JWBananas

You might find this interesting.

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/806/i-cant-quit-you-baby

The pandemic ended

😞

Print. At. Your. Local. Library.

I didn’t fucking tag you in my original post. I don’t even know how you found it in the first place. If this is how the fediverse works, that’s not good.

@TechConnectify I think you’re missing the part where I didn’t like the content, and I don’t like you personally, and I unsubscribed. Please stop spamming me.

As of this moment, the post has:

• 87 points on beehaw.org
• 55/38 on kbin.social
• 61 points on midwest.social
• 62 points on programming.dev

The real question is if downvotes on other instances federate back to Beehaw (i.e. did they only hide the button, or did they truly block them?)

That’s great that you found something that worked for you and for others. And I respect your stance on cost.

But it doesn’t change the fact that an experiment that only runs through the pre-wash cycle is at best misleading when the results that are important are that of the full cycle. And it also doesn’t change my impression that you used a fundamentally flawed experiment to try to make a logical argument, which was then contradicted in your follow-up.

It’s just not a great look.

If the point of the second video was “I was wrong” (versus “I’m still right but for different reasons”) then I probably wouldn’t have unsubscribed. Your moving of the goalposts (which just triggers too many memories of growing up with narcissists) just confirms that was a good choice.

But I do like your content about LED holiday lights, and I will be back to see what you find this season.

For what it’s worth, adding a little citric acid should be more cost effective than putting more detergent in the prewash cup.

I came for the traffic signals. I cringed through the overly-long CED saga. I left after the dishwashers.

I’ll still pop in seasonally though, for the latest on proper LED holiday lights.

Dishwashing video #1: Detergent pods must be bad, because dishwashers have a pre-wash dispenser. So if you use pods, you aren’t using enough detergent!

Here’s my demonstration of how using detergent during pre-wash results in more cleaning occurring during pre-wash (which, you know, isn’t the full cycle and isn’t how people use dishwashers).

Dishwashing video #2: Actually, I was totally wrong. But detergent pods are still bad, because they result in using too much detergent and are wasteful!

Gilbert Gottfried

That last part though. The fact that identity isn’t federated sucks.

You can think of kbin as a hybrid of Lemmy and Mastodon (and it federates with both through ActivityPub). It has interfaces both for communities (magazines) and for uncategorized posts/status updates/tweets (microblogs).

Upvote = Like
Boost = Retweet

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14dls1i/more_dialog_with_umodcodeofconduct/joqxb1x/

It got removed because you can’t insult your fellow protesters. It sows division in a movement and that’s the last thing we need right now.

We need to be working together. If experienced mods think the new mods aren’t making good decisions, it’s their job to educate and motivate them.

Not make fun of them.

Besides admins are already working on union busting (for lack of a better term in this context).

The whole point of Mod Coord is coordination.

Are there any charitable volunteer opportunities near you?

Based on some of the comments in the now NSFW subs, it looks like there is a pretty serious edge case that reddit does not handle: setting the sub to NSFW retains subscribers. Does that not mean that people may end up being delivered NSFW posts without opting in?

Hell no. This is the honeymoon phase. This is great!

Sure, discoverability isn’t the best. There are lots of bugs. Things are confusing. Federation issues are an inconvenience.

But you know what else is missing?

The spammers aren’t here. The trolls aren’t here. The propagandists from the East aren’t here trying to spread misinformation or sway elections. The bots aren’t here manipulating the front page or comments. The corporations and marketers aren’t here trying to sell products or steer discourse. There isn’t CSAM or targeted harassment or doxxing. Most governments are probably not here. And it doesn’t matter if He Gets Us because He’s Not Here.

Everything is too new and too novel and too ephemeral to have been picked up by the people that are going to cause the “big boy” social network problems. And that’s great, because the moderation tools at present would not be up to the task, and the legal teams are non-existent.

When the threadiverse crosses a certain threshold, Bad Things are going to happen. And those growing pains are going to be much worse than the ones we’re experiencing right now.