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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • The way I see something as ‘unpopular’ is that you have to feel strongly about it. I’ve studied the way some people have posted over on Reddit, on all unpopularopinion based subreddits like 10thDentist, TrueUnpopularOpinion .etc

    What I’ve noted people of doing there is that they’re saying the opposite of what people prop as popular, for the sake of being the opposite. They don’t feel that strongly about it and you can tell. They’ll write a 2-liner post that is very dry, summarizing that they don’t like something because everyone else did, just through their own words. It doesn’t feel strong, doesn’t feel relatable or resonates anything.

    I love opinions where someone points at something and has a very vibrant feeling towards it. I’m tired of any of them, unpopular or popular, that are along the lines of “I don’t know why I like it, I just do” and “It sucks because…it just sucks and I’ve got nothing to add to it”.






  • I feel like with Lemmy, it’s harkening back to a period of the internet where you can approach it and put it down for later. It’s not yet constructed in a way like all of the other social media platforms, that want to keep you invested, even if you know what to expect. Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Twitter .etc all remind me of the days in the old internet, where you had web portals. These web portals were from MSN, Yahoo and AOL primarily.

    They all had things there, to keep you attracted to them. They had their search engines, they had games, they had news, they had weather and many more things. All to keep you in one place and to keep you from venturing out to other places unless you used their search engines before Google became the juggernaut of that.

    Social Media today, is designed now, to be like them. Except it’s worse because they’ve got algorithms in place that they extract the data from, i.e you, to pitch to you things that you may be particularly interested in just to keep you invested.

    For all of the numbers those social media platforms have, they sure do say a lot of nothing.



  • This is what sickens me about America.

    This country knows full well, what the right solutions are. We prop them on it’s table every damn day. What does America do? Always going the opposite direction.

    We worried about AI taking over jobs. It’s happened and continues to happen, so we propped up UBI. America? “Naw, nah…no, you don’t need that! Here, little Jack over there? Your boy right? Why, he’s got too much time on his hands and plays too much video games. Now he needs to have a job. You’ll let him get a job, won’t you? If we lighten child labor laws some.”

    Fucking sickening, this country.



  • That worked for me as well. Anything else, I just kept getting error after error after error. So I’m not quite certain what’s going on. It appears that to me, it doesn’t like the format provided in this community on the sidebar.

    I was proven wrong. What I did was that I looked into my modlog, took the snippet of “/c/web1”, applied it over the format example, while combining the link provided in your comment. It works perfectly.






  • If they’ve nothing to hide, then why are they so dodgy when things like lolicon are discussed? Their actions speak louder than their words ever could.

    There is an age old practice from olden days of the internet. If you don’t want your nudes out there, if you don’t want your name out there, if you don’t want anything of you out there - you don’t put it out there. Because once it’s out there, you won’t ever know who’ll see it much less, have it. I always assume, that as soon as I upload a picture of myself somewhere on social media, someone would’ve had to have right clicked and saved it already. For what purpose? Who knows, could be a matter of some sick personal collector of people they particularly are fascinated with to potential murderers who’re only lacking my location but should they find me out in the open, they’ll know what I look like and probably kill me. And anything in between.

    But so many people on Facebook, complain about how it is that they make new accounts and suddenly are presented with familiar faces to re-add as friends. Whether or not it’s a new e-mail to even a new location, Facebook knows you so well by now, that they’ll pitch you all of whom you’ve had, even if you don’t want them. That defeats the point of wanting a refreshing restart on your life when all you’ve got is reminders.

    Black markets also exist that circulate your data. Why would one think that one day, they’re seeing a bunch of transactions that they didn’t authorize all of a sudden? Well, somewhere at somepoint, someone did seize your credit card or bank info and now is running hogwild on it.

    They’re not worried yet because it hasn’t happened to them, but boy do the tables turn once people are affected by these experiences.