47 points

This is why I’m not on Facebook.

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32 points

This is why Lemmy is as close as I get to any social media.

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1 point

Made me think of Twitter more than Facebook

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32 points

This is my experience with every fourth post on the Nextdoor app.

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15 points
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No kidding. Nextdoor is a disaster.

I checked in recently and this literally was my news feed

  1. Dance in the park Event
  2. Free boxes
  3. Bar has new sandwich
  4. WHY IS BLACK TEENAGER WALKING ON SIDEWALK
  5. Pictures of a rainbow
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Mine right now (sorted by recent):

  • Ad for local flooring installer
  • Sponsored ad for power company
  • “Hey, everyone. 👋 I’m Shawn. Hello!”
  • Ad for local home remodeling
  • User giving away a cat
  • Sponsored ad for garage doors
  • Another user welcome message
  • Found pet alert from local animal shelter
  • Sponsored ad for bathroom showers
  • Ad for local bathroom remodeling
  • Ad for local handyman service

So when it’s not ranty freakouts it’s 85% ads.

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2 points

I wish there was a way to see only posts from my neighborhood (my condo building) and nothing else.

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27 points

Here’s the real one:
Adopt pets from the shelter cause they won’t live as long and that means less responsibility. So people will think you are a good person, but you actually just want a lazy old dog that will die a year from now. Soon you will be able to tell fake sob stories about the 40 shelter dogs you had to have put down. Does that make you a good person or not? Where is your god now?

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33 points

Im gonna dare say it, if the dog lived a good life in your hands, you are a good person. Even when your motive might not be good.

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6 points

To quote another XKCD:

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2 points

WELL MAYBE I’M MAKING THE LIVE A BETTER LIFE BUT I’M NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT

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1 point

Checkmate, Pascal-ians

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8 points

Just had a relative get skipped over for a wedding invite for this nonsense. Turns out posts have consequences, and being sufficiently vague and inflammatory makes people think you’re talking about them.

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1 point

I would venture to say most people don’t like people who feel comfortable ranting about random people in public regardless of how justified it is. We get enough of that shit from all sources of media. We don’t need to hear hate and self-righteousness preached by our friends too. I’d rather not have a drama magnet at my wedding either.

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-16 points

I will never understand how something like 96% of the population kills for pleasure but thinks hunting for pleasure is wrong.

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24 points

Uhm, what 96% of the population actually kills stuff themselves?

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-16 points

My mistake, I forgot that paying hitmen absolved you of moral responsibility.

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32 points

I assume you’re talking about the meat industry, which is definitely not ethical, but let’s not pretend killing stuff for food is the same as killing stuff to pass the time

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6 points

There is a difference between wanting food you think is delicious and killing something for that reason and taking pleasure in the process of killing something. In one scenario the killing is a necessary evil in the other it’s the whole point of the process.

Aside from that the fact that so many people do pay “hitmen” should tell you that they do not enjoy the killing part, because otherwise they’d do it themselves.

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You just said “kills for pleasure”, it makes it sound like they’re the ones doing the killing.

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