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this hit me like a mental flashbang. your wisdom is beyond all of us

we have to go back to our roots

I often see this accomplished with dashed interjections - dashes! can you believe that? - as a way to break up a sentence while still continuing with a single train of thought. But I always support the invention of new punctuation, how long has it been since we got any? We’re well overdue.

the smell of heavily chlorinated water. i used to spend a heck of a lot of time at the pool when i was a kid, and where i live now there aren’t nearly as many pools, so it’s not something encountered often anymore.

Those factors are what help identify a “tankie”, among other things. Communists are cool, but apologia of atrocities is not an inherent tenet of communism, despite what some people on the sketchier parts of Lemmy would have you think.

…It seems like you’ve described the problem yourself in the OP, but dismissively?

I missed this one a lot

Can you see the word “bitch”?

I have heard lemmy.ml blocks curse words. My account is on lemmy.world and I see no removeds.

Curate.

Block liberally. Especially block any community that is focused around hating something - even if it’s a thing that deserves scorn, the vibe will grind you down, over time, especially if there are many communities like it. Block users who are assholes, after reporting them if it’s bad enough.

Subscribe/follow/equivalent-action things you are genuinely interested in; cut out the really general categories unless you actively enjoy browsing that topic. Smaller communities are usually better, if they have enough content to be alive.

If you have any sort of hobby, try joining a space about it. If it’s too toxic, block it, but if not, it is a good place to destress and perhaps even make friends.

Curate, it can’t be overstated enough. A lot of sites don’t let you sufficiently curate your feed, and if they don’t, you should leave em.

Someone else got to ya before I did, but yes that is exactly what I was referring to.

The only thing I needed to see about hexbear is that the “official” post from their admins about their pending federation tried to both-sides the Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying that “it may be justified”. That alone is enough for me to never want to see them or anything from there again.

This is one more reason I’m sticking with lemmy.world as my instance of choice.

Other people should post more then, to be frank.

I’ve seen this specific account around enough I recognize the name, just from how much they post all across Lemmy. Same with a few other accounts. Hell, I’m trying to prop up a community or two myself with daily posts. We all gotta try to post, as much as we can without being spam, to keep the Lemmy network alive.

For the future, [email protected]

It was good when it linked to actually interesting new communities, it was bad when it linked to meta-communities just collecting reddit posts - rimjobsteve, foundthemobileuser, holup half the time, cursedcomments, redditmoment, etc.

I recognize a lot of games my friend group has played in here, and so I think I’ll be checking out some of the other recommendations given as well. Good post, thanks for sharing

Found me a new channel to subscribe to, thanks mate

I think stuff like this: https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199

is what’s more provably worrying. Modlogs are public, and if I’m interpreting this information correctly, I think the devs are engaging in scummy practices.

Catharsis and Schadenfreude (two very, very good words)