• ZeroCool@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Not reading articles and just commenting on the headline. It’s extremely disappointing that habit carried over from reddit.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      4 months ago

      As someone who tries to read the articles a lot of them actually suck. They barely contain more info than the headline and hit you with an annoying pop-up or paywall.

      I would not ever recommend reading any gaming related news article.

      • wanderingmagus@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Highly recommend Firefox with uBlock origin, and there’s an addon called bypass paywalls clean which does exactly what it says.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      I think it’s worse here b/c 90% of the articles I come across are paywalled, so I come to the comments to see if anyone posted the full text & I just see a bunch of comments about the headline.

      • Deebster@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I don’t find that, but when I do you can often find the page on https://archive.today/ or https://web.archive.org/. You should be able to set it so that you can pass them a url from the address bar using your browser (e.g. Firefox’s quicksearches smart keywords) or search engine (Bangs on DDG, Kagi, searx), if it’s not already linked from the post text.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    4 months ago

    > thread about whatever

    > half the comments are discussing how things have failed to federate properly

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        4 months ago

        Me either, but… is it because the comments about not federating properly aren’t federating properly?

        The world may never know.

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I haven’t really seen that since August. But things were pretty bad June and July after the API debacle

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        4 months ago

        A ran into it earlier this week. Though it seems to have been caused by someone from Mastodon trying to interact with Lemmy. Some of their replies came through, others didn’t. And images attached to posts work, but not ones attached to comments.

  • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    • Thing happens

    • there’s a specific, on the ground solution

    • fuck the government! School is indoctrination! Everything is death!

    Or

    • large scale problem happens, but individuals are involved. (Driving cars, consuming products, etc)

    • “not my fault at all it’s all the corps and govs. I can’t do anything, I’m not responsible for my consumption, and will not change in any way. But fuck this or that!”

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Lol following me? You’re a treat.

        Learn to be responsible for yourself. Start with your behavior and work outwards.

        • Mastengwe@lemm.ee
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          4 months ago

          It’s like they went way out of their way to serve as a perfect example of what you just said. Hilarious!

        • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          Since your clever little use of the report button means we can’t talk there, I figured we’d bring the conversation here.

          I don’t get class traitors like you, and I’m hoping by yelling at you enough I can figure out at least some of how you tick.

          • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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            4 months ago

            So just admitting to platform abuse? Very cool.

            You don’t know how to hold 2 concepts at once so there’s little point explaining it again.

            Corps / corrupt gov are the source of continued climate change .

            Consumers who use petroleum products are responsible for their personal consumption. Same as meat eaters, same as car drivers.

            I use gas, plastic, eat meat and drive a car a few times a week. I acknowledge I have a climate impact, and try to take steps to reduce it, but I’m not perfect. I won’t externalize my impact on this planet to anyone else, and hide behind in vogue language regarding “the owner class” as a means of distancing myself from my consumption. I won’t hide my opinion on that either.

            That’s what makes me tick. That’s as clear as I can make my position.

            If you think I’m a shill or something, ok, good for you. You won. Finish line. Continuing on is harassment and I’m not worried about your opinion of me using the built in report features.

            • UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works
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              4 months ago

              Idk why this got heated this fast, but I’d like to add a normal argument point:

              Compared to how much pollution any large scale company makes to even a housing complex, the housing is marginal. You don’t even need to think in battery factories, just regular ol’ warehouses. The amount of plastic they throw out, just to sit somewhere else, is orders of magnitude greater than me packaging my groceries in two bags.

              While I could use one plastic bag less a day, sure, but if a warehouse throws out like 2 pallet’s worth of it a day, it’s nothing comparatively!

              The argument is valid, that I am also in the statistics. However, why should I reduce the quality of my life if anyone who matters in the statistics just simply doesn’t care?

              • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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                4 months ago

                It’s from another thread, dude followed me. He got banned there.

                But absolutely agree. The context of my original discussion was surrounding corporations saying consumers are to blame for climate change, which is obviously wrong. Corporations blocking tech advancement to green alternatives, and corruption of governments for profit is the root issue.

                I was teasing out a specific point of they made all that shit for us. The stuff on the pallets wrapped in that plastic is for us. My only point was that we all consume, we are the end of the line. We need to recognize that although the magnitude is very different, we are a variable in the equation.

                It’s important to check ignorance via internalization of negative externalities.

                You might find my opinion on personal responsibility wrong, and that’s fine. I’m just out here trying to consume less, and acknowledge my impact. (And shared my opinion on an open forum).

                • UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works
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                  4 months ago

                  You are right that the companies do what they do because we buy their stuff. But they do it in a way that is not enviroment friendly.

                  What I mean is, whatever happens there will be shops, and there will be a way shipment gets to them, and there will be a place where the cargo gets stored, and there will be a place where the products come from, and a there will be a source where the materials come from and go into the factory.

                  We only impact the last part, all the way from the tree in a forest to a shelf in a store we have no impact. It was packaged & unpackaged an unhealty number of times, it produced waste that we don’t even know about. Now, imo the problem is that these big corps don’t even consider wasting a dollar to recycle anything. if it’s cheaper (by any margin) to buy it again, it will be bought again, and the used, well, thrown out (into the ocean, or burnt idk). By the time it comes to me deciding between a paper/plastic/bio-plastic(?) bag it doesn’t matter. And the argument that we are the problem because we are still buying it is invalid, because you just simply have to buy food (for example).

                  I get it tho, if a billion humans all use up 1 plastic bags a day, that’s still 1b plastic bags/day. However, think about the plastic (and everything else) that was used to get that product to the shelfs, even the bags themselves.

            • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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              4 months ago

              Ok now I am convinced by the timings of your posts and mod responses, including private ones that you should not be aware of, that you are a sockpuppet for an activist mod.

              You actively seek out conflict with dumbshit hot takes and then use your mod powers/connections to punish those that rise to your bait.

              Exactly the same fucking tactic that ruined reddit.

              • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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                4 months ago

                Huh? You can easily review the mod log. You aren’t the main character bud.

                If you’re so convinced I’m bad business report me or block me just leave me alone.

                • mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world
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                  4 months ago

                  The admins have told me I’m not allowed to report people any more so I’m just going to curse at you till you go away. Funny how that only ever happened once I started pointing out your bootlicking bullshit.

                  Fuck every direction of off and then fund a world class think tank of highly educated sexual therapists to discover new and interesting ways to fuck off.

                  Then do them.

                  All at once.

                  Sincerely,

                  One of the dozen or so guys that plowed your mom last night.

  • thezeesystem@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Seeing 10 different languages on 20 posts. For some reason I get a big mix of lots of different languages in my feed. Had to start blocking them because it was getting to much.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    The repost bots syncing vapid content from Reddit.

    “Lemmy isn’t Reddit” but here are hundreds of communities that have no engagement outside of a bot mirroring Reddit content.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Block lemmit.online dude. Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months. Or block @bot@lemmit.online, because Lemmy has supported blocking users for even longer.

    • juliebean@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      “communities”

      kind of a stretch to call those communities, when it’s just a bot talking to itself.

    • folkrav@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      I’ve honestly yet to see or feel those. I however exclusively browse my subscriptions feed, so I guess I filtered most of them out by my community choices?

      • Deebster@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Some people are insane/brave enough to regularly view all/new. The bottom of the barrel must be broad and terrible.

    • robocall@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I never knew the joys of spaghetti hentai until I saw a reposting bot on Lemmy. RIP spaghetti hentai bot. I’m not sure why it died.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It feels more like a community.

    Like it’s not quite what message boards used to be, or every user seem to have their own unique identity that everyone seems to be aware of… But it’s more so that then something like Reddit.

    I’ve seen users call out other users saying things like You must be the guy that posted that thread the other day… Or something like that

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      4 months ago

      I like that a lot of servers do regular “check in” threads where users just talk about what they’ve been up to.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        4 months ago

        We used to have this on some of my communities on Reddit. Sadly, even though total activity numbers seem to be back to normal in those subreddits, the casual chat thread is a shadow of its former self.