A strategy that has worked for me: very quickly browsing all new, just looking at community names. I barely look at the posts, just make a quick decision if it sounds interesting to me. I’ll check the sidebar and decide from there to subscribe or not. I’ve found dozens to follow and a bunch to block lol. It’s cleaning up my feed pretty nicely and my home page has a lot of content now.

sex = \ = gender

o fuck what if im ralph

oof bud, tellin on yourself there

That’s like comparing still saying “radical” with sniffing other peoples butts in public

Same, am a nerd but not tech nerd. Approaching but not over 30 lol

calling other people NPCs is so unbelievably cringe I can’t believe you aren’t still on Reddit or instagram

People defend it because they actually like the instagram culture and they don’t dislike the data collection. So they see our staunch opposition as a condemnation of the things they like and they get defensive. Some are bootlickers too, who just love defending corporate actions for some reason.

Everyone is free to be a dick. Still makes them a dick.

90% of the time I see a comment like this, the “differing opinion” was something along the lines of “trans people have a mental disorder and we shouldn’t encourage them to exist by allowing them to transition” or “it should be legal to discriminate against black people”. No one gets banned for their conservative fiscal opinions lol

Yes, real discrimination from religious freaks who thinks LGBTQ folk shouldn’t exist is equally as bad as petty revenge to point out the reality of the bigotry they want

I think this is beyond passive lol. And this is the future the Supreme Court clearly wants 🤷‍♀️

People are coming from Reddit where they posted to every relevant subreddit, and they’re doing the same here. It is unnecessary because of how the fediverse works, they’re just trying to maximize engagement.

That was my initial instinct, to be judgemental. Then I asked myself, how does this impact me? It doesn’t. But if I was rude to them, as you are being, that would impact them. It would not make them give up their identity, it would just add negativity to their day. So let them be who they want to be, it doesn’t impact us in any way to let them exist as they choose.

Alright, cool dudes. As a sufferer of DID, I’m glad you don’t deal with the disorder part.

How did you hack your brain to do this, and why did you intentionally give yourself DID?

The reason it is likely a lot of bot accounts is someone explained how to exploit a glitch that creates thousands of bot accounts within minutes. The day after they posted the exploit, suddenly Lemmy started growing rapidly. It’s just too coincidental to not be mostly bots

If you’d like a general timeline of the world from the beginning of time as we know it to now, I recommend this video.

What field are you in that they’ve never asked for references? I’ve had to provide references for a range of jobs, from warehouse assembly line work to medical research