Heatwaves/heatdomes are very harmful biologically.

Always have been.

I’ve been saying for years that query syntax in big name searches doesn’t work or only works sometimes. It’s awful and super useless.

Yeah that’s completely fucked. Glad I’ve not seen it but definitely reporting any I find. Pedos and their enablers need to fuck off and die in a hole.

How they have been marketed makes the biggest difference.

That’s terrible…and so horribly nostalgic of 80s-90s morning cartoons. I can’t decided how I feel about it. Lol

100% I have enough actually traumatic things happening around me tyvm.

Well, it’s not much but I hope it’s helping. 🙂 Have a good night/day!

I haven’t come across much, but I mostly visit stuff where discussions don’t bring in anything mysoginistic. I may not notice everything as immediately since I’m not the one directly affected, but I do try to speak up when I notice because it affects some of my favorite people. I’m glad though, that you and others are speaking up and pushing so more of us take the effort to heart and pay proper attention.

Yeah satire still has taste to it. If you are familiar with super troopers, shitposting is like the officers fucking with people, but what these creeps are doing is like Farva calling people “ChickenFucker” with no humor or nuance etc or anything.

If you aren’t familiar with Super troopers, you need to go watch it meow.

Oh I wouldn’t doubt it. I’ve come across several people that are morbidly fascinating. The screws aren’t just loose, they are missing and bailng wire is being applied.

I dug through the replies I’ve gotten. They’ve either deleted their account/comment or I can’t find it. It was weird though. Iirc it was called something like voluntary no contact but I’m sure I’m getting the name wrong. It was really entitled sounding. Basically boiled down to, “I’m not going to block you but I want you to make effort to remember my user name and not talk to me (or my son) ever again.”

That’s my guess as well.

It’s been a minute since I ran into them I’ll have to see if I can dog through my comment history and find them. They aren’t common in most areas I’m in.

Sorry you girls/women have to fight so hard just to have a space. Probably makes it hard to want to try some days and it shouldn’t be that way.

Maaaaybe? If the following gif works, we will know something

Edit: Damn, links the IMG but doesn’t play the gif for me.

users to muse about how 14 year olds have a “consenting nature” (looking at you [email protected])

What the actual fuck? Are you finding people like that? Oh wtf man. I haven’t seen that in there yet. I’ve seen some category 5 dumbasses but nothing heinous like that. That’s fuckin gross

It’s not really any different other than people like dogs as pets so they think pets can’t be food.

I think it’s less filtered and can definitely be more abrasive. Partly because like another user said, many ended up here because they are jaded from years of enshittifying platforms. So you have a lot more cynicism, and a lot less filtering.

There is good and bad to that. If you take anything too seriously you can definitely get your feelings hurt by it. And if you want genuine thoughtful and amicable discussion, that’s much easier to find here than some other places.

Some sub communities and some instances have more provocateurs or agenda shills or (the ones that confuse me the most) people who expect you to not interact with them and their comments because you don’t align with their world view (They won’t block you, they just send some weird cryptic passive aggressive nonsense about not talking to them. I don’t really get why they think that’s a good solution.)

There are a lot of VERY informed and intelligent people on here though. I’ve had some great explanations from people on things I didn’t understand and wanted to ask questions to. Along with those great discussions I’d sometimes get some insulting mouth breather chiming in. Ask .ml users an honest question regarding their thoughts or opinions on something and it’s 50/50 on whether they hold a discussion or turn into a dipshit shrieker. I’ve had both lol.

Which communities and instances you are around will have major impacts on your experiences with Lemmy though. You’ll see many users around multiple places and will get a feel for how they are and who they are. Community hop through the lemmyverse and I’m sure you’ll start finding things that work better for you.

Sorry that was waaaay more than I intended on saying when I hit reply. It’s a good place, just has some weird lumps and rough edges.

I’ve been wanting to buy the detergent powder he helped with. But it’s pretty pricey compared to what I can get locally.