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That saying was not meant to be interpreted as literally true - it was designed to extract more money from customers who would generate repeat business = moar profits.

Delish...

Even after Donald Trump - people still do not know that it is hypocrisy?

I also am on kbin.social, and I do not even have the "Hide NSFW content" turned on, and I almost never see it. I haven't had to block anything (maybe once?), and in the 1/1000 chance it pops up, it is blurred by default.

It can randomly show up in the Active People area though.

Lemmy/Kbin is a wild, uncharted frontier, still alpha version software and very much in active development, it does not just "take care of people" like Reddit and Twitter did - you may want to not browse it at work then. Also, even if you successfully blocked every single porn magazine, as you see a new one could come up and blow up your entire All feed at any point in time - that approach was never going to be 100% successful.

So it may be worth the pain of switching to Kbin, b/c that will work? Note that you will lose everything that way - account migration is something promised but not yet implemented iirc - but you can still see all of the communities you subscribed to before, from the new server (you will just have to subscribe to all of them again, plus block all the others, like I unsub from every foreign-language one that I see).

Hehe, Musk straight-up "cancelled" Twitter :-D

Why does that look like the longest handgun I have ever seen in my life? :-P

Actually, this is the best argument I've heard so far as to why he should change it to X :-P

Flush

Although I find it odd that conservatives today tend to have the most radicalized agenda out of all - yeah I mean there are some outright communists, but their numbers are like at most single-digit population percentages, whereas in the USA and UK and Russia and such they pretty much are the majority of people (hehe, in Russia the votes somehow outnumber the population even...:-P).

i.e. at one point they were conservative, and they still claim to be, even while wanting to change e.g. from a voting democracy to a totalitarian regime. But it changes every couple of years so it's really hard to keep up - e.g. in the USA GW Bush was an actual progressive (like, feed poor people), but then came the Tea Partiers, ousted by the Alt Right, which is no longer considered extreme enough and on and on it goes... (as the song continues: where it will stop, nobody knows:-).

Lately people are saying that 98% of chat responses to simple math problems like 1+1=? are now coming up wrong.

Then again, there are some people who cannot seem to be able to do this either - like those models are not training themselves! :-P (probably people are sabotaging them even, like replacing Reddit comments with gibberish)

But at the end of the day, does it matter? Whichever one provides more helpful answers, I'd say go with them:-D.

For one thing, stop using debit cards on the internet. Credit cards do not take the money out of your account first, thus offering you an additional layer of protection, and many like Discover in the USA are known for offering $0 liability for unauthorized purchases. They can be more of a hassle to use like they may call your mobile number to check on a suspicious purchase, but at this point it seems you want that level of paranoia. Don't miss a rent (or any important) payment bc you have nothing left in your debit account to work with! (Even if it is added back quickly, will it be handled quickly enough?)

It's usually as easy as searching for 1...2...3... :-)

I wrote out a long (800 word) response, but I think I should dramatically shorten it so apologies if it now seems terse, having gone too far in the other direction:-).

We like shitposting, if we are honest. At least, it has its place.

Some of us may even like trolling, or would if we were on the offering end - like playing peek-a-boo with a baby, it is a game that people play, which ostensively even serves a societal function to act as an incentive for people to toughen up their emotions and not allow themselves to be so easily triggered.

Then they can often be combined, so the line can get quite blurry - like if a cult religion puts forth millions of dollars to make a professionally-produced film, and let us say for the sake of argument that only the top few people in the cult are aware that it is all based on a lie, while the vast majority of people working on it are not, is that "trolling"? That further delves into the actual truth of a matter vs. the perception of a matter, and from what POV, and then still further there is the reception end of things... but that is getting off on too much of a tangent:-).

My problem is that when shitposting + trolling becomes 99.99% of what content exists, then (1) how can people so much as even find anything else, which further leads to (2) a mismatch between what is expected to have been delivered vs. what is actually delivered. Thoughtful responses do not "match" a meme, so someone acting to explain the joke works to ruin the entire experience of it, often even if not always (exceptions exist ofc, like "in my language those words mean something a little bit different"). So in some ways, it is up to us all to "read the room".

But are thoughtful responses welcomed on the Fediverse? I would say mostly yes... - maybe not in a political magazine, unless it happens to match the preconceived notions of each individual recipient who could be anybody and it is not likely that they will know or if so respect the explicitly asked-for instructions on how to converse in that space - but for how much longer will that remain true? After all, that was once the main selling point of Reddit too, once upon a time. This place still has karma, even if it does not work the same. This place still allows alt accounts, and from what I hear the moderation tools on kbin are virtually nonexistent. Now that the fediverse is becoming more popular, and all the more so as Meta is edging closer, I am starting to think that it will go the way of Reddit too, unless actions are taken to work against that. I do not know what those actions might be.

True, but if we agree that every second is too frequent, but that every day is too sparse (maybe?), then the question becomes one of optimizing the choice of what frequency would be best for whatever outcome.

Like if it was every 5 minutes, that would cut down on the amount of traffic 5-fold, and still give 12 checks every hour. If we do not expect checks to fail, that may still be 6-12-fold more often than necessary. Or a check every 10 minutes is still "many checks per hour", and yet does not blow up the traffic stats 10-fold more than necessary to get a "desirable" outcome.

There are also additional costs to consider when doing a check every minute: that is 1440 checks every 24 hours! Data must be stored, CPU time spent, waste heat is generated (it is not exactly exasperating climate change but it is not not doing that either!), etc. Whereas if a check every 10 minutes is used, then the same number of checks would span a 10-day timeframe. Depending on whatever else the machine is doing (gaming? other server checks?), it reduces the load 10-fold and something that much may even change things on a qualitative rather than merely quantitative basis.

Well, it was a thought for consideration at any rate.

Yes and I was trying to think more about what I said, in-between then and now, to perhaps understand it better. I think part of what I was circling around is the difference between ONE person arguing against whatever I may be saying at any given time, even in a bad-faith manner, vs. the background purpose of an entire community. If 90% of all comments are like "^THIS" and other echo-chamber related noise, does that not foundationally change the experience? So, as you alluded to, at the end of the day it simply is what it is, but I do seek to question what that is. I think we will find out as time goes on.

And where I was coming from is that the difference between a "discussion forum" vs. a "social media platform" is... YUGE (it seems to me).

Every one minute seems... excessive. I know this is social media but still, what would be bad about reducing that to like once per hour, to reduce the load across the entire Fediverse?

I'm already starting to see that begin to change though, compared to a few weeks ago. It might have been a very temporary phenomenon.

I too started to decompress, but I think now I am going to go back to merely lurking, it is just not worth the headache of arguing with people who are not engaging in good faith.

It is a fundamental law of the universe that I can only control myself, not others, so if they want to make NOISE rather than articulate actual logic in the form of speech, I can do nothing against that onslaught. There are just so MANY of them, and only one of myself to have to work against the trend, e.g. blocking people.

But not every such sub has 5 million members - this one is big.

People are mentioning all the ones I would have added already. Maybe also the Dragon Quest series, but I haven't played any recent ones.

Also if you can stand a mobile gacha (also a Steam version) one of the writers of Chrono Trigger & Cross started the game Another Eden that is kind of a spiritual successor - gorgeous graphics, fantastic music, and yes some pretty nice storyline as well (mixed in with crap but you can't win them all:-D). Like... one of the main characters is basically Frog! 🐸 (Another is essentially Lucca, and Robo, and Marle, etc.)

Your comment falls prey to a binary fallacy, aka false dilemma. It is possible for both to be true at the same time. The immediate issue is that OP feels bad. The is indicated by the very first words in the very first sentence, as well as the start of pretty much every single sentence after it:

I am fucking scared of the ... nightmare ... Im also sick of and hate the ... I dont wanna know how...

So instead of assuming that I had not heard any of this from OP, and was responding to part (the major aspect imho) of what they said, you instead flew off on a tangent, assumed that I had missed all the emotional language entirely, and redirected (ironically, exactly what you accused me of, it is amazing how often that occurs) into how I somehow do not believe that privacy violations so much as exist anywhere in the world... really? I suggest that you reexamine your premise. But do as you please, ofc.

For the record, I never used words remotely close to "stupid" (in my mind I was envisioning things like "take charge of your destiny!"), I never suggested that OP take drugs to escape/deal with the pressures of life, nor did I offer thoughts of suicide, I never accused them of personal health problems, nor did I mitigate the seriousness of the situation, etc. Instead, I offered practical solutions for REAL-WORLD issues, and advice on how OP can reclaim their sanity.

Maybe you simply blocked anyone that ever disagreed with you on Reddit? Or else your mod did that for you in all of your "safe spaces". Feel free to block me too btw - I think we would both benefit from that actually, if this is how conversations with you would go in the future.:-)

My view of this conversation, fwiw:

OP: Lions exist and keep eating people!

Me: Have you thought about carrying a gun with you whenever you go out into the jungle... or just do not go there anymore?

You: Stop bullying OP, you big poopy-pants meanie!!:-(

(Also, speaking of redirecting the conversation, I see that you offered no advice to OP of your own so... yes actually, it is odd, weird even, how I have seen several of these kinds of comments on lemmy recently, responding to a post that talks about real issues with severe social/political/economic ramifications by reducing the commenter to having somehow ignored the OP and being extremely unproductive in their response, while simultaneously offering nothing productive of their own, thus taking the issue off on that weird tangent - I really wish people would stop doing that, you know what I mean!?)