Ignacio

@Ignacio@beehaw.org

Spanish guy, who likes open source software and has just discovered the fediverse (as of 28th of April, 2022). I like video games, and indie and retro music. I’m a student. I’m officially diagnosed with ADHD and ASD since January, 2023.

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Ignacio,

I spend most of the time on Kbin, sometimes lurking and sometimes commenting on different posts.

I can’t talk about sh.itjust.works because I rarely see content from that instance. Sometimes a meme, or sometimes a techie news post. But very rarely, as I said. If you stay federated or defederated with sh.itjust.works, I don’t really care, because I don’t really know that place or the content it’s published there.

However, I strongly prefer to stay defederated from lemmy.world. I really can’t understand why an instance with the .world domain is so US-centric. I don’t give a shit about Iowa, Idaho, Florida, Montana, Texas, California or whatever posts from related communites I see while browsing all on Kbin. Besides, being myself anti-nazi, anti-fascist and anti-tankie, I support when other instances defederate from far-right and far-left instances, but I don’t understand why they defederate instantly from certain instances and take some time to defederate from other certain instances. It’s sad, but lemmy.world is the most similar thing to reddit right now, and it seems that they want to monopolize everything, because there are communities on other instances, as well as on Kbin, that have few activity, if any, in favour of .world ones.

And then there is a cryptic reply to a comment I made on another post.

Ignacio,

Most of the admins are Europeans and the server is also hosted in Europe (currently).

Yes, and that’s really confusing. I mean, I respect the fact about posting US news where they belong and news from other countries where they belong too (I don’t like it, but I respect it). But while I browse all on Kbin, 90% of the content is about US, and I’m tired of blocking US communities every time they appear on my feed.

We defederated with both the extreme left and right instances. Which instance are you talking about?

Back in the day, some weeks or last month, or whenever it happened, I read some public disagreements about why lemmy.world didn’t defederate exploding-heads when they defederated lemmygrad. Why so much time with the heads and no time with the grads.

Everyone is free to start a community on our instance as long as they have active moderators and follow the rules

Obviously. But again, while browsing all on Kbin, the only thing I see is content from lemmy.world, while content from similar communities on other instances, although being there, it’s either invisible or at the very bottom. To the point I had to block that instance, so my feed will be enriched by other instances.

Ignacio,

That’s why I didn’t joint them either. I mean, I could join lemmy.ca because, even being located and focused in Canada, English is used. But feddit.de or feddit.ch, well, I can’t talk neither German nor Czech, so you’re also right about that.

Ignacio,

Half good, half bad.

Let’s start for the bad:

  • It’s been a week since I stopped taking melatonin before going to sleep. I reach my dreamworld as easily as with the pill, but somehow my sleep is light and I wake up earlier… and I feel sleepy along the day.
  • Sometimes I feel like I need to things I did when I wasn’t medicated. Like learning this or that language because yes. And giving up shortly after because yes.

Now, the good news:

  • I met a woman (transgender) on a dating app. Although she only writes me once per day, while I’m sleeping, we’re talking for 5 days already. She seems legit. But given my previous bad experiences dating women from other countries online (again, when I wasn’t diagnosed), I’ve some concerns: Will she want a LDR? How long will it last? …?

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Ignacio,

ITS NOT COMMUNISM GUYS, ITS FASCISM!

Most communists are closeted fascists. Poor souls.

Ignacio,

I have enough luck to have joint instances that don’t federate with fascists, being they red or not. However, when one of those instances decide to federate with them (not going to happen, but let’s pretend), I’ll protest like you’re doing. And if it doesn’t work, I’ll go to a more inclusive instance.

Don’t get me wrong, I fully understand that a fascist is not the same thing as a communist. But they’re equally despicable.

Ignacio,

Yes, you’re right. Sometimes I think that communism is merely an economic system. But thinking about Stalin, Mao and Il-Sung, whose communist developments where economic, social, democratic and whatnot, it’s sometimes hard to discriminate the noise from the useful information too.

Besides, I can’t understand why communists / tankies are so prone to support dictators. Dictatorship is not exclusive to communism, even capitalism had and has some kind of dictatorships: Hungary, Belarus…

Ignacio,

There is a supermarket where I live whose almost all products are gluten free. We don’t buy them because they’re gluten free, but because they’re generally cheaper than other supermarkets, having gluten or not. I think that bread and other pastries are the only products that are not gluten free, but I don’t care.

Ignacio,

When an online forum, social network, blog, etc. has a lot of users, it’s easier that bad elements are present inside those communities. That’s something that not only happens online, but in general. Compare a tiny village with 1.000 inhabitants, to a big city with 7.000.000 inhabitants. Where do you think there are more murderers, robbers, kidnappers…?

But defederation must not be the most useful resource to avoid those bad elements. You can’t place a dome above that big city with 7.000.000 inhabitants to avoid those murderers from going to other places and starting murdering. Good laws and police officers can do really good to minimize the damage. In the same way, good admins and moderators can really improve how nice a server is.

It’s true that when another server has bad policies or bad admins, we can’t do their job from here, because that’s not only our responsibility. If we do the hard work while they do nothing, it’s obvious that defederation can be a good tool, until situation improves over there. But that’s one thing, and another thing is complete and absolute defederation. Nobody deserves that, and, in the end, everything will be detrimental.

As time passes, people will realize that things in the fediverse are completely different to things on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram… and they’ll adapt their bad behaviour, influenced by those trash places, to a more healthy one.

Ignacio,

I’m playing FreeDoom: Phase 1, and downloaded some wads that work perfectly with FreeDoom, like D2TWWRI, Plutonia 2 and TNT Revilution.

Ignacio,

I was on Concerta until March. But it turns out that if you were diagnosed during your adulthood, it’s illegal to prescribe stimulants to you. My former private psychiatrist didn’t know and didn’t care, but my psychiatrist in the public health system told me that. So, no stimulants for me.

Ignacio,

It would be interesting to take both pills in that case. But I don’t think things work that way.

Ignacio,

Sometimes, when I go to my competitive service lessons, I always get distracted and use the phone to search random things from time to time. That’s something that rarely happens when I’m at home.

Ignacio,

As I said, my next appointment is next week. I’ll talk to her about those struggles I still have. Those benefits I experience are really good, but they’re not very useful when I can’t start doing my tasks and taking care of my responsibilities. That, and the damn dysgeusia.

Ignacio,

I only had anxiety symptoms when I was untreated. I don’t remember experiencing anxiety neither on Concerta nor on atomoxetine. But every person is different.

Ignacio,

I’m in Spain. But I think that regulation is European, I didn’t see any Spanish regulation about that.

Ignacio,

The psychiatrist of the national health system from my country (Spain) said that, as I was diagnosed being an adult, I’m not allowed to take any stimulant for ADHD because it’s illegal. If I was diagnosed being a child or a teenager and was prescribed stimulants back then, it would be different.

Ignacio,

I did. But I can’t remember the link right now, it was in March.

Ignacio,

I’m on three servers right now (the other two are sopuli and kbin), and although I’m not as active on sopuli as I would like, I’m kind of active on kbin. The amount of news is overwhelming, I can’t complain about that. But it’s true that most of those news, either they are from negativity to doomerism (which, for a person with two mental disorders, some kind of anxiety and at risk of having depression, is not good), or they’re exclusive to the US (which, for a person living in Europe, I don’t give a shit about what DeSantis said or did to a random citizen in Florida).

So, that limits my interaction to memes, Ukrainian war news, sometimes ADHD content, open source games, and nothing else worth of relevance. That would make almost 5% of the total content on Kbin and other servers I’m on.

I don’t know what kind of solution would be the best to handle this. The only thing I can say is to block all communities/magazines that are not relevant to you. But as you said, that leaves you with almost empty content or with old content. I don’t mind old content, unless it’s older than several weeks, but emptiness is really depressing. Even being Beehaw a small server compared to Reddit, this server is federating with other servers, and still…

One solution I can see about posting news is to post news in your native language, and provide a translation in the body of the post. On Reddit, those translations were a comment pinned. That way, we’ll have less US-centric content and more global content from other countries outside Reuters source, which is in English and limited in global content daily.

But about the other things, I don’t really know.

Ignacio,

I know that feddit.de is dedicated to German language and Germany. But if you don’t talk German and you’re not allowed to talk in English, you can do very few things. Same thing with the server dedicated to French language and France, and so on.

Ignacio,

If we accept bots, I prefer those that can be summoned by the user, as it happens on Discord. If we accept bots either summoned or not by the user, they must be identified as such on their profiles.

But in no way I’ll accept bots that pretend to be a human user or that can interact in the same way a human user can, neither commenting nor posting nor voting.

Ignacio,

I think today was very hot in my town (30° C). Hopefully temperature will be a bit lower by Friday.

Ignacio,

I finally discovered why my taste is messed up since I’m taking my ADHD medication. It turns out it’s a side effect that doesn’t disappear, and apparently I can’t do anything about it.

Besides that, I’ve been hyperfocused in this game called Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Trying to pass the main dungeon, but dying miserably because of things.

And I’m watching two TV series, after several months without consuming any media, except for the news. One is “Red Dwarf”. The other is “Doctor Who”.

Ignacio,

It’s atomoxetine, and it’s a side effect called dysgeusia. I realised that few days ago, while searching on google for weeks, because the list of side effects in the manual is almost infinite and any ADHD brain like mine can’t deal with those long lists.

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