HandsHurtLoL

I started my reddit main account in 2011. I used to be a highly active mod for a niche sub for about a year between 2012-2013, before bots were widespread to help moderate. But then from like 2014-2020, the number of times where I would start typing up a response for a default sub, then just deleted it all out of fear of the dogpiling eventually just drove me to being a lurker and very passively consuming content. In 2020, I finally started a new hobby and the became engaged and active with submitting new content and contributing some comments.

I already feel so much more empowered to engage here. This actually quite civil and highly cerebral culture really gives me the nostalgia for when I first started on reddit. I have questions though for what will eventually happen with the toxics and deplorables find a home here just to ruin it for everyone else.

Yes! For me, it was extremely effective at its primary goal of being a content aggregator. I kept up with sooooo much news that was thematicly linked (national news, world news, politics, specific country’s news/politics) that I could be the smartest person in most rooms I occupied in irl.

I think though that the corresponding magazines will be the first massly populated here on kbin.

@tal Yes. PYREX sold licensing to other manufacturers to use the branding “pyrex,” but “pyrex” is made with tempered glass which can shatter during extreme temperature fluctuations, many of which are common in cooking situations. PYREX is still borosilicate glass and shatter-proof.

Take a moment to really drink in that last sentence.

Some dude named Ernest is just tooling around with a social media platform, trying things out, getting the hang of things, just posting into the nothingness for less than a month to test code. Meanwhile, the CEO of a social media conglomerate who doesn’t even know who you are opens the lid on Schrodinger’s “ideas box” (don’t know if it’s a good idea or bad idea until you look inside!) and out of nowhere, your little tiny corner of the internet goes from having like 50 people to 250k in a week.

This is like the plot of Fifth Element kind of.

The comment box is at the bottom of the stack of comments, so you have to scroll to almost the entire bottom of the page to start a parent comment.

This is the opening premise to the book Parable of the Sower - a dystopian novel that in the sequel, many observers have seen greater similarities to the U.S. in 2017-2023 than in The Handmaids Tale - except it was described more like a neighborhood next to something like what we would call an Amazon warehouse.

I, too, am a size queen.

Jokes aside, I was telling irl people about how even if I post something to the craft communities, there just isn’t a critical mass to make me feel validated from posting.

I made kind of a big overture in many comment sections agreeing with others that kbin felt kinder and different from 2017-present reddit, but then a lot of folks came in and started up the same low-effort content communities and fell back into the same patterns of memes, so now it kind of feels grubby.

And the places on reddit where I loved lurking and reading analyses and hot takes (news, world news, politics) all are total ghost towns in the Fediverse (at least, what early magazines I’ve subscribed to last weekend).

Whatever the perks are here - and I’m aware it’s all a work in progress at this stage - it lacks robustness for me.

Do what you need to do for your mental health, but not paying attention to the bad faith actors is how they have gotten away with so much for so long to the point it is now so brazen.

“You almost certainly live [in the Milky Way]” LOL I love deadpan Irish humor

I don’t have more context to add to this since I’m not from Europe, but the author is associated with a centre-right political think tank in Europe, so read this piece with that critical piece of information.

Although this flew well below the radar for me in incendiary language (though very colorful language was present), it was light on very specific details. Example: clear claim being made that small farms are being shuttered, but no detail provided on how the CAP limits being reduced are causing that. These are simply two facts strung together closely enough to imply a correlation. But like, name one such farm that is being shut down for going over the lowered CAP limits.