It does make comments' load more manageable
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Obligatory warning that taking that thought to its extreme will result in an echo chamber, which is exactly how certain other instances have become what they are now. But... yeah, it is one of the tactics of people who espouse certain beliefs to "flood the zone" leaving the other side so exhausted from pushing back against all the little lies that bit by bit, cm by cm (or inch by inch for Americans:-P), the conversation shifts to favor the side that is willing to engage in such horrid tactics to "win" arguments (by mostly avoiding arguments at all and instead just bullying those who want to truly dialogue on matters of substance into giving up all attempts to try to have them).
- this reference is to the Alt-Right Playbook series from Innuendo Studios, a fascinating and extremely well-done, quite in-depth look (yet presented very accessibly, in bite-sized chunks that you can consume while e.g. eating) at many of the tactics used by the Alt-Facts crowd (including GamerGate, Alt-Right conservatives, and tankies). A good way to start is this one: The South Bank of the Rubicon
Innuendo Studios
Weird how USAID funding got cut and suddenly this guy had to shut his channel down because it wasn't making money.
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I heard on the grapevine that Voyager is working on Piefed support.
It's in beta right now. I'm using it to comment.
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No politics? Shit, I needa find me a nice app, fast. I am a fan of Jerboa for its simplicity, but it's Lemmy-only, I reckon. I think it's an "official" Lemmy app (could be wrong, tho)
Not just no politics but the ability to both have far less of it while still reading up on it when you want! Tbf a true "no politics" would be nearly impossible - e.g. is an OC painting "political" if it depicts an image of Trump?
The best features of PieFed are going to be in the web UI for awhile until app devs catch up. In addition to Voyager as someone mentioned, there is also Interstellar and several others, as well as a Thunder fork (but not checked into the main code available on the App store yet).
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Voyager looks like it'd fit better on iOS. But maybe I'll give it a try, eventually
There's Summit for Android
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ooo anticommunist Lemmy looking lit
You can keep DPRK, I'm ok with this
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Would you rather it be a ghost town, or a bustling city of clowns?
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️Still more people than I can ever talk to or get to know. It's enough.
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Innuendo Studios
Weird how USAID funding got cut and suddenly this guy had to shut his channel down because it wasn't making money.
It IS super weird how you have no evidence of this relationship and yet suggest it, yes.
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It IS super weird how you have no evidence of this relationship and yet suggest it, yes.
I'm sure the timing is just a coincidence, I know it was because he didn't pay his taxes on the revenue from youtube from the video he made about it @1:04
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I'm sure the timing is just a coincidence, I know it was because he didn't pay his taxes on the revenue from youtube from the video he made about it @1:04
Oops! All tax fraud!
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"Uhm Kim Jong Un is great actually" is one of the most out there I see often xd
At the job of totalitarian dictator I guess he is pretty great... not been overthrown yet!
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Finally peace and tranquility has returned to the kingdom!
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Meant in fun btw:-P but also seriously too: like how much shit will you tolerate in your drink or food before you choose to not consume it at all, and why bother entering not only a Nazi bar but the very corner where those who prefer Alternative to True Facts hang out?
The motto of Lemmy: block early, block often, if you value your sanity. I joined PieFed long before it was fully developed because I love how it provides the tools that we as users crave, many of which Lemmy not merely has not gotten around to yet nor even just refuses to implement but actively goes backwards on. e.g. a Lemmy "instance block" does not really block an instance, although early on it did more than it does now, by silencing notifications sent to you by members from it, before changing to now allow those notifications. I almost left the Threadiverse after unknowingly making what I thought was an innocuous comment in Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net (about USA President Biden and gas prices, how should I have known better when I had not seen the sidebar, plus often the sidebar says nothing about what truly goes on in a community?), and then again in lemmygrad.ml, but instead I merely left just Lemmy and get to keep all the wonderful communities that are now being migrated elsewhere away from certain instances that don't agree with actual facts and more importantly, violate the rules by attempting to bully people onto submission rather than engage in rational dialogue. I'm done with that now, yet PieFed saved me from having to leave the Threadiverse entirely to get away from such.:-)
Just a little, I don’t think people act terrible despite the instance in every community.
Mentions from blocked communities can break through into notifications. So it’s easy for the users to goad one.
Yes, you’re right I have seen many incidents on the triad where someone is trying understand the other’s perspective only to be cursed at and name called then they justify it saying they “only care a lot about the issue at hand”.
Thank goodness Piefed, Fedia.io, Lemmy.cafe and Infosec.pub exist.
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Just a little, I don’t think people act terrible despite the instance in every community.
Mentions from blocked communities can break through into notifications. So it’s easy for the users to goad one.
Yes, you’re right I have seen many incidents on the triad where someone is trying understand the other’s perspective only to be cursed at and name called then they justify it saying they “only care a lot about the issue at hand”.
Thank goodness Piefed, Fedia.io, Lemmy.cafe and Infosec.pub exist.
"Purity beatings will continue until morale improves" - some people choose not to understand that change in people's opinions happens through dialogue of rational thoughts. So even if the goal was to simply spread some belief structure (e.g. that communism was best, or Arch Linux is best, or whatever), those who simply vomit up their emotions onto anyone who does not immediately parrot the talking points is hurting their own cause.
Moreover, for some of us the goal of dialogue is to learn things and arrive at the true answers by listening to people who think about things differently. However, those who choose to speak rather than listen will never arrive at those answers - or even if they happen to already have them (a stopped watch is still correct twice a day?) they will never be able to have true confidence in their answers.
i.e., trolls exist on the internet, whose purpose is to troll rather than engage in rational discourse. This destroys the ability of the rest of us to engage in an enjoyable manner, much as children screaming in a room inhibits any deep discussions about like philosophy, or anything really.
And trolls can only exist when they don't get kicked out. Hence they congregate in those certain places that allow them to thrive, inside those echo chambers. At which point blocking those whole entire spaces can greatly improve the sanity of anyone not looking to engage with trolls:-).
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Just a little, I don’t think people act terrible despite the instance in every community.
Mentions from blocked communities can break through into notifications. So it’s easy for the users to goad one.
Yes, you’re right I have seen many incidents on the triad where someone is trying understand the other’s perspective only to be cursed at and name called then they justify it saying they “only care a lot about the issue at hand”.
Thank goodness Piefed, Fedia.io, Lemmy.cafe and Infosec.pub exist.
I'm pretty sure it's called 'the troika'
