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Some people here have a really huge effect. Guys like Stamets and some of the other Star Trek crew, I see their posts all the time.
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Submitted 1 month ago by throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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realitista@lemm.ee 1 month ago
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
When I first joined, I saw The Picard Maneuver so often that I thought it was a community, not just a single user.
MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 month ago
That bastard and the rest of the Star Trek people here! They got me watching Star Trek because of their damn memes. They were often funny even without context, what can I say?
I had literally never watched it before. I’ve now gone through TOS, TNG, Voyager, Lower Decks (save the last season), and I’m over halfway through DS9. Mother fuckers assimilated me… and I’m ok with it
Stamets@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You and me both…
murray_TAPEDTS@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh shit. I thought it was a community until now!
Stamets@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I apologize profusely.
realitista@lemm.ee 1 month ago
We love you Stamets. Women want you, men want to be like you.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Some of them have major baggage
I guess we are all human
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Oh yea, MicroWave feels like a half-bot tbh, no offense. Like I never see this dude made a single comment, only post articles. No wonder why that username is so forgettable.
realitista@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I’ve chatted with him before. I think he just likes posting.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You look at usernames? I’ve never done that here or on Reddit.
Saleh@feddit.org 1 month ago
Even without usernames. There is some people i recognize by topic, opinion and the way they express themselves.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Even when it’s some asshole who’s always wrong, I try to remind myself that we’re all helping to build a free alternative to corporate social media.
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Doesn’t help that its the same font size as the comments. Also profile pics, most on reddit don’t use profile pics.
And also special fonts that sometimes make it stand out, bigger, and different color.
Like the yittit user @Kolanaki@yiffit.net (I think they moved to another instance after yiffit shut down?)
hightrix@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is the way.
On reddit, I use RES to hide user names.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
[deleted]OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 month ago
I think I remember you. But the dash at the end is throwing me off
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I remember most lemmyml users since they tend to be tankies
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 month ago
I mean, sure, if we’re pretending you can’t abandon accounts at will and make new ones elsewhere in the lemmy…verse.
The whole idea of “who” is kinda pointless.
Maybe I am the real Vanilla Puddinfudge. Maybe I’m not. What would it mean either way?
REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 month ago
I’m a polish girl who tried to make friends on lemmy but that didn’t work out too well
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
I also like that Lemmy has a displayname field separate from the username and it allows you to make it cooler than just boring plain text. 😏
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s how I can always spot you in the threads lol You probably never even noticed me though. I’m trying to be inconspicuous over here
Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m glad connect blocks that annoying crap.
viking@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Oh nice, maybe it’s time to switch after all. It’s been a pending feature on Sync since forever.
ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Haha you are definitely the person that came to my mind but my client only shows the plaintext username now so it’s a bit harder to spot you
MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 month ago
You just made me realize that my client only shows plaintext usernsmes now as well. Now I’m wondering what username was 👁👄👁 … it always made me uncomfortable seeing it, dunno why
echolalia@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
it allows you to make it cooler than just boring plain text
Agree.
People who find it annoying have grown old and boring, or are too young to have posted on a phpbb with a tacky signature.
Tryin’ to make a change :-\
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Can I be the guy that’s known around town for pointing out that in the given context, it’s actually “fewer users”
And yeah yeah, I know about evolution of language and common usage, and all that crap. But it really does just boil down to the fact that fewer sounds more elegant when the object is plural. ie: “There are usually fewer unexpected costs associated with new home ownership”, vs “There is usually less unexpected cost associated with new home ownership” (Both are correct in their given context)
It’s about how language rolls off the tongue. If we lose that we might as well grunt at each other draw pictographs with our own feces.
/end of rant.
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 1 month ago
This specific case isn’t really to do with the evolution of language, more just ineffective linguistic prescriptivism. Some guy 200 years ago decided they didn’t like how “less” had been used for the past millennium so they made up a guideline for what the preferred (like what you just said) then people decided to treat that as an actual rule. Obviously it’s still common to use “less” that way even after a couple of centuries of people trying to enforce that rule, it’s a good demonstration of how prescriptivism is a waste of time.
Strangely enough, in my experience many prescriptivists who rely on etymological arguments are fine with language changing for this one rule. Makes me think they never really did care about historic usage of a word.
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It all just comes down to preference, but what a lot of people prefer is being able to express slightly different concepts clearly.
- “fewer costs” : There will be a smaller number of bills to pay
- "less cost" : The total payable will be smaller
- "less costs" : ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
4grams@awful.systems 1 month ago
I call that a feature.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Sometimes it is nice to know oh that person is a jerk or that person is The PUG!
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Certain subreddits used to be like this.
But all my favorites have taken one of two paths:
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Get algorithmically deprioritized (due to a “bug” as an admin told a mod), and hemorrhage users. The collective ‘intelligence’ of the sub in particular drains; interesting intellectual discussions are gone. One such example: /r/localllama
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The sub gets huge. Bots repost memes as attention farms. It doesn’t feel like a small town anymore. Deeper discussions drain away in favor of shallow repetition of the same things over and over again. One example of this for me is /r/thelastairbender.
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HubertManne@piefed.social 1 month ago
Who needs anonymity? I put my real name, address, social security number, and agenda in my profile. Ha ha. you see no agenda because im just a typical earth man with no agenda of course. lol.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It’s also not only about upvotes here.
mlg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Some people actually use the tag feature so that they remember users when they see them again lol
ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I just wish the people in the subs I mod and post in would post some too. I feel like I am just posting for myself in those subs. Hell I am not a mod in c/trailrunning and it has like 170 members and no one post. I was the last person that posted. I know people are looking because someone is upvoting the things I post but no replies, no conversation. I don’t know what to do to drive engagement.
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I didn’t know that community existed! Not sure what to post there yet but I’ll join
chunes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also because it allows anyone to easily stalk all your comments for some reason. Creepy.
swab148@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I wanna be stalked! Someone, start stalking me right now!
MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 month ago
I NEVER NOTICED YOUR USERNAME, BUT RECOGNIZE YOUR PROFILE PIC! I’MA CRANK MY HOG AND GET IT WARMED UP TO START STALKING YOU RIGHT NOW BROTHER! AROOOOOOO!!!
duhbasser@lemm.ee 1 month ago
You should check out this company. www.punkwithacamera.com/…/nazi-lives-dont-matter
Keep Punk alive boss man
dontbelasagne@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m right behind you now. What you never said it had to be online
needanke@feddit.org 1 month ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah, straight edge people still don’t drink or smoke cigarettes, even though they’re legal. I doubt anything would change regarding the straight edge crowd.
MMEnterprises@lemm.ee 1 month ago
[deleted]chunes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nope. It’s just that would be the first thing I changed if I were making a reddit clone.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Reddit mixes everyone into the crowd
MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Os it? I don’t remeber a single user lol
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Flying Squid (what happened to that user btw)
The Picard Maneuver
Kolanki @ yiffit cm0002 PugJesus ClinicallyDepressesPoochieAnd a lot more I can’t name, but I instantly recognize.
And there are also some infamous users that I will instantly recognize as trolls, but I’m not gonna turn this thread into negativity.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Flying Squid
He left Lemmy for good when he got into an argument with someone on Discord or something like that about the 'verse. Tbf, he was as much of an ass as he was cool. He’d just go off on people without really understanding what they meant even if his heart was in the right place.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 month ago
i block all the trolls, i consistently see them on here.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Damnit
MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You are paying too much attention to lemmy! Just look at the memes and let your mind go while you poop.
einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
oh there are parts of the cluster again
Monstrosity@lemm.ee 1 month ago
What!? I take that personally. I’m, like, super memorable!
MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Witness me!!!
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Hi Mr. Shankles, nice to see you again.
MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 month ago
The /s makes it sound rude, like it’s not nice to see me lol
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I see all of the same names in like every thread here haha. I remember y’all too. I know you are all freaks
dxc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Jokes on you. Post less, remember less.
Kirk@startrek.website 1 month ago
I love being able to have the small-forum feeling of my home instance but also feeling connected to communities elsewhere.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Oh, you sfoogly cucklebog
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 1 month ago
That’s why I keep making new accounts every time the last one hits around 1,000 comments. I already recognize quite a few users here who’ve only written around 3,000 comments total - so by that metric, if I’d just kept using my first account, I’d probably be instantly recognizable to a ton of people by now.
F0od@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t know a lot of people in my small town and I don’t know you!
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
From my experience there is only one poster. They are very angry.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Sorry, Lemmy is just me and my 500 alts
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh, you MSG’d bouillon hatchling
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
My, oh societal anachronism.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Aren’t you the one who knows cool animal facts?
einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
i have the theorie that there are even way fewer users here than people think, at least when it comes to posts not commens…there is a cluster of accounts that kinda feel like they are all run by the same person.
Feel free to guess what cluster i mean
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Every account here is my sockpuppet account except you.
There are only 2 users here, its just you and me, everyone else are my alts. How did you not realize this?
/jk
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 month ago
theres less need to creat alt accts than reddit, because reddit or the sub will ban people often, also throwaway accs arnt really a thing on lemmy compared to reddit, for the above reason. originally throwaway/alt is to avoid getting your original account getting brigaded or ban for one reason or another. now with reddits recent updates thier filters are so sensitive its easier to get ban if you look at it wrong.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Ita kinda neat imo. It’s like being in a small town and seeing a celebrity whenever satansmaggotycumfart joins the conversation.
zorflieg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Who are you and how did you get in my sandbox?
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Considering how new anonymity is for the human race, it amazes me how people treat it like a crucial element of life. Civilization mostly lacked it for thousands of years because almost everybody lived in villages or small towns - about half the people in the world still do.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
You may not have been anonymous to the people in your immediate community, but you were largely anonymous to the people outside of it, which is something that has been systematically dismantled in various ways through history. Even things as basic as last names are there to make you visible to outsiders.
From Seeing Like a State, p59:
The invention of permanent, inherited patronyms was, after the administrative simplification of nature (for example, the forest) and space (for example, land tenure), the last step in establishing the necessary preconditions of modern statecraft. In almost every case it was a state project, designed to allow officials to identify, unambiguously, the majority of its citizens. When successful, it went far to create a legible people. 38 Tax and tithe rolls, property rolls, conscription lists, censuses, and property deeds recognized in law were inconceivable without some means of fixing an individual’s identity and linking him or her to a kin group. Campaigns to assign permanent patronyms have typically taken place, as one might expect, in the context of a state’s exertions to put its fiscal system on a sounder and more lucrative footing.
IMO the felt anonymity of Reddit, that comes from the fact that hardly anyone cares to remember your username and you don’t directly experience scrutiny, isn’t that useful. What really matters is the potential for someone to look over everything you’ve written (and if they have administrator access, connect that to IP, email, browser fingerprint etc.), and use that information for their own purposes, regardless of their having any connection to or legitimate personal interest in you. In that respect, Lemmy isn’t much better (it kind of can’t be when the premise is publicly posting writing to the internet), but it isn’t worse either.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
These days it is either full anonymity or surveillance state
Tech does that
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I get around that problem by simply never looking at your usernames
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Me too, Steve, me too.
WereCat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Stop freakin him out
MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I just suck at remembering names. I’ve started remembering people by their Profile picture more than their username
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Its too bad you cant sniff butts on the internet like in real life
Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 month ago
same and i block the ml and the holier than thou accounts.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 month ago
I honestly have no clue why are some instances so hated here, but I’m going to assume it’s politics.