Just one thing to add, people freaking out is extremely uncommon. I haven’t even heard about a case IRL, even for trans people it isn’t something that tends to happen.
Don’t be afraid to just guess when you are unsure, you can always ask though and at least for younger generations it isn’t seen as weird or unpolite to do so
I think I said that lol
I do remember it being more common back when I was in high school, and also there was a movie which mentioned that which could have helped with that
I also havent heard it being said seriously for years though
For me its the one that promoted me to write this, the futurama quote “you’re are technically correct, the best kind of correct”
I hate how people use it over at forums, it is repeated ad nauseam, even if it doesn’t make much sense. It’s probably from people using it constantly that I hate the quote, and not something that has to do with the meaning.
I must say, in retrospect it kind of seems obvious, but this has somehow blown my mind
It really isn’t, at least in the way the term is used. For example, would you describe the feeling you get after snorting cocaine as a “health benefit” just because you feel better momentarily???
Most probably, but there is always the possibility of people either being underage, stupid or unaware due to upbringing (imagine being told your whole life something is in a particular way, it isnt unreasonable not to doubt that) and I prefer to engage honestly with people even if I look like an idiot, just in case.
Of course when clear bad faith is shown I will just not engage, or call it out, but in
If this is why people want their instances to do it that’s mainly because lemmy hasn’t give appropriate tools at the user level to block entire instances unlike Kbin or Mastodon. (For now you can kind of block seeing them with apps like connect for lemmy, but someone from that instance would still be able to see and repply to your comments, or send you DMs)
As to why a user would want to block an instance and not just particular communities, there are many use cases, for example I didn’t want to bñur NSFW images but I didn’t want to see my frontpage filled with porn, so instead of blocking 10000 communities I just blocked 2 nsfw instances. There is also the culture fostered inside some communities that can lead them to become filled with alt right people or openly facistic rcho chamber which often harrass people, especially minorities.
I agree completely this request is dumb, but this doesn’t look like the community to have this discussion.
“so I can still get the health benefits from it”
Seriously, you aren’t getting healt benefits. You might feel better but that is the nicotine, it’s a psychological effect not something that is improving your physical health in any discernable way.
Just understand, people don’t smoke because it’s good for their bodies, people smoke because it feels good, it’s an important distinction.
I wonder if this is the community for this kind of petition, especially since the petition is instance specific and not about this community in particular.
You are a mod right? (Can’t check because I’m on phone right now but I kind of remember seeing you before)
If so, I’m sorry, I’m really not blaming you or telling you guys to do a better work, at least not directly, I used to browse askreddit by new sometimes and support questions didn’t appear that frequently so in principle I brlive this is a problem of “culture” and people being lazy not reading the rules…
This is not a support community, seriously why is there so much confusion arpund that does no one read the rules???
Even if they didn’t, AskReddit is one of the biggest subs how come people don’t know how this is supposed to work?
Its bizarre how even the title is the same, like, OP is clearly not a bot based on his comment history but this is an exact post of a few weeks ago…
For me I have been having fun testing novel ai and trying tk play pseudo rpg adventures alone, I will probably never share anything but it has been really fun to try AI as a single player experience.
Yep, although it’s almost been a year since the request so I don’t know how high it’s priority wise.
Since the question was why people use Kbin that is a big one for now, at least for me although I have an account there I just prefer lemmy since Kbin seems to be too much on its infancy and also the fact that because it doesn’t have an open API as of now, there are (almost) no apps developed.
Also the ability for users to block instances and domain like mastodon has, which is pretty cool.
I would say Kenshi with assests that show it was done by one person and a rough UI, also maybe pathologic 2, although for that game I wouldn’t say it’s the graphics that put people off it’s mostly the gameplay, but the geaphics are weird and really grey/depressive
I think the graphics of stardew valley are pretty beautiful, it’s really well done pixel art.
The instance is lemmy.world, the community is c/fediverse, while you can post whatever regardless of your instance, you can’t post whatever you like into a community, you need to follow the rules and themes.
Communities are after all the equivalent of subreddits while instances are just serverd where accounts reside and communities are hosted.
A.K.A “the Jordan Peterson experience”