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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I read through some of your comments with lots of downvotes, I have a theory why you were heavily downvoted.

    First, people use the dowvote button as a way to express that they disagree, not that they think the content is low quality or unfitting. I don’t see how we can change this other than not having a downvote button at all, this seems to be like an outcome of the up/downvote system.

    Also, you seem to be a person of principles. I know the reactions too well because I also think similarly. For example, I think judging someone by the color of their skin or ethnicity is wrong, and it seems like you do so as well.

    You have a heavily downvoted comment under a post where some Russians faced discrimination and it wasn’t clear if it was happening because they were Russians or there were some other reasons as well. You noted this, and got downvoted because people think racism is ok now because Russia (as a country) is an aggressor in a war.

    People are too quick to put you in a box if you don’t 100% follow their narratives and say even one thing that remind them of others who genuinely belong in that box.




  • Where’s “here”?

    In some countries they’ll fail you if you don’t bribe, even if your driving was perfect, in others they’ll just overlook small errors that aren’t too dangerous.

    There are places where if you bribe they’ll let you pass even if you can barely drive, in others they’ll call the police on you if you bring it up.

    Ask around locally, you should definitely not bribe if you’d be a danger to yourself and others.








  • I dislike Mastodon for the same reason I dislike Twitter. It seems to me like it’s more centered around individual people and what they share rather than building multiple communities around multiple things that interests me.

    Sure, I can craft my own community, but then I have a feed where I only encounter posts from the same people, and chances are, opinions that I already agree with. It’s not as easy to switch from a tv show to programming, for example. Yes, hashtags exist but they don’t even come close to communities on Lemmy.

    The worst part are the types of posts that only reiterate how stupid “the other side” is without seriously trying to understand their arguments. This is not only true about politics but many other topics as well.