Blackfeathr
@Blackfeathr@lemmy.world
I am a Rexxitor. I am also forklift certified.
- Comment on Am I immature if I feel sad that a subculture that treated me so warmly died out years ago? 1 day ago:
Apart from a lot of us (myself included) appreciating high quality animation and story that didn’t predisposition itself to be dumbed down for their intended audience, the main mantra of the Brony movement was “Love and Tolerance” which in the early days was practiced pretty cohesively, even extending to aggressors who would pop in and call everyone gay/other slurs to try to get a rise out of others, and whatnot. We’d just be like “ok, that’s just like, your opinion man, we love you anyway” and proceed on with our lives instead of engaging them in arguing and namecalling. At the time your typical garden-variety internet troll didn’t really know what to do in that situation. The Encyclopedia Dramatica page on Bronies was especially amusing because they admitted they didn’t have any viable way to cause flame wars or upset within the fandom.
As the fandom got bigger of course it was going to get people that take the bait so from my perspective it wasn’t as much of a unified front in later years as it was in the beginning.
But I was part of Mumble/Teamspeak servers, Minecraft servers, Steam groups etc and they were all very welcoming. I think it was just that most of us were well intentioned people that enjoyed us a good cartoon, lol.
- Comment on Am I immature if I feel sad that a subculture that treated me so warmly died out years ago? 1 day ago:
I was one of the wholesome Bronies. Met a lot of great people that I still keep in touch with to this day.
The movement and the mindset really helped me in my darkest time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You’re better off without it tbh. This is coming from someone who had an account on there for 13 years, it used to be okay, but big corps, bots, and especially the owner Spez absolutely ratfucked it into a shadow of its former self. It’s no longer reliable as a source of information or entertainment since it’s roughly 60% bots by volume. You never know if you’re actually talking to a real person on the other end.
If you really want to get back, you’re going to have to be careful about it. You can use a VPN on a device you’ve never accessed reddit on before, and you will likely not be detected. But again you have to be really careful. Even so much as opening a reddit link with your new account logged in on a device/IP your banned account was on almost guarantees your new account will get permbanned within a couple of days. They are unreasonably heavy-handed with ban evasions.
- Comment on conditional soap 2 weeks ago:
Some already do.
And man pants aren’t that big of a hurdle to get used to. Just need to take measurements of waistband and inseam and you’ve got the size to look for in mens pants. Thats what I like about them: they have much better sizing labels than the nebulous/arbitrary size numbers on women’s pants.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Several rows of bright light bars mounted on the wall, not sure if your landlord will allow that tho. A mirror could probably boost your plausible deniability.
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 4 weeks ago:
Depends where on the internet I’m in.
On here and when I was on reddit, I’m a bit more guarded and speak in broader terms in regards to family/friends/experiences so as not to pin too many identifiable specifics on me.
In another long forgotten corner of the internet that like at most 30 people congregate in, I’m a bit more open but not overly so.
- Comment on It's the truth! 4 weeks ago:
This is a bot
- Comment on Is it really worth starting a lemmy community? 5 weeks ago:
Does every community need to be manually federated? What is this process like?
Also, the link doesn’t work :x
- Comment on face time 1 month ago:
Is that what that face is called? Damn, I saw it so much on classroom decorations in the 90s
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 1 month ago:
Why does Lemmy.world defederate so much?
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 1 month ago:
Dammit Patrick…
- Comment on Where are the arms bearers? 1 month ago:
Exactly. And after the first martyr gets domed or swiss cheesed, all of the armchair analysts will come out of the woodwork creating a prevailing opinion like “well it would have been better if he had done X instead of Y, rookie mistake, what an idiot” and life will go on fundamentally unchanged besides that person now being dead and posthumously tut-tutted at.
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 2 months ago:
Imgur blocks me on Mullvad like 99% of the time. Not sure about Proton, though.
- Comment on Is it normal to feel intense fear when in the presense of any sort of yelling / loud arguments? 2 months ago:
I get that but it’s likely due to my CPTSD from a lifetime of being screamed at.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption Coming to Netflix, iOS, Android, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 2 months ago:
This is an LLM bot.
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 2 months ago:
Ugh the bots are flooding in…
- Comment on Are platforms like reddit just "internet noise" and bots or just genuinely the darkest parts of humanity? 2 months ago:
Yes. You can and would stumble across the worst the Internet had to offer on /b/. Hardcore shock porn, CP, gore, extreme animal abuse and torture, etc. Was not a good place to hang out for anyone with a shred of decency. There’s a reason they call it the asshole of the Internet.
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 2 months ago:
There are still several tells that haven’t completely been ironed out. From years of reading bot comments on reddit, I’m able to discern a bot from a human pretty quickly, so long as I am able to check comment history and time stamps.
They have this weird uncanny valley pattern of speech and it sticks out like a sore thumb when I come across it.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 months ago:
Yep. Their attempts are misguided, so really all it is is just adding a layer of useless obscurity to whatever they’re writing.
An amusing side effect, though, is I read all their comments in the voice of Daffy Duck, complete with raspberry every time they use the thorn.
- Comment on Not promotings violence. If someone or some group puts a bounty on a presidents or kings or pm's head how does a person collect and do they give you safe haven in country? 3 months ago:
I apologize that I don’t really have an answer for this but I can only read this in Skwisgaar’s voice now.
- Comment on What's a bad habit you use to have for a long time but finally fixed? 3 months ago:
Energy drinks, namely Red Bull. Loved the blue and yellow ones.
Then in May of last year I started getting toothaches. A root canal, eleven fillings, an extraction, and $6,000 later, I stopped drinking energy drinks and cut down drastically on sugary drinks.
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 3 months ago:
Imgur has been shitty for years at this point. They kept fucking with the UI when all I wanted to do was upload images and share the link. They should have stayed in their lane, not try to reinvent their platform as social media. Then their wholesale blocking of VPN traffic? Tired of that nonsense. I use imgbb now.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 3 months ago:
Paywalled.
- Comment on What are your must-block tags on social media? 3 months ago:
This reeks of chatGPT.
- Comment on "THE CRIME OF PUTTING DHIT IN MY PANTS WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED AND AS SOON AS WE FIND THE PERPETRATORS THEY WILL BE APPREHENDED AND PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW!!!" 4 months ago:
Shit was so Kash
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 4 months ago:
Please no… At least have a switch to turn it off or something… animations moving around the UI are very distracting for some neurodivergent folks, myself included.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 4 months ago:
Buddy I got some bad news for you…
- Comment on how good are you at lying during job interviews? 4 months ago:
Keep feeding them BS. Embellish your past experience (within reason), make yourself look good. Management has zero qualms about lying to you, regardless if you’re a prospective hire or have been working for them for decades. So might as well do the same thing.
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 5 months ago:
I’m glad I got away from imgur. What I wanted was simple: an image hosting service that didn’t try to be something it’s not, or change its UI every five seconds. Been using imgbb, I like it.
- Comment on Does Fanta Strawberry taste like the strawberry soda from olden days? 5 months ago:
If you’re ever around Michigan, try some Faygo Redpop.
