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

People that don’t check what community a post came from on their home feed and just upvote it if they like it.

Full disclosure: that was me just now until I opened the comments, realized, then took it back. It’s very easy to miss sometimes

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.

Convenience and familiarity, mostly. If you go to a McDonalds you know exactly what you’ll get and you’ll be able to get it pretty quick.

Not relatable

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.

behold, the infinite malignity of the stars!

paid for in blood

Reminds me of a lion’s pelt, all it needs is a mane

Those factors are what help identify a “tankie”, among other things. Communists are cool, but apologia of atrocities is not an inherent tenet of communism, despite what some people on the sketchier parts of Lemmy would have you think.

…It seems like you’ve described the problem yourself in the OP, but dismissively?

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.

Someone else got to ya before I did, but yes that is exactly what I was referring to.

The only thing I needed to see about hexbear is that the “official” post from their admins about their pending federation tried to both-sides the Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying that “it may be justified”. That alone is enough for me to never want to see them or anything from there again.

This is one more reason I’m sticking with lemmy.world as my instance of choice.

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.)

For the future, !outoftheloop@lemmy.world