I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but ya know, at least nobody's constantly asking how I wipe my butt or pick up my dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer.

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• shittydwarf@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve helped a visually impaired person find their dogs poop so they could pick it up via the “Be my eyes” app

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  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You are now a poop sherpa, thank you for your kind service.

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  • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Username checks out.

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  • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been logged in for years, and I just got my first call last week! I was so excited. Lady’s laundry machine had stopped with the clothes still wet, and I read off the dial settings and LEDs to determine why it had stopped the cycle and what to do. Took about 5 min.

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    • shittydwarf@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The calls are few and far between that’s for sure. I’ve only had four or five in total

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• guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe I’m crazy for this, but I don’t like the term politics, I feel like it hides what people are actually talking about. Think about the difference between the statements:

  “I’m not interested in understanding politics, it’s too crazy”

  “I’m not interested in understanding who gets to decide what my rights are, it’s too crazy”

  Or maybe:

  “It’s annoying seeing politics in my feed all the time”

  “It’s annoying seeing people discussing the implementation of mass surveillance in my feed all the time”

  In both cases, do you see how the first one feels like a pretty standard perspective, but the second one feels insane?

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  • FridaySteve@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t know if you realize this, but when people say things like “I don’t talk about politics” that’s just a short form of what they really mean, which is often:

    I don’t want to talk about politics here.

    I don’t want to talk about politics with you.

    I don’t want to talk about politics right now.

    I don’t want to talk about politics like that.

    Surely you have to have seen the changes over the past 10-15 years in online discourse that has resulted in politics invading every available space. It used to be quite easy to avoid political conversations online. And still, a lot of people don’t come online for that and that’s okay.

    They aren’t insane. They’re trying to tell you to calm down. Please take a hint and change the topic when someone says something like that.

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    • Apytele@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Imma pull a classic middle of the road …thingy. Sometimes people use “I don’t talk politics” to mean “I’m personally happy with how this part of the system is working so stop complaining” which is kinda shitty when they’re not the one on the ass end of it. It’s also cool to just have some crochet groups where the biggest drama is that I hold the hook like a knitter. Gotta decompress sometimes. Have the strength to do both and all.

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  • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When someone says “I don’t like or follow politics” my reply is something alomg the lines of “well, that’s your choice, but you know who does take an interest in politics? Your boss, their boss, your bank, your landlord… So go ahead and choose not to care about politics, just shut the fuck up with your whinging about the state of the world you’ve just told me you opt out of having a say in.”

    Or something

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• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It would be great if my existence and the existence of my friends and family weren’t considered “political.”

  But here we are. Sorry that our not going quietly into the camps inconveniences you.

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You know you’re in a discussion with a blind person, and you included an image without alternative text.

    Please learn what alternative text is.

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  • lmagitem@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They did not say what you’re implying them saying. There is a world between not caring about people getting arrested by ICE and not wanting every other post being about Trump’s antics and US politics.

    Plus, if they are blind, I guess it’s harder for them to decide “at a glance” what they’d want to check or not. It doesn’t suffice to see someone’s face to decide to skip, they have to read what the post is about.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that being blind is much worse than any of that extremely common stuff you want to feel oppressed about

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  • cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did you miss that OP mentioned they’re blind?

    Here is that image you posted, but with manually-written alt text added.

    (I don’t usually do this when adding alt tags but in this case I also added the same text as a title/tooltip to make it also easy to read for users without a screen reader. Apologies to screen reader users that this probably causes you to hear the description twice.) A meme with three rows and two columns. The first row has the heading ‘Two sexes’, above a picture of a white male-presenting person (labeled ‘male’) on the left, and two female-presenting people (labeled ‘political’) on the right. The second row has the heading ‘Two sexualities’, above a straight couple (labeled ‘straight’), and two same-sex couples (labeled ‘political’). The third row has the heading ‘Two races’ above a picture of the same white man (labeled ‘white’), and three non-white people (labeled ‘political’).

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nobody is sending anyone to camps bro.

    Might help if your talking points were delusional conspiracy nonsense.

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    • Schmoo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Trump administration literally sold merch at the front gate of one such camp in Florida. Old prisons are being reopened and new ones are being built to hold all the new ICE detainees, and they throw them all together in a cell with deportation papers in the middle of the room hoping they’ll give up and sign to be willingly deported. ICE now has massive deportation quotas that they’re being pushed to meet.

      The above doesn’t even scrape the iceberg of everything that’s been happening. Your confident ignorance betrays your stupidity.

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• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  the issue is that ‘political’ people inject their politics into everything, and want to put every comment and commentator into the prejudged boxes they regard as right and wrong.

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  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    put every comment and commentator into the prejudged boxes they regard as right and wrong.

    I hate that this is commonly known as “politics”. To me, this is a sports event. I still like to think that politics is about discourse, compromise, coalitions etc.

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    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      that’s cool, but the vast majority of people don’t. for them it’s about whether you are on their team, and how pure your loyalty to their team is.

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  • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not even always that I disagree with what people on here say, I’ve been a 3rd party/independent voter most of my adult life, hardly a Trump fan, but if I post about where to find good fajitas in Dallas I don’t want to hear a manifesto. A fanatic is someone who won’t change their mind and won’t change the subject, and a lot of lemmings fit that bill as evidenced by this very thread.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The unfortunate part is that politics isn’t necessarily tied to government. People get political over anything they identify with

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    • MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Political, or tribal? Political is supposed to mean compromising on solutions to tough and intertwined problems.

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• MantisToboggon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How do you wipe your butt?!?!

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  • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Very few blind people have no vision at all, and many, including myself, have sufficient vision to see what’s on the TP. Otherwise, the friction as you wipe is a decent indicator, and if you’re not sure you can just make a few more passes.

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    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That extra bit of context definitely helps to frame why someone would be asking you those things!

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    • teft@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      T8Y0CloVAqlF6Ly.gif

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    • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d never heard that! So you might be able to see it from very close, or only in peripheral vision or something? That’s great.

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  • Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Smell test

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    • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Taste test is actually more accurate /j

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  • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This question, asked by Jim Jefferies in his bit about guide dogs, ruined my wiping experience. When I was younger, my ass smaller and and my shits smoother, it was enough to give a single wipe and go on with my day. Then Jefferies asked the question of how blind people see the poop on the paper, and the next time I had to look at the paper and do a control wipe to see that it’s clean. But now that I’m fatter and my shits messier, I have to do like six wipes to get a clean one. Curse you Jim Jefferies.

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  • slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The same way they pick up dog poop. They have a theme or compulsion.

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  • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The same way they pick up their dogs poop ┐⁠(⁠ ⁠˘⁠_⁠˘⁠)⁠┌

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• nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How do you pick up your dog’s poop?

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  • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Guide dogs have bathroom breaks at set times, and in my experience if their diet is healthy they’ll drop a duce at the same time each day. In any case, the dog is kept on a leash and given a command to relieve itself. It’ll usually sniff around, then stop to do the deed. Straight back means pee and arched back means poop. The posture can be seen if the handler has sufficient vision or felt with a hand if not. If poop is indicated, you find the dog’s south end and use your foot to mark ground zero. When the dog is done it’s a simple matter of bagging it using your foot as the landmark.

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dogs are amazing.

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sounds like poopy shoes but I guess it’s all about practice…

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    • SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Interesting! As a seeing person who used to walk the family dog, I can attest to the technique of using your foot as a landmark - it was invaluable in order to not lose track of the pile among similarly-colored fallen leaves while I was getting the bag ready.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait… You’re blind?

  👋

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  • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sí

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    • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s your favorite screenreader? )

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    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Easier said than done, it seems.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I appreciate that you used a tilde. “Si” is an entirely different word.

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• x00z@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  **American politics

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  • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the important part. I enjoy reading political news and discussions. But in the country I live in, not American politics which forced into each conversation.

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• lemmyknow@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t mind politics. Just wish I, who’s never set foot in the US, could come in here waste my time as usual and not have US News & Politics make its way into my feed every time through some non-US News & Politics community.

  Maybe I need to make more use of a skill most USians lack, knowledge of other languages, and find myself more non-US stuff. Not exactly easy, but would pay off easily.

  There’s some great stuff in English, but I wouldn’t miss it much if it means no more US news & politics. There ought to be good shit in other languages. I just need to find the good stuff, and where it be

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  • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Try a multingual lemmy instance. On sh.itjust.works I get German and French posts in my feed all the time from various communities when I browse Local.

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    • lemmyknow@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I do get some posts in different languages here and there, but I don’t really know some of these, so not useful lol. If I could, like, idk, filter or something.

      I’d be down to getting languages I don’t understand if I could get rid of English. As an experiment, a trial. Or at least a similar amount of every language. Boost other languages.

      At this point, I think I’m better taking breaks from Lemmy, or leaving altogether. Not sure it adds all that much to my life

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• arnitbier@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah once politics aren’t killing everyone slowly and ruining life in general for the public then it’ll be better

  Tho I get the desire this is so over the moral lines its crazy so gonna just have to see it

  Maybe help make it so its not needed but bitching and moaning makes it MORE necessary not less

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  • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Trump is sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

    Biden was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

    Obama was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

    Dubya was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

    Clinton was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

    Bush 1 was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

    Reagan was sending us to Hell in a hand basket.

    Forgive me if I’m a little numb to it all.

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    • arnitbier@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe a lesson here that your life is not the way it should be based on the reality outside and your ignorance is the product not the solution?

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  • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    lol Americans

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• Zdvarko@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My favourite part of Lemmybis being able to block communities and users, don’t live in America so it’s not my problem you got a tangerine hitler for a president, we got our own problems.

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  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like it or not, it’s everybody’s problem. At least he unwittingly caused some positive change, pushing EU countries to break away from US tech/products

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    • Zdvarko@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t live in Europe

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• MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  considering the state of the world, politics really should be inescapable. everywhere. not just lemmy. not just reddit. not just social media. everywhere.

  people trying not to pay attention are allowing evil to go on uncontested. you are showing a lack of empathy and self absorption that is ruining the entire world.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The world has always been this way. You just weren’t being doped on it 24/7 via your phone.

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    • MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      theres a difference now though. the rich have amassed more wealth and power than ever before and technology has multiplied that power many times over. In countries like the US, the fascistic and oppressive systems that have been put in place have become nearly unbreakable by any realistic means. A civil war is not realistic without outside support from other countries. And that’s not realistic. Smaller countries can have revolts because they don’t have the systems the US has in place. They aren’t militarized and policed to even a fraction of the amount. The US public only worsens the issue because it has been purposefully de-educated over many decades.

      The world has not been this way before.

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, politics is here, because Spez pushed a lot of it out, due to Elongated Muskrat.

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• Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Were you born sighted? Or did you go blind over time?

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  • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was born blind.

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    • Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m sorry to hear that. I had a friend in college born without eyes. I talked a lot with him about concepts like shapes and colors. He was able to tell how much battery the electric carts on campus had by the sound of the motor, it’s quite interesting. I guess you might have an easier time than someone that lost their vision. I now have a friend that went blind after a car accident, he gets a lot of help from neighbors. He try’s very hard to do things himself, but often needs help. I hope you have a good support network for the things you need in life.

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• kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  lemmy.world/c/goodoffmychest

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• DempstersBox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My god… How do blind people pick up their dogs poop?

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  • capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dogs do poop in the blind person’s hand.

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    • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That is incorrect. Certainly at least not a bare hand. I’ve heard of people catching it midair with a bagged hand but that was when the dog was having an accident IIRC.

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• CaptainHowdy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How do blind people use cash in the US? Other countries have different sizes and textures and stuff, but not our cash.

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  • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not an ideal situation, but that’s partly on us. Back in 2008/09 or so there was talk of making money more accessible, and the National Federation of the Blind came out against it because they thought it implied we couldn’t handle money as is. Honestly I don’t associate with either the NFB or ACB, but that goes back to my aversion to politics.[^1]

    Coins are already tactilely distinct, bills are the problem. Assuming we know the denomination, we usually fold them in different ways to differentiate them. Singles may be left unfolded, fives folded hamburger stile, tens hotdog style, etc. There’s no set way to do it, it’s up to the individual. There are bill readers, both standalone and as phone apps. TheiPhone may have one built in as part of VoiceOver or the magnifier app, but I’m too lazy to check right now.

    I personally avoid using cash where possible as I don’t like keeping track of change.

    [^1]: Standard disclaimer: I only speak for myself. Blindness does not respect class or creed or culture, so every blind person approaches their situation from a unique worldview, and there’s debate among the blind whether a blind “community” can be said to exist. I personally say no for the reason stated above, but again, I only speak for myself.

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    • CaptainHowdy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wow this is an awesome response, thanks!

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    • Burnedspaghetti@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s pretty interesting I always thought they had different ridges on the person’s clothes in the bill, at least that’s what I’ve been told when I was younger because my dad was able to take out the exact amount people asked from him from a wad of cash in his pocket

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is what happens when you browse “All” on lots of platforms.

  Gotta stick to your niches. And sadly, it’ll come up in comment sections too sometimes, because power is everywhere.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    lemmy is too small to have active niche communites. the only active communities are the general ones.

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    • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s an unfortunate dilemma. To sustain an active niche you need a huge user base like Reddit. But if you have a huge user base costs start piling up and the temptation to lessen the experience to pay the bills (or appease shareholders) grows.

      The issue with the fediverse is that its members are highly self-selecting. If you’re an average Joe looking to join an online community, it’s going to be Reddit, not Lemmy, Twitter, not Mastodon, or Facebook, not whatever the fedi equivalent is. So the likelihood of amassing enough average Joes who just want to look at funny pictures of orangutans or talk about video games with anyone regardless where they fall on the political spectrum is small.

      And I always thought that was the point of these little niches. Alice the gun nut likes vintage 80s computers, and Bob who wants to seize the means of production also likes vintage 80s computers, so Alice and B have fun together talking about vintage 80s computers despite their differences. The problems arise when Alice goes into the vintage 80s computers community and tries to make everything about guns.

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• myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well now I gotta now. How do they pick up their dogs poop? Is it the two dogs taking turns and eating it theory?

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• FluidBeef@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Obviously there has to be a space for politics here as we’re trying to build a global, decentralised alternative to corporate social media, and that has to include every form of discussion and a plurality of voices. However, on traditional web forums based around a shared interest it was always a bad idea to let the politics run free, as you’d get flame wars, and eventually a ruling clique with moderator influence banning posters along political lines and a resultingly toxic McCarthyite culture. I think the answer has to be more tools that allow us control over our feeds, more easily.

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  • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Agreed. In a way though I should expect this. Most people on the fediverse are here for ideological reasons, including myself. We dislike the corporate platforms that the fediverse seeks to replace. Simply having an account here makes a statement. But what exhausts me is when I go onto a community like mildlyinteresting expecting to see pics of three-chambered peanuts and yellow stop signs but most of it is stuff like “French President explains the political consequences of AI.”

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• kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do you have a stable work? And what do you di

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• leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  1. Bidet.
  2. Two dogs, taking turns. One poops, the other eats it. And then licks your face.

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• Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just want to say that I’m sorry for the current status of the web; I’ve worked on making some apps accessible to blind people and I bet most of them are horrible to use for a person with visual impairments.

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• Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Filters are your friends. :)

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• count_dongulus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t see anything political anywhere these days. Whenever I very rarely do, I just block the user or community in Boost. Similarly for regular feeds like my phone’s builtin Google News, I just started marking them as “Don’t Show Content From [Source]”.

  If enough people do this, perhaps publishers will learn that spamming people with misleading ragebait is a losing strategy. Probably not, though.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Filters

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