It think they're mad because some of them already paid for a year and the awards and gold were part of why they got premium. Now awards and fold are disappearing mid-september and they feel they aren't getting what they paid for anymore.

So some Asian cultures do eat jellyfish. Maybe this is a gotcha question or maybe it's just someone coming from a less eurocentric background.

Parasite, I was not ready for how upset that movie was gonna make me

The movie might have been a satirical commentary against militarism but the book it's based off of is arguably not. I loved that book as a kid but it definitely glorifies militarism and not really in a tongue in cheek way. There are literal scenes discussing civics and the necessity of war interspersed throughout the book.

I didnt take it as an insult, I just disagree with its use here. What I mean is that it's not learned incompetence, I'm speaking specifically for me. I'm fully capable of learning how this stuff works and I know I could, I just dont want to. I just dont care about tech stuff, it bores me. The same way some people don't care about the rules of football, or the way contract law works, or the difference between needle lace and bobbin lace, that's how I feel about tech. I could learn it, I'd just rather not. There are a lot of people like me who don't want to learn this stuff because they don't enjoy it and like it or not that apathy (rather than inability, real or imagined) is a strong barrier to entry for something like lemmy/the "fediverse"

Also being "smart" in an apocalypse likely means building allies and connections. Which can only happen if people can trust your word and don't think you're a dick. Something that describes neither of them.

Im not sure its so much learned helplessness as, and I know this will be an unpopular opinion here, I don't want to understand how it all works behind the scenes. I don't care how lemmy is like email, I don't care if mastodon can see me if I can't see them, I don't want to have to know the differences between what version/update my instance vs app is using, etc...I could learn all that, I just dont want to have too, but I probably qualify as part of the "normie masses".

Thanks for the link! I got on Reddit right before the switch to new reddit so I never really used old reddit. Im gonna

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Edit: so the formatting took me like 6 tries, but I got there! Conquering Lemmy one * at a time!

I appreciate you saying that your lost cause I also find lemmy confusing and it seems like most people here are very tech savvy. Makes me feel a little less out of place.

I could never be confused as someone whose good with tech. I have a job where knowing basic excel makes you the resident tech genius we all go to for help. I can confirm that I do find lemmy complicated.

1. It was intimidating to pick an instance (and everyone aggressively insisting it "doesn't matter what instance you join because -long droning tech speech-" only made it worse).
2. This is numbered cause I can't figure out how to do bullet points on mobile...that is how out of place on lemmy I am
3. I wish the default was all and not my local instance for my home screen. That makes it harder and more complicated for me to navigate around or see popular posts. Oh shit I think I just figured out how to do italics!!!
4. I'm mostly just here because I like the cozy community feeling. That's enough for me to put up with stumbling around the site next to blind just clicking on stuff and hoping for the best (I accidently ended up scrolling a sub that was all in Germany yesterday, no idea how I got there)...but I don't blame most non-tech people for not wanting to do that. To get most people you'd need to dumb the "fediverse" down to the point most current users would be furious and start talking about enshitification again.

Seriously. I never want to hear how hard it is to mod a subreddit with existing mod tools again. They've rolled over for spez (which is their right) and they don't get to complain about it anymore.

Not all evangelical communities believe in the literal "body and blood" the way the catholic church does. Second half is certainly true though