TheSpookiestUser

this hit me like a mental flashbang. your wisdom is beyond all of us

In my DnD group, my goblin wizard still holds the honor of being the only party member the DM has used Power Word Kill on.

I’m honored.

I often see this accomplished with dashed interjections - dashes! can you believe that? - as a way to break up a sentence while still continuing with a single train of thought. But I always support the invention of new punctuation, how long has it been since we got any? We’re well overdue.

the smell of heavily chlorinated water. i used to spend a heck of a lot of time at the pool when i was a kid, and where i live now there aren’t nearly as many pools, so it’s not something encountered often anymore.

I only really wishlist games that haven’t come out yet that I’m interested in, to remind me to buy it when it comes out. Only about ten items on mine.

paid for in blood

That’s blood on that hammer isn’t it

Differences in instance-level topical focus and moderation philosophy, for one. Also physical location and “vibe”.

There are a certain set of bigoted and/or extremist instances that I would judge an instance for not defederating from. There’s a reason I’ve stuck with .world even through some turbulence. Some heinous shit shouldn’t be tolerated by anyone.

As an aside, check out [email protected] if you haven’t already.

Can you see the word “bitch”?

I have heard lemmy.ml blocks curse words. My account is on lemmy.world and I see no removeds.

Curate.

Block liberally. Especially block any community that is focused around hating something - even if it’s a thing that deserves scorn, the vibe will grind you down, over time, especially if there are many communities like it. Block users who are assholes, after reporting them if it’s bad enough.

Subscribe/follow/equivalent-action things you are genuinely interested in; cut out the really general categories unless you actively enjoy browsing that topic. Smaller communities are usually better, if they have enough content to be alive.

If you have any sort of hobby, try joining a space about it. If it’s too toxic, block it, but if not, it is a good place to destress and perhaps even make friends.

Curate, it can’t be overstated enough. A lot of sites don’t let you sufficiently curate your feed, and if they don’t, you should leave em.

If someone’s email domain is @ihateminorities.com, I’d say that’s pretty fair grounds for blocking it.

There are some instances that actively promote hateful or extremist content, and exist for the purpose of hosting it. There are others that do not actively support that content but do allow it, anywhere, making blocking one community not enough. Defederation is an important tool and should be used wisely.

At least with Lemmy it plainly is a Reddit clone. That’s not an insult, it’s just a fact. It has upvotes/downvotes, posts sorted into discrete communities that are volunteer made and run, crossposting, similar sorting options, and if you go to your own profile on Lemmy it displays your date of join as a “cake day”. The similarities are both obvious and intentional.

I think Lemmy needs to add more unique features Reddit never had. The federation model is very novel and fundamentally different but also can be confusing. It needs more than just that to be different.

(I can’t comment on Kbin as much because I don’t use it.)

Other people should post more then, to be frank.

I’ve seen this specific account around enough I recognize the name, just from how much they post all across Lemmy. Same with a few other accounts. Hell, I’m trying to prop up a community or two myself with daily posts. We all gotta try to post, as much as we can without being spam, to keep the Lemmy network alive.

For the future, [email protected]

If true: Well, that’s the end of that platform I guess. Shame, I liked that there were so many alternatives cropping up.

There’s a lot of types of bigotry and other general nastiness that are not covered by that.

Normally I would not be so nitpicky with language but if multiple admins were removed / quit over it, that’s pretty suspect.

ROCK AND STONE YOU BEAUTIFUL DWARF

I miss wizardposting