Zero22xx

@Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I am not a number.

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨are terfs actual feminists or do most transphobic women just call themselves that?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Based on a couple of arguments I’ve now had, they actually sound a lot like manosphere, anti woke people. Just a bit more intelligent and well read. But even the “trans ideology” phrase that they like to use is just their version of “woke agenda”.

I think that it is a sect of feminism that has been created and seeded by the same right wing christian nationalist types that are also behind the manosphere and MAGA. The Peter Thiel and Elon Musk types. They realised in the '90s that calling everything “satanic” wasn’t working, so they started coming up with new terminology to pull people in.

First it was “SJWs”, then “woke” but it all attracts the same kind of people. And “trans ideology” was the term they came up with for women that read and aren’t completely dense. So they’re all behaving like reborn christians and going around stomping out anything the norm. But they also sincerely believe they’re right. But honestly, based on the conversations I’ve had so far, all alt right people have the same talking points, which TERFs definitely are a part of. They’re just, as I say, not as clearly dumb as other alt right types.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teenagers turning to AI companions are redefining love as easy, unconditional and always there.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Bad Religion - I Love My Computer
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
won’t recommend Lemmy to many of my friends or family because I know they will give up

Yeah, when I first started out here, my experience was like this:
- I went to the join Lemmy page, then clicked to show all servers. Then waited. And waited. Then I went to bed.
- By the next morning, the list of servers had managed to load. I spotted one that was advertised as “recommended for users to join to reduce load on the Fediverse”, which seemed like a good idea after seeing how even the join page was battling to load.
- Found out that the server I joined seemed to have all sorts of issues loading content. And was apparently de-federated from a bunch of instances that align with my interests. So search results were showing me little to nothing in regards to queer communities for example, only dead communities.
- Signed up on world instead and encountered multiple posts that said they had comments but loaded nothing. Found out that there were no languages selected in my settings. So I selected ‘undefined’, scrolled down, selected ‘English’, then saved.
- I was still missing a bunch of posts after that, so I went back to settings and saw that ‘undefined’ was deselected again. That’s when I realised that you have to ctrl click each language you choose or else it just deselects the previous language that you clicked on.
- Finally success! 3 or 4 days later. And now I’m here.
I would love to recommend Lemmy to the few people I know who use Reddit. But I can’t see any of them trying without just giving up and going back to the place where all you need to do is sign up and hey presto, content to look at and interact with.

I have a feeling that even the process of choosing an instance would probably put them off. I could give advice but there’s only so much I could do or explain without being there in person helping them. If they have to read walls of text explaining how to get started, it would probably end there.

I’m not sure what the solution is though, or if there even is one. It might just be a little bit like trying to recommend Linux to people who just want to be able to push a button and go. Which is the majority, based on what I’ve seen.

Also just one last thing and something that has been discussed to death. There’s just not enough content here yet for the average person to see any reason to switch over from the place with all the content.

And on that note, recommending this place to people that I know in real life would be too risky right now that they would see my account and figure out who I am. Because there isn’t a crowd of a million people to slip into and disappear here. And this isn’t Facebook. I don’t want people to know about the very personal things I sometimes say on anonymous social media.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know what Mega Man needs? A gun and the face of a middle-aged smoker.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The link isn’t loading for me, unfortunately. Not sure if it’s a browser thing (I use Firefox) but I suspect that it’s the “*removed*” in the URL causing trouble.

However, if you tap / click on those memos in the article I linked, it reveals the box art.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know what Mega Man needs? A gun and the face of a middle-aged smoker.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You might appreciate this: Leaked Memos Explain Why Every Mega Man Cover is Terrible. (satire)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dont worry everyone, this is just an example. Rick Astley has not given us up.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Mulder documentaries? Like the X-Files?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emma⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tumblr to join fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In the '80s and '90s, everything these people didn’t like was ‘satanic’. Then that nonsense seemed to disappear for about a decade. Until those people returned with updated terminology that makes them look like ‘free speech’ warriors to all the kids and not the dogmatic psychos that they are.

So since then we’ve gone from SJW to woke to now DEI. But it’s always been the same fucking people, or types of people, that told me that all the cartoons I watch and music I listen to was ‘evil’ and ‘satanic’ when I was a kid.

I actually almost fell for the SJW thing myself back in the day. I was circling that drain. Until I opened my eyes and saw the company that I was in. Since then I’ve been borderline ‘SJW’ myself because fuck those people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tumblr to join fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
One thing at least is that when you search “Reddit alternatives”, most articles that I came across seemed to make out like Lemmy is the best option in terms of amount of users and not being advertised explicitly as a “free speech and censorship free platform”, which we all know really means “bigots are welcome here.” In fact when I was searching Reddit alternatives, it seemed to me that Lemmy is really the only option.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with lemmit.online?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Even if it’s futile, I probably still won’t be able to keep my mouth shut about it lol. I do enough keeping my mouth shut in the real world, in a country where you have to assume that everyone you meet has conservative views until proven otherwise. So I’m not going to do that to myself online as well. It just feels wrong to me to not at least try when there’s an injustice going on because the easiest way for nothing to change is for no one to even try and change things.

And you’re right, things are at least better for amateur workers now than they were before. So that is progress. Although from what I’ve gathered, OnlyFans isn’t completely immune to dodgy shit either. I’ve come across a couple of stories involving practically human trafficking situations where women are forced into this by pimps and other pieces of shit. So you never really know what’s going on behind the scenes when the camera switches off and the put on smile goes away.

Which is why it’s also just more ethical to get this content from the content creators themselves rather than random 3rd party websites that lift content from elsewhere. At least if you’re getting it from the source, you can have some sense of whether it passes the vibe check or not.

Also, just want to add because I just thought of it. Places that set up bots that lift amateur content from around the web aren’t checking for vibes or doing their homework. So they’re the kinds of places that would be peddling pictures of abuse or trafficking victims, or even underage people, without even knowing it. Or caring.

The whole thing just gives me the creeps. I’m fine with people stealing from Brazzers or whatever because those workers have already been paid and you’re stealing from the suits that get rich from them. But amateur stuff just has too many variables and ethical concerns for me to be comfortable with people treating it the same way as Brazzers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Fuck ICE. What the fuck are they going to do, deport from my country that isn’t the USA? This makes me feel like I start saying “fuck ICE” on the regular, just to give them more work to do with this thought police shit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with lemmit.online?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah they’re basically on any platform that will accommodate them. When they’re not filming anything, the bulk of their work is marketing. Their advertising material on Reddit (and other places) is what leads to money in their bank accounts. Their advertising material on Reddit being taken and posted here leads to no money in their bank accounts.

I think that apart from people just generally not caring how they get the content they want, people also just have zero respect for these workers. They don’t see them as fellow human beings trying to live. Or as deserving of credit as other types of content creators such as artists, musicians and talentless jackasses that complain about the woke agenda on YouTube. They’re just something to bust a nut to for these people but not real.

I’m not sure that I can really blame people’s attitudes towards it though. We’ve all been kinda trained by endless scrolling porn sites to expect it all to be easy and free. And I can’t say that I wouldn’t have also been dismissing this as not a big deal if I hadn’t taken the time to get to know what these people are all about on a different level. I probably would’ve still been under the assumption that they’re raking in endless cash and living easy.

So yeah. It’s probably futile trying to change people’s attitudes towards it. And it’s probably a problem that will never go away and is just part of the game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with lemmit.online?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve honestly been considering that line of work myself for the last couple of years because I’m reaching the point of last resorts. So I’ve spent the last couple of years lurking in the spaces where creators discuss the business so that I can learn from them. And also because I like to enlighten myself with what people from completely different walks of life are doing and saying.

And maybe that’s why I’m currently looking at them as human beings that are trying to make a living and not objects that everyone is entitled to for free.

I think a lot of people think that these creators are raking in thousands of dollars a day because of one or two success stories in the media years ago when OnlyFans was new. But these guys work fucking hard and often go through months where they’re battling to put food on the table. So personally, I think it’s pretty fucking shitty that a bot is taking all of their promo work and posting it here where people will never even look at their links.

And yeah, no one has disagreed here directly to me but I’ve seen what people are saying in other places.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with lemmit.online?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
An account literally called ‘Bot’ (so probably run by the admins of that instance) that seems to pretty much mirror entire NSFW subreddits, specifically subreddits that content creators make use of.

But it doesn’t matter, I’m probably gonna delete this comment and my first comment soon. Because I’m really not in the mood to hear all of the justifying of it and excuses for it from people who like to go around acting like paragons of virtue in all other areas.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with lemmit.online?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

repost everything from reddit to their own instance

And steal potential business away from amateur DIY workers trying to make a living. But the same people who tell you how pro working class they are and who complain about AI stealing fan art, won’t see any problem with it because there’s this weird entitlement thing going on as far as people’s attitudes towards porn goes.

OnlyFans provides them a platform to sell their wares but doesn’t pay them in advance. So it’s not stealing from OnlyFans, it’s literally stealing business straight from the worker’s hands. Part of me has been tempted to contact them so that they can maybe take some sort of action against it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Pokémon Emerald so grindy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Any tips?

Going from my memories. Use Mudkip lol. By the time it’s Swampert, you can arm it with both Surf and Earthquake and steamroll almost anything in your path. And Ice Beam gives you a nice counter to your biggest weakness too. I used to solo the elite 4 with Swampert. The only ones that give you trouble are the Ghost types that cause you to use double PP, so go prepared with Leppa berries or a pill that makes your PP go up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Pokémon Emerald so grindy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

animations take so long

This is my biggest annoyance with Pokemon games, personally. Everything. Takes. So. Fucking. Long. To. Get. To. The. Point. I’m pretty sure 50% of ‘gameplay’ is waiting for fucking animations and waiting for the one or two lines of text at a time to get to the actual important information after telling you about friendship and the joy of raising Pokemon first.

I don’t think that I would ever be able to play these games on the original hardware because being able to fast forward in an emulator is a gift from the gods.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Popular game launcher Playnite will get Linux support but it's still a while away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Fuck yeah! This is one of three Windows exclusive programs that I’ve always wished was cross platform. This is definitely the most important one though because it is unmatched. There’s ways to do what Rufus does and you can get pretty close to Notepad++ with the right settings and add-ons in Kate or Geany. But I have never seen another game launcher on Linux that comes even close to Playnite.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I ugly?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe you’re a bot, maybe not. But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt here.

And my answer is no, absolutely not. You are in fact very pretty based on this one bad photo. And your face looks perfectly normal as far as proportions go.

School fucking sucks. And I’m willing to take a wild guess that your low self esteem already makes interacting with people difficult for you right from the start, before they’ve even said anything. So I’m willing to bet that at least 50% of your troubles here are your own thoughts bringing you down.

But as for the other 50%, you don’t need to please shitty, immature people. And don’t worry too much about the boys either. From stats I’ve seen, there’s a good chance they listen to people like Andrew Tate in their spare time. If you’re 17, sounds like you’re pretty close to finishing up with the place where you’re forced to be around people that you don’t vibe with.

Trust me, when school is over, that’s when you’ll get to meet your people, people that don’t make you feel like shit. And as far as relationships go, you’ll have a higher chance of meeting decent people that you actually want to be with. The only people that say school is the best years of your life are the people who peaked there. So hang in there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I’m mostly attracted to men, is it «wrong» to consider myself pan?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Labels are useful for when you’re questioning things and looking for where you belong in the world. They provide key words that can lead you to more information and communities of more people like you. This user is just looking for where they belong without feeling like an imposter or fraud.

I do agree that people shouldn’t hang on labels and revolve everything around labels though. They’re tools and guidelines but ultimately only the individual can define how they really feel and who they really are.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think there’s about 3 different communities in Blåhaj that are for asexual, aromantic, agender people, or combinations thereof.

There appears to be no active asexual community

This seems to be a hurdle that Lemmy needs to get over in general. Communities are inactive because any new users checking them out see no activity and go elsewhere. So it’s a catch 22 or vicious circle or web whatever. I’m guilty of this too.

But really, these communities will never become active if everyone keeps doing this. It has to start somewhere. I’m willing to bet that if you choose one of the Blåhaj communities, you’ll probably get responses from other people that have been waiting for more activity too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reddit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I know that the Firefox subreddit was doing this a couple of years ago. Although I half suspect that they were using swear words as an excuse to remove any criticism of Firefox. And after multiple run ins with them and messaging them to ask why my comment was removed (no swearing isn’t actually a listed rule in the sidebar), I’m pretty sure they just started doing it for shits and giggles too. The last straw for me was when someone mentioned an old app and I said “holy crap, I remember that app!” Checked a couple minutes later in reveddit (which had become a habit when posting in Firefox) and sure enough, my comment was removed. That was the last time I ever went near that sub.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When I was younger, I believed that it was an ideal worth striving for. Now I don’t have that much faith in people anymore and I think that the best you can ask for is to try to live life your way and stay true to your beliefs and morals as best you can, according to whatever circumstances that you’ve been given.