I may be the only person who knows why you said that.

Somebody, somewhere, has put “memeologist” as their career title.

And here I thought Lemmy was smarter than Reddit.

Make what UI require what? I think there is a misunderstanding here.

There is no way possible you can make humans actually follow that principle. People always dumb things down as much as possible, and “I like this” or “I dislike this” is default. That’s the problem.

We seriously need a new scripted animation replacement.

Cloudhiker is the new one.

Downvotes are fine and good, but downvoting affecting the visibility of your content is insane. Screw Reddit for that.

The internet was always political. We just replaced the prevalence of some kinds of conspiracies and crazy statements with the prevalence of others. Bigotry of course was always there.

Don’t gatekeep the internet. That’s what lobbying ISPs and telecom companies are for. /s

Update: Oh yeah, I forgot that Lemmy was filled to the brim with Linux nerds. The most-common nerd-gatekeepers, right before tabletop players. Explains the downvotes.

But that’s what most people spend most of their time on the internet doing!

Thanks for this! I learned something new \o/

Why were you downvoted? Because they had no sense of humor?

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I argue this as well. I think things turning gender-neutral is more progressive than them being cut, unless I’m missing something. I got kicked out of a progressive community (that I really wanted to stay in) partially because they disagreed with me on that opinion (along with the word “dude” as an interjection) and wanted everyone in lock-step. I will never forgive them.

I also think “guys” and “dude” have a level of informality and nuanced humor that doesn’t have an easy substitute.

People still are like that in most countries and it’s changing far too slowly. Or in the case of Japan, not at all? I don’t live in Japan.

Holy shit, thank you for bringing this one up. I’m not OCD, but I care a lot about mental health and neurodiversity (two things I deal with a lot). I sometimes rant about the misuse of “OCD” at random. And people still misuse it a lot.

I was raised Baptist, with all the shitty bells and whistles. I’m now an agnostic theist. Part of me is still fond of Christianity, but definitely not the more eyebrow-raising stuff nor the church.

I am proud of my new theistic beliefs now, as they remain rational and embrace how little we really can know. And now I validate atheism as rational and normal too. At least in principle— some atheists can be as cultish and angry as some Christians or some vegans or any other community that focuses on world-scale beliefs and issues. But I digress.

Congrats on getting away from extremists and forming your own beliefs, fam.

On it.

Oh, we’re aware of the other people. Americans just don’t care. “Orientalism” has been baked into our culture since at least the 1800s. We have a different dynamic with black Africans and their descendants, of course.