But what if you don’t imbibe any pumpkin spice - can Autumn still be said to have truly started in that case?

It’s not not hard at all on PieFed: click the username, click More and it says Block that user as the second option down.

Blocking an entire instance takes more clicking, but is also fairly rare so that makes sense. The real trick there is that you need to get to the instance page, and that is easiest by picking a user from it and clicking their instance name - which is in smaller font size, but again this is fairly rare so that makes sense to me. Once you get to e.g. https://piefed.social/instance/lemmy.ml, then you simply click “Block” to never see posts from users on that instance again! The trick of course being that you have to click a user then click an instance to be able to see that button in the first place.

Although that “Block” button was called something different a month ago, when it said “block all users from [instancename]”, and perhaps a few months from now it will again look different? That could legitimately be confusing for people.

On the other hand, Lemmy refuses to provide this functionality at all, no matter how many buttons you click, so having to go through 2 pages (user then instance) is not so difficult compared with the impossibility of doing that on Lemmy!:-P

So totally normal headline then, in these modern times? 🤨

Sounds great! 👍

You are only forced to lie by the people who refuse to accept the truth… I hope you can find better people to spend more time with, but in the meantime you can be the first around you to do so if you have to (and if you want to:-).

Unfortunately I think the rage aspect is likewise biological, it being one of the most basal of all human desires. It often pops up as someone pursues pleasure and having satisfied those desires, next turns to the even more basal ones below that (e.g. video). Which makes sense evolutionarily bc those apes that do it are more likely to survive than e.g. complete pacifists.

That said, algorithms that specifically tap into that aspect of our animalistic desires feed forward that cycle, encouraging an ever-increasing amount, just like echo chambers decrease the allowable diversity of opinions (yes even here: just try saying that you like Windows and watch what happens, or that you enjoy driving a car, or eating meat, or in certain corners of Lemmy that you don’t support Russia, China, or North Korea hard enough), and both of those combine to form the modern social media experience.

So, as with anything having a biological basis, I doubt that it will ever truly go away entirely, yet I do believe that it can be managed.

That’s great but if someone were to click your download link, I don’t see a version that supports PieFed, so I was trying to help avoid confusion by mentioning that so it could hopefully be clarified.

Thunder I believe won’t support PieFed until the next update. The current version that I see in the Play Store was last updated in June 26, 2025 and does not mention PieFed.

You can download a version with that functionality (I’ve heard, though I do not recall where), but that is not the version 0.73 that is currently in the Play Store.

So you may want to annotate it as coming soon rather than fully here already.

Let me guess: they rather kick you when you are down, perhaps for “not smiling enough”… or is that just me?

In that case, I hope I surprise you by sending you yet another virtual hug 🫂 We need more of that in the world.

Oh wow, is it true that you only have a single admin (the sidebar area of your instance says that at least), and that the last post or comment from them was TWO YEARS AGO? (https://lemmy.sdf.org/u/SDF) And at the time they were welcoming people to Lemmy 0.18 https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/347031/1001724? If so you may have another Kbin+Ernst situation going on with an abandoned Lemmy instance, and in that case if you can’t raise them on Matrix or Discord or wherever else you know you can reach them (I did not see any such link in the sidebar though), I would absolutely jump ship ASAP before it goes down.

However, that simply can’t be true since your instance says it is running 0.19.11 now so it must have been upgraded sometime since then, albeit unannounced afaict. Maybe the database is corrupted and the timing of posts are off, maybe this is expected behavior for Lemmy when the last post is two years ago and the admin has not communicated since (at least from that account, but then why go ninja to hide their identity?), or some other funky thing going on.

Regardless it does not sound great. PieFed is great though, so if you go that route then welcome:-).

Psychopaths don’t worry about this at all. So then the fact that you do worry means… that you are a good person? 😊

Boss: don’t spend any time on it, just vibe code a solution.

You: sure, I enjoy receiving a salary, what could go wrong?

Yes exactly my thought as well!:-)

One of these is not like the other…

I think it’s the naps - the rest have an awake cat🐈😺

And I comment for lives like that so you are welcome 🤗

We appreciate you 😊

When people share they often receive highly negative feedback. Peraps a misspeling or an incorect punctuation And when that outweighs the good responses, either numerically or severity speaking, then it has an effect to curb the desire to post.

Also why bother working hard when someone else will just respond to what you wrote with “I know you are but what am I” or “that’s what your mom told me last night”, and receive 10x more likes than the content that required actual effort.

It is the same reason that such drivel has taken over television and movies, and fast food places abound around the world - people sell what others will buy, even independently of involvement of actual money and rather of attention.

A fantastic article describing this phenomena: https://medium.com/@max.p.schlienger/the-cargo-cult-of-the-ennui-engine-890c541cebcb. TLDR it’s a race to the bottom. Lemmy was supposed to be different, but there were too many structural issues and now people are either leaving or or going more to quiet consumption mode. PieFed offers me more hope to help fix things, if people want to put in the effort required, because now at least the burden of making changes has been greatly lessened with its ability to make code changes more quickly (since it is written in Python rather than Rust).