Perhaps it was off-topic, to dare to ask why people would use the Fediverse rather than Reddit... on a community dedicated to the Fediverse, on Reddit? :-P

Obligatory warning that taking that thought to its extreme will result in an echo chamber, which is exactly how certain other instances have become what they are now. But... yeah, it is one of the tactics of people who espouse certain beliefs to "flood the zone" leaving the other side so exhausted from pushing back against all the little lies that bit by bit, cm by cm (or inch by inch for Americans:-P), the conversation shifts to favor the side that is willing to engage in such horrid tactics to "win" arguments (by mostly avoiding arguments at all and instead just bullying those who want to truly dialogue on matters of substance into giving up all attempts to try to have them).

- this reference is to the Alt-Right Playbook series from Innuendo Studios, a fascinating and extremely well-done, quite in-depth look (yet presented very accessibly, in bite-sized chunks that you can consume while e.g. eating) at many of the tactics used by the Alt-Facts crowd (including GamerGate, Alt-Right conservatives, and tankies). A good way to start is this one: The South Bank of the Rubicon

Meant in fun btw:-P but also seriously too: like how much shit will you tolerate in your drink or food before you choose to not consume it at all, and why bother entering not only a Nazi bar but the very corner where those who prefer Alternative to True Facts hang out?

The motto of Lemmy: block early, block often, if you value your sanity. I joined PieFed long before it was fully developed because I love how it provides the tools that we as users crave, many of which Lemmy not merely has not gotten around to yet nor even just refuses to implement but actively goes backwards on. e.g. a Lemmy "instance block" does not really block an instance, although early on it did more than it does now, by silencing notifications sent to you by members from it, before changing to now allow those notifications. I almost left the Threadiverse after unknowingly making what I thought was an innocuous comment in Chapotraphouse@hexbear.net (about USA President Biden and gas prices, how should I have known better when I had not seen the sidebar, plus often the sidebar says nothing about what truly goes on in a community?), and then again in lemmygrad.ml, but instead I merely left just Lemmy and get to keep all the wonderful communities that are now being migrated elsewhere away from certain instances that don't agree with actual facts and more importantly, violate the rules by attempting to bully people onto submission rather than engage in rational dialogue. I'm done with that now, yet PieFed saved me from having to leave the Threadiverse entirely to get away from such.:-)

Maybe you can go ahead and give the fucks...

away to someone as gifts? :-P

distract?

I did not think there was a way to amplify this message further, but darned if you did not find a way!:-P

YES!

There needs to be another box in there that is not connected to any of the other boxes. Just because. Like it was going to be part of the story but lol no.

Can any of those squares truly "contain" a cat? They refuse to be bound by such arbitrary restrictions!

Jes