FridaySteve
@FridaySteve@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 22 hours ago:
80-90 ciggies a day
Who made this stupid nonsense?
- Comment on And I won't delete them either for nostalgia reasons 22 hours ago:
Normalize respecting young people’s contributions, knowledge, and skills before mentioning their age…
- Comment on After every 10 years of every social media platform becoming just another political propaganda machine Im totally bored of it. 6 days ago:
I understand that user moderation is an accepted practice nowadays, but people end up on those blocklists for invalid reasons and I’d prefer a default filter like there is for hate speech.
- Comment on After every 10 years of every social media platform becoming just another political propaganda machine Im totally bored of it. 1 week ago:
When they added all those default filters to bluesky for things like violence and hate speech and didn’t add one for politics, I deleted my account. I’m so so so very tired of it. I’m also 100% sick of slacktivists thinking posting their politics on social media does anything other than make other people post their politics on social media.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
That “who, me?” shit is just cowardice. I haven’t presented any arguments because you haven’t expressed anything to argue against. You posted a dogwhistle and got called out. Go find your tribe.
- Comment on Bro 2 weeks ago:
Dude
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
No, you’re here to spread hate.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
Go look up the definition for dogwhistle. That word you used is a dogwhistle indicative of an extreme religious right wing ideology. That’s why you won’t explain it - you can’t. You don’t know why you’re afraid, you just are. That’s indoctrination. Everyone here understands what you mean, you’re just terrified of explaining it.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
Don’t dance around it like a coward. Say what you mean. I’m an adult, you’re an adult. You came here to express yourself, don’t get shy now.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
What is transgenderism? I googled it and the top result for that word is a link to a religious website.
- Comment on International travel 2 weeks ago:
Same experience here, and when I traveled as an immigrant, everyone was always very cordial and welcoming to me (which is more than I can say for the immigrant experience in America). I was in Brazil during Bolsonaro and found many lefties who appreciated the acknowledgement that they were still there working hard despite their country’s leadership (one of them got murdered by his father over politics). I was in Chile during the student riots under Pinera too and was welcomed by the leftists in the street throwing bottle bombs and the cops in riot gear with water cannons. The average person everywhere is involved in a continuous global struggle for human rights, education, economic equity, etc, and they recognize your empathy no matter what flavor of billionaire is currently running the country.
- Comment on International travel 2 weeks ago:
Any local who can’t separate you from the corrupt billionaires who run your country isn’t worth your time no matter where you are. Anyone who would lie to another person about where they’re from because they can’t separate themselves from the corrupt billionaires who run their country isn’t worth my time no matter where you’re from.
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 2 weeks ago:
But I highly encourage everyone to ask “Okay, but is that a Swedish mile, nautical mile, Roman mile, or Chinese mile?” whenever miles comes up with Americans.
I find it tedious when someone pretends not to understand a conversation just to make some academic point, don’t you?
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 2 weeks ago:
The image in the OP literally says “British: hey guys, we developed a thing called the metric sy-” so your argument is with the creator…
- Comment on Political discourse 2 weeks ago:
You’ve already asserted that everything is politics whether I like it or not, including this conversation, and since I don’t get involved in “prove me wrong” political conversations on the internet I’ll just exit.
- Comment on Political discourse 2 weeks ago:
You’ve already asserted that there are no valid answers to that question. Why did you bother asking?
- Comment on Political discourse 2 weeks ago:
And this is what I mean. Everything is very much not politics but if you politicize everything then by definition it becomes so. People need to stop doing that.
- Comment on Political discourse 2 weeks ago:
People need something else to focus on. When everything is politics then politics is everything and it’s stupidly difficult to get people interested in doing anything positive.
- Comment on 2025 Right Wing free speech cancel spree 3 weeks ago:
You even think you’re expressing independent thoughts right now. You’re not. You’re repeating a script. I was there when they wrote it. I saw them test the best ways to program it into your brain. Your weak, spongy mind sucked it right up because you were desperate for something to hold onto. Doesn’t it bother you that everywhere you go, your existing biases are confirmed? You really don’t understand that’s by design. Who do you think the designer is? It’s you. Rich, powerful people created the environment that reinforces your thoughts and behavior. One day you’ll look back on these wasted days and cringe so hard your neck will swallow your head like a turtle.
- Comment on 2025 Right Wing free speech cancel spree 3 weeks ago:
Your mind is gone. The corporate culture war has it now. Take my advice, don’t ever leave Facebook. It’s safe there for you.
- Comment on 2025 Right Wing free speech cancel spree 3 weeks ago:
I’m not going to punch anyone because I’m not a violent psychopath. I’m also not going to post whatever stupid video you’re talking about anywhere because I don’t flag my politics on the internet. I think people who do it need to stop.
Now that I’ve answered your question, answer mine: why did you get on the internet in the first place? Was it to read about culture war politics and get angrier and angrier as the days and weeks and years go by? Because that’s what you’re doing. Did you buy a smartphone and click all the happy little buttons and now you want to spread your opinions about dumb ass politics everywhere? When do you people all get bored and leave? Why don’t you all just go away? When are you going to realize nobody cares?
- Comment on 2025 Right Wing free speech cancel spree 3 weeks ago:
Don’t get salty. A lot of folks don’t use that anymore, it’s a boomer platform for hate politics.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
It works on 4chan which has much higher traffic.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
That’s still disordered and just encourages people to bump their own threads.
Not if posting in your own thread doesn’t bump it.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
I think really most folks don’t realize how easy it is to design a platform that provokes real discussions and engages users but nobody would go there. Casual users are coming here for enjoyment, not engagement, and they don’t want to see anything that rubs them the wrong way. And we aren’t even talking about algorithmically driven feeds which learn from your behavior and give you content that you’re most likely to interact with, like Facebook, which can actually be dangerous.
These are just my observations. I was here before the internet talking on BBSs. I don’t know why all these people are here, to be honest. When I started out it was just nerds talking to each other. I wonder if people would participate in a discussion board that held all posts and responses for 24 hours before making them public to give people time to reflect on what they just said.
We don’t see each other as people anymore. This is complicated by advanced AI enabled LLMs driven by commercial and political interests, so you don’t even know at this point whether you’re talking to an actual person. But this is what we have now so this is what I use. Listservs were the first great platform I remember enjoying, and I wouldn’t mind going back to that. Usenet was also good.
I just think the days of the average person being able to go on the internet and just say whatever they want, relatively anonymously and with no real oversight and no consequences or accountability for what happens afterwards are coming to an end. At that point hopefully we’ll see less inflammatory politics and engagement bait as more and more people move on, and go back to whatever they were doing before they started doing this, maybe watching cable TV or going to sporting events.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
You can do this by displaying the threads in the order they were last bumped and pruning / deleting them by the last time they were bumped (age) or thread limit per board, in other words, based on participation. …you don’t need voting buttons.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
Right that’s what I’m saying, I don’t understand why voting buttons are there except for users to use them to moderate each other. I don’t feel like they’re necessary at all. I participated in online discussions for 25 years before reddit showed up. We didn’t need voting buttons at all and the presence of those buttons removes nuance and complexity from the conversation.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
I prefer platforms without voting buttons for this reason. People are treating the up and down arrows like “punish buttons” because of the result of pushing the button. Older forum and imageboard style platforms did not have voting. You couldn’t just push a button to register your disagreement, you had to actually make a comment if you didn’t like something, and other users could judge the quality of your response.
In addition, your identity was often only relevant to a single thread, which was on a single topic, so your opinions weren’t portable or traceable. There were no profiles, so other users weren’t able to use your comments on different threads to try to accuse you of intellectual inconsistency. This led to more complex discussions because people are complex.
Furthermore, on a platform like the one we’re on, if enough people click the “punish button” then the platform makes the comment less visible, requiring an extra step to be able to see it. The purpose of voting buttons is to shape discourse into what’s most agreeable, and homogenize it into what’s agreeable to the most people. Complaining about users “misusing” the voting buttons is something that happened a lot on reddit in the early years. People didn’t realize that they were working as designed.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
But why does a platform have logins, persistent identity, and voting if the users aren’t intended to use that to moderate the conversation and push comments that they feel don’t belong in the discussion to the bottom of the thread and ultimately hide them? Why not present threads in bump order with users identified with a single thread ID inside threads?
- Comment on tool to make an stl from 2D image? 3 weeks ago:
Displace modifier in blender