I like thought provoking philosophical or controversial topics. critical thinking, robust debate, and testing the strengths of arguments and ideas. I love to uncover weaknesses, biases, blind spots or flaws in existing beliefs or arguments, both in myself and others to gain a better understanding of ourselves. I aim for empathy, constructive commentary and respect for other people’s opinions, as an alternative to attacks. Here for self-reflection and - also - cat memes.
I mean your not lying. On Mastodon I saw posts about people deleting accounts with thousands of karma, lot’s of people with positive reputation in their communities left, and the people who remained either are not active posters or don’t really care.
Damn ++ making this comment so I can save this comment. This is the boat I’m in.
I thought about this, I was 100% surprised that mods didn’t plan for it as soon as Spez said he would do it.
I don’t know how to save the posts that really resonate and reground me outside of commenting on it. This is one of those posts. Thank you.
I am very new to kbin, and have not figured out how to get that link to bring me back to kbin so that I can login and comment without making an account in lemmy.world. A lot of the points mentioned in that thread suggest taking a higher ground. Before I stepped into this thread I definitely was for razing them to the ground and rallying to create hell - but the mixture of positive vibes here as mellowed me out. In reddit, people who disagreed in mass would have been downvoted into oblivion and I would have only saw people who swung one way or another, but here I really get to see the perspective of multiple people. It’s refreshing.
I was thinking about that. In theory if I can see it, what is stopping a bot from grabbing it. I notice when I use search engines they have no problem seeing what is inside reddit - so there has to be a way to create a bot that does this. I’m just not programmer savvy in that way to know how it works.
This is good to know, will it still work with the API changes?
I keep hearing this but all the VPS solutions I find cost an arm + leg. What VPS solutions cost $30/year?
What are the decentralized p2p storage options for hosting bots, would decentralized hosting and storage options be a viable solution?
That’s the love I’m talking about. I went on reddit after being here, and my comments were autobanned, shadow blocked, or downvoted even though I put thought into them. On reddit I dread karma points because so many subreddits used it as a means to measure my value. Here - I wrote comments across the fediverse, closed my eyes and waited to get beat with sticks - and when that didn’t happen, I realized - the emotional trauma of reddit is real. I don’t even talk much on reddit because I’m afraid of speaking - but here it feels different. I just can’t go back to that.
I’m not going back. This has permanently scarred me. I see the light now, being here now is like a battered child learning what love is for the first time.
Damn. That’s brilliant.