to make money

she’s still around. she’s just getting old and getting crazier. she’s likely mentally ill and not treating it.

i met her once. she’s a completely insane nutbag whose only joy in life is her internet sex celebrity status.

bingo. they require attention and effort and you might get something out of them…

social media… is designed to require neither… just like reality tv or candy crush… which are junk.

and same with food. a good meal requires attention and effort to make… cup o noodles requires almost none, but has very little nutritional value beyond hitting your salt and fat receptors.

pretty much.

people who have it seem to be convinced everyone else has it. it’s a cognitive bias. just like white folks think racism isn’t real because they don’t experience it.

i’m saying i have limited resources and that i’m not going to waste my time listening to shitty arguements from idiots. that’s what i’m saying.

i’m not going to listen to some lemmy leftist spout how UBI will solve all problems in the world. I am going to listen to a professional economist who has studied the issue and done studies on it talk about it’s benefits, limits, and possible negatives, however.

let’s not even touch the irony of some leftist idiot demanding i listen to their nonsense, while they 100% refuse to listen to a MAGA person. because to both varieties of idiot ‘horrible person’ is anyone who disagrees with them and their respective delusional ideologies.

lemmy still is full of weirdos who get pissed off on one comment you made on one instance and community… and will follow you around to others to harass you until you block them. it’s miserable and weird.

at least they can’t get you banned site-wide like they can with reddit.

i could give every homeless person I meet 10 bucks.

doesn’t mean it won’t solve homelessness. and it would leave me with about $250 less each week.

you can if they are spouting cliched nonsense… but also who has the time to waste listening to partisan nutbags whinge and circlejerk?

I’d rather spend my time actively learning about shit in the world by going to the source material rather than listen to idiotic hearsay from some internet nutbags comments. but sadly, I’m in the minority there. most folks get their info from social media now.

that entirely depends on where you live.

and having grand-standing opinions about lgbt+ or palestinians when you live in liberal american is just that… grandstanding. I unless those folks moving to texas to try to influence elections there, they are just shouting into the void to feel morally superior. lgbt people aren’t oppressed in the northeast in any real physical way apart from dealing with the occasional idiot, just like the rest of us.

Yeah. I know people who talk like this IRL too. they are all under 25 and still economically dependent on their parents… while they rant and lecture about UBI is going to solve everything and you’re an evil capitalist bigot if you disagree, and once they have done that they start bragging to you about how worldly they are because they just went to India/South America/Africa and you haven’t been there so what do you know about the world you are clearly racist if you’ve done voluntourism like them.

The desperate need to feel morally superior to others is a hell of a drug. Especially when you have achieved nothing in life on your own.

it’s not a rant. it’s my experience of this site on a daily basis. mostly because i don’t agree with leftist dogma like ACAB and I acknowledge the world is complex rather than simple and anarchsim won’t save it and turn it into Shangri-La. I also don’t think Linux is superior and all Windows/Mac users are pathetic for wanting to use command-line. And I work in tech.

but please tell me more how horrible and clearly all me, not the environment here. plenty of other comments in this thread share that same story of being attacked and harassed for not agreeing with the dogmatism that dominate most lemmy threads.

But let me be pedantic in the spirit of lemmy… I didn’t start anything off. I am only replying and sharing my experience. you’re the one interpreting my experience as an attack on people, which seems to be to be a manipulative tactic that amounts to victim blaming. maybe if i wore a skirt that covered my knees lemmy people wouldn’t assault me, right? maybe if i just agreed that ACAB, linux is the best ever, and anyone who is LGBT+ is a divine angelic being who can do no wrong, lemmy would be nice to me, right?

there is no point in engaging in debate with someone who is not arguing in good faith or thinks insults and harassment are ‘debate’.

100% my experience on lemmy as well.

empty angry phrases… no actual substance on these issues. and no specifics. no meaningful discussion about how policing should be done… just ‘police are bad and should not exist and crime will magically disappear without them!’

yeah and? I’m not those governments or those people. it has nothing to do with me. and I’m sick of people on lemmy calling me a bigot for thinking lgbt+ are normal people, and not angelic saints that can do no wrong and if I get rear ended by a lgbt+ person I should pay for the damages because clearly I’m at fault for some shitty southern state’s policies. Even though I don’t live in that state and I live in one of the most pro lgbt+ states in the country/world.

lots of folks are oppressed. i was oppressed and beaten by my father because he thought i was gay… where is my lgbt+ oppression badge? oh right… anytime I tell anyone that fact… they tell me to STFU because clearly I’m lying and I’m trying to ‘steal their oppression’ or something… usually by some lgbt+ person who has led a luxurious and privileged life… and whose oppression is mostly that they aren’t rich and famous and clearly I should give them my money to that end…

“landlords are evil!”

yeah, the little old lady who i rented from for 5 years and who never raised my rent before I bought… she was so evil. and not at all a wonderful person who i still help out from time to time.

discussing things is interpreted as an attack by those who doesn’t want to discuss them and simply want you (and everyone) to believe what they believe.

Personally, I really like the federation model. I think it has a long way to go still, but this structure makes sense to me. I’m interested in seeing where it goes.

Yeah, I like my feed having kind of random shit in it, instead of being stuff a site ‘thinks’ I want to see.

100% this. Reddit wasn’t always what a lot of people know it as. Lemmy has extremely early Reddit vibes. And that is a good thing. We just need to keep growing and diversifying.

Yeah but let’s hope that doesn’t just repeat the cycle and bring in more malignant/militant types who just want to cause internet drama to feel good about themselves.

Another normal person checking in. Sadly I don’t comment much for all the reasons you mentioned. It is some comfort to know there are a few of us around.

Smart. Commenting here on anything tends to get you harassed. Not threatened at least.

But a lot of what you wrote is just a feature of any small online community. Then you end up with these bitter types who, if you rubbed them slightly the wrong way, get up at 6 a.m., downvote everything you ever wrote and report as many of your contributions as they can get away with.

I mean, this is what got me to leave reddit, apart from the corporate stuff. I remember when I got sitewide banned for saying I let my cat go outdoors, and I was reported repeatedly for violence across many comments by some anti-cat nutbag who thinks I’m personally causing an Avian holocaust. My cat has never caught a bird… he mostly sits on the porch and lays in the garden and lets people pet him.