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So you claim that people are too hyperbolic, then jump straight to accusing the person you replied to of brain damage, and this after jumping straight to the assumption that the majority of said problems were due to Boomers finding Reddit, not e.g. Millennials or Gen-Z or Alpha or merely a less technical audience. If you were attempting a joke there, that was not clear - and yes I saw the "e.g." but you only listed one, so really, this seems to be the best example that you had to convey? Boomers, who are well known for their toxic gaming culture, I suppose.

As mentioned by others, I for one do not user block instances bc "tankies", but rather bc they are an enormous waste of time. Although the very meaning of that word could also be phrased as "denier of historically accurate facts". I for one don't care if someone is a Boomer or a Millennial or whatever physical age, if they don't know or care that 1+1=2 and keep insisting that it's =3 instead, I'm blocking them and moving on with my life. Hopefully they'll open themselves up to the Truth one day, but I'm not waiting anymore, that's entirely on them to go at whatever pace and direction they want, including straight backwards if they so choose - but I am not going to entertain the notion that "all directions/facts are equally valid", they simply aren't.

"Ignore morality and get shit done", aka The Ends Justify The Means

- God or something, probably?

Eric Trump says "what?!"

And this after his father would have made 8 times more money by simply leaving it in the bank than all of his variety of hotel and Sharper Image steak sales businesses - he's literally the only one I've ever heard of who managed to lose money running a casino!

"The system" is what makes wealth, not individual people these days. Obviously not solely, but the above example shows how it is the primary determination factor.

99% of the time when I would get the most batshit insane replies to a comment, they would be from three instances that mine had not defederated from. i.e., instances are not just like emails - not entirely - but instead there is a whole culture associated with each, made more complex to learn bc people lie about them, especially each of us about our own:-).

Also links to communities are totally broken in the web UI - e.g. unless you happen to have your account at midwest.social, clicking lotrmemes@midwest.social will take you away from your instance, where you can't vote or comment and your preferences are all ignored (!lotrmemes@midwest.social will work fine, but there are zero indicators for that in the GUI, you have to know the secret knowledge and trust the process, or flip back and forth between the Preview button and editing).

But the codebase for Lemmy is in Rust so... not a whole lot of contributors to fix such things. Plus most people seem to simply lurk anyway, based on the differences between upvotes vs. comments in most content.

we’re waiting on Reddit to piss their users off about something

Except that's already happened, multiple times - stuff has happened with mods, with bots, with server outages, with stock pricing, and more. I've seen a couple new people but server stats for Lemmy report roughly the same, and remember people will leave here too, as e.g. hopes do not materialize, and as political season in the west approaches a peak and people need a break, but apparently don't want to block, etc.

We may not even have enough people here for sustainability, much less growth. Plus I for one keep user blocking gigantic whole entire instances, which is a further limiter of content for anyone who does likewise.

So there are some major challenges facing the Fediverse, and I am no longer so hopeful for it as I was, seeing the evidence that we aren't really doing all that much to face those and attract additional users who may post high-quality content. On the other hand, seeing things like Mbin, Piefed, and Sublinks that will show content across multiple streams is highly encouraging, if we can see content from both Lemmy and Mastodon that way.

38% installed

That sounds like a superb band name.:-)

Bold of a Redditor to presume that consent should matter! (/s in case anyone gets confused 🤔 - see the joke here is the presumption that someone speaking as such is a Redditor, which as we all realize is just about the worst insult that someone can be called by:-P)

... since you said it in such a confident tone of voice, I am going to accept your explanation at face value!:-)

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One of those words I just made up btw... but only one. Though it happened to already exist, meaning "fruit or seed of leguminous plants" fwiw.