XiELEd
@XiELEd@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World? 4 weeks ago:
I’m from the Philippines, a country in Southeast Asia.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 1 month ago:
“The most important impact you can have as a consumer is not that the lack of your personal revenue is going to keep the likes of Jeff Bezos up at night. It’s that you’re providing revenue and a user base to alternative businesses that are struggling to exist in a world where most people just use Amazon.”
I agree! I think we should frame boycotts this way, I can’t stand companies abusing their chokehold on the market
- Comment on Did sites end up making money from API restrictions? 1 month ago:
I can still use Stealth for Reddit
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 1 month ago:
Yeah, my mom and I (in the Philippines) saw an American talk about having lots of money quite loudly in a shopping mall. We were put off.
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 2 months ago:
What search engine do you use?
- Comment on Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance? 2 months ago:
Something similar happened to us in the Philippines. There was a huge propaganda and disinformation campaign on Facebook by the Marcos family (rumored to have partnered with Cambridge Analytica). Which led to people falsely thinking that Marcos I’s regime was a golden age, and now we have his son as president.
- Comment on braaiinnss 2 months ago:
Literally brainrot
- Comment on How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time 2 months ago:
What??
- Comment on How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time 2 months ago:
Chill
- Comment on How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time 2 months ago:
Now I feel bad for the people whose anxiety I accidentally triggered…
- Comment on How do I stop laughing at stupid shit all the time 2 months ago:
I can relate as someone who realizes they’re actually more interested in the Humanities after choosing a STEM preparatory course. Then I remembered that the reason why I chose STEM is because my country doesn’t give a shit about professions other than being a lawyer, doctor, or engineer.
- Submitted 2 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 51 comments
- Comment on Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer? 2 months ago:
God, same
- Comment on Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer? 2 months ago:
Or you can read world history that isn’t just Eurocentric stuff. Hell, I bet most people don’t know European History in depth. You can even get into scholarly theology, from Christianity to Hinduism. Read philosophies like Confucianism, which will help you understand a bit of Chinese culture.
- Comment on Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer? 2 months ago:
Get into folkloristics, it’s pretty fun. You can get into all the Slenderman stuff because it’s literally untapped mystery you can’t just rely on secondhand sources, all the research is centered on one controversy that somehow killed his popularity but not every other religion. My “job” (it’s a hobby) is basically having to read the hundreds of all the Slenderman blog ARGs ranging from 2009 to the present day, as well as all the freaking Slenderman and Creepypasta comics. It’s just interesting how religious patterns emerge out of something spontaneously created on the internet, like Zalgo vs Slenderman having parallels with every other religion with “divine rivalry”. Interesting anthropological subject.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
Well, one of the reasons why I used 3rd party apps to begin with was because the mobile Reddit app was an unoptimized buggy mess for me, which often overheated my phone.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
I use Stealth with the express intent of not contributing to Reddit (there are no ads on Stealth) while consuming their server’s resources. It’s a sort of protest in its own way. Especially since those niche interest subs are the only way I could quickly get information about the community without having to scroll through discord servers— hell, in Lemmy-Kbin most of them are run by bots reposting from Reddit, and there is no way I can manage or advertise my own magazine, what with my busy schedule in my university.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
It’s been a while since I’ve been on Lemmy, so correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t Voyager, which I’ using right now, pretty good? You also don’t have to install an app, even though the apps on the Google Play store are pretty good.