Comment on I'm fine with being stupid

• Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh I’ve been around on lemmy for a couple years now and trolls like that aren’t exactly a threat. I don’t mean to sound full of myself, but I just post way too often for them to even noticed anymore. I usually get sent screenshots or links on Matrix/Discord like “LOL did you see this?” to which I definitely did not. Was just hard to ignore every single post having a single comment on it, something that isn’t really that typical for Lemmy. Especially not that quickly. I keep an eye on general trends of things. If people don’t like a thing I stop posting the thing. But individual children screaming into the night? Meh. All I see in my head is just a giant filter with [REDDITOR] written over it half the time.

  But.

  Even if I did give the remotest of a shit about a toddler, I don’t care about this circumstance. I post a lot and I made a deal to myself that I’d take two rounds of posting and add in a link to Aeronmelons post. He made it a week ago and didn’t get a ton of attention. That combined with a ko-fi issue meant that things weren’t super awesome for him. So I wanted to boost it again a little bit. Bump the thread. He’s going through hell right now and I went through something similar but far less brutal. I’ll do a lot for my friends and this? Isn’t much. So even if I did care about people getting angry at me on the internet, I don’t care when it means that there is a chance to help him. WELL worth the trade off, as far as I’m concerned. I’d gladly do it again.

  Doing nothing is easier and might make people happier but doesn’t get anything done. If I piss off a few people then oh well. I’m sorry for that. Hope they forgive me. But I’m not sorry I did it.

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  • foofiepie@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think maybe people sometimes forget the other posters are people, and (I see this way too often) get offended if you break internet etiquette or their own sense of ‘how to behave’ - in reaching out and trying to make - or help - genuine connections.

    In short, taking themselves online too seriously.

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    • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Considering the fact that like… I barely talk with anyone from Lemmy? Accurate. I’ll send messages to people because I’m either bored or lonely and we hit it off with some comments or something and everytime the reaction is just “Wait why are you messaging me?” and it’s like “No one ever messages me first.” I don’t know why. I adore it when a user joins lemmy and sees my username, reaches out, and then asks for a couple times. A few people have done that, a few sticking around too like IninewCrow, and it’s one of the few times that I feel like a user too and not just a poster. Was really fucking weird at the start when I was commenting in other peoples posts and having reactions like “STAMETS KNOWS WHO I AM” and like… I do use this website too. So when there’s a dude on Lemmy who I’ve had a good connection with who is going through HELL I’m going to try and use the position that I’ve apparently got to try and help him out just a little bit. Not constantly and not spamming it on every post today, but a couple times to hopefully bring some attention to it and help him out. Even if it’s just a tiny bit then I did something and I can stop hating myself quite as much.

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      • foofiepie@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I do love it when a bit of humanity shines through. Especially what with all the doom posting. Not that there isn’t doom to post about but you know what I mean.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t mean to sound full of myself, Nah, you’re good. We coast on your charisma about 1/3 of the time here… :)

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    • Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bah. I just spit out content that I’ve got saved from other people. I don’t do shit otherwise. Well, other than look for BG3 players and stuff but that’s about it. Thank you but way too kind lol

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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