Can you fill in the backstory? I missed this incident or possibly multiple incidents.

Edited to clarify that I’m not calling Heaxbears “homeless.”

The schadenfreude on Lemmy for Hexbear is somewhat disturbing to me. So you didn’t like them. They are still people. Stop cheering things going badly for them. Do you laugh at homeless people, starving people, someone who falls down and gets injured?

Their users wanted to defederate right away when they saw the rest of Lemmy. The people in charge (able to pull the switch) kept telling them to hold on and it’d get better. A small number of people made the decision for all of them. It’s all the rest for whom I genuinely feel bad. Their community was highjacked and, I think to them, attacked. I can have empathy for the average users.

Thanks! Unlike a lot of Lemmy users, I have a soft spot for hexbears. I think they had a genuinely traumatic experience when they federated and their very personal instance was inundated with people who didn’t think and talk as they did. I’m glad they’re ok.

That’s a pretty dumb move.

I don’t think I am adhd, but I am neurodivergent (bipolar). I had a minor manic period for three or four weeks and am currently in a mild depression. I bought all these books and some computer equipment to further my pursuit of computer security work but now I’m just spinning my wheels and watching endless content online. It sucks but things could be a hell of a lot worse, so there’s that.

I hope you find something engaging and turn the corner. At least you’re interested in finding a change.

This is a really interesting idea and I’d like to see someone with a strong case bring it to court.

I dunno. I half agree, but I also think there’s value in continuing to promote Lemmy. I don’t want all of Reddit here, but I wouldn’t say no to a few more exodus booms of users here.

I just tried about eight times to sign up. It never accepted the captchas. Frustrating as hell. How about sharing your account with me? I need my naughty pics. Please set the shared password to ‘hunter2’. Thanks!

Musk looking hella doughy

Cypress Hill used to call Ice Cube “dough-boy” when they feuded in the 90s. I think, at least for me, Elon gets that name from now on.

At times, during my adulthood, I’ve had to consciously avoid regular news outlets. It’s for mental health and wellbeing.

• During the W admin and second Iraq war
• Lead-up to 2020 US election (and post-election)
• When things have felt shaky for a few days or a couple of weeks as needed

Two of the pastiest white men of all time (said a pasty white guy).

I don’t use it either, but I guess someone from your instance has to follow someone on another instance before you see content from there…? Maybe someone else can chime in. I just get this stuff third-hand from reading things other people say and listening to nerdy podcasts.

I was listening to a podcast (by three software devs) just yesterday talking about algorithmic sorting on Threads vs chronological sorting on Mastodon. Nerds, it seems (of which I am one), prefer chronological sorting. This is because they have a community of people that they follow (I’m not using Mastodon, Threads, never used Twitter). They self-select for high-quality content. Normies, they theorized, don’t have a specific group of people to follow, thus they need an algorithm to show quality content from celebs and such.

I’m curious how you self-identify and how many specific people you deliberately follow?

Just tested. Thanks for building and sharing!

Hopefully seeing vigilant purging after investing effort in the initial bot creation will discourage future abuse. Thanks for putting in your own time combatting this. You rock and I’ll buy you a beer if you’re ever in the Bay Area.

Same. I don’t recall the pricing but I signed up roughly around that time. I haven’t regretted it.

Bah. Peasants. I use my Automatic Computing Engine. Works great.

American health care is fucked. That said:

I watched a promo for St Jude a few years back. They cover all expenses for families so they can focus on their kids. You should donate. They’re awesome.

I remember this bullshit. Fuck any cop who does this.

If it is depression there are medications that start to get you on the right track.

But also talk-therapy may be suitable to help. (I have both talk-therapy and an antidepressant. I’m not suggesting prescriptions aren’t sometimes necessary, but it shouldn’t be assumed.)

Thanks for pointing that out. Made it even more hilarious.

What if I like living dangerously?

Be aware that any rating on AirBnb can be easily manipulated by the host.

This is the same reason that Yelp is bullshit. And Amazon reviews. And pretty much any reviews you can find online. It’s why people used the reddit search flag. Everything is gamed and manipulated. People suck.

The least appetizing meal… Musk is all fat and squishy. Lumpy and yech. But I’ll do my part. Sign me up.

I listen to podcasts that talk about conspiratorial thinking and they tend to lean on compassion for the person who is lost. I don’t think that you can brow-beat someone into not believing this crap, but maybe you can reach across and persuade them over a lot of time. Here are two that might be useful (the first is on this topic specifically, the second is broader):

https://youarenotsosmart.com/transcript-qanon-and-conspiratorial-narratives/ https://www.qanonanonymous.com

I wish you luck and all the best. This stuff is awful.

I still buy CDs for the highest possible bitrate and album art. That’s how willing I am to pay for content.

I started torrenting movies again about a month ago. This shit is ridiculous. They made the situation absurd. I paid until it turned stupid again.

+1 for Syncthing. Very reliable between my multiple Macs and NAS.

I had a Reddit account ~10y ago. I was only a lurker in the days before the exodus. This feels like a real community.

Frist psot! /s

I hope advertisers

I think this is an unpopular stance here. I’m not certain how else admins keep things running, but my limited time on Lemmy suggests people are hostile to ad-influence on how things run.

Excuse me, do you sell maps?