SparroHawc

@SparroHawc@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An “instance” is a server that talks to all the other Lemmy servers, where your account info and login are stored. There’s a lot of benefits to decentralization - even if one instance goes down, like lemm.ee, it doesn’t really impact the whole of Lemmy too severely. The cost of running an instance isn’t super high, which means that if an instance is being annoying about advertising or something, you can ditch it with little cost to yourself and even run your own instance if you want. A single cabal of admins can’t ruin it like Reddit (cough cough Spez) and it can be easier to curate your own experience by choosing what instances you want to ignore completely.

  Any given instance is not necessarily a safe harbor, but as long as Lemmy is around, there will probably be multiple instances to choose from. The only thing you really lose is your post history - and you can link to your old account info in your new account for continuity’s sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tylenol is interesting - it’s a psychoactive drug. It reduces your brain’s ability to experience pain, rather than reducing the amount of pain you’re feeling. That means different people’s brain chemistry will result in very different results with Tylenol.

  Studies were done that show people are slightly more likely to take risks when they’re on Tylenol. Wild stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rationalists are (supposedly) smart enough to figure out that Roko’s Basilisk wouldn’t waste cycles torturing someone in effigy if they decided they’re going to ignore the threat of Roko’s Basilisk. It’s the opposite of a catch-22.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I’m sure there are bots on Lemmy too. The general userbase, however - of people who are sick of Reddit’s BS - are also going to have very little tolerance for bot BS, so the instances are incentivized to try to keep bot activity down lest they be de-federated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im 41 and this is shallow⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The government will fail you, but Trump will ensure the government fails you even harder and faster, that it fails more people, and that it will bring as much of the world down with it as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you put a ship inside a Klein bottle?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you put a cork in the neck of the bottle, it is no longer a disc and can contain other objects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nostalgia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Lemmy...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I dropped Reddit when it was announced that you could be banned for upvoting something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you're still on Lemmy...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Luigi is also, in all probability, innocent.

  Which means the Claims Adjuster is still at large.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is why we have a defense budget⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I’ll take it over those fucking ahegao hoodies that were briefly popular.