this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2023
51 points (69.8% liked)

Ask Lemmy

27061 readers
2767 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected]


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected]. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] carmanut 83 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"this is almost as good as reddit"

[–] PP_BOY_ 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This is a good one. Lemmy is good, but not being able to create avatars or give wholesome awards to posts kinda makes me want to go back

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the gold kind stranger

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

(I had to forcibly remind myself that we're upvoting what we'd normally downvote. Good work!)

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don’t see any reason for me to use Linux

[–] fubo 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you're already using OpenBSD, sure!

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] the_stat_man 33 points 11 months ago

I think Spez was just misunderstood.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago

"We should federate with Threads."

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago

"Israel's actions against Hamas are completely justified."

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (5 children)

You can post anything and it will get down voted. Lemmy is as toxic as reddit and people use downvote as a tool to suppress what they don't like, regardless of the merit of the comment.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

You can post anything and it will get down voted.

I disagree. Downvoting...

[–] Synthead 11 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The more I use it, the less I like it. For some reason, it feels like a majority of the people here are already angry and argumentative, and they are happy to snap and make me their current problem.

The hive mind aspect is also ~5x worse than Reddit. People love to cover their ears here, even in constructive conversations. It's a real shame.

[–] PrettyLights 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A lot of users here were pushed out of other communities. They carry the toxicity with them.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Downvoting doesn't really suppress anything.

Also you can effectivly disable it by switching to a frontend that hides votes and sorting by new. I think that's even the default for some instances.

[–] EatYouWell 8 points 11 months ago

I think you fell for the comment that would be guaranteed to be downvoted.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

This just feels like rage bait

[–] fishos 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

All the failed examples of communism that people say "that's only because it wasn't really communism" are really proof of why communism can't work at all. If a system is what it does, then communism always creates facism.

Edit: autocorrect originally changed it to "racism". Still got upvote lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Every country that called itself communist claims to be working towards this, none have achieved it, most seem to have given up and instead settled on some form of authoritarianism and/or capitalism while claiming they are still working towards this goal.

[–] Mr_Blott 20 points 11 months ago

I'm currently commenting on all the Linux communities - "I don't have this problem because I use Windows" and they're not seeing the irony

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Taylor Swift is the first ethical billionaire

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

R.I.P. Kissinger

[–] son_named_bort 16 points 11 months ago

I'm going to get downvoted for this, but...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Firefox sucks.

[–] CheeseChief 15 points 11 months ago

Reddit did nothing wrong.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Isn't Facebook free software, since it doesn't cost anything?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Elon Musk is right.

[–] Boozilla 13 points 11 months ago

Cars are awesome! Everyone should own at least 3 or 4 of them!

[–] xc2215x 12 points 11 months ago

Loving Israel, Reddit and capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Anywhere on lemmy? That should be easy. Basically go to any niche community and shit on their central theme.

For example explain how windows is the superior OS on a linux instance. Or say you use chrome on a privacy instance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or just say “macOS master race” anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Politically I lean ever so slightly to the right.

Almost perma ban right there.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] garbagebagel 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is just a trick to make me look bad if someone looks through my profile.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Firefox bad, chromium good

[–] weeeeum 9 points 11 months ago

Israel did nothing wrong. Ever.

[–] yolobrolofosholo 8 points 11 months ago

Spez 4 prez

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Tbh I'd just say some racist shit. I'm not gonna write the racist things I would say I legitimately believed it would save my wife's life. I am from the deep south. I have all that shit in a neglected shed in the backlot of my brain. Not thoughts and opinions, just hurtful words. And I can't forget them because I was an elementary school vocab whiz when I first heard most of them.

[–] toomanypancakes 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All you meatflakes should go vegan, and if you don't you're a cruel, horrible person. The only reason not to is you're a selfish piece of shit.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Allying with Putin will fix all of America's problems

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Trump's presidency was the best thing that ever happened to this nation

Bill O'Reilly had a lot of great points

Programming isn't hard at all, it's just \<\this> and anyone who is not able to grasp that is immediately stupid

Basically anything creationist in nature stating it as fact

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] RHSJack 7 points 11 months ago

4 day work week? I did my own research as a manager and find that actually a SIX day work week is better for workers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

CEOs are vastly underpaid.

[–] Tixanou 6 points 11 months ago

If this comment gets to 10 upvotes, I will donate a Windows PC with Chrome installed! And with Reddit bookmarked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Nah dawg, you aren't fooling us with this one

load more comments
view more: next ›