Omg hi! A friendly familiar face!! Happy-dance.gif

  • Accidental Giuseppe Castiglione

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  • Excellent image transcription! 👍

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    Faithful Hound

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    The Brewmaster

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