It is far easier to criticize than to do.

The purity testing will continue until morale improves.

Fortunately, you can just append the word “Reddit” to your Internet query and it’ll take you straight to the most helpful answer…

Well, shit:-(.

Stack overflow also had a similar situation causing people to strike.

Enshittification has ruined so much in the world of tech.

Some of us already left Lemmy or never joined, for the likes of Mbin or PieFed (or eventually Sublinks?).

Long live the Fediverse.

said in a statement, referring to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “If you leave now, you may have the opportunity to return and enjoy our freedom and live the American dream.”

So I guess this is the advantage, if someone wanted to return later.

Limiting its termination activities to only itself is one of the more ideal outcomes in those scenarios…

Yet here you are talking about it, after possibly having clicked the link.

So… it worked for the purpose that they hoped? Hence having received that positive feedback, they will now do it again.

Unless the thing in question is an immigrant

Wassa matter, jelly?

(/s:-P)

Now if someone could write a come-back that smoothly features PB&J, then I will be REALLY impressed! :-P

Since you deleted your other response I’ll just say it here: I hear that you are suffering. We are too. We all will suffer - not equally, but we can do it together.

What you said here is far too kind… to those ultimately responsible, who will be coming for other nations too now that the USA is at least out of the way and preparing to ready itself to join along with it.

It will affect everywhere on the planet, before it is through. Wherever you are located at, I suspect it is far less prepared for the onslaught to come than you seem to believe. You too may watch horrified as your very own fellow countrymen (and countrywomen) vote for your own version of it. Brexit may have been first, but it won’t be the last. We all are incredibly dumb, to have effectively ignored the threat that it has posed all along. And we will pay our variety of prices, each to their own and nowhere near equal, but all paying out all the same.

(How’s that for nuance?)

And therefore Lemmy.World would like to give them a chance to speak their mind!:-P

Don’t worry, it’s not like crucial decisions such as whether or not you get to keep your job depend on the outcome…

Gotta ride that debt wave - what else is there to do in life? (“Helping people” is somehow not an option, nor is simply leaving well enough alone, we apparently “need” to have his face and name and one arm raised in nearly every conversation taking place on planet earth)

You are missing the parts where they pull the wildest possible estimate out of their ass, then blame the worker for not living up to it.

Oh uh… is that just me? Okay then…

There are multiple themes to choose from. People that already know how to use Lemmy will be able to do more with Lemmy, for sure - PieFed is atm more of a concept of what is coming up, hence exciting! Especially for onboarding new users who don’t already know how to use Lemmy, i.e. from Reddit. I use PieFed as my daily driver, but I frequently have to fall back to Lemmy to accomplish certain types of tasks. So it’s not yet ready for the masses who don’t have an early adopter mindset. But it does offer tools to help with specifically those two things that you mentioned!:-)

Afaik, any proof of humanity depends on instance admin practices - same as Lemmy (and Mbin) too - but what PieFed offers uniquely along those lines is “reputation”. This can either be used directly by a mod (or admin) - e.g. for the first 2 weeks after signing up I was not allowed to DM anyone - or even by the individual end-user, as I’ll mention below with icons.

One really cool thing I see from PieFed already now is democratization of moderation: mods on Lemmy (and Reddit) have a binary choice to make between removal of content vs. allowing it, while PieFed significantly expands upon those options. One way is to auto-collapse, or even auto-hide, comments and posts below a certain vote threshold (different values provided for each of those, the first retaining the ability to always see the content just one single click away, the latter removing it from view altogether), thereby allowing people who want to avoid “controversial” content to do so more readily (related: there’s also a NSFL option, on top of a NSFW one, attempting to maximize such features available to people), in a manner that is independent of a community moderator, and with the ability to change the setting at any time.

PieFed similarly allows people to block all users from a specific instance, without having to defederate that requires admin support as Lemmy does (Lemmy has a feature that it calls instance blocking, but it is horribly misnamed bc it does not in fact block instances as all, and despite being promoted by people as an instance block is really just a community mute, leaving users free to spam your notifications for WEEKS and WEEKS after you no longer want to receive them - which is a real thing that has happened to me, TWICE, and basically caused me to leave Lemmy altogether as a result, although fortunately I found PieFed so didn’t have to go all the way back to Reddit to avoid such).

Another cool thing that PieFed offers is user icons: either placed by the user (whatever custom one you want, to help you recall whatever you feel that you need to - like “be careful, this guy is wordy!”), or automated ones placed by the system. Examples include new user (who may not know how things work, so be gentle), account which posts >20x more often than comments (hence may be an unregistered bot account), someone who receives >50x downvotes than upvotes (highly contentious person, very insensitive to whatever community they are in) - and to be clear these are overall, not specific to a community or post/comment, hence still works to brand-new content offered by each user. Whereas previously I spoke to removal or posts/comments based on such features, note here that this feature merely places a LABEL onto these categories of users - ultimately leaving it up to the end user, rather than a mod, to decide what to do about it. You can ignore these icons entirely, seek them out specifically, or whatever. But those varieties of “reputation” scores are made available to you in a numerical capacity.

Another cool aspect of labeling, this one requires an instance admin, is to place a commentary below every post from certain instances, like for Beehaw it says:

This post is hosted on beehaw.org which has higher standards of behaviour than most places. Be nice.

Note that link is to the exact statement from the instance admins themselves describing their policies in their own words. So this is far from “unfriendly”, and rather more welcoming to describe for instances where the “normal” expectations differ, what their particular desires are. Can you imagine if for Lemmy.ml it would say “any post criticizing Russia or China or North Korea is subject to removal” or some such!?

Speaking of, note how the community “side-bar” text appears below EVERY post - while some apps hide that away, PieFed places it front and center every single time, so that users have access to the info that they may need.

Also, PieFed is written in Python, rather than Rust, so its future development should proceed forward more quickly than Lemmy, allowing it to reach feature parity soon and even exceed Lemmy, as it already does in so many ways (though crucially: not all yet, so again I’m mostly describing the future here rather than the present, even though all of the above already exists).

Ironically, religion seemed to be helping. And before that (before humanity itself), tribes. An extension of “self” to include other who nonetheless were not “other”, at least not fully. But people seem to prefer wanting to game the system, allowing forcing others to put into while themselves pulling out from.

The age of enlightenment did much good to expose religious corruption, yet offered an inferior product to replace it: “knowledge”, which so few people know how to properly handle, lacking training. e.g. in the USA we knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that most people were too busy and tired to properly educate themselves, yet we placed no restrictions upon voting (like a college degree, or even a test as simple as asking how many branches of government there are - which even that would cause many people to fail).nor did we offer the requisite aid (like a livable minimum wage, or conversely access to a minimum form of healthcare) to help people to help themselves, nor did we keep watch against the predators that would take advantage, e.g. safeguarding the media (instead allowing it to be bought out by billionaires, rather than staying true to the mission of doing “journalism”, the seeking out and reporting of actual truth facts).

We brought this upon ourselves. Even if Donald Trump were to have a tragic accident tomorrow, even if the entire Republican party were to disappear into thin air, or all politicians combined, we would still be left with a broken system, just as before. We cannot escape the laws of Nature (whether put there by a God or not, but it’s worth noting that for those who believe in such, He agrees that we deserve this fate).

Even so, I hope for better. I don’t know what, or how, only that I need such for the sake of my own sanity.

Why read the article (especially if there’s a paywall) when you can read - or even better make - the comments? 😜

Seriously, if the goal is that sweet sweet dopamine fix, then this is the most efficient means to achieve that end…

Thinking is hard, hence just don’t do it! Better yet, downvote those who do as being “pretentious”.

It’s far easier to talk rather than listen over others.

PieFed offers both, as well as most of the most heavily asked for features lacking from Lemmy (Categories of Communities, sign-up wizard asking for interests and subscribing to communities based on those answers, hashtags to facilitate cross-community discovery, etc.). Ironically it is the more foundational features (cross-posting, users tagging, comment previews, post searching) that it still lacks, but the point is that work is being done along the lines of what you said, even though I highly doubt that such will ever appear in “Lemmy” per se.

Humans seem not to be great planners - we are too short-sighted and selfish, but like in a bad way where we first lie to ourselves, and then also to one another.

This allows us to get out of local minima as we spread to new areas, but that same trait seems equally likely to lead to our extinction when all areas have been found and we need rather to switch to a more stablilzed society, yet won’t bc we don’t feel like doing so.

I’m not sure how it is possible to produce merely average people though? Anyway, even if humanity itself were to not change, the world around us still does. Perhaps one day aliens will show up, assuming that climate change doesn’t kill us all in the moderate term future. Just like all those species of animals and plants and such that we’ve driven extinct: they lasted so long, but then could not survive us.

So I would argue that we always should remain strong… it’s just that the definition of what that even means will constantly keep changing, in response to our circumstances.

But, Stoicism, yeah - it’s literally all that we can do, so let’s do that.:-)