Makeshift
@Makeshift@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I am not a politically-minded person. All these names and legalese questions and policies confuse and bore me.
I voted for Harris yesterday. If I can gather the willpower to vote Harris and help a prosecutor stop a felon from becoming a king, all of you other not-normally-voter types can do it.
We can do it, people!
- Comment on Emiy 4 weeks ago:
That took me a good 30 seconds to figure out.
- Comment on Had to read it 3 times to make sure 1 month ago:
If that’s what it is them that’s awesome. I want to be able to see a company do something that sounds like a good thing without that back of the mind thought of ‘what are they up to…’
Steam being actually based would be great.
- Comment on Had to read it 3 times to make sure 1 month ago:
Found in the comments on Steam. On one hand, I love that Steam is going in the opposite direction of literally every other company. On the other hand, it does seem like it’s not being done to be good guys.
It still was a nice surprise to see “btw no forced arbitration”.
- Comment on The mark 2 months ago:
I have it. This is sorcery.
- Comment on Post upvotes are like github stars 2 months ago:
I gave you some from a girl to help balance things out!
But I can promise you, from many years net positive on reddit and a not disimilar result here, that you’re not reading your own tone.
Be mindful of the tone, only come off as combative against a near universally disliked topic, and know when you don’t care to curate yourself and are ready for the downvotes.
Your wording here makes you out to be combative, and people are combative in response. Read your own comments as if they’re directed AT you. And look specifically at what’s likely to make you want to argue back. You may even be surprised at what can get net positive response with the right wording.
- Comment on Colorblindness check! 3 months ago:
Welp I just lost The Game. Thanks.
- Comment on Current best lemmy clients 3 months ago:
Was on Voyager until it updated past my old OS. Current version of Voyager no longer supports my old 6S Plus.
So now I’m on Thunder. It works. I liked Voyager better, but I won’t complain about an app that still works on my phone.
- Comment on I may have gotten the photo from this communuty. 4 months ago:
I am sure he may indeed have screwed Judy.
- Comment on “It’s sick” 4 months ago:
What a perfect comment to be interpreted in whichever way someone wants to interpret it.
- Comment on True story. 5 months ago:
The Game is the perfect counter/addition to Loss memes because every time I see a meme of Loss I know I just Loss The Game.
Then I get to say it and make othe people lose the game because of Loss. This makes me smile.
- Comment on YOU. 6 months ago:
So far as I know, they’re not shoving 20 ads in your face on every screen.
I know they’re far from perfect. Heck they have a forced arbitration clause in their ToS.
But compared to other services lately, Discord seems to mostly be trying to treat users as customers instead of products for advertisers. I’ll take it, and get some neat conveniences from Discord in turn.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
Vegans simply existing make people feel uncomfortable, so defense mechanisms in the brain trigger.
Since it’s an ethical stance, and people at least deep down know that killing innocent animals for 5 minutes of taste pleasure is wrong, but they don’t want to change themselves.
So the brain tries to rationalize how it’s definitely not wrong and really the vegan is wrong, and/or demonize the position to shield itself from the discomfort of knowing.
Basically psychological defenses kick in to defend unethical behavior that someone highlights by simply existing.
- Comment on Confused Reddit Users After Coming to Lemmy (Apparently) 6 months ago:
On Voyager with my sh.itjust.works account with nsfw toggled off and I don’t see any furry or porn.
I am pleased with this.
- Comment on Lemmy is growing and they are coming 7 months ago:
Pfp? Well I missed a memo. Seem to be fine without one though since I didn’t even know that was a thing.
- Comment on Peak technology 8 months ago:
Seen this so many times and glad to keep seeing it.
More people being informed on these scummy practices to look out for and avoid is a good thing.
- Comment on What's with the 'Thanks' people? 10 months ago:
That reminds me of a generational difference I heard about where when someone says “Thank you”, the older generation will say “your welcome”, seeing that they did something worth thanking. But the younger generation feels uncomfortable saying “you’re welcome” and says “no problem” instead, implying it was simply an expected thing for them to do.
I’m in the “no problem” generation. And yeah, saying “you’re welcome” really does just feel weird to me.
- Comment on Aliens decide to communicate with us 10 months ago:
Humanity is screwed.
They like being alone, don’t like loud noises, will find a reason to leave a situation with more than 3 people in a small area. They don’t have any sexual desire and will be most happy to go through life without ever having intercourse. Probably going to go extinct without outside intervention thanks to that, better intervene to preserve the species.
They want to hibernate when it’s cold outside. Cold = anything below 70f.
They’re herbivores though so at least they don’t destroy their planet by mass farming the cruelest and most inefficient food source possible. Silver lining?
- Comment on You can't win the lottery 11 months ago:
I guess my crappy raffle luck as a kid paid off. Learned young that putting hope in a gamble isn’t worth it.
Nowadays I have a fun little mantra to tell people in my circle: If I’m willing to make a bet, you might not want to take it. I’m not the gambling type. I probably know something.
- Comment on Title 11 months ago:
I haven’t looked at the lgbt spaces on Lemmy. Are they as bad as Reddit was?
Where people don’t understand what a definition is and say everyone is whatever they feel like that particular Tuesday?
I left so many spaces when they got taken over by people who just wanted to collect labels without understanding what they meant, and instead just morphing labels to mean whatever they wanted.
- Comment on Real Love 11 months ago:
Fun fact: Gas chambers are often used to kill pigs. You can hear their screaming from outside the facilities as the gas burns them to death from the inside out.
This is common practice.
It is plenty likely the victim in the picture whose mutilated corpse is very disrespectfully converted into sewage by now was gassed to death.
- Comment on I'm not the only one with youtube problems then 😂 1 year ago:
Genuinely good advice that I am saving for my own reference. Thank you.
- Comment on I'm not the only one with youtube problems then 😂 1 year ago:
If they can figure out how to enable the camera on my cameraless pc, that’s just impressive.
I don’t even use a proper monitor I use a 6 year old budget tv screen. I see no camera lens on that thing.
- Comment on MOM! 1 year ago:
That’s basically the mindset I’m in.
We’re screwed and won’t shape up in time. But I’m still going to self reflect and improve myself.
There is very little chance. But there is zero chance if everyone lets zero chance stop them from caring about their own actions.
- Comment on Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users 1 year ago:
For what it’s worth, memes have helped me stay. I doubt I’m the only one.
They’re quick and easy to browse and some get a bunch of topical comments and links to other relevant communities.
It’ll take a while to reach a level that’s known in the public eye like Twitter and Reddit, but the low-hanging fruit helps keep people interested while more niche communities are forming.
- Comment on As an OG Reddit Sync user of over 10 years, all this arguing really brings a tear to my eye. 🥲 1 year ago:
I haven’t looked into what Sync is but it sounds like it’s more than just
RedditLemmy?Also a paid app?
If it’s a paid app then that makes me think quality to be honest. It’s probably misguided, but my default is to feel that if you need to pay up front for an app it’s going to be higher quality and not full of ads/microtransactions.
