Cool. Cool cool cool.

It’s an influence game like anything else online now that the Internet is commoditized. Corporations and political influence campaigns can and do pay for control of high-traffic accounts and communities to nudge discussions to benefit whatever they’re selling.

I’ve never encountered that myself. What communities are you commenting in that you’re getting banned elsewhere for it?

On a dog.

Honestly it’s a problem with binary ranking systems across the board. Maybe if there were additional axes you could vote on, like “agree/disagree”, “quality/low effort”, “nuanced/trite”, etc. I don’t know how one would go about implementing such a thing, but until someone does, we’re stuck with having a simplistic system that doesn’t adequately reflect the complicated responses real people have to content.

Yup.

I spent over a decade on reddit, and I learned that whenever someone did stuff like that, it was because I had struck a chord. And they usually got bored of their harassment pretty quickly when I ignored them.

Give him some slack, he’s young. At least I assume so.

A) There is no hive mind. That’s just you perceiving a bunch of people who happen to hold a similar opinion as a monolith, and that’s an illusion. You have no data whatsoever to support the idea that they’re thinking in concert or even have the same reasons for their reactions.

2. Don’t take it so personally. They don’t know you, and they’re not attacking you by downvoting you. They’re simply expressing “I want to see less of this.”

d) Instead of having a kneejerk reaction when you get this kind of response and immediately being defensive, step back and use it as a reflective moment. Maybe you misjudged the room, misinterpreted the potential impact of what you posted, or are simply on a different track from those who downvoted. What can you learn from it? Do you need to change your own approach, or do you need to reevaluate your audience?

Read a sidebar before posting in a community please. This is not for your support questions.

Can’t replicate living beings.

I had never though about it before, but the objection seems to be that the name focuses on the genetic essentialist mode of defining gender, which is at best outdated and at worst deliberately exclusionary to women who don’t actually have two X chromosomes. (ie, trans women, who were born with male sexual characteristics)

But I don’t think the name necessarily excludes, only provides a discussion focus. As in, it could be seen as an admonishment to not be restricted by outmoded definitions. So long as the community itself doesn’t hold a TERF mindset, I don’t see it as a problem. The justification of the name definitely needs to be changed to better reflect modernity, though.

It’s rare that I manage to catch them when they’re ripe and the birds haven’t devoured them all. But the wet spring we’ve had so far has just made my hedge go nuts, and all the volunteers along the fence are covered in them too.

In terms of resourcefulness, I wish I could claim that. But this literally just involves throwing a bunch of cherries in a big jar with a buttload of sugar and letting it sit in the sun for a month or two, throwing in some cloves and cinnamon halfway through. It’s about as low effort as it gets.

Fred.

My Nanking cherry bushes are exploding with berries right now, so I’m going to go fill a big fat jar and get a cherry liquour going. Come September I’ll have a lovely concoction that will sit forgotten in my fridge all winter.

I loved Resurrections. I enjoyed that it was a big meta middle finger to the studio that demanded it got made.

I’m convinced that some USB plugs rotate through a fourth spatial dimension.

My dog is better at following basic commands, and she’s old, deaf, and dumb as a box of hammers.

I unplugged my Alexa speaker last week because I needed the outlet for something else and haven’t plugged it back in. Never use the thing. I have a Google home mini that I really only keep around because I enjoy being able to turn my window AC on by saying “reroute power to life support”.

I feel like if you’re subbed to a meme community you ought to know what you’re in for. Memes are typically low effort both to make and to consume, which means there will be more of them created and upvoted in the same period of time as other posts. They will ALWAYS overwhelm other content. This is why many sufficiently large communities either split and create meme-only spaces contain them or limit them to specific days of the week.

On reddit I had a separate account for meme subs, because otherwise it was all I saw in my feed.