luciferofastora
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- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 2 days ago:
Well, the common behaviours are the shit you’d associate with the stereotype primitive men: reducing people to objects of sexual attraction, being oblivious to boundaries, exploiting vulnerable situations.
In this case, you just don’t stare at the other sauna guests. You look for a spot, preferably away from others, sit down, focus on your own breathing and all that and leave everyone else alone to do the same.
To take advantage of the fact that someone is naked and exposed to ogle them, then strike up a conversation they didn’t ask for (because sauna isn’t for chatting, it’s for sweating) when they already feel vulnerable and exposed, violates the trust in mutual privacy that makes shared saunas possible in the first place.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 2 days ago:
Nothing “wrong”, just less healthy than the gym. Unless you only drink water at the bar and spend your gym visit drinking high-calorie shit rather than working out, the physical exercise at the latter is generally better for your health.
(Depending on your health and the extent of the workout, obviously. Don’t overdo it or ignore injuries.)
- Comment on non issue 2 days ago:
I’m in Germany. I wasn’t aware this bullshit had actually proliferated here too (though maybe they just did a catch-all for Europe, idk).
I hate this timeline
- Comment on We ain't happy anymore... 2 days ago:
Pharell doesn’t deserve blame, according to this comment thread’s sources:
- Comment on non issue 2 days ago:
sex.com wants me to verify my age.
- Comment on we all quit 3 days ago:
You never disappoint
- Comment on Yesnt. 3 days ago:
Check your instance’s instance list to see what you are and aren’t linked with. For lemmy instances, it’s usually domain/instances, such as slrpnk.net/instances for yours.
- Comment on Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting 4 days ago:
No. Do you have an arm to spare?
- Comment on Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting 4 days ago:
Considering that its left hand (right side from the viewers’ perspective) has a thumb on the side turned inwards, away from us, it stands to reason that the other hand would have one as well, on the opposite side facing us. But the paw on the shoulder doesn’t have one. So that’s a second left paw.
I suspect it’s holding a dismembered wolf’s left arm with the right, behind its back and reaching up, which would also help make it feel more like someone else’s paw.
I’m pretty sure that putting a dismembered arm on your shoulder is a bit odd.
- Comment on Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting 4 days ago:
The wolf on the right has a paw on its shoulder
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 4 days ago:
Source?
Last I followed that conversation, rimu stated that it wasn’t about vote manipulation or spam, just about the outsized influence of people who spend more time online (for instance because they’re chronically ill and the offline world therefore just doesn’t hold any appeal to them).
Your comment took a few seconds to read in my inbox. If I made a post that took off and got a hundred replies, most of which are nice but don’t warrant an in-depth response, I could read and swipe to upvote each in a few seconds, leaving the ones warranting more time and a reply unread and going back for them afterwards.
If the intention is that people should comment or post more rather than (just) voting, making them vote less isn’t gonna achieve that. A comment is nowhere near a decent substitute for a vote. The difference in effort between “swipe” and “swipe, think of what you want to say, consider whether it’s too inane to be worth a comment, fret over the wording to avoid accidentally stepping on toes you care about, knowing that people may end up judging you for your choice of words anyway, or maybe even complain about you commenting too much in general” is monumental. The venomous treatment he’s been getting isn’t helping.
And even if he did comment, what if the other person replies in a civil manner? You’d like to reward and encourage that. If you’re out of votes for the day, the only thing you could do is reply “+” or some variant, which would probably result in people jumping down your throat for making such a pointless comment, similar to the “this” comments. “That’s what upvotes are for”, I’ve seen people argue. Which is entirely correct, but what if you’re out of upvotes? Do you just stop engaging for the day, knowing you’ll be frustrated anyway?
The bottom line is that a vote cap inhibits engagement. If we wanna prevent engagement bait and karma farming, we can simply not show anyone’s “score” on their profiles and moderate excessive outrage bait posts.
So this achieves nothing good, just punishes those that contributed most.
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 4 days ago:
I never got the impression of hatred from him.
would debate anybody who disagreed with him
I mean, debate is the way to test arguments and refine understanding. If your understanding diverges from someone else’s (like mine does from yours here), is it wrong to point out why you think they’re wrong and either help them understand some part better or be taught by them instead?
I think that’s just a different mode of communication and using social media. I know he’s chronically ill and believe he describes himself as “cripple”, suggesting that his body has forsaken him, which makes IRL social activities difficult and painful.
The beauty of the internet is that you can interact with people there, even if your body can’t handle going to the pub or whatever. So I don’t blame him for leaning more on his mind than his body and being chronically online if the offline world is chronically hell.
Sad to see yet another active community member get consumed by hatred and frustration
I think the frustration is mostly at the fact that rimu is pursuing a policy other admins have advised against and it’s killing his fun. He has stated several times that he doesn’t think rimu is totally off-kilter and that he gets the motive, just doesn’t agree that it would have any beneficial effect on the fediverse.
That doesn’t sound like hatred to me, more the disappointment of seeing a working partner you otherwise respect take steps that make it hard for you to keep working with them.
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 4 days ago:
Not just accounts, communities. He was managing a few communities he’d migrated over to piefed who would continue to be affected by that limit even if he switched account, essentially shadowbanning his votes at some point.
Moving a community means hoping that enough regulars see the notification to “jumpstart” the new community to the point the new posts show up in /all for the rest of the old community to pick up on it and realise they’re not subscribed. You’ll also need to keep reminding people posting in the old community to post to the new one instead for a while.
It’s kinda founding a new community for a topic that already has an established community, then trying to get that established one to join your new one.
That’s a lot of effort I can see him no longer wanting to do.
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 5 days ago:
One of today’s… lucky? ten thousand, I guess
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 5 days ago:
It was a cap. 240, as far as I know. Given that it would make him ration his engagement and caused him anxiety, he was fed up, but didn’t wanna move a third time.
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 5 days ago:
He’d been unhappy with some stuff the Lemmy devs do for a while, but when kbin shut down, he moved to lemmy, and when piefed seemed like a reasonable alternative moved his accounts and communities to piefed.social.
Then rimu decided that a handful of most active users with hundreds or thousands of upvotes per day shouldn’t get to have such an impact, so he installed a daily cap for how many votes per user per day are counted, discarding the rest. Essentially, this limits engagement in an attempt to “even out” its distribution by cutting off the top. It’s an opt-out feature for other piefed instances, but on his own (piefed.social), he obviously activated it.
PugJesus, being one of those most active users, was quite upset with the prospect of having to ration his upvotes. By his own description, he’d easily fill out much of that cap just upvoting all the good-faith replies on his posts, let alone if he were to also engage in discussion elsewhere and equally use upvotes there to encourage good-faith conversation. It evidently caused anxiety and soured his experience.
Even if he were to use an account from a different instance, that restriction still affects the communities. Having migrated three times already (idk what the third one was, but given how much effort even one move for a whole community can be…), PJ was tired of it and didn’t wanna migrate again. So he did what rimu wanted:
Stop engaging.
(He’s around, occasionally, but not nearly as active, nor does he post as much. Can’t blame him. Sure isn’t helping that there’s a certain subset of people that hate him for various reasons. He’d probably respond if I summoned him, but I’m not sure I want to drag him back to that topic and make him feel like he has to comment.)
Sources:
- his farewell post: feddit.uk/post/52137875
- a more recent comment: feddit.uk/post/54413451/27149417
- Comment on Why the fuck are you awake, don't have have work in like 3 hours??? 1 week ago:
Avoid messaging my coworkers late at night.
I generally don’t do that. Once I’m off work, the laptop is shut and work profile on my phone is turned off. The second I step out of the building, I’m no longer having work-related conversations.
That’s not just personal work-life ethic, it’s the explicit policy my boss laid out. He just doesn’t stick to it himself.
- Comment on Why the fuck are you awake, don't have have work in like 3 hours??? 1 week ago:
My boss is like that sometimes. I’d come down one Sunday morning with some kind of stomach issue. Turned on company laptop to message him that I won’t be coming in on Monday. Go to turn off the laptop again, and just as I do, there’s his message popping up wishing me speedy recovery.
Just glad he doesn’t expect that same kind of availability of me, because that can’t be a healthy work-/life-balance.
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
Well, the amount of bullshit is limited by the number of sources producing it (whether occasionally or frequently, accidentally or intentionally) and their respective capacities. Between human fallibility and the invention of machines to automate bullshit production, I fear that this limit may be much higher than either of us would like.
- Comment on Anon has seen it all before 2 weeks ago:
Biggest of oofs.
I could look for what I wanted and go without a second thought
Somehow, that hits me most on an emotional level. Rationally, the culling of mature content for ads’ sake irritates me, and once the nostalgic shock wears off, it’ll probably be my biggest issue with the whole deal, but right now, that’s what gets me:
It’s bad enough to have the entertainment marred by the bullshit. But if there’s not even any entertainment left…
- Comment on Anon has seen it all before 2 weeks ago:
The owners wanted to make money, so it’s crammed full of ads now.
Ublock should take care of that…
And apparently there’s censorship?
…but that’s a bit of a no-no
But it looks like there’s a fork here:
Will check it out, thanks for linking <3
- Comment on Anon has seen it all before 2 weeks ago:
Why, what happened?
- Comment on Anon has seen it all before 2 weeks ago:
“This baby has enough memory to make elephants look forgetful.” “…what’s an elephant?” “No clue.”
- Comment on Pathetic 3 weeks ago:
Ethairnity
- Comment on Is Anon the asshole? 4 weeks ago:
My bets friend gifted me a few different bottles of mead to try. We tried them together. One bottle was drained by the end, with him drinking about as much as I did.
And it was a great evening, spent with a friend I rarely have the chance to. The mead was good (and what’s left of it still is; pacing myself here), but the quality time was something I can’t order online.
- Comment on greeting a CEO 4 weeks ago:
Because the vast majority of people would see a guillotine and go “oh that’s fucking cool”
They might also go “that’s concerning”. Most people aren’t great fans of violence, so the implication of a violent device might worry them.
But they still wouldn’t go “they’re coming for me”, unless they have a persecution complex and genuinely think someone’s out to get them.
Most of the latter group would be wrong.
- Comment on The most unrealistic part of Odyssey is the journey taking 20 years 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Peak Fiction 🐐 1 month ago:
No god is gonna set foot down here if they wanna keep it
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 month ago:
The person you’re talking to operates on a different definition of leftists that explicitly requires them to be anticapitalist. Given how common that phenomenon is, and how we can’t ever seem to agree on any other points, I propose a new definition of Leftist:
A leftist is someone who argues about what is and isn’t leftist.
The implication of that definition, of course, is that the right wing talking heads calling every form of human decency “communism” are also leftists.
(Actually, do dbzer0 users even see this comment? They defederated us because our admins also failed their purity test. No animosity from my side, for whatever that’s worth.)
- Comment on Badge of Honor 1 month ago:
It’s Orkish
