There are still a lot more people on twitter.

The only person in the sub I feel much of anything for. Poor kid.

I'll give you a counterpoint, much as I also don't care.

Usually a story like this would be incredibly sad. Similar stories about refugee ships sinking are awful and heartbreaking.

Most of this story is about rich people who signed up to do a phenomenally stupid thing with an incredibly, comically terrible person in charge. It's actually more funny than tragic, and so people are able to read the story without feeling terrible after.

Caveat: I feel awful for this kid. Only sympathetic character I've seen so far.

Well, this c is specifically for discussion of this instance, and you're having problems on a different instance. If you're getting nowhere talking to the mods of that specific community you could try looking for a meta community on that instance to talk about it. Lemmy.world has nothing to do with moderation in a different community on a different instance.

Sorting by "new comments" can be a nice one if you're looking for discussions, I'm finding.

I suspect you'll find that just in general, any global social media is going to have a lot of people who don't hold the US in very high esteem. It's not a Reddit thing.

Right? I'm liking Lemmy so far but the armchair activist "here's how we hurt Reddit" fixation is cringe as hell. I'm here to argue with strangers, look at cute animals, and read memes about tabletop games dammit. I'm here because I'm done with Reddit, not because I have some dumb chip on my shoulder and can't stop thinking about it.

What would that post have to do with the lemmy.world instance

It seems to me you're probably in almost the wrongest place to ask.

Hobbies are really the thing. And a source for funny videos. I don't need the big subreddits for politics and news, much as I tend to get sucked into them, but I do really like having a wide range of subforums for my niche interests. It's much easier to find someone to talk to about a small tabletop RPG on a large aggregate site than it is to search for sufficiently active independent forums.

There's no way to prevent it entirely. A larger community will slide that way.

I do think that it can be less encouraged though.

Glad another Marxist said it. The problem isn't that capitalism was always the wrong choice, it's that we're clinging to it long beyond its best before date.

Tempted to plug in, you mean?

I mean, they posted an announcement and stickied it to explain why. They also have rules posted in the sidebar. I guess they could also add a copy and pasted comment to each closed thread but is it really necessary?

yes, it is so small I can't read it, you're right

Yeah, their "moderates" list is huge. I hope that with individual instances having more control here, we don't see quite as many of these absurd thousand-community mods.

What does "conservatism" mean to you? In my opinion there is no functioning definition of it that is safe for LGBTQ coexistence.

"double lidding" sounds like something that shouldn't be discussed in front of the kids

In my opinion we're already more or less at the "functional" stage. I can browse the place and shitpost and stay entertained for quite a while, with new content coming in while I do it, so that if I'm so inclined I can spend a full day pissing away my time on lemmy. It's nowhere near Reddit yet, where I could pick any given topic and read almost infinitely on it, but that's a function both of time and size, and not a reasonable expectation for a brand new platform. As long as the numbers we have now are sustainable they'll become self-improving in that direction.

Timecube, eh? Haven't seen that in a hot minute. Or maybe four corner rotations of a hot minute.

Jokes on them, we can't sort by upvotes and downvotes in most cases anyway

It's actually a pretty common character arc, it's just unusually blatant here.

A different group took over, and money talks. That's about it. That's why if we want to maintain a non-corporate internet, decentralised social media are the only option available.

To expand on what the other person said, the whole thing that makes Reddit what it is is that there are millions of people there, so you can find small interest groups that share your niche and reach out to them. There aren't that many people here yet.

That, and the other bit where I think people just assumed you're from nofap, and nobody is eager to see that side of Reddit return. It looks to me more like you're into a very specific asceticism thing with an unfortunate crossover, but the similarities mean you're swimming upstream.

It's exhausting seeing all these cringy "we're going to win with shitposts" things when all we really need is for people to post actual content.

If this stuff really catches on I predict there will be services built around setting up private instances for that purpose.

This keeps coming up but like... So? If beehaw users are putting good content up on a sh.itjust.works community, and making good replies and stuff, who cares if I can't go do the same on their semiprivate instance? I'm just happy to have the user.

Build trust by having AMAs of interesting non-celebrity people.

Huh. What an odd direction to go. I like retro gaming but I can't imagine having an entire console taking up space just for the occasional curiosity of a new Atari 2600 level game coming out. I can't imagine they have a huge market

Perhaps not. I pretty much never frequented it, the only stuff I ever saw on the sub was from specific searches so I know it had that kind of content on occasion. Now I can't open it to see, haha

New Comments is also good.

Actually, and in opposition to the post, if I'm going to use citrus peel in stuff, I do wash it with a little soap. Many pesticides are wax based and won't come off with water. Soap and scrubbing is way more likely to get them off.

Berries though? Yecch.

I wonder how long it will be before "power mod disorder" gets into the dsm

4 is already fixed in the alpha of jerboa, and the functionality is there but got accidentally hidden in the current version. You have to hold-click in your inbox to see context. These kind of hiccups are normal in a very new foss browser.

It seems to me that asklemmy@lemmy.ml is filling the role described, for the most part.

That sounds like one of those things where you forget about it, then years later realize how fucked up it was.

Godot is so enticing to me. I was heavily into RPG maker in the early oughts, not so much out of any love of the jrpg genre but just because it was mind blowing to be able to generate any kind of game so easily. Of course, now I have a "job" and "kids" and I probably won't be able to play seriously with godot until the latter grows up and possible until I retire from the former, but it's always there... beckoning...

Even if you're not a big doomer, apocalypse theorizing and even planning/preparation can actually be fun and, if you're the kind of person to worry about that stuff, lower your stress. Feeling prepared for an emergency can reduce the amount of distress it causes, especially if you're already aware of the risk of the emergency.

Put differently: if you're concerned about the oncoming climate disaster, and find it causes you mental anguish, then you can either sit around and read more about doom, or you can find ways to release some of that tension. One possible way is to feel as if you're becoming as prepared as you reasonably can. This is much like, say, learning to swim because you're going on a boat. Yes, you probably won't fall in the water, but I bet you'll be much less scared of what might happen if you do.

Oh good, I was so afraid I would be missing out on vicariously half-enjoying other peoples' drama.

I can't even tell if I'm being sarcastic.

I know they're the worst of capitalism and break any law or agreement they can possibly get away with and many they cannot, but shouldn't we at least give them a chance

Fucking rubes.

That seems like a good solution. Let me subscribe to a half dozen different game comms and put them together into one "games" list that shows up with pretty much the same interface as a single community, so I can browse just "games" content that I have subscribed to.