I felt like Andor was pretty dang boring… Loved Rogue One, though.

“Comapnies”

Republican debates in a nutshell.

It’s funny, the grand majority of users here are from Reddit. The influx was insane, I remember clearly seeing the numbers.

I think there are a lot of bad actors here. People with floods of accounts. I don’t know why this is tolerated to the degree it is… But my theory is that there are far less crazies than many might guess. Most folks here are great.

Yeah, there are some serious whackos on there. It’s a very vocal part of the population. I highly recommend folks try other instances if they aren’t hard-left.

Naw… It’s okay. We’re good.

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Yes, we know. We’ve been alive long enough to see You Tube’s slow demise.

I still only recognize two people… I’ll show myself out.

This video was made by a Facebook group… I’m immediately disinterested. Sorry, not sorry.

I do love lower decks, though.

That is really good to know! Do you use a real silk one ($100+), or the “silk” ones off Amazon? I’ve always wanted a real one.

Yes! I agree, and I just stated a similar point of view. I think we need more positive distractions during this US election cycle.

To be fair, I wasn’t seeing mostly rage until this US election cycle spun up.

I find this to be an interesting take.

I feel like Reddit had significantly more negativity if you compare now to the 2016 election cycle.

There is a major difference, though… Reddit also had stronger niche communities (at the time). Those communities are largely marginalized now, but I guess they are likely still larger than here.

So you’d see the political stuff, but then you’d see your favorite game got an update. Those distractions are admittedly less numerous here.

This said, the astro-turfing on Reddit was insane. Way, way worse than anything I’ve seen here. The worse thing we have here is Lemmy.ml. They are far worse than astro-turfers, since they just straight up delete comments and ban people that dissent from their propaganda.

But if you block them, or join an insurance that has defederated them, then you’re alright. Fair warning, my instance has not done this… yet.

One of Lemmy’s most toxic communities are the Linux people. I’m actually a huge fan of Linux, but the simple fact I use Windows as well constantly earns me personal attacks and extremely negative responses.

My solution (to this and many other issues you describe) is honestly to not read the replies any longer… I just say my bit, and I leave.

I’ve also taken to watching comedy shows that touch upon numerous topics of all the crazy shit going on. The Daily show has been a great outlet for me, and I’m not even a Democrat (I’m independent). It’s just nice to see a popular form of media clearly states “yes, this is crazy. You’re not crazy, THIS is just f*king crazy.”

Edit: For example, Trump recently claimed he never said “lock her up” the other day to Hillary. I saw this on Lemmy first. John Stewart’s reaction a day or two later was perfect, and pointed out the gaslighting taking place.

I just feel like you have to find ways to laugh at all this crazy stuff… So comedy shows help. Just keep your guard up whenever consuming politically charged media, of course.

I think all instances need to defederate. This is totally inexcusable. We shouldn’t be attached and well connected to a CCP-controlled (influenced or directly) community. This is propaganda, pure and simple.

It’s not a problem to have dissenting opinions to widely held beliefs, but it is a problem to have those injected constantly into our streams while all opposition is silently erased and curated to artifically support state-sponsored CCP propaganda.

Oooooh. Guys, I’m so embarrassed… I’ve been paying for stuff at the front.

I think they’re just trying to point out that not all dogs are like the one you’ve experienced.

It’s entirely valid to not like them, but genuinely hating all of them on principal does seem kind of overboard.

Wow, that is a very pessimistic view you’ve brought into this thread about a cute and funny comic.

You pay for free content? Why?

Edit: Inb4 “I sUpPorT the crEaTorS”. If you pay them directly, you cut out the INSANE charge Google forces on creators.

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