I still follow the news cause as a trans woman, I gotta know if I’m allowed to do things like travel and pee and get groceries.
My life has been way better since I started keeping a cursory view of headlines once a day
Submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to memes@sopuli.xyz
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tanisnikana@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bad_Engineering@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I'm with you 100% on this. I wish I could turn it off and do something more important. But the way things currently are idk whether I'm gonna have basic rights one day to the next.
Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
And it’s such an exhausting cycle. Trudging through the constant deluge of hate and fear, finding some little glimmer of good news, and then back into the fire.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The headlines are the worst thing to only read. Sometimes they’re flat out wrong and other times you’re being lead by the nose. Headlines are for an emotional response and/or propaganda.
If you read the first 3 paragraphs, that’s usually okay. If it seems like they’re fluffing it up, then try 3/4’s of the way down and skim the last paragraph.
petrescatraian@libranet.de 3 weeks ago
knexcar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s why I read the headlines and the expert commentary in the Lemmy comments.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
Forty years ago you still had the daily paper and the Sunday paper.
Even then you only needed the Sunday.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Forty years ago the newsrooms were staffed and the editors edited (sure they’re biased but they had some ideas of integrity) and you could read the paper. Now there’s just so much noise.
Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I find my problem being news source that expect me to read once a week; instead of assuming I’ve read twenty times yesterday
essell@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can either read all the news and talk about all the things that should be happening.
Or read just enough to get on with doing something useful in the world and avoid getting yourself stuck or depleted
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I like to watch a streamer and skip through the stream for anything that looks crazy
I’ve definitely been watching less and less because less is happening, but I’m enjoying the highlights
halvar@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
people who downvoted are clearly on the lowend of the imaginary curve
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The evening news is where it’s at.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
Is this just a re-posting bot? I literally made this meme this morning and posted it somewhere else. This user seems to have posted >10 memes over a few minutes.
SARGE@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Honestly I’ve thought cm002 was a bot before as well, but they engage in comment sections often enough to say either it’s not, or it’s a user hopping on to check bot progress.
Either way, most likely case is it’s a user that saw a funny meme, and reposted it since not every sire is federated with others and some communities might not see it, especially if it’s to a world or ml domain.
Possibly related, I did not see your post from this morning, this is my first time seeing it. Not sure about federation between instances but yeah.
Also tangentially related, anyone remember the huge r*ddit drama over a poweruser constantly reposting things with top comment responses to farm karma? That was a fun glance into people who take imaginary internet points too seriously. I’m glad lemmy doesn’t keep track of total votes.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
the thing with reddit is that karma has a function. for example new users can’t post in most communities until they somehow get a lot of karma and posts from users with lots of past karma get pushed by their algos.
that’s why immaginary internet points are very serious on reddit and accounts with lots of it can (illegally) be sold for thousands of dollars to advertising companies.
this is the reason, i think it’s important to have votes in lemmy etc only matter per post/comment and only for sorting/displaying.
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
It does, it just doesn't display it; sites running Mbin do, though:
A screenshot of an Mbin profile showing the "reputation" tab
ngdev@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
no they farm karma to sell the accounts for various purposes
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think you’re right. But why?
cm0002@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Just an RSS feed with notifications lol
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
> >I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms. > >Megathread on the issue > >Some highlights from the link: > >>"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/30580167 >> >>“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/30673342 >> >>.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia lemmy.world/post/29222558 >> The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: lemmy.world/post/18236068 >> >>“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/31595035 >> >>General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/27426510 >> >>“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/27352415 > >And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long. > >I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda > >On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
cm0002@lemy.lol 2 weeks ago
Nope not a bot
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
> >I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms. > >Megathread on the issue > >Some highlights from the link: > >>"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/30580167 >> >>“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/30673342 >> >>.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia lemmy.world/post/29222558 >> The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: lemmy.world/post/18236068 >> >>“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/31595035 >> >>General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/27426510 >> >>“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/27352415 > >And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long. > >I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda > >On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.