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All I see are rows of empty questions. Did something scare everyone away? Don't tell me everything got empty after the last drama happened.

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[–] spittingimage 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot of the time I'll read a thread, realise I have nothing useful to add, and move on.

[–] Volkditty 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Many is the time I've gotten halfway through typing a response only to lose interest in my own opinion.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh man, that’s the wor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Same here. I type a response, read before submitting, only to decide it is not worth putting out anyway. I only manage to submit comments when it is related to cooking.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

No idea about anyone else, but I tend to only chime in if the question spurs some kind of thought, or I have a story that matches, or some other kind of quasi useful input.

So it can be weeks before I jump in, or multiples in the same day.

[–] fjordbasa 15 points 1 month ago

I know beggars can’t be choosers and if every rule breaking post was removed this community would probably only have a few posts left- but frankly, most of the questions just aren’t very good

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I'm here, I don't answer to anywhere near all questions I see though.

[–] Skyrmir 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Nothing but anecdotal, but it kinda looks like Bluesky is becoming a thing. Couple that with a lot of people taking a step back from the world right now.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon 5 points 1 month ago

Bluesky grew by a million users in a week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

brazil jumped from twitter, that was a huge part of it. the election caused another wave.

bluesky is just twitter with faux-federation. it will end up with the same issues eventually when its board decides to recoup.

[–] KombatWombat 2 points 1 month ago

The dotnet conference is happening right now and I was surprised to hear a couple of the speakers advertising their Bluesky. They had accounts on other social media too, but that seemed to be their main one. These are tech enthusiasts so it makes some sense, but it's always seemed like an afterthought whenever I've seen profiles linked before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's Bluesky? First time hearing that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

You're living under a rock, aren't you? I keep reading about it nearly everywhere, way more than I would like to.

It's a microblogging platform, i.e. replacement for Twitter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What is this drama this person is talking about?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Probably the thing about a lemy.ml admin doxing some random user some 25 times. Which is VERY not ok.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is linking to freely and publicly available information to their profile links considered doxxing?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It looks like it's a different situation. One thing is linking one account to other account, if it's relevant. Other thing is leaving all your stuff at once, perfect for someone stalking you. That person was completely stalking that user.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

Yeah well, that's not doxxing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

An admin banned the lead mod of Casual Conversation before doxxing her both on here and (whether or not by proxy) YouTube (with loads of misinformation mixed in since mixing slander with doxxing makes it awkward to report someone for one of those), as well as apparently Twitter too, and doing the equivalent of revenge ****, despite the fact another mod who just happened to be told to gang up on her and excuse themselves with similar reasons as him (because she mentioned people who were crying over Kamala Harris needing to win or failing to win were being drama queens and that the OP she was commenting on wasn't even true and thus broke the community's very rules on misinformation, which didn't matter to the person banning her as he sided with said misinformation which was enough for him) established that this was against the rules both on there and on ML, with the irony of her being allowed worse treatment than an actual Nazi by people who are not yet defederated escaping nobody, all because he didn't like the fact she pointed out how counterintuitive it was Kamala Harris appeals to both the LGBT and Islamic communities (since one persecutes the other).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We're all in better Ask Lemmy on .world

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

So the rumors mentioned are true.

[–] tupalos 3 points 1 month ago

Got banned from Reddit. Also Reddit is acting like a piece of shit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

that's in interesting perspective since i'm seeing the opposite with responses to all the questions.

i go through asklemmy every morning while i'm caffeinating at the start of each day because the questions usually wake me up with a WTF or a TIL.

i must be on their blocked list. lol

also: i wonder at how it weighs on your soul & outlook to feel like you have to curate such a list in a safe space.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I answer if I see it and I can answer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I browse all and the front page of lemmy.ml. I don't usually seek out specific communities.

Are you sure you want my answers?

[–] hightrix 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for this post. Yet another power tripper that is blocked (from the drama link)