NekoRogue

And the puns. My god the puns.

I just wanted more info about what’s going on in a video, and now I have to wade through hundreds of low effort puns. And most of them the exact same dumb joke repeated over and over.

I got Jerboa from the Play store so it’s there now. Overall it’s not bad, I like the UI but there seem to be a few bugs to work out. For example, I’ve noticed that if there are images in comments, the scroll starts stuttering, the screen flickers, and it’s difficult to scroll past the image. Not a deal breaker but hopefully Lemmy will get popular enough to attract more devs. I think Jerboa is a good start though, I hope to see it improve.

That sounds really hopeful. Where and when did the events covered in the book take place? Also, what was the name of the book?

This was such a nice exchange to see on my first day on Beehaw as a Reddit refugee. I think I picked the right instance. Minor disagreements handled with kindness and empathy without anyone blowing up? Ah so refreshing what is this feeling

I’m getting this on Jerboa after their latest update today, I’m guessing it’s temporary while we’re upgrading but just wanted to point it out in case it was helpful in some way.

It feels like the Titanic is an irony magnet. It’s like some cosmic force is still really salty that they called it an “unsinkable ship.”

For example, some of the passengers on this missing submarine:

• The founder of the submarine company who complained about safety regulations, now lost and trapped in his unsafe vessel.
• The Guinness World Record holder for longest time spent traversing the deepest part of the ocean in a single dive will now likely be at the bottom of the ocean forever.
• The director of the company who owns the salvage rights to the Titanic, the company that has brought many artifacts to the surface, now likely leaves its director on the ocean floor with the wreckage.

Source: NYT (paywall workaround link) https://archive.is/RvDeG

What a perfect way to go. Incredible. Your account died with honor!

I see that the trolls I was talking about are managing to find their way to Lemmy. They never have any actual insightful things to say, it’s just reducing your arguments to the most simplified version and repeating them back in a childish condescending way. It’s almost like…that’s not all the protest is about? Not sure if these are just kids trying to be edgy, or if they’re working for Reddit, or if they’re just u/spez being petty. I try to be an empathetic person, but I have a really hard time understanding thinking it’s fun to belittle people for caring about things. It’s such a waste of energy. If you need attention, learn a skill and impress people with it, I assure you it’s a much more fulfilling way to get people to notice you. I hope these people can get the emotional support they need someday.

Oof, I can see why some of those instances are blocked, though. Since I’m on Beehaw, I checked their block list and…wow. Scrolled through each one for a few minutes and now I’m hoping I’m not on some kind FBI list for it. A few highlights from my research expedition:

• A meme featuring various characters (MLP, Vaporeon, Peter Griffin, etc) unironically mourning Ted Kaczynski
• NSFL gore
• People calling for the execution of cops who stopped rioters on Jan 6
• SO. MUCH. LOLICON.
• “Hahaha look at this WOKE LIB 🤣🤣🤣”
• QANON. QANON EVERYWHERE.

I was only on each one for a minute or so. I don’t think I’m missing out on anything except maybe being put on some kind of list.

The bootlicking on that post (in a PIRACY sub nonetheless) is wild. Lots of “you don’t understand, Reddit is a COMPANY! 😭” I’ve peeked in on Reddit a bit and I’ve been seeing those kinds of “won’t somebody think of the shaaaareholdersss and adminss” comments on a few posts related to the protest. Things like this insightful little nugget:

“Seems all the reddit hate is based solely on reddit doing something similar to twitter, and I’m supposed to be upset cause “Elon man bad”? Tons of APIs cost money to use… build your own platform that freely allows everyone to scrape all “your” content, lead by example please…”

I wonder how many of those are Reddit employees and bots? They can’t all be u/spez alts, can they?

Oh and this is fun too, did you know that we’re all liTeRaLlY extremists over here?

“Lemmy is very far-left. They are literally extremists, I’ll not be part of that shit.”

Guess Reddit is going to be taken over by alt-right trolls too.

Edit: Still figuring out how the formatting works over here.