she’s still around. she’s just getting old and getting crazier. she’s likely mentally ill and not treating it.

i met her once. she’s a completely insane nutbag whose only joy in life is her internet sex celebrity status.

My father was a great anti-role model.

I tried my hardest to not be like him and his shittiness.

do women approach you or flirt with you?

i have never been called a cockroach. i have been called gay a lot though by truck drivers.

your not. but drivers thing anything/anyone that inconveniences them is ‘entitled’

a lot of streets in my city are putting up speedbumps to stop people blowing down side streets at 40mph while trying to cut around main street traffic. drivers scream at how ‘entitled’ the residents are being. because the road is ‘for them to go places as fast as possible’.

ironically, they win.

whenever the road diet where i live, traffic improves. because it slows down to one lane and it prevents accidents.

so downvote most things on lemmy then?

fwiw i like reading long ass comments. usually there is something useful or insightful in there.

way more than i like reading ‘ok boomer’ comments.

but totally get that it doesn’t make a difference and the vast majority of the replies will be of the ‘ok boomer’ or ‘u suck’ variety.

same. you could disagree and joke about it. now it’s all demonization, labels, etc.

i feel like you could share an experience/thought and get interesting responses… now it’s just people trying to pigeonhole you and decide if you are ‘on their side’ or not. you could make a joke about a bad date and people would be like ‘haha same’ now it’s ‘why do you hate x’, ‘clearly you are mentally ill’, ‘you are clearly evil’. very little discussion… just judgement and hate.

Am seriously considering founding a not-for-profit to provide an ad free / spam free / bot free basic community. Would cost a dollar or two a month. Chief differences to the lemmy would be one account per person via proof of identity signup (I think this would improve behaviour and discourage spam), a single authority to tackle voting abuse and other things useful to be not federated.

yeah lemmy definite feels like that. full of crazies who won’t relent until you tell them they are right and you are wrong and you are horrible evil person for disagreeing with them over something like bicycle lanes.

but there are some middle ground folks, thankfully.

exactly. stats back this up. internet was far more diverse 10 years ago, now vast majority of traffic goes to a handful of platforms.

Same. IRL and online communities I have experienced this. Obnoxious people come in, take over, and then make everything about them… only people who want to be around that are other obnoxious people so things become a circlejerk.

not really hipsterish… but very common IME with any community that hipster types of people start joining. They start policing others because of their raging insecurity and need to be seen as cool.

congrats

it’s a fad in terms of the hype and the superstition.

it won’t go away. it will just become boring and mostly a business to business concern that is invisible to the end consumer. just like every other big fad of the past 20 years. ‘big data’, ‘crypto’, etc.

5 years ago everyone was suddenly a ‘data scientist’. where are they now? yeah… exactly.

what’s far scarier is the revisionist history being pushed in many states and school districts.

amen

yes, yes, and yes.

and i no longer like any of those things.

irrational belief based on fantasy fuels people to action a lot more than rational belief based in reality.

because the former is exciting and meaningful, the latter is boring and mundane.

hence why the crazies tend to believe in cabal conspiracies of evil people whom they must fight against. whereas your average voter is like ‘who do i want to have a beer with and make me feel like i’m doing better financially… i’ll vote him’

putting yourself out there is how you get less ignorant.

Bingo.