I’ve been here a year and it’s great. Prior to leaving Reddit, I was really disenfranchised with their community. Everyone on Reddit are insanely negative, pedantic fuck weasels. Subs were rife with bots that posted the same banal content, and turned into giant echo chambers. It was near impossible to have an opinion contrary to the popular one.
Lemmy is smaller, but our content is great and our communities are very friendly. You get to be you without much worry of some dickcheese jumping down your throat.
Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....
Their algorithm is already abrasive enough. I routinely find myself following people I did not elect to follow. Throw some stupid adds in there, to just make it worse…
I’d like to draw everyone’s attention to one of our first philosophical documents- the core principles document, “What is (and isn’t) Beehaw”. I’m going to zero in on a small portion in the middle of the first part here, because a recent discussion in the LGBTQ+ space got charged and, in a way, where a larger...
That was a long read, GW, but I particularly like your strategies for comment/post responses. There are several in there that my (professional) mentors have taught me and they serve me well; particularly the write a response but don’t send it.
While the strategy you mention below wasn’t one I was taught, I think it’s a big one:
Ask yourself whether you are the right person to be responding here. Are you a part of the privileged group that you perceive is being attacked? If you are not a part of the privileged group, do you have any context on the plight being described? If not, you should probably start by educating yourself. If you are educated on the topic, are you giving them the benefit of the doubt?
Because we are the protagonists of our own stories, it’s hyper easy to think we know it all, must stand up for others, condemn every transgression, or have all the context to make our comments valid. The internet makes everything seem personal, and it is human nature to try and simply things down to black and white thinking.
Chances are, we don’t know it all, have the necessary context, or necessarily need to address every issue or injustice. Despite my shitposting tendencies, I would much rather make fewer, more defensible comments than a litany of comments at the edge of my experience/expertise, or those were I fully understand what’s happening (ask questions! has entered the chat).
Take a step back, baes. Take a breath. Then respond
I’m with you, but what blows my mind is that the cuckoo myth persisted long enough for us to actually know about it, even if it was from another, less ancient source.
Thousands of people have donated about a quarter of a million dollars to a 90-year-old US air force veteran who has been financially supporting himself by pushing shopping carts at a grocery store in sweltering Louisiana – and now has the option of retiring if he wants thanks to the strangers’ generosity....
At the risk of sounding like a fascist-fucc-boi, I don’t see any evidence to backing the claims that this is an engineered crisis. I don’t doubt it, but making claims like that without evidence and strong linkages is exactly what the right does.
I don’t get why you’re being so hostile, when I just asked a question. ‘just google it, bro’ is the refrain of every Monster Energy slinging, tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorist out there.
I will google project 2025, though I doubt I’ll find anything of value; much like any response to this comment you might make.
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Met chief says millions of men are danger to women and girls in England and Wales (www.theguardian.com)
Millions of men in England and Wales pose a danger to women and children, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police has said....
Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users (www.techspot.com)
Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....
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On Tone Policing
I’d like to draw everyone’s attention to one of our first philosophical documents- the core principles document, “What is (and isn’t) Beehaw”. I’m going to zero in on a small portion in the middle of the first part here, because a recent discussion in the LGBTQ+ space got charged and, in a way, where a larger...
Fraud trial juror reports getting bag of $120,000 and promise of more if she'll acquit (www.yahoo.com)
Purpose of UK’s 4,000-year-old mysterious ‘Seahenge’ structure finally decoded (www.independent.co.uk)
The mysterious ancient structure was first revealed in 1998 by the shifting sands of Holme-next-the-sea beach on the north Norfolk coast....
Donors raise $233,000 to give US cart pusher, 90, chance at retirement (www.theguardian.com)
Thousands of people have donated about a quarter of a million dollars to a 90-year-old US air force veteran who has been financially supporting himself by pushing shopping carts at a grocery store in sweltering Louisiana – and now has the option of retiring if he wants thanks to the strangers’ generosity....
‘No way out without bloodshed’: the right believe the US is under threat and are mobilizing (www.theguardian.com)
The posts are ominous....
Pro tip rule (slrpnk.net)
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Jimmy Carter Becomes Second President Convicted Of Felony For Sticking Up Waffle House (www.theonion.com)
Fellow millennials, how do you prevent your child from yearning for the mines? (possumpat.io)
'YoU bElOnG hErE' rule (slrpnk.net)
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Bandwidth rule (slrpnk.net)
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Here we go again with the lip service
It's been that kind of week (slrpnk.net)
Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton dies after assault in prison (www.theguardian.com)