Yeah, I wholeheartedly agree; I wish we were better at honoring our united pain and each other’s pain. As you and I both know, that’s not the case on a grand scale, and why I think it’s so important for us to build and find our smaller communities that do.

Have a good weekend too, yo!

Yha, all the people around me are staring into their Smartphones and attacking humanism on social media like you are.

I was just reading through y’all’s conversation and this piece stuck out to me. I read a lot of loneliness, hurt, and isolation in your comments, yo, and then I read this piece. Man, do I get that. That reminded me of me throughout high school and college; I didn’t feel like anyone saw what I saw. Which was pain. And if I’m being honest, I was seeing others’ pain, but I was mostly seeing my pain. I met my best friend late in college, and she was a god-send because she got me. She saw their pain too. And more importantly, she saw my pain and honored it, and that was such a relief.

When I feel alone and isolated, I usually feel like withdrawing more. Since her, I’ve found that that’s usually a sign that I actually need to connect. I need to find others that get me. Not as another avenue to vent my frustrations and anger and pain, but as an avenue for joy, as an avenue for remembering that I am more than just my pain.

That’s a lot of shit off the top of my head, and I dunno if you’ll resonate with any of it because I only know you as far as a few comments online. But wanted to write it in case it would resonate with you or anyone else.

Take care of yourselves, y’all.

Should we go ahead and put a curriculum together and start shipping it to universities, or…?

Such good points; I’m convinced. To continue on your line of thinking, after learning some media literacy and starting to notice different patterns and forms of discussion, I wonder if learning Aristotelian syllogisms would be a good next step. So we still aren’t jumping right into fallacies per se, but we start to understand logic structure and what is formally valid/invalid. So now it’s got them thinking about how to structure and challenge their own beliefs and arguments. And while we are now potentially hitting formal fallacies, I think this would not give any immediate tools for dunking on anyone either because, in my experience, converting a real-time argument to a syllogism is very very difficult without a ton of experience and practice breaking arguments down into simpler ideas. What do you think?

Rather than not encouraging focusing and learning fallacies, maybe we are simply saying that they need to also learn to use them appropriately? Fallacies are not just the informal ones that everyone is referencing here in this thread, but also the formal ones which are very much required for logical argument structure. So even in learning about fallacies, there will be opportunities to understand the difference between informal and formal, why they are different, and how that applies to discourse. Knowledge is power; it just needs to be balanced with understanding on how to use and I think a deep dive into fallacies could actually assist in that regard.

You’re right, that is an easier question to answer!

Haha whaaaat. After all this time, I had no idea that was a thing. Any enemy? Not bosses though, right?

Resident Evil Director’s Cut on PS1. I was fairly young and not very good at the “survival” aspect of the survival horror. I tried to kill everything I encountered and consumed copious amounts of ammo and herbs doing so. I reached a place where I had a single ink ribbon left, no ammo, health on the red, and confused on where I needed to go next. And I had to go do homework. So I used my last ribbon and saved.

I discovered next time I played that the way forward was through a tight corridor I missed filled with zombies who could now one-shot me. I tried and tried and literally was unable to get through. First time I ever learned the word “soft-locked” as my brother wheezed it out while laughing. Good times!

I was going to ask what the number used to be! I am new as of last week, and even from when I started, it’s insane to see posts with hundreds of upvotes. Crazy upswing in such a short amount of time. I wonder how long time Lemmy users feel about all this.

@[email protected], you’re going to want in on this conversation.

I’d like to add to this request that we allow searches by instance, or be able to view all communities within a particular instance. I sometimes hear about a new instance and want to see all the communities within it. Or I’m curious what new communities lemmy.ml might have and want to quickly view all their instances. Initially I tried to search “@lemmy.ml”, hoping that would work, but alas it did not. Just a thougt that feels related to this one!

I better start seeing smoked meats posted on this shit. Got any recommendations for quality beef jerky or anything of the like that will ship in the States? You’ve got me hungry now.

So sick. What do you call it when something feels old-world but also futuristic? Love how you shot this too.

That’s exactly what I did. I moved my reddit app elsewhere and put Jerboa in its place. Now when I instinctually click, I get confused for a minute as I look at Lemmy and then sigh in relief and start browsing lol. Brains take so much work to adjust to change.

Oooh, right, I did see a post about it putting up DDOS protection and how that might screw with things. So this might just be temporary then. That at least helps me understand it; I have been trying to understand the fediverse and that behavior really confused me and made me think I was missing something big. Thanks!

Right, that’s what I’m saying - replacement may be easy, but those mods were suggesting a hit to quality. Something tells me Reddit is ready for widespread nuking and has a backup solution to handle that, but it would be lovely to see it all go down. Can’t wait to see what Reddit looks like after all these Subreddits finish going dark.

Right, that’s what I’m saying - I’m curious if we’ll notice a quality drop in content, if the majority of users who stay will notice or care, and how that will affect Reddit’s bottom line and investor opportunities.

There was some mods discussing this on Tildes, and the mods seemed to think that replacing them wouldn’t be as easy as people make it out to be. Mods apparently have a wealth of institutional knowledge that is required due to the lackluster default mod suite, and apparently the admins rely on them to come up with their own solutions to issues. Replacing the mods sounds like it will reduce the quality of the content but also will be a big headache for any new mods to jump in. Reddit may not give a shit and they may think it won’t significantly affect investor interest, but I wonder if us regular users will notice a difference. Hell, there’s already been a difference over the past 10 years.

I started rethinking that when I was seeing the influx of bots calling out other users as bots. Then I started noticing weirdly corporate speak in comments about products. I used to add “reddit” to every Google search to find any decent advice, but now I’m realizing even that advice is tainted. Ugh.

I’m with you. I’ve watched Reddit pull a LOT of bullshit over the years, and this is heinous enough that I’m done. I’ll keep my account because there are some very niche subs that can provide help with certain things, so I want to be able to search or post to them as needed. But Lemmy really has my attention now.