• @CustosliberaOP
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      It’s inevitable whenever there are mods. Sometimes people just clash but in my experience I always just remind myself ‘who are the types of people who would voluntarily want to be a mod?’ and then I go outside and speak with actual humans.

      • @sock
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        well the basis of arguing on the internet is thinking of mean things to type on a keyboard

        there is nothing more pussy than hiding behind a keyboard to talk shit. i talk shit online too tho.

    • @wreckedcarzz
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      I did on reddit, but that’s because reddit mods are power-hungry shitstains who will argue that your comment is aimed at the lgbt community, until you direct them to the fact that you are part of the lgbt community, and then suddenly they change their narrative and it’s not, it’s just aimed at women, when I point out that the comment was about my negative experiences with a childhood male ‘doctor’, and then it becomes “I’m not going to argue anymore [because I’ve run out of bullshit reasons to veil the fact that I support this kind of abuse of power as I draw parallels from my mod experience and your pain being valid hurts my microscopic pp and massive ego]”

      I’ve had a few run-ins but that was one specifically was fucking wild. Give people a bit of fake power and they lose their fucking minds.

      Everyone here has been pretty cool, no drama.

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      The mods on /c/worldnews actively put a thumb on the scale when it comes to subjects like the Israeli-Palstinian conflict. If you don’t follow the party line, your comment is subject to removal. That “No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc” rule does a lot of work. It’s not worth getting in a fight over, but I was a little sore that my comment about taking Hamas’ casualty statistics with a grain of salt would be prudent was deleted, while downright hateful comments towards Israel were left standing.

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    Do we really call ourselves “lemmings”? I fee like that kind of portrays the wrong image of us.

    I mean, it’s like voluntarily going by “sheeple” or something. Do people not know what lemmings are anymore?

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        I mean, still. I associate them with the games more than anything. And that’s definetily not the kind of look i’d want out of a community that originated specifically because they DIDN’T want to just follow the herd and use what’s popular regardless of how shitty it gets.

        • @Klear
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          Well maybe you should make your own community without that rule and it’s NSFW.

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          Idk, crusading against common myths is something that’s pretty hot these days. Stuff like:

          • Christopher Columbus didn’t actually discover America, and he was actually kind of an asshat
          • Bell didn’t invent the telephone, he was simply the first to patent and subsequently litigate
          • “Frankenstein” is the name of the scientist, not the monster
          • Many modern tropes about Christian Hell stem from a 17th century political satire novel

          Crusading for truth in easily verifiable matters feels very on-brand for the kind of people who use Lemmy. In that light, reclaiming a negative term that’s only negative because of a false premise to describe ourselves doesn’t sound so bad. At worst, we become a little insufferable as we have to introduce the term with a “well, ackshually”, which a lot of us would probably do anyway.

    • @drev
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      Personally, I think “lemming” is infinitely better than “fedditor”.

    • @fishos
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      But you are lazy, right?

      • @Aremel
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        Don’t get me started!

        • @saltesc
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          Sh-sh-sshh. It’s okay.

          Guys! Can’t you see this person is lazy?!

          You take a comfy seat here. You don’t have to start anything.

  • SamXavia
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    The Fediverse can only grow, I’m glad that it mostly seems to work the only problem I have is that on smaller instances you can’t see the history of non-hosted communities as well as you have to add each community to the instance what is hard to find without using certain communities or just checking another instance.

  • downpunxx
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    In AA they say a new group starts with “a resentment and a coffee pot”

    • Entropywins
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      I always thought the coffee thing was exaggerated until I got sober.

  • @thorbot
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    That’s…. Thats not even the right quote though? At least you tried