so much as expressing anger at what’s happening
Downvoting submissions that are appropriate, on-topic, and rules-following to the communities they’re in is not using the platform sensibly.
Votes determine people’s feeds, and people without the emotional self control to not manipulate other people’s feeds for their own emotional regulation make the feeds of everyone else worse and I’m so fucking tired of seeing it. This lack of respect for how voting interacts with what other people see just creates an echo-chamber because the visibility of anything appropriate-but-disliked gets suppressed. Childish tribalist stupidity to sabotage not just one platform, but EVERYTHING connected to it because we’re using interoperable federated platforms. To the best of my knowledge, having looked at how both lemmy and mbin process votes, none of the software involved here has sophisticated enough vote processing to enable people to use it in this way.




















I maintain queues for places I actively submit in, but I actually exhausted mine with this link (not much gets published over the weekends). My current rotation of satire sources:
https://chaser.com.au/ https://theshovel.com.au/ https://www.betootaadvocate.com/ (often has thumbnail problems) https://www.thebelltowertimes.com/ https://theonion.com/ https://clickhole.com/ https://thehardtimes.net/ (seems to have died with Charlie Kirk) https://hard-drive.net/ (seems to have died with Charlie Kirk) https://www.mcsweeneys.net/ https://newsthump.com/ (partial paywall - please provide an archived link alongside the original submission if you use this source) https://theneedling.com/
Was evaluating adding this one in too: https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/
Nobody ever asked, but since I’m dumping everything else right now I might as well dump this alongside it too; the reason I made a consistent effort to submit here and not on the sister community on midwest.social is because although admins can run their instances how they want I didn’t personally like how midwest.social was run:
It had been my hope to slowly displace it as the dominant onion community in the long-run, at least while the assumption of the admin(s) of this instance being preferable held true.
Embrace satire (it’s fun!) and truth (it’s important!); reject tribalistic misinformation and inappropriate voting that ruins other people’s feeds. If you don’t, it will poison the platform and devolve it into more of an echo-chamber than it already is.
Based on current trajectories and the information I’ve gathered after 2 years of active use, I’m no longer convinced that the current threadiverse has a realistic chance of working out and I’m tired of trying (but it’s always possible that I’ll be proven wrong, or that it’s already good enough for you personally). Good luck!