You broke our rules, lmao why are you salty about it posting here? Read the rules before posting, it’s not that hard

It was a really easy request, if you have to make a reactionary meme when you get spoken to by a mod I’d hate to see what you do if you were banned… Which you weren’t, your post was just removed and I asked you to repost it. Pretty easy stuff lol

As an enjoyer of puns, I agree

I don’t buy cheap shit, stop assuming man. I have never met someone with such a chip on their shoulder Get help

So based on a subset of people who are entitled you are tarring everybody in existence with the same brush. Affordability, cost of living and wages are a whole other fucking issue related to CEO greed. Which is out of the scope of the discussion. The fact you are so bitter about this means it’s probably time to find a new job lmao

Are you serious? Where did I mention buying things cheap? That’s a funny looking straw man you built from nothing. Literal premium flagship phones like Apple/Samsung have planned obsolescence It isn’t about buying a cheap product when a lot of busineses follow such shitty practices

Why are you blaming the consumer for a problem businesses have created. Planned obsolescence, doesn’t matter how many $$$$ you put into a product. It has a shelf life. Especially with more tech

Even if they could invent self-repairing appliances/phones they wouldn’t do it… Because then they couldn’t sell you new thing

This is what actually fears me when it comes to diseases like the common flu and covid-19. There is no telling what internal damage these viruses have on the body. They often don’t find out years down the line.

When I want to be really cautious when I have it and around people who have it. It’s because I am actually scared of the potential damage it could have to me later down the line.

Not just with things like long COVID but also potentially things that could impact my health and wellbeing. Diabetes is only one potential example.

Hold up, it’s mould would that not be bad for your lungs? Or just you know, stink in general

Hopefully, Since thread is the new cool thing I hope it survives long enough to do so

It’s the best and worst thing to happen to the internet.

Best because - Twitter is a toxic site, with toxic people and a system that encourages ragebaiting means it breeds it.

Worst because - These negative people need somewhere to go… And it will only force them onto alternatives and fester in new places. Potentially here.

I think it’s a lot more because the internet was a niche. It’s something your parents/family or weird creepy uncle wasn’t on. All these old memes still feel “untouched” by facebook and it feels like an in-joke. In other words memes felt more special.

4chan was onto something, once memes became mainstream they died… a little hyperbolic but they do lose their fun factor being more popular now.

There were cases of them deleting posts that critisced certain governments. Hence why I am on Lemmy.World and not that instance.

There are good reasons not to like/trust them outside of a “flood of content” those kinds of users don’t go on ml they are on Lemmygrad and they are equally awful, which is why I am not on that instance.

Some information I have posted to Lemmy.World:

I am not a super code-literate person so bare with me on this… But. Still please becareful. There appears to be a vulnerability.

Users are posting images like the following:

https://imgur.com/a/RS4iAeI

And inside hidden is JavaScript code that when executed can take cookie information and send it to a URL address.

Among other things. At this time if you see an image please click the icon circled before clicking the link. DO NOT CLICK THE IMAGE. If you see anything suspicious, please report it immediately. It is better a false report than a missed one.

I have seen multiple posts by these people during the attack. It is most certainly related to JS.

This, and the ability to use flairs would be really useful here on Lemmy. Flairing posts was such an essential way to organise posts on a lot of specific subreddits.

That kind of feature is so needed

Yeah, I can use RIF I am just not logged in which I deleted my account anyway so…

At the time I signed up Lemmy.World was pretty small, I just wanted an instance that wasn’t .ml and had better policies… As it turned out the modlog is very transparent and they were deleting posts critical of the CCP/Russia. So I left and made an account on World.

It seems World was a good choice… Although now that it struggles with the amount of users it seems it might be worth setting an alt up on another instance just to help me out when it gets too busy over here.

I remember this from something awful first, that was the 00s lol

I’ll be honest. I really do feel their argument about open registrations is a weak one. Reddit is effectively open registration. The only thing you need on Reddit is an email and then you’re in.

The moderation tools are a fair point. I really do feel like they really want to make in their eyes a safe space. Which is their perogative but not something I personally vibe with given how much they are deleting and removing. I’ve rarely had to step in as a moderator in the places I run, most people are behaving. One total person I had to ban and they were not from Lemmy.World.

We do need better tools don’t get me wrong! That said… Admining for some bigger communities I have had a total of 3 reports, only needed to act on 1. Banned 1 person, from a small asexual community I run for bigotry but outside of that… It has been pretty quiet. Not to down play it beehaw probably deal with a lot of shitty people too. Especially in the bigger LGBT+ community.

There are some really toxic instances out there, but as far as they go. I don’t think Lemmy.World is anything worse than what you see in Reddit on a good day.

I get where the frustration is coming from, it can be annoying to see people take a stand and grow bored because they have to feed that hit.

A lot of people were never going to make the switch to Lemmy.World or any other instance for that matter. it is asking a lot for those to upend their daily routine. Not everyone is as invested or as understanding. People have a life outside of Reddit and use that to fill that gap in their routine where they need that entertainment.

That said. This doesn’t help. Genuinely though I think there are good conversations to be had a about becoming less reliant on social media platforms as a whole. Some places are genuinely not good for mental health depending on what you expose yourself to.

Instagram and “beach bodies” for example. A lot of the younger kids and even adults are growing up with a photoshopped/filtered impression of what a healthy weight looks like. It isn’t entirely the fault of Instagram. This is something that has been reinforced by magazine, celebrities and diet companies for years.

Some news subreddits are bad because you are taking a lot of “doomed” news. People typically pay attention more to the bad and negative than they do positive things. So having only a place where you see bad things will definitely be really bad for your mental health and make you an overall more negative person.

I honestly think this is the route of it. Lemmy has less content for me which really does help in terms of it giving me fewer hours to doom scroll. So to be honest I wouldn’t care so much if the growth Lemmy sees doesn’t exceed what we see on Reddit.

I also think it’s good to be critical of the current state of Lemmy. A lot of admins want better tools on Reddit… Well here on Lemmy. The admin tools are rubbish. They are not very good at all. You have really limited ways to deal with people. There is no Automod at all. So Lemmy needs work, and it doesn’t help anyone to wear rose tinted glasses when looking at this platform as a whole.

Even the user experience of Lemmy can be daunting. Really feels like new posts should be the thing that is pushed above all else to people as default rather than as Active. Active posts don’t cycle through enough so you are left with content on the front page that grows stagnant overtime. Content is what makes Reddit, a place people actively want to browse.

Then there is Jerboa. Which as an app it’s okay but not fantastic. It lacks the features of apps like RIF and Apollo and could use work too.

TL;DR: Make a site that people want to visit. They will try it and stick around. With teasing issues and the current state many redditors are not going to stick around. Social Media in general is a good topic of discussion.