I would really start with the pooping, as in NOW!!! Especially with an upset tummy.

Brush your teeth in the kitchen sink if you have to.

Set a timer to feed the fish - maybe have it not make any noise like just vibrate, and don’t stop it until the fish is fed. If the timer is gone then the fish are fed. I can’t handle pets rn though so what do I know… :-P I just really enjoy my patterns rn and want to share that:-D.

Fuck those glasses (not literally, that would make it way worse).

Probably nowhere near as bad as that hippy freak, what was his name… “Jesus”?

It would seem so, yes.

Evidence: xkcd is never wrong. :-P

(Although I have always wondered about that aspect yes… perhaps an attack has to switch between trying random letters and random words, which may limit its effectiveness, and still keep the number of words high? What if we swapped out letters like c0rr3ct? - b/c obviously hackers have never heard of 1337 5p33ch before. Yeah I really have not looked this one up, hence default to the joke answer above. irl I use the FOSS KeePass and a large string of random crap… but that is nowhere near as funny to say as correct horse battery staple:-D

Also, https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/936:_Password_Strength does talk about this - but unless it is in the references, there is not too much depth there, e.g. a dictionary may have a certain number of words, but I doubt that they are all used equally - some werds oft encroaches upon my visage with verily greater frequency of occurrence by comparison to alterity, so while in the sense of spherical chickens sliding on a frictionless surface a dictionary attack “may not be viable”, in practice I highly suspect that a way could be found to find, if not one specific password, then at least somebody’s password within a large bank of them.)

I have virtually given up on having “logical” conversations on Lemmy. Admiral Patrick and you represent roughly half of the list of people that I still trust that I can do that with. The amount of “witch hunting” and “purity testing” - as the meme goes - is too damn high!!!

I can agree with someone 99% of the way, but if I forget myself and say just ONE thing different - like I prefer Unix but not Linux, or maybe Linux but not Arch? - then it’s all APOSTASY!!!

I cannot remember the last time that I downvoted someone. But people were even downvoting Admiral Patrick (the dev of Tesseract) for posting his goodbye message - get this - in his own community, housed on his own instance. I commented there in an Edit, how on earth is that kind of message “less relevant” (the purpose behind a downvote) in such a community?

When I look around, I mostly see just kids vomiting up their emotions. Which… I shitpost too damnit! But I also like to close the door and have a place to have a more sedate discussion with people who are interested and have actually thought for one second about a topic prior to speaking. It is not that I am against the PRESENCE of the former, but rather than I am adamant that the ABSENCE of even so much as the capability to allow for the latter that is killing Lemmy, day by day.

But that’s less of a “Reddit” problem imho and more of a “Lemmy was made by authoritarian devs who prefer to admin their own instance the the desires of the rest of the world to use the software differently than that are kinda their own problem, not that of the devs?” Which makes perfect sense. And encourages me leave Lemmy.

Which I did - PieFed is fantastic:-). Although a lot of the “content” is still on Lemmy, and thus subject to Lemmy moderation rules, which involve a ton of human volunteer curation effort, even as the mod gets spit upon for not being pure enough.

I too think that karma can be useful if done sparingly - e.g. if someone has “enough” karma to post in certain, more thoughtful communities, but beyond that threshold count it means nothing. Much like there are rooms for toddlers to play in, rooms for adolescents, and ostensibly rooms for “adults” as well… although when kids are allowed to enter and scream as loud as they can to their hearts content, doesn’t it REALLY become a room for kids, or at least mixed ages? The threshold limiter is the only thing I can think of that would allow for it to be quiet. Either that or kick the loudest, screamiest (hehe that’s not a word as we both know:-P) kid out after they’ve already screamed… except we do not do that, and this place allowing for total anonymity means that they simply slip right back in nearly instantly after being kicked out. Which is why Admiral Patrick said that he left: as lemm.ee shut down, all the trolls went elsewhere and somehow forgot to helpfully label themselves with the same account name as they had on lemm.ee, forcing him to have to start all over again… or just leave the Threadiverse entirely:-(.

Yes, Lemmy is Reddit 2.0, somehow even more authoritarian than even Reddit was. Like we’ve replaced spez with dessalines: instead of one person saying what we can and cannot criticize we have someone else disallowing any criticism of Russia, China, or North Korea… tbf we also have our choice of other admins as well, or if we are willing to pay the electricity, network traffic, time, skill, and attention costs (especially for being mindful of CSAM attacks), ourselves, but the latter seem to be very few, especially as the Threadiverse grows in size and scope and traffic.

PieFed solves much of that, but it is still new and so trades one set of problems with a different set.

Why aren’t people trying to do something about it? Because there is only so much that mods and even admins CAN do, while still on the Lemmy software. People kept waiting for a better replacement: Kbin.social provided a strong hope but then it died, and Mbin another but it seems to have stalled and is not everyone’s cup of tea, then there was Sublinks that seemed to offer promise but it too stalled as the dev had a baby - see e.g. this post where the admins of Lemmy.World expressed strong hope in it. And now finally we have PieFed, which finally FULFILLS all of those hopes and dreams!! Maybe. At least it exists, and it has tons of features, and so now also piefed.world has been created as well, as a test. So… perhaps this will open up what you are talking about?

It will take effort though: mods will have to learn how to set up and use the automated tools. I imagine therefore that a few mods will end up automating the moderation of many many communities at once, even more so than on Lemmy. But once it is automated… it can scale as large as desired?

But “Lemmy” itself does not care about growing, as you have already seen. Pop over to lemmy.ml and look at some of the conversations happening on Local: they want to remain their echo chamber, disconnected from centrists from the Western world? (edit: there are oh so many spelling mistakes in this comment, but I am going to ignore all of those and yet still want to clarify this one point: I know you are a leftist, and at one point I thought I was too, but compared to the likes of hexbear and lemmygrad.ml and even lemmy.ml we are flaming right-wingers, I believe? if you [checks notes] “have a bank account”, then you aren’t leftist enough for them). Which is fine - we’ll go make our own spaces, as we have already started and are in the process of doing just this past month, especially as lemm.ee went down and many MANY communities migrated not to another Lemmy server but to a PieFed one, plus several new ones were created. Speaking of brace yourself, but a good third or more of Lemmy traffic might also shift over to PieFed, especially if Lemmy.World decides to shut down, like if the admins prefer to keep their focus on only one piece of software, and the mods give up having to deal with all the toxicity without having access to the automated tools (as Admiral Patrick finally did). But more likely it will be a graduated shift, punctuated by fits and starts in response to various stimuli.

The answer remains the same as always: if you build it they will come (and conversely you HAVE to build it or else they will not), but the interpretation of that hits differently after this past month of migrations to PieFed, because the pace of that building process seems to have quickened! (or in reality it merely has entered a phase where the growth is more visible to us using common metrics, such as Monthly Active Users, rather than more intangible ones such as GitHub commits of a variety of software features)

Or a hand-picked successor.

- attribution: https://xkcd.com/936/

The card says moops after all…

This is a reference to one of the episodes within Innuendo Studios’ The Alt Right Playbook series, and more generally how people talk emotionally not on top of but in place of logic - exactly as AI does today except these kids have been doing it on the Internet since Eternal September and more widely speaking since before human beings were homo sapiens.

i.e. it’s not going away anytime soon, and since we keep throwing out all of the old wisdom, we’ll need to find replacements, as we FAAFO all this live. e.g. Lemmy threw out karma as some kind of measure of someone’s age and popularity, but… what does it offer to replace what karma was used for, on forum boards that even predated Reddit by decades? Nothing, which makes this akin to 4chan where the burden of examining each and every message purely on its own merits a daunting and dare I say grueling task at scale, especially for mods and admins.

Lemmy was only ever going to work as a tiny forum board - it simply refuses to grow.

Then again, Reddit is somehow worse so… again, brace yourself, because the next wave is coming!

Brace yourself: it is about to get worse. r/RedditAlternatives has some interesting posts saying how Reddit is about to ditch their modmail in exchange for their “chat” function (that has never worked correctly… ever).

Apparently all/most social media these days has taken an extremist turn - e.g. supporters of Luigi feel emboldened to rant and rave against instance admins and mods by virtue of the “righteousness” of their cause, ignoring things such as how dubvee.org is located in the USA, and therefore the instance admin could end up in an actual, irl and literal concentration camp by allowing that content onto their machine. Shutting his instance down is the only sane option in that context.

Whereas him leaving is just for personal reasons of being burnt-out, as we can well understand - humans can so exceedingly toxic and Lemmy, by virtue of connecting humans, can thus be a conduit to a great deal of shit (especially directed at an admin/mod).

It is true that I ignored colloquialism.

Although… tbh that might be the least accurate definition?

Actually… “science” is a process of discovery about the natural world. To then use that knowledge gained would be engineering.

birbs are only 2/3rds unreal confirmed ✅

I mean… P2W can be a scam, as too can P2P, and ofc most games these days are scams, but they do not have to be.

But Freemium yes, that one already implies scam just with that phrase, absolutely. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch”!

I think they were aiming at “Freemium”, as in nominally “free” except where the entire game is designed around getting you to spend money. In such a style, the game itself is an advertisement.

Whereas P2W might not be that way, and only unlock something - like it’s free up the last world when all of a sudden you have to pay to finish it off.

Yes, it does!

We are using their tools though…

Well, you are, while I am on PieFed:-P If you do not like what you’ve heard here, then consider switching to Piefed.World (Lemmy.World’s recently-announced PieFed replacement for Lemmy)

Skill issue - this N is even smaller:

ml says “avoid criticizing Russia, china, North Korea, communism, communist figures, or cursing at our special little gremlins who will spew vileness at you entirely unprompted. But also don’t be a dick or deny atrocities, unless doing so interferes with any of the previously stated rules.”

If only! To be pedantic though, what Lemmy.ml actually says is:

A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers

and

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

Which (somehow?🤷‍♂️🤪) translates to what you said, except… no wait, it does not? Hence it says one thing (my quotes) while doing exactly the opposite (your quotes), in point of fact.

On the other hand, there’s the “trust me bro, i iz total1y relaibles” defense, otherwise known as “nuh-uh, I know you are but what am I?”

Because while it is human nature to be wrong sometimes, it might be best not to actively wallow in it? (See also: Hexbear, Lemmygrad.ml, and some smaller ones such as midwest.social)

The meat is not just armor though - a skeleton alone has no capability to move itself, the meat provides the translation between thought and action, while the skeleton is merely a framework upon which the meat rests.