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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And yet, you assumed an image on catbox would work on my device. Interesting.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

lol. It’s just iOS, voyager, vpn, and ad blocking are not conducive to seeing hosted images.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m on iOS, using voyager, proton vpn, and a 3rd party ad blocker and the image loaded just fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] disguy_ovahea 51 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

A large portion of the world is experiencing political polarization. I see the same things happening on Lemmy happen on other social media websites.

The “if you don’t agree with me you must have the exact opposite opinion” approach to debate seems to be more a problem of the participants than the platform.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Pretty much every time I dare to say anything negative about Russia or China I'm swarmed with illiterate tankie lemmings who jump into the conclusion that criticising one empire automatically means supporting the other empire.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

wow can’t believe this guy wants me to kiss nazis on the lips /s

[–] disguy_ovahea 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I said don’t kiss Nazi ass. That’s not the same thing.

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[–] Diplomjodler3 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

How can you not like waffles! That's outrageous! I'm so triggered right now!

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Me: "I like pancakes"

Lemmy: "Only a shitlib western imperialist would think that. Read more Lenin."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Me: “I like waffles”

Lemmy: “HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO GO MY LIFE WITHOUT PANCAKES YOU OPPRESSIVE INSENSITIVE FUCK”

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[–] Deestan 45 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

-"Russia should not invade a sovereign country, murder its citizens and deport their children."

-"Umm, actually, the US were doing crimes in Syria and you should not support them."

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

On Lemmy it's more like:

"I don't like pancakes."

"Oh, so I suppose that waffles are perfect huh??"

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nah, it’s more like “you should delete windows now and get Linux”

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I agree that conversations sometimes end up being about Linux, which is unfortunate. People seldom recommend installing BSD or other free systems, which is a shame. The lesson here is that we should all install OpenBSD.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, so you hate Plan9 huh?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

Bravery is leaving both the ifunny and imgflip watermarks.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I like to insult and block these people. My fear of course, with Lemmy being so small, is I will block everyone. Then again, that's still better than dealing with illiterate, contrarian assholes

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I feel the same way, then I look at my blocklist and it's just lemmy.ml, anime subs, 3 people, some political terms, and a bot. I also have a .world account I use when I want to view the whole Lemmy experience anyways. Tbh I still feel kinda bad about blocking .ml, there was some cool peeps on there but I just can't deal with all the tankie drama

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I also blocked ml, it just ain't worth it. I figure the cool people will eventually leave for another instance anyways

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What…. This is on par with any kind of internet discourse. It’s pretty much why I hardly ever post prior to Lemmy. It doesn’t matter how well articulated the post, SOMEONE will find the need to correct or clarify unnecessarily.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (19 children)

it’s really sad because i take great pride and pleasure from reading other people’s thoughts and posts. but when i try to give back, it’s immediately jumped on by dogpilers and “oh you actually meant something else…” people. and when i do the bare minimum to defend myself, they slap back with the “okay buddy, sure” and downvote my defense so it’s invisible to other readers.

needless to say my blocklist is nearing 100 users.

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[–] RaoulDook 15 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Yep that's one of my pet peeves about the Internet. People love to try to put words in your mouth. It gets a bit tiring having to tell every one of those jabronis that I never said any of those words, and they should re-read what I did actually write instead.

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[–] JayDee 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

TBF, I understand this annoying kind of 'reading into it'. at the same time, if someone starts dropping dogwhistles or starts dancing around something in a convo, i am definitely gonna read into that shit.

[–] Entropywins 6 points 2 weeks ago

If you don't like waffles just say it...

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

This is anywhere on the internet.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

I like that the name of the platform has been written over.

"This is only happening locally here at and not at ". And that's happening for every place in the internet.

Marvellous

[–] Jomega 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

One time I said AI porn was unethical (because it is) and people here thought I was calling for a ban on all porn. At no point did I say that porn was unethical as a rule, and if I did believe that I wouldn't have mentioned AI at all.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It'd be nice if we could regulate porn in good faith. Every attempt to regulate it in the US has been an obvious attempt to shut it down, but it should be regulated like anything else. Sex toys, too. Lots of questionable substances are used in sex toys that probably shouldn't be inserted into the human body.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

this shit pisses me off, my instinct is to say irrationally, but i feel it’s probably totally rational to have your own carefully chosen words used in such a hamfisted perversion

yesterday i made a post saying “hey look there’s a pattern to how ableist terms begin as descriptive or medical terms and its only later they are coopted as insults, the most recent of which is ‘neurodivergent’”

top comment? “dude stop telling us to stop using the word ‘neurodivergent.’” 30+ upvotes. and when i respond saying that actually making people abandon the word wasn’t my goal? downvotes.

like what even is the point of writing words if crusty ass debate lords insist on interpretation to mean the exact opposite 80% of the time?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In my experience, this happens way less on Lemmy than on Reddit before the IPO.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

i can’t speak to the frequency but the tone is definitely different when it happens here compared to on reddit, probably influenced by the demographic and field of interest differences. the ml roots of the place really have echoed throughout the tone of the space, so most of the arguments have a really cynical, high alert, almost superstitious affect to them that i never really encountered on reddit. (some random account i thought i was cool with is trying to like psychoanalyze my recent posts to find my true intentions? i gave up on that convo)

your mileage may vary, of course!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

your mileage may vary, of course!

Blocking all of .ml makes your experiences vastly more pleasant

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[–] thesohoriots 11 points 2 weeks ago

That’s French toast erasure.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

how dare you say we piss on the poor

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[–] Bamboodpanda 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm convinced that most people don't read anything before sharing their opinion. An opinion with zero relevance or weight is absolutely useless.

[–] conartistpanda 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah but I preffer the pineapple before the pizza, that way the mass feels saltier.

[–] JargonWagon 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I see more Motte-and-bailey fallacy.

I see less "I like pancakes" and more "I think pancakes are superior to waffles" from the first commenter.

Then the second commenter responds, "So you hate waffles?"

Then the first commenter retreats to "No, I just like pancakes. Why are you assuming what I'm saying? Don't you understand I'm being nuanced?"

Also, nuance is one of the more recent words to have a new usage like literally, which can now mean figuratively. When people say their argument is nuanced they mean it is good or correct. It reminds me of the use objective to describe a person to pretend they don't have biases to incorrectly validate their arguments.

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[–] Bender_on_Fire 6 points 2 weeks ago

While I don't want to deny that people try to put words into others mouths, I think context is still important. It is possible and even quite typical to send messages beyond the meaning of the actual words used in a statement and simply playing dumb when someone calls you out for doing that is also not a great look.

Think of going to a waffles-convention and just walking around claiming that you, in fact, like pancakes. Of course people are going to assume you're a troll.

It's important to think of different perspectives and at least consider if something you meant in a very innocent way might still not sit right with someone else. Certainly not easy to do, mistakes will always happen, but honestly trying makes a huge difference imo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

You hate Lemmy????!

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