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I very much dislike troons mostly bc
- (((certain people))) keep trying to normalize them
- they expect us to buy in to their delusions
- they bitch if we don’t memorize and use their soynouns
- loud and annoying
- they infiltrate and co-opt communities
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yeah that part wasn’t so great. i guess the thing I liked about her was pointing out the limitations of what the position of president can actually do. I feel like a lot of the debate is basically what amounts to “I’m for this” but realistically if you had house or senate packed with dems, then a republican pres would still be pretty limited. was just refreshing to see someone actualy acknowledge that i guess.
But like I said, wasn’t my 1st or 2nd pick or anything.
yeah, totally get this. replace ‘phone’ with ‘computer’ and ‘sad’ with ‘bored’ and you could be talking about me too.
some advice i got secondhand from a fren’s therapist was to try to do at least one thing different from your normal routine everyday just to break established patterns. drive a different route, exercise, clean something you don’t have to, try something new for dinner, reach out to a buddy or relative you haven’t talked to in a bit, whatever. friend had been going thru depression when he got the advice but i tihnk its good regardless. i just need to kick myself in the ass and actually follow it lol
i listened to one of the jordan peterson audiobooks last year and it had some similar stuff in there. i think one of the examples was if you had let your paperwork pile up and were overwhelmed by the task, then start off with 1 or 2, just do some small piece and force yourself to come back to it and keep doing small pieces. probably can be adapted to a lot of stuff but my brain is shutting down for the day and can’t really think
another friend swears by getting a dog. i’ve thought about doing that too. if you actually take them out to dog parks, exercise, etc could even add to social aspect. i like big dogs but am horribly lazy. especially since i’d probably want a retired police dog or something similar
if you use it from the browser, it’s pretty easy as long as you save a copy of your private key somewhere (websites will offer to create it for you). if you lose it, then its equivalent to forgetting your password, except there’s no password reset - basically you’d just have to create a new account.
this is the one that is a little closer to lemmy/reddit: https://satellite.earth/n/explodingheads/npub1wg6u23gjc2y33fxukr284fy8p8lw7hztu30gtat89nwy4x3j4pcsh0xxwc
this is the one thats a little closer to a discord/irc chatroom: https://www.nostrchat.io/channel/08642dad6729819cc79650d18b93c5c913362f17f0160b57bc3603345d6658e3
haven’t used it from apps, so can’t comment there.
Do you know if these are supposed to be free speech? Most of them seem like they haven’t really posted well defined rules, except for dbzer0 -marxists.
Straylight and basedcount seem promising but really depends on if admins are cool with us or not and to what degree. personally i don’t really want to invest too much in a place where we aren’t welcome, especially on lemmy where we can be censored.
As a tech, I like lemmy featureset way way more than nostr so far but seems like we do really keep hitting a wall with censorship there.
Would non -lemmy, free-speech Reddit clones be an option in the meantime? I would be down for signing up on lotus or saidit or whatever as long as i can post stupid shit wo getting banned and people going to be there to bs with. Might try creating some alts today or tomorrow
They afraid you gonna troll the Bitcoin people over there lol
Do they still prevent users from creating their own subs? I think I had tried that one awhile back but gave up cuz it was only compass memes and 1 or 3 other subs. Unless I’m thinking of a different one?
Edit: just rechecked and it only has 3 subs so I think is same one. Would be more interested if it had at least freeforum and dankmemes subs but if only compass memes, books, and announcement seems a bit sparse
If they have to kick me out, that’s fine, I’ll take my ID an go elsewhere. Same as if I enter a bar, start some fights, and I get banned.I just go to another bar and, if I have a following, they can go to. Not only can they go, they aren’t banned from visiting the old bar again.
don’t disagree with the mentality but part of the problem I see with this is that a lot of lemmy instances start to make it harder to get in (email, approval process, etc). beecuck is probably the worst offender in this department but there are plenty of others that aren’t just trying to prevent spambots but also want to limit who can get into the community.
point being that as the onboard process becomes more and more of a pain in the ass, it is harder to justify time spent getting in vs the small moment of joy trolling trannyfags etc before getting banned and having to repeat. similar thing on reddit - easy to make a new throwaway but the karma bs basically restricts you from posting most places and it takes too much effort so level of effort required before you can troll isn’t worth it.
to use the bar analogy, if you had to pay an entry fee and wait in line a half hour to get in for every bar, it would get annoying to get throw out after a few times.
I actually think the tipping mechanism in nostr helps. It’s so easy to send someone penny’s people will start paying others to say nice things and that will attract more participation.
I know there are people like that, but that just feels weird to me. I get it for content creation (art, music, code, video, etc) or other things where people have to put in time and effort or provide a community service but have costs to offset. But literally paying someone based on what they say just feels alien to me. Maybe cuz I can’t think of it in terms of IRL interaction without imagining someone paying people to be friends with them.
I agree that the deplatforming concepts in nostr seem to have the right idea or at least are actually trying to solve that unlike fediverse.
Accessibility and UI/UX hopefully they will catch up on soon but I worry about the network effort though. Even for fediverse, compared to Twitter/Reddit/Facebook Fediverse traffic is a drop in the ocean. Nostr seems to be a drop compared to Fediverse traffic currently. Not saying to drop them cuz they don’t have numbers or anything. Just that I worry about things like low-adoption leading to eventual stagnation of development and more isolation in terms of thoughts/ideas (cz less people).
Ah ok, so just meant not everything disappear when server goes offline. Yeah, there are a few things I probably still want but I also use the SingleFile browser addon (ff: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ but they make for chrome also) to save important stuff like guides or instructions
i just find it frustrating at times when people defend tyranny
Definitely. I guess I just figure there’s always gonna be some tards out there on any site and tend to put their stuff out of mind.
There’s no effective way to ban them etc and it’s too damn depressing otherwise to see how many tards there are out there supporting that shit. Guess I’m just used to ignoring cuz of Reddit and so many woke sites that speaking up online = ban or at best, a bunch of morons calling names. I guess people with less paranoid setups than me also need to worry about doxxing too.
Really gonna miss EH
Not doubting you
But is weird af, cuz I know they have a metric fuckton of anti-trans memes over there… Some pretty good ones too.
ifunny OTOH it has some rightist memes like making fun of Biden and Democrats etc but they have nothing under the trans tag, so I kinda figured that one was a bit more woke or at least “don’t make fun of trans”
Disappointed mostly. I get that site is probably a lot of thankless work and I see how much news posts and whatnot Kapow puts effort into finding and posting even besides all the server admin and update stuff. So I get it and can’t say I wouldn’t make the same call in his place.
At the same time, I think Idgaf about any other lemmy instances really since I really have been spoiled here and going back to leftist censorship sites doesn’t remotely interest me.
Am on nostr and will give it a chance but already there are some major issues that frustrate me with it. I don’t see those getting fixed anytime soon and suspect I will probably eventually either start drifting around again or maybe spend more time offline on self improvement (diet/exercise, learning career stuff, learning survival skills, etc)
See Exploding Heads is moving to Nostr
Summary:
So Exploding Heads is moving to Nostr.
Exploding-Heads.com will go offline August 31st 2023.
Please join us on Nostr.
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If you have any questions about getting up and running on Nostr, please ask them here https://exploding-heads.com/c/nostrblog
I get wanting to move and that it has probably been a chore for site owner/maintainers… but feels a bit too early to me.
I won’t poo-poo their decision but I’m on the fence about whether I will end up spending as much time over there. I like satellite.earth more than nostrchat but still feels a lot less good than lemmy or reddit. i know some of that is my own stubbornness to use things thru the browser but still.
i am thinking maybe i will take some time offline and work on diet/exercise, maybe also some time to improve my career skills, and just pop in less often whether that’s here, satellite, gab, whatever. but of the 3, definitely like it here the most and by a pretty wide margin.
fwiw, we got a quasi-reddit like sub on nostr here: https://satellite.earth/n/explodingheads (mostly just people from here but you do get some crypto bots still if going thru browser than than app using MOB’s relay but no human crypto fags as long as you stay in the sub. but gotta be honest - the UI is complete shit compared to lemmy or reddit). not expecting that’ll change anybody’s mind, just figured i’d mention tho
Anyway, got plans for where you going instead? Ive made accoutns at a few places like gab and have been hopping around a few places. not much on lemmy… EH has spoiled tf out of me for wanting free speech again. but just curious if there’s any more good places i missed 😃