Where is this? I set up my piefed blahaj account and have spent like the past 3 hours blocking communities after setting up filters that should already be blocking those communities.

It is an absolute slog trying to get a feed that isn’t all just depressing or toxic shit.

Lemmy is toxic as fuck. Decentralization is a good thing, but it doesn’t magically fix social media.

Honestly if I remembered what I did to have something to poke at before Lemmy I’d probably just do that. It’s a mostly unenjoyable compulsion at this point. The whole thing seems to be just childish bickering and depression bait.

The Overton window is anchored by a series of landmarks. The most effective way to lose one of them, like the Constitution, is to start discussing whether it has merit.

Yeah. Why do you think that Lemmy, a markedly leftist platform, is so inundated with people talking about how useless all our imperfect tools for making the world slightly less authoritarian are? Why do you think they’re trying to get us to abandon them rather than bolstering their support?

I’ve been saying this for months. The people who are trying to get the left to abandon the effective means we have for shifting the overton window to the left are right-wingers or being manipulated by right-wingers.

The people who spend their days banging away about how we don’t have democracy, we’ve never had democracy, the constitution is useless, the democrats never accomplish anything, etc, are literally agents of the right whether they know it or not. But many of them probably literally do know it.

Why do we see this more on Lemmy than in real life or on other platforms? Because we’re being targeted.

Honestly, this is what blocking is for. Sure, it’s useful for toxic or obnoxious people, but it’s also useful for people who make a mess of your feed consistently.

Lot of spam about a browser developed by someone who sees using anything other than masculine pronouns in documentation as excessively political.

The biggest problem with AirBNB is that it eats up what otherwise would be an apartment during a housing crisis that it helped create. This doesn’t seem to help with that.

What we need are regulations to stop people from turning apartments into motels.

I mean, you shouldn’t expect anything particular at a BBQ that you’re not bringing yourself or like helping with the planning of. Like, hamburgers and hotdogs are pretty standard, but if I showed up at someone else’s BBQ and all they had was ribs I’d be kind of an ass for whining about it.

But like… why are vegetarian options specifically a problem? Is this something that’s coming up? Is there like, a rash of vegetarians throwing a fit about it? Did someone get invited to a BBQ and ask if there’d be a veggie option? You know, like, so they could participate in a social event with their meat-eating friends?

This kind of stuff usually feels to me like people who eat meat and don’t want to think about the cost in suffering pointing a finger at people who abstain so they don’t have to think about it. Like, I personally do eat meat. I find that my brain functions better with a little animal fat than without. Buuut I’m also well aware of how much torture goes on in the process of making that meat, and I at least try to minimize the calorie to suffering ratio.

That’s not to say that I’m going to spend my days criticizing people who don’t choose to push against the horrific system of factory farming that supports our societal penchant for meat, but I do think about it. And I have noticed that certain meat-eaters seem to be pretty defensive about it, which generally translates into being shitty to people who don’t eat meat.

Posts like this coming unprompted certainly seem like that kind of defensive behavior to me.

Anyway, food for thought.