Some people (myself included) tie the music they like to a part of their soul, and exposing that to someone who may treat it with complete disregard feels very vulnerable
gothicdecadence
joined 2 years ago
The account is specifically for mocking people, thus the name. They take someone to direct their hate at and that translates to real harassment. It's built to hurt people, especially LGBT people. Groups built on "destroying the woke mind virus" are a scourge to humanity.
how the hell did you and the person you're replying to get your names to look like that
I mean, I feel like we're already seeing attempts at Stage 7. I live in California but damn it's fucking scary being a trans person in America right now.
It does kinda feel like a porn site! Dirty and guilty almost, useful in the moment and then you realize you don't really wanna spend any more time there than you have to haha. It makes me a little sad though because I feel like I've learned so many interesting things there, found so many niche hobbies and communities over the years. But like you said it's just a website and at the end of the day it's the humans who make the communities. Doesn't matter who's hosting it, I think we'll always find a way to gather and share cool things with each other. I'm hopeful in that way for the future of the fediverse.
And yeah, finding something better to do with my time other than feeding my addiction to information via infinite scrolling is definitely a good thing. Data paralysis, info stasis, whatever you wanna call it, is numbing and and I think so many people use it as a crutch and vice because life is hard and inaction is easier.
Same, that was a slight glimmer of hope in the pile of shit
I don't think Reddit is very niche, it's one of the most trafficked websites in the world. Do I think all of those users will move to Lemmy? Not at all, especially since most of those people are using it to augment their Google searches. But as the higher quality content moves, I can see Lemmy (or a different fediverse alternative) being "the place to go" instead. I think discoverabilty and moderation tools are going to be key to bringing people over. I think it will foster the kind of place that draws in more people.
As for Mastodon idk. BlueSky seems interesting, but I don't trust Jack Dorsey to not cave to venture capital and shareholder interests and enshittify the website like every other social media has. I give it five years lol.
The apps I've been using have been glitchy, or at least lemmy.world's performance is, so I keep going back to Boost just because it's such a great app experience. I haven't been going to it as much though, it feels a bit ruined for me. Like there are still great people and communities, but I feel like I can't engage now because it gives data to the admins. And the quality of content overall has gone down between some subs still being dark, other subs protesting by pivoting to joke and NSFW content, and a lot of high quality users moving to Lemmy.
For the most part I avoid negative content, but I was on a lot of subs that had to engage with it (r/LGBT, trans subs, etc) Plus I like to be kept aware about what's going on with legislation regarding human rights in the US so that can be a bummer I guess but I don't blame the platform for being the messenger. So I haven't really noticed a mental health shift but I have been trying to move away from reddit and do other things I enjoy, so I guess that counts? I've been reading and playing video games a bit more which is really nice.
This is the first I'm hearing of this, interesting
TIL
Ah okay that makes sense