selokichtli
@selokichtli@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Bluesky hits 20 million users 1 day ago:
Yeah. I think that’s the appeal. You could just shout things and hope others would follow until a part of the auditorium would turn their heads to you. So, if someone shouted “it’s an Earthquake!”, and people nearby felt it and tweeted, implying it was true, everyone in the auditorium would know about it. Of course, other types of messages were send in Twitter, but most importantly, actors and robots started to use Twitter to plainly shout lies and noise.
- Comment on is that real? 1 day ago:
The Antichrist is coming.
- Comment on Jesus Christ 2 days ago:
I wonder why Jesus used the hair split in the middle. How’s that called in English? Is it a symbol of his views of the world compared to the fascist views of his father? Yahve must use the big sweep across.
- Comment on Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump 3 days ago:
Americans are weird. For years ago, Trump list the election and he was dumped from Twitter in a heartbeat. Enters Musk and buys Twitter, baptizes it as X. Somehow, Musk achieved the unachievable. No, he didn’t make Twitter profitable, he makes it even shittier. Trump gets back to X. Presidential elections happen. Trump wins in a landslide. Bluesky arises. Now Democrats have their own social media club and Republicans, conservative minds, stay in X. Really, if the USA won’t change their electoral system it could separate into two or three different countries at this point.
Except, for now, they will unite against Mexico, Iran and China.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 4 days ago:
I hope some of them come to the Fediverse. It’s nice that only the curious ones will come.
- Comment on Tiger Predators 2 weeks ago:
Well, they are kind of solitary animals. No one will warn them about something big getting close from behind.
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t say anything. I’d think about this song: “I took her to an elevator, I don’t know why but it had to start in somewhere, so it started there”.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
For this, some people proposed to move the community from one instance to another. Now, it seems to me like the incentive to comment on instances ideologically biased for people who cares about the voting system is basically to troll the opposing instance. Which leads to this petty battle that I will ignore from now on.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 3 weeks ago:
You can try again. Take all the attempts you need.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 3 weeks ago:
That will show BRICS countries what not to buy.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
I know I can. Being blocked is something I do not have any issues with. My comment was merely my point of view. If someone is being actively bothered by the admins of the instance I’m in, it’s completely fair to block it. However, to block whole instances for ideological differences is kind of immature.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
I hope people do not do that and take into account this campaign against lemmy.ml. I am aware of the accusations against the admins of this instance, but I practically never see here this kind of brigading, campaigning against whole instances like lemmy.world. Sure, I myself did make a bad comment or two about lemmy.world out of >800 comments, but that’s normal. I think the fair thing to do, is to respond in the same scale (i. e. blocking specific users) instead of going all ballistic with instance blocks.
I’d also like an option to just block/hide the instance part of user names. I don’t like what this bit of information is doing to discussions in Lemmy.
- Comment on A useful map for travelers 4 weeks ago:
Penguins will help you to soft-land (is this even a word?).
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 4 weeks ago:
This was pretty informative, thank you. As I said, this instance-bans are just too much, so I mostly agree with your point of view. Would like to read what these admins have to say about the situation.
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 4 weeks ago:
Well deserved 1-star rank if you ask me!
- Comment on So bad it was actually entertaining 4 weeks ago:
If the food was great, shouldn’t that fact alone give at least one star more? Why are people do fixated with 1 and 5 stars? Don’t they realize there are three other possibilities to rank? I’m upset.
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 4 weeks ago:
Ah, I see. Well, I had a discussion in that thread too and it felt off at some point. I replied about a similar crime backed by the CIA and some people accused me of whataboutism, while the other guy assumed I was denying the Tiananmen Square massacre. That was not the case.
I used to participate in a subreddit where a permanent set of people, including moderators, would downvote you to oblivion as soon as they read a divergent opinion, though, the subreddit wasn’t about a specific ideology. It wasn’t about arguments, it was systemic. They would eventually ban you if you insisted on your points of view. Both things are shitty, in my opinion, and while one is more permanent than the other, the banning felt at least more straightforward to me.
What I find excessive is the instance ban.
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 4 weeks ago:
Well, I’m here and I don’t know what you all are talking about. And this is sincere, truly don’t understand what’s the issue, could you point me to some of these controversial situations/discussions/measures?
I have a feeling that, if you ask for any specific instance, you’ll get people complaining and blocking that instance for their own reasons. So, I’d let my users decide whether they block or not a user or a whole instance. For example, I don’t like some of the communities in lemmy.world and I complain about it because it just feels the same as being in reddit, but having access to a different point of view is very valuable to me, so I don’t block them.
I also have to add that I use lemmy with the voting system completely disabled. I hate the voting system because it shapes people’s opinions to fit in some specific communities. This is why I think blocking instances should only be used as a last resort against things like blatant spam, boycotting, CP, hate speech and the likes.
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 4 weeks ago:
Oh, sure, Mr. Enshittifist, you can call me that.
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 4 weeks ago:
Today I learned about AI agents in the news and I just can think: Jesus. The example shown was of an AI agent using voice synthesis to bargain against a human agent about the fee for a night in some random hotel. In the news, the commenter talked about how the people could use this agents to get rid of annoying, reiterative, unwanted phone calls. Then I remembered about that night my in-laws were tricked to give their car away to robbers because they thought my sister in law was kidnapped, all through a phone call.
Yeah, AI agents will free us all from invasive megacorporations. /s
- Comment on Kids a genius 1 month ago:
It is clever and funny. There’s cartoonist talent in it. I particularly appreciate the innocent humor portrayed. Thanks for the smirk.
- Comment on Kids a genius 1 month ago:
You can interpret their tentacles shrank after watching the counter going down as a first getting away reactionbor a panic reaction.
- Comment on 3D printed 'suicide pod' used by a human for the first time 1 month ago:
Do you want to have av perfect tanned skin?
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 1 month ago:
Can’t wait to see this bubble burst.
- Comment on Who still uses pagers? 2 months ago:
Bold of you to call them soldiers. For the Israel state or, I hope, government, they are all active/inactive terrorists. Yeah, 10 year olds, too.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
No, I just find it strange coming this from him. Call it a collateral topic, these things happen in a discussion.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
Didn’t he say that using adblockers in YouTube was basically piracy?
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Narcicistic sociopaths are the best profile to boost profit. Even some of the “good guys” you listed as founders were some trashy pricks.
- Comment on How come it seems for the past decades the Catholic Church has been plagued with sex crimes especially among young boys? How long has this been going on? Or did I just miss something up. 2 months ago:
For the hows, I find the life of Marcial Maciel a raw example. For how long, I wouldn’t put it in the beginning of the roman-catholic church, but centuries have passed for sure.
- Comment on YouTube Not Accessible Across Russia. 3 months ago:
Sure, champion, your attention saved my life today. Let me get back to my trolling, spying, forced and commie stuff.