I’m not saying it’s social media, but it’s social media. You’re connected to negativity 24/7. The algorithm feeds on negativity because that is what makes us stay on there.

I’ve got something to change your thinking. At least it helped me 17 years ago.

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I don’t want to dismiss the facts. There are terrible things going on but overall we’re living our best lives at the same time.

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And hey! I’m 43 too. You have a whole life ahead of you. You still can go in any direction you want to go in.

I like your drawing style. Awesome

You’re a poet, my friend.

• Vsauce
• Veritasum
• Adam Savage
• Stuff made here
• Mark Rober
• Rex Krueger
• Wisecrack

And then you see Adam Savage geeking out, nearly in tears about gauge blocks in his workshop.

Veritasum is amazing. Recently I rediscovered them with the video about the SAT question everybody got wrong. My mind was blow.

I’m not doing it. No. Bad!

Belgian

In junior high we got low alcohol beer at lunch.

Is Teams a messaging app? 😮‍💨 Then please give me a way to sort and group my chats.

Family trips were awkward. I would make detours and hide the reason but just pointed out there was something awesome they should see.

I also took part in global ops where I met irl with other players to move keys.

When I think about it the real life component of that game is amazing.

Ingress. I was obsessed with it. Couldn’t stop playing.

By default in our country. You have to unregister if you don’t want it.

I’m still a bit confused about the instances and the political alignment of people on certain instances. I’m on Lemmy.ml but apparently people can be quite toxic on that instance.

Having to subscribe to the same subject on different instances feels a bit weird. I always wonder what I’m missing out on.

It also seems like we’re missing some critical mass but I’m over Reddit, that’s the bottom line.

I’m on the waiting list. I hope they get e2ee sorted out.

I get it. That’s why I use Plus messenger. It’s a better, more customisable UI. Private chats, groups and channels are on a different page, if you want it.

Unfortunately I use Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Element (Matrix) and SimpleX all combined because my contacts are spread out. Looking forward to secure interoperability.

• You can schedule messages
• Have supergroups, subgroups, broadcasts, admin roles in groups,…
• Channels can be configured in various ways. For example, you can post messages and choose the type of previews links render.
• You can add voting options to posts
• Members of the channel can only reply in threads so the replies are bundled.
• You can decide wheter new group members can view chat history or not.
• Members can be muted.
• Bots can be built withing the app
• Chats can be arranged in folders *…

I could go on.

It’s the best app when it comes to functionality. It has it all.

Thank God for GDPR. That would be impossible in the EU. ID’s can only used in very specific cases that are detailed in the law.

It’s true, but that makes it even more unsettling. Every petty crime gets blown up by media, every time something happens people start screaming that we need camera’s and more cops on the streets. I used to work in the bar scene in our city twenty years ago. There were bar fights on a regular base. Now one bar fight in a year makes the national news.