I’ll share mine first.
I had a psych patient one night pile shitty toilet paper next to his toilet overnight. Normally my psych nurse brain would consider this a symptom of disorganized psychosis, EXCEPT!
I remembered an aita post about a conflict between a western OP and his middle eastern roomate trying to figure out why their roommate put their shitty toilet paper in the trash. Turns out many middle eastern toilets can’t handle toilet paper.
Oh and inpatient psychiatry doesn’t provide freestanding hard plastic trashcans (turns out they make great clubs). We gave him one of our freestanding paper bag trashcans and problem solved.
TL;DR; Reddit expanded my cultural knowledge enough to differentiate disorganized psychotic behaviors from a genuine cultural difference. Thanks reddit!
Anyone have any similar examples of positive exchanges of knowledge or culture using reddit?
A subreddit can be a scary echo chamber circle jerking place
With the way some people treat the fediverse I’d argue that this place as a whole is well on its way to becoming an echo chamber.
The number of posts I’ve seen along the lines of “hey I don’t like x, can we de-federate” is shocking. People need to have some level of accountability and block people / communities / domains for themselves without resorting to pulling out the de-federation ban-hammer which affects everyone else on the instance
On top of that, the Lemmy user base consists mainly of left wing people and tech power users currently. Not a bad thing for me, but it does make me wonder about how effective it will be at attracting a larger user base; I personally think Lemmy needs to simplify/streamline/modernize its default UI/UX and sign up process to something more people are familiar with, but I’ve gotten a lot of pushback when I bring that up
Yes and no. Some instances truly are made to cater to people who will ruin the experience for the average person/might possibly put admins in a position where they’re hosting illegal content and the good thing about Lemmy is that the consequences of defederation are small, these people get to keep their platform to interact in, they just don’t get access to some of the content available to others, it’s much better than making their platform disappear and seeing them invade other platforms.
Not like accounts are needed to be able to see content either, which is a plus even if the instance you use is defederated. I think it’s better to just see each instance like an old school forum. Sometimes you need to make another account to access a specific forum. Sometimes not if the forum has categories you are interested in already. So it’s like a way of going back to the old way of the internet where things are starting to get much more decentralized.
I mean go to lemmygrad, seriously just go to a few top posts and read the comments, you’d be shocked at how echo chambery it is when their posts get on all
Oh and especially when they think they understand genuine psychiatric or psychological terms! Take this from a halfway professional!
Ex: They ALL think they know what “gaslighting” actually is from maybe watching a movie one time or reading a Wikipedia article or just reading enough Reddit posts…
I know enough even as a psych nurse to relay in report that like “this is what the patient is saying. These are the ways both them and their so-called social support persons could all be lying about this. I am so grateful that the final verdict on any of this is falling above both our paygrades. just letting you know about what’s up in case it rolls up on the unit today.”
Professionally we don’t speculate any more than preparing for the fallout of possibilities. I let you know as a coworker to take extra precautions to play it extra close to the chest if our patient’s possibly abusive ex calls.
That’s what we do. We prepare and prepare each other for contingencies. Y’alls social media speculations are just entertainment.
It was interesting to see a jarring divide between similar communities on identical topics. I used to follow /r/Australia and /r/auspol (I think that’s what it was called) and the same news could be posted in both subs with a huge variation on answers. I used it as a way to experience different viewpoints but someone whose only exposure is to one of those subs would only see one type of viewpoint regularly.