Comment on Pick your Lemmy instance wisely...

• yukichigai@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That's nice and all, but "join our instance" and "we're defederated from the other two biggest instances" are in direct opposition to each other, doesn't matter what excuses you use.

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  • gullible@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Only if you don’t think about it are they not mutually exclusive ideas. Safe space first, increase size of safe space second.

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unless you use a client with multiaccount support

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• dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Safe space, or echo chamber?

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  • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Gotta love how spending time with like-minded people has now been framed as an “echo chamber.” I blame reddit, since that’s where I first encountered this nonsense.

    I’m fine with my “echo chambers.” We are able to have really in-depth, adult discussions about things like LGBTQIA issues, mental health, and politics without having to constantly swat away a bunch of sea lions.

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    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Had to look up “sea lion.” That’s something I’ve seen a lot of, but never knew there was a specific term for.

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      • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, it’s sadly ubiquitous. I don’t think a day goes by when I don’t witness several sea lions in the wild

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      • PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sealion in an accusation that rests on assuming someone else’s intentions. You can’t ever know for sure if someone is a sealion, because people aren’t mind readers. I usually see sealioning accusations thrown by neurotypicals at autistic people, because they can’t read our emotions like they’re used to and that freaks them out and they assume hostile intent.

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      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’ve been running into something adjacent, but doesn’t quite fit that description. Basically people use the tactics of Sealioning but the motivation seems to be just reframing the conversation to whatever they wanted to talk about, rather than necessarily pissing you off. It can be just as annoying though.

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    • dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You do realize that associating with primarily people who share the same views or values as you is literally an echo chamber right?

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      • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sometimes people want to have a conversation without someone with the username DMmeYourNudes wanting to debate them.

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      • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Nope. That term is only used by sea lions and shitlords. It’s one of those terms like “virtue signaling” that immediately lets you know the person has less to offer society than a common housefly or roach.

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    • PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I argue with fascists, exclus, medicalists, and sexists all the time and I’ve never met a sealion. But I have met neurotypical people who expect their sense of cognitive empathy to work on neurodivergent people, and then project all sorts of BS onto them for having a different opinion. IME that term is a dogwhistle for ableism.

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      • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You’ve never spent any time on reddit, I take it?

        That’s a whole colony of sea lions.

        Lucky you, but I encounter sea lions all the time. People like Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro have formed entire careers around sea-lioning.

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  • gullible@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s literally a safe space, you absolute sea lion.

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  • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Please go back to reddit

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  • Anonymousllama@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like it’s a bit of both tbh

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