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Im sure there are others. Looking forward to what everyone else says!
.....Also Beans. Yeah didn't expect that.
It may seem like we all run Linux, but some people run BSD too.
Ah yes, devil Linux.
Ill see myself out.
At some point im going to have to give it a try. I like playing around with alternative OSes for fun (like 9front, UXN, LFS, etc...).
At the end of the day bsd and linux are cousins.
some also uses illumos :)
it really feels like reddit in 2009
It really does.
I recently posted the question "What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?" and I think it's interesting the spread of OSes people are talking about:
I saw that thread! I really appreciated how I disagreed with a lot of the opinions there, it felt like a thread of actually unpopular opinions
Youβre going to write beans in caps, not even mentioning corn in passing? This one right here officer!
Sorry my Internet Explorer is lagging
Whatβs your ICQ? Iβll send you the 32bit version, feels snappier.
Our memes feel very old internet and I miss those times.
liberals
Ugh I hate how this word is now more associated with economic ideology than social ideology.
Most of us can be described as liberals. We don't want any discrimination based on gender, race, sexual orientation etc.
Can we please go back to using liberals in that sense?
Germans⦠Germans Memes Everywhere
Dieser Kommentar ist Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
- Frequently, you get extreme CCP shills falsely accusing you of Sinophobia, and simultaneously some are actually some closeted Sinophobes.
Let me guess. You went to one of the .ml instances and got accused of being "Orientalist" after saying something that someone politically disagreed with?
Yeah, I still don't completely understand that crowd. I don't think that they're actually shilling, because then they wouldn't be advocating for North Korea. But there are a lot of people there who are clearly not interested in good-faith discussion. I just decided that it's not worth dealing with them very early on.
The !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works crowd is determined to keep plunging in, though.
Two leftists with minute political differences calling each other fascists.
My outsider impression is that this is just a long-standing hard-left tradition in general. Not really specific to anything on the Fediverse.
I remember going through the list of UK socialist and/or communist political parties. Lots of tiny, fragmented groups, many of which had split off from others over various disagreements.
That weird bot that assumed that woman's identity and was messaging everyone?
Nicole noticed me once, that's the only time in my life I ever felt special.
Glad thats gone. It was very strange!
I guess somebody finally replied to her and theyβre off happily married. Good for her!
I can say Luigi Mangione all I want.
Even the idiots here are pretty smart.
A much more selective user base. People are very picky in what they upvote. I feel like in the Spez pool people upvoted or downvoted and would comment a lot easier. Here people vote with 3 options. Up, down or not. Feels much more deliberate. Also means you get a lot less comments (despite there being less users), because people follow the Bambi principle more here (if you donβt have anything nice to say, say nothing at all)
AND, I think there are some fediverse issues with the various clients and the fact that language is per post setting, hindering discovery.
I always felt on R that if you commented, most of the time, it goes down a black hole. You come into something "late" and no one sees your comment. No up/down votes at all. Which can feel very bad if you spent a lot of time on your response.
I like that "Bambi principle". Thats a good way of putting it.
Your mention of unix_surrealism is a good point, it really is quite a unique community.
Also for me, the 3 day no poop question will forever be deeply tied to lemmy. It only unfolded days after I first joined, and I believe it was the first big piece of lemmy lore.
Don't @ me, but I soak in the drama of Best of Redditor Updates and the fediverse isn't quite suited to sagas like that yet.
But the guy who needed to not shit for 3 days made it over there. So that feels pretty noteworthy.
It's one of my favourite subreddits just because I like having "real" stuff to read. I was wondering recently if we should just make a community for reposting the best r/BORU posts to Lemmy? And then, assuming Lemmy gets big enough, we'll already have a spot for posting the best of Lemmy updates too.
there's already a !bestofredditorupdates@lemmit.online but a lot of instances block lemmit for being bot content since their whole purpose is to repost reddit content which like. bots are actually super useful for that kind of thing. A LOT of users don't seem to understand that they personally have the power to set instance blocks for their own account. so instead they push for defeds when like. just block the instance from your settings. it's a checkbox. it's not complicated! Sometimes I worry that all the defeds will create little insular echo chambers when the whole point of fedi is diversity.
They guy who asked how not to poop for a week.
I remember the the week I moved here that was in no stupid questions, there was not a lot of comments and post and that became big, references popped in other posts and comments and ultimately was forgotten.
This is akin of the poop in the shower, dunk in the toilet, guy from IMGUR in 2014 and I still think is legit as everyone is "anonymous" on the internet.
I run Fireside Fedi. A show where I talk with folks from around the Fediverse. It's all Fedi powered as well. Live stream, Owncast (https://stream.firesidefedi.live/), VOD Peertube (https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi), GoToSocial and testing Bonfire for the social accounts.
I'm obviously biased though. :-)
I know arch exists and is a type of linux, which is a type of computer for computer people.
I know there are a bunch of different types of linux but they all require the same socks to work right.
I know beans help corn grow.
It's not an actual instance, but it was reserved by someone who made a lovely site. No, it's not what you think.
The fact that most communities have a single unique moderator.
Most communities only have one user so this checks out /s
What kind of communities are you talking about?
Mostly niche interest ones. Especially when there's multiple communities for that interest. It's hard to point a finger at one but I think the last one I looked at was dubstep. I check the sidebar, only one mod. I check their user page, they're only moderating one comm. The odds of them being a terminally online psycho are greatly reduced than if they're moderating 10+ comms.
Not that comms with multiple mods are at all bad, or moderators operating a cluster of comms. It's just not the same instant green flag as when there's only 1-3. This is kind of why I like the current size fediverse is at. Like, I know people want it to grow but there's something kind of nice about small communities
Real people with well policed and purged bigotry.
Its nice to recognize say Blase (with his super sonic profile) where he is hanging around in.
