Not quite as bad as 20 in 2 days but basically any time I get a phone call, it’s probably safe to say that it’s someone trying to sell me something. It especially sucks when you’ve been handing out your CV and applying for jobs and shit, so you have to answer calls from unknown numbers. But if it’s anyone that I actually know, they’ll use WhatsApp.

Yeah, every time I see people saying that they like the amount of users now just makes me think “hmmm must be nice that all of your particular niches and tastes are accounted for”. It’s pretty silly to be so anti growth for this place anyway. Even on Reddit, you literally have a choice to take part in the bigger ‘default’ subs or find a smaller one if that suits you. And I like choice.

This place still has a long way to go IMO. I’m starting to resort to lurking chat / ask style communities more just for something to do around here and even there, it’s not quite as engaging or active as it should be. As a humble user, sometimes I don’t have something particular in mind that I want to see. Sometimes I just want to bed rot and scroll and read people’s stories and discussions, maybe give my two cents if I feel so inclined. And there isn’t really that here yet because once you’ve checked AskLemmy or whatever, you’ve already seen 90% of the content for the next week.

For what it’s worth, I was also blocked at a time in my saga. And might have even been the blocker once. I don’t think it’s the healthiest kind of relationship to have with someone lol. Especially with strong feelings involved. All that I can say worked in my situation was time apart and maybe a change in mindset since then too.

But I mean, sometimes people just suck too and are just bullies or bigots. And it’s admirable that you’re worried about her mental state here when you could probably still do with some healing yourself too. If it’s eating you up, I used to find that the best escape from this sort of spiralling out is to lose myself in a complicated RPG.

Oh no I’m sorry to hear that :( And I’m guessing my story here nudged you to reach out, I’m sorry. And that’s really shitty. How long ago was it that you last spoke?

Ah yeah, didn’t even think of that and I even saw a post come through my feed this morning from there. I tend to associate this kind of stuff more with hippies lol but maybe that’s a good place to ask too.

I don’t think I’ve really seen any communities around here dealing with anything metaphysical or whatever. Or this kind of spirituality.

You might possibly get a better reception in !witchesvspatriarchy@lemmy.ca but that’s really the only community around here where I think people who have information or advice could possibly be lurking.

Trump: “Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man! Wind turbines are killing whales in numbers never seen before. I’ll beat Obama in this election again.” shuffles around to YMCA

This lady and countless other Trump voters: “He just gets me! Shares all of my views, praise Jesus!”

This reminds me of an online thing that I had going with someone that started in my late teens. Even the line about not having empathy was something that I remember, which I never bought. And talking about self harm, suicide, trouble distinguishing dreams from actual events etc. That was a wild ride. I eventually found out, when everything was crashing and burning, that a lot of stories and details of stories were made up too.

Funnily enough, after years of not talking, she’s probably one of my ‘best’ and longest running friends now lol. Someone that I can talk to about anything with (literally the only person I’ve ever discussed gender identity related shit with). I wasn’t born perfect either, and put her through just as much hell, so we’ve both seen and dealt with each other at our worst and lowest, which makes a good kind of shoulder to cry on if you can make it through the other side of that.

And in her case, it was part edginess and part mental health lol. Bipolar and being a teenager that wanted to fit in with the alternative scene and be dark and morbid and shit. Which I actually get to some extent too. When I was young I used to say that I’d be part of club 27 because I thought that a cool thing to say and imagine for myself. Until someone actually pointed out how fucked up it is to go around talking like that.

Lol holy shit. And a few hours later he’s going to deny that he denied the exemption and be like “what are you talking about? I said certain electronics are exempt!”

I’m starting to think that maybe the reason Elon Musk did two blatant nazi salutes in a row was to test what they could do in front of everyone’s eyes while denying it, and to see how many people would just go “ok sure, I didn’t see what I just saw. Whatever you say, dear leader.”

Where are all the free speech warriors? Shouldn’t they be blocking freeways with trucks and going on about the ‘deep state’ and new world order right about now? And what about the king ‘free speech absolutionist’ and all of his bootlickers? Shouldn’t they be defending the values that they apparently care so deeply about right about now? Where’s the rioting on twitter?

If you were a fresh faced, bright eyed gen Zer straight out of school that got caught up in and fooled by this bullshit, I could maybe forgive you if you actually used your own brains for once and your own eyes to see these hypocrites, liars and idiots in action and to see what they’re really made of and all about.

Anyone older than gen Z can get fucked though because no one older than 25 has an excuse to have not seen these people for what they really are. Anyone that grew up with these clowns calling everything from Ninja Turtles to Pokemon evil and trying to ban rap music and heavy metal should’ve been able to see from a mile away that they just swapped the word ‘evil’ for ‘woke’. Anyone older than 25 that fell for this must’ve been a piece of shit to begin with.

Wake me up when something gets done about it other than a fine that amounts to about half a day’s profit for them.

And I’m willing to bet that it’s all the same states where they make the biggest noise about how much they care about the kids while also wanting to marry them and fuck them.

This is one of the biggest reasons that I think reason number 1 that Trump and co won is hatred. Full stop. You can’t claim that it was some attempt to protect children from the ‘woke agenda’ when you instead supported people that have had a reputation and tendency to want to marry, fuck and send children to work in the mines for decades now.

You can’t claim it was for a better economy when Trump has a well known history of even bankrupting casinos and spent his entire previous presidency golfing. You can’t claim it’s ‘anti-establishment’ when all of the richest people in the world are amassing more power than ever before. You can’t claim it’s about freedom when we all watched Trump allow Erdogan’s bodyguards to rough up American citizens on American soil the last time Trump was in charge. And you can’t claim it’s for ‘free speech’ when people get sent to prison for political beliefs.

It’s nothing but hatred. These dumb fucking inbred clowns hate so strongly that they were willing to not only sacrifice the rights of their own mothers and sisters and daughters but were also willing to let their children grow up in a world run by known kiddie fiddlers with article after article backing up the evidence that the biggest pedos around are southern republicans and preachers.

Hateful, evil, profoundly fucking stupid people.

Billionaires actually need to fucking go. My whole life there has been this hypothetical question of “what if billionaires actually used their money for good” along with this quiet acceptance by society that it’ll never actually happen.

But now, as it turns out, not only are they doing nothing good for the world with their wealth but they actually actively use their wealth to buy up all the news organisations, push misinformation, prop up right wingers and inflict misery onto everyone.

I think it’s great that they’re starting to turn on the orange painted clown with the comically large tie but that’s not because of his desire to hurt everyone that isn’t a white cis male and push hate, nope, that’s exactly what these fucking cunts wanted. It’s just that he’s a bit more fucking stupid than they bargained for now and now they’re numbers are going down. How awful for them.

Fuck them. I hope that there’s nothing but guillotines and rope in their futures.

Yeah it’s funny that those were called out as exceptions because as far as ancient Greek mythology goes, Disney’s Hercules (one of the most widely known takes) basically made Hades = Satan and Zeus = God. I’ve also seen Hades get treated as Satan lite in DC Comics adaptations, basically unashamedly rewriting another mythology to base it around christianity. Meanwhile, from what I’ve seen, Hades was actually one of the few semi decent gods.

The only two that I ever still make use of are XDA for custom firmwares and other Android related shit. And Pokecommunity for the ROM hacking / decompilation stuff.

These fucking people prove how thin the line between stupidity and evil can be.

Yeah, as much as I support there being women only spaces here, especially around here where it seems like the only way that women are going to be able to have any spaces here is by brute force, I am unfortunately not a woman. And I don’t want to invade or force my way in. So just to repeat, I absolutely support and respect there being communities where women can mingle with each other without asshole men popping up every five minutes to shit on them.

What I’m hoping for is that once communities like !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al are able to get a foothold and thrive and more women are actually comfortable around here, we’ll start seeing more communities that deal with things like skin and haircare and jewelry and thrifting and cool styles and shit. Because clearly most men aren’t interested or else those sorts of communities would be popping up already. So this place needs more of a woman’s touch first lol.

Not complaining or being sour or anything. I have faith that it’ll get to the point where these communities don’t need to be gendered anymore but I’ve seen the way people around here can be so I also think it’s necessary for now.

I definitely understand the aversion to algorithms because just look at what platforms like Facebook, Twitter or even Reddit these days do with them. In the wrong hands, it’s deceptive and dodgy as fuck.

But I wouldn’t be opposed to an algorithm that you can tailor yourself. And I don’t mean Bluesky style ‘tailoring’, I mean give us a list of interests and categories to toggle that then have more weight in the feed. So for example, if you like metal, you would then see more metal related stuff in your feed and not have it downed out by Taylor Swift and Kanye West because upvotes.

And something I picked up from Facebook (even though it doesn’t work for shit on Facebook because their algorithm is mentally handicapped) is being able to ‘favourite’ something. And by doing that, not just pinning it to the top of the list of communities but actually making it appear in your feed more whether the upvotes are a high amount or not.

More stuff that isn’t memes, news and politics. Like, apparently there’s two people on this whole platform watching Harley Quinn (or at least leaving a comment about it in the discussion thread). Pretty much everything that isn’t memes, news or politics is still dead around here. Except for pro wrestling somehow.

What I’m still missing from Reddit is actual discussion of the forms of entertainment that I enjoy. I even tried that thread about “what music are you listening to” that pops up in casual conversation once or twice but no one gives a fuck, not even the OP of those threads bothers going through and giving an up arrow to people that have replied. And no one interacts with any replies either, so might as well be on Facebook for that kind of ‘discussion’.

I’m also missing the haircare and skincare type subreddits. There were a lot of valuable resources and it was nice having a place for the occasional stupid questions. Also fashion / style type subreddits. I still think those would do great around here with LemmyNSFW mostly kept separate from everything else, so it would help keep the one handed browsers away. Although I still maintain that a big barrier for certain people in this regard is no posting to your own profile.

But yeah, there is lots and lots of stuff that this platform still needs. Memes, news and politics are the first things you’ll get on every platform. Now I just wish there was more than that.

It was a repeat of #MenAreTrash and a little bit of #MeToo using different words this time. And just like any other time there is an awareness campaign that highlights the general statistics and truth of things, instead of inspiring men to take a stand and push for any change or correcting of shitty, toxic behaviour; the so called loud minority rushes in to say “not all men” and defend the status quo while the so called silent majority lets them.