I can think someone is being a dumbass without having any kind of hateful feelings towards them. Hell, I love a few morons

This is the kinda nostalgia that slaps my brain off for a sec and makes me reboot

Honestly this. Let them “rise up” and see how American they feel against the rest of the US army… Assuming the army doesn’t turn on us too. Ya never know these days eh 🙃

VR and my guilty pleasure games that still use ridiculous anti-cheat are holding me back for now :(

Incorrect. Bye bye 👋

It matters so much who is in charge. Trump and the right have so much blood on their hands from COVID. People died because they made containing and stopping the spread of a potentially deadly virus a political spectacle that emboldened their idiot base to ignorantly fight medical science. If you don’t think it matters who’s in charge you either don’t pay attention and your opinion is useless or you’re just another fake centrist trying to convince people that both sides are the same to hide from the deeply shameful and disgusting behavior of the right.

I am a middle aged woman! But I’m married so I don’t know where all your unhinged shit about my vagina came from. Women don’t have to settle anymore so get over yourself or get a lifetime supply of lotion and tissues 🤗

Goodness me, I think the real problem here is you guys aren’t fooling anyone with your silly little “both siiiides” pretend to be centrist acts anymore and we’re over it.

This is definitely the kind of thing that men with healthy self-esteem need to say. I’m sure you’re just drowning in your options

It’s kinda great though isn’t it? Reminds me of old times. Do you think we’ll relive the android vs iOS wars soon? Oh, omg… Have we done the grilled cheese vs melt thing here yet???

Whaaaat noooo. Silly. The dev should just cater to people with money or quit their source of income and be happy… Or something?

I don’t know about doing good or harm but I’ve used sync for reddit for years and years. The dev isn’t some big corporation and that’s generally enough for me. I’ll support them as long as their app has the experience that I prefer. I tried a few different apps until sync came out and I really gave them all a fair shot but none of them felt right. The fact that so many users bailed to Lemmy because Reddit broke third party apps and then turned around and got up people’s butts for using specific third party apps is kind of hilarious to me. A huge wave of users came here for sync etc and people are trying to push them away or bully them like reddit did? They might not be bullying for the same exact reason but it’s got the same vibe imo.

Feel better now?

Not every state in the US is the same so your comment is mostly based on smug ignorance anyway. It’s not paranoia if you live in a city with a lot of crime etc. You just wanted to try and feel superior. Giving me reddit vibes tbh.

I just wanted to look up blueberry waffles but I was derping hard and couldn’t remember the word for blueberries… I was an adult at that point but just imagine a kid doing that on accident iykyk 💀

Not giving your kids access to the internet at all is insane. You’re setting them up for failure by not actively teaching them how to navigate the Internet and what bs to look out for. Anyone that does this is just trying to indoctrinate their kid and prevent them from being exposed to any other ideas. The ego on parents that think they know enough to entirely prepare their kids for the world is ridiculous. Especially these days. You’re just setting them up to be behind when they’re older and they’ll resent you while they struggle to catch up.

I dunno… A lot of the newer gens didn’t have to tinker with everything to get it to work so they’re less familiar with the ins and outs of stuff. Not to say they all are because it’s silly to generalize that many people but many of them grew up with this stuff. Just like how I couldn’t tell you how a TV works or fix one but I’ve built all my own pcs. That happened naturally because I had to learn it early on to have a computer. That being said they definitely seem to be developing a unique skill set for navigating the internet and social media as a whole. I’ve noticed they’re a lot less likely to trust a generic Google search or various articles online. I guess when you’re raised around bullshit you’re gonna end up more critical of it. This is mostly about gen z of course and maybe younger millennials. Gen alpha is feral and weird we should all be worried lmao

I was more of a lurker for much of my time on Reddit but I find myself commenting and upvoting a lot more here because I genuinely want to contribute. I should probably just sack up and start actively posting on the few small communities I’d like to see grow tbh

You don’t. You don’t understand the frustration. You’re not part of this you’re just a casual observer with an opinion formed from the outside.

Easy is subjective. The choice is obvious but having to vote for someone you know doesn’t represent most of us isn’t easy. It’s a hard thing that we have to do. Nobody is thinking about what option to vote for here. We’re grieving the decision that’s already been made for us because there’s no acceptable alternative. But thanks for your contributions. It’s always so very helpful when people that don’t even live our lives roll up to state the obvious.