Kbin and Kbin

This sounds like a lawfirm name you’d see advertised on TV.

“Did your post get unjustly deleted? Unfair moderator actions? Admins getting you down? Call Kbin and Kbin for a free consultation TODAY!”

This is kind of up to the individual community, not the instance as a whole. An instance theoretically could make a general ‘No memes on any community on this instance’ rule but it would be awful to enforce, and it’d be easier to leave it up to communities.

That said, I think Lemmy is a long way off from having the userbase or popularity to create that problem, and the absence of karma or any analogue really narrows the impact. Personally, I’ve seen significantly less low-effort content here than on Reddit, with the exception of a few specific communities that exist for that purpose specifically.

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Literally right in the side bar.

Just in case you’re legitimately confused, before this post gets removed, too: This is not the right community for that sort of question. That’s why it’s being removed.

Some US states that keep enacting highly unpopular anti-trans, anti-woke, sexist, racist legislation are doing it in an effort to get left-aligned people to move away and not consider going there, with the goal of skewing elections in their favor.

Not to mention, any time you have a ranked list, there will be some subset of people trying their hardest to compete for the top spot, even when it’s a negative thing.

Hi - I’m a Linux newbie.

I don’t tell other Linux users that I use linux because it almost always leads to a bunch of questions that I don’t know the answer to. So let me assure you, that awkwardness is on both sides of that conversation you’re describing.

“Is my freezer the problem? No, it’s every ice cream manufacturer that’s wrong.”

I’ve bought Target’s store brand ice cream fairly recently and it was a perfectly normal consistency, for what it’s worth. Maybe it’s regional?

Oh, we can see post / comment count, but that’s a meaningless statistic, no? The whole point of karma - the whole thing that makes karma toxic - is that it’s based on farming upvotes; it’s why Reddit is a cesspool of low-effort meme comments that’re engineered to gather those upvotes. Post / comment numbers can’t really be hidden anyway, unless you’re also proposing hiding a user’s comment history… you could get a quick rough total just by checking how many pages of posts and comments there were and doing some quick multiplication.

This might just be a feature specific to the app you’re using; it isn’t displayed publicly on web, at least on any instance I have an account with.

Also all books you lend from the library should be public knowledge.

Terrible analogy. You can consume the post without anyone knowing. Voting is more akin to signing the guestbook.

There was a poll a few weeks back that showed Michelle Obama being the most popular pick; take that with a grain of salt because we all know how biased and skewed those poll results are based on a number of factors which we can’t know.

That said, I think she did a lot of great work as First Lady and I’d happily vote for her. I think she’s got the potential to get people fired up and excited about the possibilities, much like Obama did, and everything else aside, that’s what we really need - excitement, enthusiasm, and for people to want to get out there and vote. I think she could provide that moreso than anyone else on the list.

That’s strange.

We have a ‘Subscribed to communities’ box below the Trending Communities and the instance details sections. If lemmy.world doesn’t have this, you’d want to talk to your instance owner about it.

Does lemmy.world not have this functionality? Here’s what I see on the sidebar (when browsing posts, not while inside of a post): (I’ve removed the content for this screenshot, because I don’t need everyone seeing what I’m subscribed to, hah)

I don’t like your example. You aren’t telling your kids that drivers have bad eyes, or are blind, or are bad at situational awareness, you’re telling your kids to assume that they’re in the driver’s blind spot. That’s not a stereotype.

If you were telling your kids that they should be more cautious around women drivers because they’re bad at driving, that would be a stereotype (but not a constructive one).

You don’t have to request a dinner date or a movie or something. That might scare her off. Something quick and simple, though, shouldn’t be a problem. “Hey, there’s a Starbucks a few blocks from you, can I buy you a drink [tomorrow, whatever]? We can have a quick chat and see if we click.” Or whatever’s appropriate for your situation. You’re not asking for a prolonged thing, just a brief face-to-face meeting, and if it goes well and you decide to go get lunch or something, fine, but you don’t need to set that expectation up front.

The lyrics aren’t too ambiguous, I don’t think…

O is for Other, P is for People scratchin’ temple

The last P… well… that’s not that simple

It’s sorta like another way to call a cat a kitten

It’s five little letters that are missin’ here"

[…]

As for the ladies, OPP means something gifted

The first two letters are the same but the last is something different

It’s the longest, loveliest, lean- I call it the leanest

It’s another five letter word rhymin’ with cleanest and meanest

I had no idea what ‘OPP’ stood for as a kid, which is funny, because it’s right in the lyrics, but I was too young to understand what that meant. So I, too, would just belt that song out whenever it came on. Nobody stopped me, either.

Alternately, maybe it’s the case that doing something bad to bring attention to another bad thing isn’t okay just because the thing you’re trying to bring attention to is worse.

I actually support the protests where they’re throwing soup on paintings or whatever. Those paintings don’t really matter, but some people sure think they do, and it’s effective to get a dialog going. Libraries are a public good, one of the few we really have left. It’s like ransacking a food bank to draw attention to starving people in Gaza; it’s not helping the cause they ostensibly care about, but it is hurting others.

I’m responding to your implication that actions in protest that get people talking about the issue are inherently valuable and worth taking. To make the point that that is not the case, I am using an extreme example to demonstrate a scenario where your statement is (I hope) objectively false.

I think I clearly stated my counter-point, which is that just because we’re talking about it doesn’t mean it is an effective or worthwhile form of protest to be engaged in.

I’m not really sure where you’re confused here.