Compassion >~ Thought
I would argue that pessimism, like optimism, is too hobbled by an inability to see clearly the arguments of the other side. Realism seems a better way to go, and if that happens to look bleak then well, that still does not make it actual pessimism.
You have the identical power.
It kinda does though. i.e. form your own community, put in the effort to keep it neat and tidy and make it how you like it, and then fend off people who want to come in and shit all over your parade without bothering to follow or likely even read the rules.
The very fact that you desire to post something to someone else’s community in the first place is evidence of how much more their opinion should matter, by virtue of their hard work put into it. No we are not all the same at all.
2025 called and said everything is fine.
That is not a trailer, and those are not cubes. According to René Magritte’s Treachery of images, this is just a picture. You can’t fool me, memer person! 🤪
Oh well, upvote it anyway…
WAIT WHAT!?!?!?
The AI told them that 2 minutes + 58 minutes > 2 hours, and apparently they believed it (perhaps bc 60 really is a higher number than 2?🤪).
MANAGEMENT MATERIAL, PROMOTE THIS PERSON IMMEDIATELY!!!
I would argue that 2025 marks a new level of low, a new standard that other years will be compared to. So like instead of 2025 being 2020 part 6, 2026 will be 2025 part 2. Wow that’s a depressing thought - i.e. I wish that we could go back to the carefree days of yore, back in ole 2020 (when the problems faced were thought to be temporary, as was the style at the time)!
We use Arch, btw.
Linux is actually better termed as GNU+Linux…
Your (political) opinion is wrong! See aktshually…
Lemmy has so much to offer the world… like beans! 😁
The Threadiverse is terrible when it comes to news, and niche content. Though as you say Reddit is terrible to actually try to converse with someone on, or even to read through the comments section is like listening to eight year olds (of whatever physical age).
I too go back to Reddit when needed lately, though in read-only mode.
Bullshit … would he falling down so hard, along with shit from the female elephants as well.
There really is no comparison, Tildes has a few hundred to thousand active people (looks like about 20 posts a day… across the entire site), and is run by a single guy with very particular ideas about what people are allowed to say and do on his site.
Lemmy meanwhile has roughly 50k users and I would guess hundreds to thousands of posts per day, even if not millions like Reddit that allows more niches to develop.
I dunno… every mainstream normie I’ve ever told about Lemmy gets enormously turned off by the tankie content here. Yeah you can block it, but why should they when Reddit caters to a more centrist audience, they seem to think. We are a Nazi bar here and that’s going to be a problem for a long while.
It didn’t help that I did not realize that a Google search pulls up Lemmy.ml as the top instance, and that it shows only Local content by default to a guest user. Thus it substantially helps to point to a specific Lemmy instance rather than tell people to check out just “Lemmy”, although lemm.ee was one of the top recommendations there so now that’s going to be confusing when people read old posts and comments.
Not really: the Export+Import feature should make migration a breeze this time, and you’ll still see all your old posts and stuff (you won’t be able to edit them anymore though).
Switching from centralized Reddit to decentralized Threadiverse will never need to happen again - I even switched away from Lemmy to PieFed (when the Import feature hadn’t been implemented yet) and it was still much easier.:-)
Mods especially had a harder time with the official app, so a lot of us left in solidarity with them & the app devs. :-)
sopuli and sh.itjust.works as others mentioned are good. I wanted to add a shout-out for discuss.online for anyone in the USA with fantastic uptime stats.
Also I’m a huge fan of PieFed, well worth checking out.:-)
Y-y-yeah that’s exactly what I meant, how did you know?! 🤔 😅
2+2=4
2+2=3 is too small, i.e. wrong in the direction of being too small
2+2=5 is too wrong in the direction of being too large
Likewise, optimism is wrong in being too hopeful, pessimism is wrong in being too fearful.
What you said though is that:
So being wrong is a vital component of being right? It is an issue with the phrasing. It is not “pessimism” that is necessary, but a willingness to look at the things that may cause us fear - though your phrasing indicated that pessimism itself was the necessary component, which is what I disagreed with.