I wish governments still believed in regulations instead of whatever this shit is.

Oh. Neat.

Thanks for the Wikipedia link

Ah dang you did point it out. They even just copied the top comment there, unless they are ColdWetDog.

Ok so I think I’m the first person in the comments to actually click to read the article, cause I’m gonna say something I’m not seeing.

How did you get it to auto snap to the article comment section?
Didnt realize you could share that and it wouldn’t default to the article.

I actually think it’s way more like 4chan than reddit.

Niche threads are small handful of people every time, people feel pretty safe to get nasty really quick, and wild mix of people thinking it’s their safe space full of people that agree with them entirely from anarchists to fascists.
Also likely to see a random porn or furry post.

3 months short for me but that’s because it took me that long to figure out how Lemmy worked.

Adding more noise does nothing to add insights it just makes it more exhausting to pick a position yourself.

If everything is nuanced then you can more easily give up on caring in a meaningful way because you believe there is no good answer.

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Yeah the best ones are just taking advantage of our empathetic neurons to initiate a conversation. The terrifying ones then use that opening to inject their own thoughts on others.

Ah. It used to be just someone that would say something so inflammatory or provoking that it would force interaction or responses from the people witnessing it.

Like an obvious joke or quote of an earworm that it creates replies. Or sometimes something rude or just wrong on purpose. Modern bad actors adopting trolling tactics is not necessarily the same thing.

You could say trolls are like onions, they have multiple coatings.

I thought it would be a legitimate niche forum for sharing information. And reddit leaned further into trolling and bad behaviour.

A systems purpose is what it does and this platform has not shown much outside of being a place for fights and self held superiority stroking.

TL; DR I am mostly here for news links and B-Movie-Bananza cause it has some good recommendations. Not to interact or pretend this is more than the sum of its parts.
Also the top communities are memes mostly so, yes? Is not jokes a minor form of trolling?

Yeah reddit and Lemmy are just auxiliary troll communities to the OG forums like 4chan.

Same people. Same shitty behaviour just slightly different topics and levels of trolling.

Yeah, got to go up the line of ancestry I guess to find all his nazi supporting family.

Solid argument 10/10 on the gymnastics routine.

Clearly. You compared adjusting even a part of your life to living in the dunps and trashing it completely. You are clearly self centered and wouldn’t care.

So, you are a gross person and I don’t expect you to care.

Duh, and still ew.

Ew

And also clearly you. As you seem to have decided you won’t participate until every single one of the other billions do.

Yeah we managed to just put the slave workers behind a further layer of obfuscation. Not just relegated to their own quarters or part of town but to a different city altogether or even continent.

Tech dreams have become about a complete lack of humanity.

Sorry. But yeah. Don’t have an answer but it’s a mess for being a new memeber when it feels communities don’t care to remember that people have to start somewhere.

Sorry that it happened to you too.

The topic was how much they hoped my garden withered because I couldn’t afford to fully mulch all of it and was saying I was having to constantly weed the edge of my garden.
They proceeded to gleefully wish harm upon me and hardship for not doing or being exactly like them and as I begged for help from others to not feel alone was told I likely deserved it.

Yeah people are truly awful everywhere and not working on getting better.