

Similar with social media but I am making an exception for the Fediverse:-)
Compassion ~ Thought
Similar with social media but I am making an exception for the Fediverse:-)
Oh, I was reacting to the “We did it! 🥳” part, but no need to take me seriously here. We all can die or try as we each see best befits us.🙃
Maybe in your part of the world. Gaza, Ukraine, Russia, the USA, etc. would like a word…
See also “bot detector” 🙃
This comment wins the Threadiverse for today :-)
Here is your medal:
Naw… it could have been a dare? :-P
…and they turn into hellbeasts? 🤪
It is possible for both sides of a disagreement to wake up and choose
Seems to have a lot of false negatives though (i.e. there is a lot of dipshittery that goes undetected):-P
Pics or it didn’t happen…
Purity testing beatings will continue until morale improves.
Yes I did. Just put it over there with the rest of the fire.
To the set of all atoms in the universe, add one single, extra electron. Easy peasy:-).
I see your point and raise the following counterpoint conjecture: smol kitten exists in car.🐈😸
Both sides fall for it, just not equally.
Cats, being liquid, stuff themselves.
I suspect that PieFed communities might be far easier to moderate, using the more automated tools that exist and are being developed - e.g. if someone does not want to see a post with a keyword such as “Musk”, they can use the personal filtering tools to block it themselves without having to rely upon a moderator to do everything for them.
But it sounds like you need a break from social media altogether, which I assure you will be beneficial for your health. A little bit there (of social media I mean) is all you need - rather reading books or practicing hobbies, best of all even is touching grass.
And if you return, PieFed really does have tools that makes it easier to do just what you want on the platform and avoid what you don’t, e.g. rather than looking at your Subscribed feed you could go to just “Arts & Craft” while avoiding politics, or vice versa visit “News & Politics” to avoid digging into memes. For low-volume communities I even have every new post trigger a Notification to alert me to view it first.
I am trying to say that there’s hope, for when and if you return, to dial back your social media addiction. To participate without being sucked in as deeply as you were before. But anyway you do it, take care of yourself first.
Also, I avoided those large contentious communities that you modded but even so I will say thank you for trying to serve others all across the Threadiverse - that speaks a lot to your character that you were willing to hold the line for so long.
A tankie is generally considered someone so immersed deeply into their echo chamber of alternative facts that they can deny not merely the morality or the consequences but the actual and literal validity of occurrence of events such as the Holocaust or the Tiananmen Square Massacre (the tanks were there but killed nobody on that day, etc.). They tend to be exceedingly pro-authoritarian, even while claiming to be “communist” or “leftist”, but redefining those terms to fit their particular worldview. So e.g. Ukraine invaded Russia rather than the other way around and so on. A hallmark of a tankie space is that nothing bad is ever allowed to be spoken about Russia, China, or North Korea.
I suppose claiming that Stalin had the right to kill people is a technically accurate form of tankie by the standard dictionary definition of that term, but that is fairly tame compared to what goes on across the Threadiverse, so much so that such a person would barely qualify unless they acted to prevent anyone else from holding an opposing viewpoint. Also, while some instances are legit tankies (namely Lemmygrad.ml and Lemmy.ml), troll instances such as hexbear.net only appear at first to be anything other than argumentative echo chambers, see e.g. [email protected] (defederated from on both of our instances, bc of the aforementioned trolling
I could link you so many posts to explain further - such as this classic Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem demonstrating how someone can get banned from all communities (in other cases, even those they’ve never so much as heard of) on Lemmy.ml at once - but also there’s an entire community dedicated to this topic at [email protected]. If you are interested I highly recommend checking it out. It is perhaps the top issue across all of the Threadiverse, after complaining about Reddit of course:-).
Blocking hexbear.net and Lemmygrad.ml from my feed (when I was on an instance that had not defederated from them yet) improved my experience on the Threadiverse by 99%, and blocking lemmy.ml by a further 99%. It might be the echo chamber effect but whatever it is, the most trollish comments tend to come from those places. Note that you on Lemmy cannot do a true block of an instance - like so many other features that is something that PieFed and very few third party apps offers but Lemmy and most apps lack - but even so it might help a little.
Slrpnk.net and lemmy.dbzer0.com are widely considered actual leftist but not tankie instances, if you need a comparison.
But confirmation bias is real, judging from this comment section populated by the incurious.