I cannot Access the words to describe this.

If you share it, they will come…

Yup. The most batshit insane comments I’ve ever heard come from there. I think it may have to do with the echo chamber effect, where they continually pass around their ideas to one another but anyone who actually scrutinizes them gets booted out, so what’s left is just a hot mess.

I’ve never once regretted my decision to block ml. I have enjoyed some conversations with people on there in the past, but overwhelmingly it simply is not worth it to me.

And with alternatives not being developed or promoted or made easier to use bc Cloudflare exists and is so cheap i.e. free. Hrm, what does this remind me of…? (*cough* Google’s Android *cough*)

Good riddance to Reddit. Unfortunately there are certain niche topics that are discussed only where people choose to discuss them, and if that means Reddit than so be it… 🤢🤮 (though I now lurk rather than comment or even vote - it just not seem worthwhile to engage while having to be constantly on guard against the heavily contentious user base there, plus also fuck spez obviously 🙃).

Here on the Threadiverse I got so tired of blocking so many people that I graduated to blocking entire instances. Hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml are already defederated from on PieFed.social, but I also blocked lemmy.ml. Not for the communism btw - slrpnk and dbzero are true communist instances - but for all the continual assholery and alternative facts spouting, it simply improved my experiences here by 99% to do so.

I understand very well why new people flee rather than stick in long enough to figure out how things work enough to do the same. This is just one more reason why, despite how often people talk about being desperate to leave X behind, the Fediverse model is not even considered. If we don’t make this a place welcoming to non-technical normie users, then they… I dunno, won’t feel welcomed, I suppose? (And exceedingly few instances seem willing to defederate from lemmy.ml, or even make it opt-in for new users rather than simply throwing them straight into the deep end and leaving them to their own devices.) Also I see multiple conversations here dedicated to promoting murder (of politicians or whoever), so I wonder how much longer it will be safe to access such “antifa” current (at least that is what it will be labeled as, language correctness having been entirely set aside) for people located in the USA - which makes up such an exceedingly large fraction of the Reddit (and former Reddit) user base.

Yes interesting indeed! I am using PieFed’s standard browser UI, in Firefox on Android, which I had thought they had standardized to match Lemmy’s spoiler handling but apparently we found a niche case where they differ.

Your edited text now renders perfectly for me, so yes that seems to have been the source of the discrepancy. Agreed that particularly the apps render all sorts of things willy-nilly, though I suppose it is good to have choices! (And yet I prefer the web browser that actually works on PieFed to an app that currently would miss so many features, which the API is still being expanded to be able to handle).

Thank you for your continual kindness and consideration in commenting:-).

Sigh… yup.

But it’s odd how we shifted from (the also incorrect)

To

I mean… it still is a choice to use Cloudflare or not…

Your spoiler text got messed up there since the last “:::” is treated as being still within the quote block. You might need an extra newline above it for separation. I hope this helps rather than being pedantic & annoying?

Skill issue, git guud /s

Or just buy a Mac. You do have several thousand dollars to spend on that don’t you?

Unfortunately many people instead simply leave Lemmy entirely (and then complain about exactly that over in r/RedditAlternatives).

Damn, be careful as you gonna give people PTSD flashbacks with such an accurately descriptive comment as that!

Video seems designed for people who mainly want to be entertained for a few minutes (usually just over the 10 minute mark, never mind how that is the exact limit tied to increased advertising revenue…), rather than people who seek actual information to parse.

Ngl, while eating lunch this describes me. But I more often want information too, otherwise, and yet ever since Google purchased and decided to promote YouTube the text based ones seem to mysteriously be much more difficult to find…

… but it expired?

till it took an arrow to the knee?

but it lives in Canada, you wouldn’t have heard of which skool?

Also my mood.

Just tell me my mood right now!?

gu b4kc ta skuul!

… on purpose!?

gyat! 😮