DidacticDumbass

I have never liked Discord. It is like IRC with more steps, more surveillance, an excess of security features that doesn’t actually make anything secure.

I should give Element another chance. I think I had it before, but I was confused on how to find rooms.

That makes sense. Discord basically a hub for all things geek and popular culture. As much as I love gaming, I do not form my identity and life around it. I can’t imagine the pain of even searching for a mature conversation on there.

Interesting people are not interesting all of the time, and following people usually just results in your feed loading up with complaints, gossip and drama.

I want to talk about things and ideas, not people.

I feel that. I thought it was just me, but it was so hard to just connect to any other instances outside of what flowed in the timeline. When I did it just took me to the website instead of integrating with the instance.

Trying to keep up with the Federated timeline was nauseating, but it also fruitless adding every person with an interesting post.

It sucks. I just don’t like the Twitter format.

This. Everyone needs to be mindful about what they post. You are communicating with real human beings afterall, with their own life history and memory.

So be kind and give up the fantasy you can reverse your actions.

It is so miserable and effectively shuts down a major street. People will tolerate the dumbest things just because it is the status quo.

Veganism is a moral philosophy that looks to reduce the suffering and exploitation of all organisms, not just a diet.

Anything can be used as distraction, veganism is not suddenly evil because some assholes adopted and advertise the label.

It is also a mischaracterisation that vegans put the lives of animals over people. It is the case that animals are routinely treated as objects and made to suffer just to satisfy peoples taste buds, or for entertainment, or to wear their corpses. Humans are animals and vegans do not tolerate their suffering or exploitation either.

It is obvious the distraction has worked on you. Veganism does not whitewash anything. People are not stupid. Not everyone is going to risk getting killed by speaking out against atrocities in their own back yard. If they cared they would have done so already.

Linus is stellar example of “good is not nice.”

He will rake you over the coals because he cares about quality and expects better from everyone.

Mastodon has benefitted from news articles and the sheer novelty of an alternative to Twitter, even before Elon Musk bought it out.

Lemmy probably won’t have the same fanfare, especially given the stigma Reddit has, like it was a secret to have an account, or talking about it betrayed you as some weirdo or pervert. Whatever, Reddit never seemed to have the same social acceptance as Twitter or anything Facebook owns.

I think it is good to have a community that is self-filtering. Let’s keep the IQ high on this one (with the exception of me, of course!).

Gaslighting. The internets favorite buzzworx that exactly describes this behavior.

You cannot win an argument with liars or the ignorant.