Regardless of the origin, it’s still a bit too close to corporate worship for me.

And as shitty as it is to selectively filter posts like that, I don’t think it’s a problem worth creating a bot for track. OP calling it out to make others aware was the right thing to do - let the users there decide if they care.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to create my own instance: McChicken.zone

Hexbear has been defederated for a long time and I don’t interact with any .ml users enough

Of the instances federated with Lemmy.world, the only ones I’ve formed a negative opinions about are awful.systems and hilariouschaos

The fact that the instance is named after an IKEA product was enough reason for me not to make an account there…

I get it, the shark plush is cute. Just a bit too…consumer? For me

To add your last paragraph - today’s robot may be worse but next year’s robot might not be. And with how far Boston Dynamics (and others) have come in such a short time, it’s not hard to imagine that future getting here soon.

Corporations have shown time and time again they fire people by the thousands as soon as it’s financially viable and since this tech will be implemented quickly across the industry, those ex-employees won’t be able to find work. Governments need to start taking UBI seriously if they don’t want to massive civil unrest.

As much as I cringe at the “come and take it” crowd, a lot of them work these at-risk jobs. They will take their anger at their ex-employee and aim it at the government.

I’d really like an update that makes the voice comments “give me directions to John’s House” give me directions to the address I have saved as “John’s House” and not “John’s Roadside Restaurant” two hours away

To piss off everyone people who misinterpreted the first one. I’m like 99% sure that was the reason.

Every Classic fan I know is playing Season of Discovery instead

Saudi Arabia and human rights abuse?? Say it ain’t so!

Some raisin

As much as I hate what reddit has become, it was a LOT less of a problem over there. And despite its reputation for having power tripping mods, the communities with strictest rules were almost always the best ones

A well-moderated community is a good community online. Self policing doesn’t work when it’s thousands of strangers

Nah, I have a different gripe:

When the reddit exodus happened, Lemmy was flooded with copycat communities for every popular subreddit. That’s fine with me. But what’s not fine is that very few of these communities use the same posting rules (if any at all) so they’re homogenized. Like what is the difference between nostupidquestions and asklemmy?

I have another one that’s not specific to Lemmy but absolutely applies: meme “communities” where it’s all reposted content. I used community in quotes because these communities/subreddits/Instagram accounts are just…meme archives. You’ll find the same shit in every single meme archive on the internet. It feels like it’s less about sharing and more about having the biggest bucket.

It’s not a gotcha because I’m not trying to get you. I am making fun of your superiority complex and ridiculous claims that people who don’t to move to a new country when their government is doing bad stuff are supporting genocide.

Just because YOU allegedly found it so easy to drop everything in your life doesn’t mean everyone has that ability. We are a social species and a lot of us aren’t emotionally capable of that kind of separation, not to mention everyone caring for or being cared for by others.

1/3 of the country is struggling to survive paycheck to paycheck and your self-righteous ass is out here calling them heartless. You don’t deserve the pedestal you’ve placed yourself on

It’s not mentioned in this link but I read earlier that only a few ballots were destroyed (thanks to the fire suppression)

Take that with a grain of salt as I’m just a stranger on the internet who isn’t providing a source for their claim

You’re literally on Lemmy right now when you could be helping people. Aren’t you full of guilt that you aren’t spending every second of your day helping others?

Or is there some imaginary line that you’ve crossed but no one else has?

You’re like the only other person I’ve seen on Lemmy who is sad about the death of Twitter. I was pretty active 2010-2015 and met a lot of local friends through it. My timeline was perfectly curated… No sports, politics, or memes. Just an endless stream of people trying to fit a n original joke into 140 characters.

Anyway, that doesn’t add much to the conversation. I just wanted to say I empathize with your feelings. It was a great site until it wasn’t.

I guess you can’t smell the horseshit when you’ve been riding it for so long but it really stinks

What are you doing accomplishing making angry comments on Lemmy? You should be volunteering for Amnesty International full time or you are complicit in genocide

The difference between me and my ancestors who came to this country is that my ancestors came together as a families and other settlers, you sanctimonious douchebag.

My support network is my friends and family and yes, proximity matters a great deal to providing said support. You think people get the same thing from talking to strangers than the people they’ve known for 30+ years? Get real. Maybe your arrogance is keeping you from forming meaningful bonds with people.

You’re up on your high horse telling someone to start their life over because their taxes add a drop into the ocean of military funding. To think that moving countries will have any meaningful impact on the deaths of innocent people is truly assinine.

Go stroke your ego elsewhere

Don’t remember playing the victim, my dude. It’s not within my power to change it