I really appreciate these posts; this way I don't need to actually go to Reddit to see what it's looking like.

This is great, and very honourable, but I would just draw Loss.

"They won't be happy until we are all gay." I thought Barbie and Ken were the quintessential straight couple? I haven't watched the film but that is so odd.

Hmm...

IDK, I think a big thing with federation should be communities being spread out, instead of centralized in one instance. I totally get why you would want to move away from lemmy.ml, both on account of the Mali government and feeling like it doesn't fit, but why not move to, say, Lemmy.zip or Derpzilla.net, since they're tech and gaming focused instances? I get discoverability, but on the other hand, wouldn't being on an instance of people that are more likely to care about a certain topic be better for discoverability too?

IDK, just saying. Hope all goes well with your community!

the dude trying not to shit

CONVENIENCE FEES HAHAHAHA

God what a scam that shit is

British people are real?

What a scam...

I approve of this post (it is very funny).

hilarious that you'd post this on Lemmy too!! the fediverse really is incredible

No 😠 !!!!! SCREW YOUR UPVOTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I upvoted this btw

Do iOS users not have free icon packs? I'm so confused by this...

I think the Dino is cute :c but I agree I would prefer more "FUCK SPEZ".

Governments use Twitter, they might as well use Mstdn. At the end of the day, you can just block the account if you don't want anything to do with government stuff, or you might decide to join an anti-goverment server instead that just defeds from gov servers.

That is so fucking funny.

1. Comparison is the thief of joy.
2. The relationship between hard work and success is tenuous at best.

Your mentality is fucked up IMO. You don't need to keep up with anyone. Just do what you think you can. Live your life instead of chasing someone else's.

unproductive stuff in the free time to get temporary pleasure

You do realize your whole life is temporary, right? The way you phrased that makes it seem like sitting down to listen to your favourite songs is a waste of time.

An e-Book reader! IDK which model would be best for you since mine is an old Kindle, but being able to take SO MANY books wherever I go is a godsend. Way better than reading on my phone or laptop.

in r(ule)eal life

I am become Barbie.

If there were ever a way to more easily migrate communities, I will also consider this down the line.

Ah that's a great point actually, and I believe it's in development as we speak. A lot of people have asked for that feature.

what a wild screeshot

Literally this.

I don't understand what this means.

It's where people are taking shits. Nobody wants their shits to be transmitted via coworker-phone-call.

IDK about the US, but I think this wouldn't actually be legal anywhere. In Portugal, for example, there's some rules about this, even for personal consumption. I didn't read anything about gerbils in particular but it's not necessarily as straight-forward as just buying some animals, killing, and cooking them. It's because of public health laws.

That's honestly impressive.

Well being naked is embarrassing, so I would think most people don't really want to undress in front of others.

Regarding drinking games: it's kinda like "I lose the game, but at least I get to drink!". This way everyone has fun even if you're losing. The winners can still drink even if they win anyways, it's just not mandatory like for the losers.

that sounds extremely convenient!

apparently they're estranged and don't really speak

I disagree simply on the basis that they hope to refederate eventually, and it might be good to already be subbed. But yeah.

I diagnose you with insanity. It's terminal, I'm sorry...

Honestly, I think Lemmy could be the perfect social media*.

The only things missing are video and user-feeds. If Lemmy could add the ability to follow users (rather than just communities) and a feed that shows you only posts from those users, that would already make it better than Instagram and Twitter/Mastodon, IMO. AFAIK videos are very hard to do, but if Lemmy could add great video support (a good video player and embeds), then it could be better than YouTube.

*There are many things that Lemmy is trying to do right now, but not doing very well, such as direct messages and UI, so it's not perfect by any means, but I believe it's going in the right direction and trying to do the right things to get there. And, of course, it doesn't have enough content or people to be infinitely browsable yet.

Is Lemmy not also 3.0? It's decentralized. Tho maybe because it's still servers/hosting at the end of the day maybe not?

Actually really excited for the decentralized internet...

I disagree (I'm cis and therefore always wrong)

Now see this would be really funny but the image is actually a png. This is the link: https://i.imgur.com/Nn1rqKB.png

IDK, I see tons of left and trans content on YT and Twitter, for example. That is because that's the type of content I like, and the type of people I follow. I suspect what you're noticing isn't so much the presence of communism and trans people, but the absence of dumb shit.