If you had made the effort to remix the meme by changing it to say lemmy, I'd've upvoted.
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"I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote a long one."
i wanna say Mark Twain said that, but I'm not 100%
I thought it was Victor Hugo but apparently it was Blaise Pascal
Jane Austen I thought
Steve Austin?
Actually it's a keyboard shortcut to close the browser tab.
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If someone is an obvious tankie or far-right troll, just be like "Lol loser" and never elaborate further.
'Know your place, trash. Fucking robot.'
Been there
If I said a quarter of the shit I typed out online, my corpse would be in a Lebanese prison cell.
This is me when I try to tell my dad about my mental health problems. Why even bother
I bookmark subreddits and read them without logging in. Every time I feel the urge, I've got a hurdle to cross before I can type anything. Then it's immediately a "fuck it" moment and move on
The Reddit interface is so fucking obnoxious when you're not logged in, I've just given up on the community entirely. Days of casually browsing have been ruined by the constant gating and engagement baiting and GUI hell they've injected into the site.
old.reddit.com works when logged out luckily.
r.50501.chat and redlib.northboot.xyz also work.
Yeh I've stopped myself from making negative comments before, you aren't changing anyone's mind and it's probably gonna get you banned
lol I got permanent my banned for saying I was surprised Kanye hasn’t murder/suicided Kim or Taylor yet… they’ll ban you for anything at this point
Most likely, their in-house AI saw the Unalive-Word and auto-flagged it. Then another AI that has been inserted to replace some data sweat shop worker picked it up and auto-approved the ban notice. Very possible that no human ever saw what you posted before you were ejected for Word Crimes.
I've never thought about that before but now that you mention it, I could absolutely see him doing that
I am slightly concerned that I recognized the anime source from that one frame 😅 To be fair it is a fantastic series! Check out Paranoia Agent if you can 🍿
Literally just finished watching it. Incredibly series from the GOAT Satoshi Kon. But... I will admit when I first saw it, my brain went to
Oh, hey! I know Paranoia Agent! I need to start that one over; I never finished it.
Thanks I just started watching because of your comment! Wow that scene is literally 2 minutes into the first episode.
Haha, right! It’s like the very first scene 😅 Have fun! It’s a wild ride, but in the best possible way.
Here's a tip for how I've improved my social media experience greatly:
Stick to a rule of 1 comment and no further replies.
Strangers online are not going to be convinced by your point of view and there is nothing to gain from getting into a back and forth conversation. Unless it's a particularly positive or productive conversation about a particular interest you share....there's nothing to gain from arguing online and lots of potential mental damage you risk.
You're clearly incorrect!
I gotta say, there's a sentiment that nobody has ever said anything on the internet that's ever changed anyone's opinion about anything. And it is not a damning indictment of the internet nearly as much as folks who live by the theory.
But maybe they're right enough that it doesn't matter. A thousand hours of posting could be spent doing something more productive in swaying public opinion. Maybe "Ender's Game" is a lie and you cannot actually post your way to the Presidency. I mean, I certainly can't think of anyone who went so ham on social media that they reshaped an entire nation's political philosophy.
But also, maybe there's a negative valiance to posting. Perhaps it's just harder to post your way into people's hearts and fill them with love. But its comparatively easy to post your way into their amygdalas and drive them insane.
Proposal for an exception: Where the comments/discussion revolve around something non-controversial with people who are OK with partaking in a conversation without needing to win it.
This seems great but I wonder what the point is then.
If I can’t convince someone right of centre to come to my side and they can’t convince me to come to theirs what’s the point in conversing with people?
Furthermore why do we keep having a circle jerk about how right we are on things and calling out dumb stuff in the world if it’s all futile? Like we know the world is shit and getting worse so why do I relish in it and not just go climbing more.
You're welcome to do that, but learn to do it properly. If you're just looking to preach and be outraged, then you're part of the problem. You can't change others, but you can change yourself.
I personally love podcasts. I'll always be able to recommend from there:
You Are Not So Smart: 306 - I Never Thought of it That Way - Mónica Guzmán (rebroadcast). Episode webpage and Media file
If a black man can make friends with the most racist KKK members, and actually get them to change their minds through conversation, then there's hope for anyone.
You’re not gonna convince me of your rule if you break it.
Ah second comment! Got ya!
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It hits for me when I'm typing it out and I can already read the braindead response they're going to type and I don't want to spend another 2 paragraphs preempting the obvious response and I definitely don't want to wait a few hours/days to explain why they're still wrong.
This is why "disable inbox replies" is such a great feature that I wish Lemmy would implement. For when you still have something to add, but it looks like the conversation is going downhill, the thought of further responses is causing anxiety, and you know the right choice is going to be to let the other person have the last word anyway.
The block feature is wonderful for this. I'm starting to use it liberally when I just can't be bothered to deal with someone anymore. I don't know if there's a mute user function as well, but that would at least let them yell into the void instead of being blocked outright.
iirc block on Lemmy is "mute" and it doesn't work like Reddit with preventing any interaction with any posts or comment threads you started (which I'm glad about, Reddit's block imo is a horrible way of doing it).
Personally I don't like the block feature for this for two reasons:
- it only targets one user, normally it's more "I want to stop talking about this for now" than not wanting to talk to one person in particular
- I won't see anything from that person in the future, which isn't what I want unless they are really awful, just want to be done with that specific comment thread despite having some degree of respect for the people in it
Yup, though on the upside notifications seem to only work half the time here.
Me when I realize the person I'm commenting to is from hexbear.
Tank you!
That's because Reddit sells anger quite well. Their bots and human instigators work overtime to get you to comment like that. I think all of us Reddit refugees have fallen for this shit.
We're not doing great on deprogramming ourselves either. The news outlets not only manufacture consent, they also manufacture outrage. This isn't a new problem either. It's been going on since at least the Spanish-American war, probably earlier (see also William Randolph Hurst , Joseph Pulitzer).
So many frickin times.
I'm feeling a little called out...
Yeah arguing on the Internet is a waste of time which is why I don't do it much anymore unless I feel very strongly that someone's reply to my comment needs to be disputed.
Most of the time I make my point then don't bother responding to any replies. It's much more pleasant to respond when it's you're not arguing, just discussing something interesting.
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No one, on their deathbed, has thought "Man, I should've spent more time arguing online"
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