It’ll develop. Whether it should or not eventually Lemmy will develop its own distinct online culture which carries across instances, topics and communities.

I know people will think it won’t have its own particular culture because it’s decentralized etc etc but I remember people saying the same thing about Reddit in like 2011. The smaller community identities either got absorbed into the larger idea of what a “redditor” is or the subs just died.

It’s a little early to say, but Lemmy culture so far has a lot of carryover of Reddit. Which makes sense considering most people here probably used Reddit first. In my experience Lemmy yo-yos between reddit but grumpier and reddit but more conversational. It reminds me a lot of early reddit in that people put more effort into their comments than other places, but also has an air of confident pseudo-intellectualism. There’s no real hivemind yet but there are generally popularized norms.

A lot of things do suck, but for me at least it’s important to focus on what actually sucks and what I think sucks because I’m angry at other things.

Having issues with this state of capitalism we’re in is fair, it’s a legitimate problem and affects everyone. Even non-capitalist proponents of capitalism feel the effects, but when they look for the source of their pain their vision gets redirected away from the capitalists.

But feeling frustrated with people bringing their dogs to the park is a waste of your energy. I get this way too, I understand it, but you’re going to wear yourself down.

My unsolicited advice is to try really hard to find something positive to grab onto. Dogs for example. Find a way to enjoy the pure heartedness of dogs and mentally don’t let it touch the problems with humans. Treat it as a sort of pressure release valve when your frustrations with capitalism start to expand in scope, something that you keep simple and straightforward and positive.

That way your anger stays focused.

Just Lemmy. I never had Twitter so Mastodon probably wouldn’t appeal, I had that problem with Bluesky.

More than anything Reddit just got annoying to use. I had no social media at all for a bit until I signed up for Lemmy, and I haven’t decided if I like it yet. I do enjoy that there isn’t a ton of content to endlessly scroll, feels healthier I guess.

I want Peertube to be good but the content just isn’t there for me yet.

Feel like I could just get away with killing people who are like clinically brain dead and can’t be allowed to die due to religious or legal reasons.

I can barely be trusted with that, but I feel like that’s a limit I could stick to and spend the rest of my time just making sure the book doesn’t get into the wrong hands.

There’s still moral implications to being an angel of death and it could go wrong really easily but it feels much less tricky than deciding some dude fits my personal criteria of evil and thus deserves death.

Is it possible the “Americans can’t protest like the French” and “I don’t like disruptive protests” camps are two entirely different groups of people?

Did they play Speak to a Human?

It didn’t expand my global music preferences but it did make my exercise playlist a very specific kind of vibe.

I think when I moved from not liking things younger people enjoyed to simply having no idea what they enjoy at all.

I’ve never been particularly with it on trends and such. When I was younger I knew the trends and rejected them in the spirit of youthful rebellion, aspects of my personality were defined by what and who I wasn’t.

Then I got a little older and rejected the things people slightly younger than me enjoyed. This came naturally, because I was no longer the target audience for these things it was easy to write them off as if I were.

Now I don’t even know enough to reject them. My knowledge of what younger people like seems to be about five years out of date. When something new comes along that seems irritating to me it seems to pass so quickly I don’t really have time to register it, and when I find something new I enjoy there’s apparently whole fandoms about it where (presumably… hopefully…) very young people fight about it, and they’re fighting about things I genuinely don’t have time to decipher. It’s like it all moves too fast for my vision to really gain focus, by the time I’m able to tell what I’m looking at everyone else seems to have already moved on.

We’re all going to heaven, the prophecy was about Lemmy it turns out

There’s a certain leftist opposition to structure in general.

I had a comrade who was actively trying to get out of jury duty because he has fair objections to the legal system. Others in our organization were encouraging him to wear communist pins and whatnot so he doesn’t get selected.

But like… what if some reactionary takes your place on the jury? Is that preferable to you being selected and needing to briefly take part in a deeply flawed system that you believe should be overhauled? Shouldn’t people who have dedicated their life to fixing these systems make it a point to operate within them in some capacity?

It’s as if they are worried participating in the system in any way will somehow taint you.

There were the occasional things like Star Wars Kid that would leak from containment into the mainstream, but nothing quite the scale of Gangnam Style.

Depends on the audience but I’ve found adding “it’s just common sense” to the end of my argument tends to be more effective than citing sources.

Not really. Sometimes I think about it but it’s sort of hard to find the time. My interests also just started to shift away from writing after high school.

That being said I remember in late high school feeling pretty frustrated because I had a good grip on the rules by now and wanted to try adding some zest to my writing.

But zest is difficult to grade, my teachers were not paid well enough to deal with ambiguity and to be honest most of them didn’t strike me as particularly imaginative in the first place.

Powdered dish detergent and running the water until it gets hot before starting the dishwasher seem to make a difference for me

It’s pretty much naive realism applied to politics.

My understanding is most do but it’s the subject of occasional controversy.

It’s an enjoyable way to engage with fiction and think critically. Everyone in the debate knows lightsabers aren’t real, but there’s established in universe rules and community-agreed principles you typically frame your arguments on. This can keep a piece of media alive for fans, if it was just about watching movies and not really examining them then there wouldn’t be much reason to revisit them, which I feel would be a shame after writers put so much work into creating a universe to explore.

It can give you a good reason to continue to engage with the content, or engage with a community of people who also enjoy the content. In my case watching Star Trek is fun and all but not if I’m just mindlessly consuming the show. Looking at a ship’s engine, liking engines in real life and saying “I wonder how that thing would work” is a good mental exercise, especially when you’ve found others who have the same questions.

I wouldn’t care one bit, nor do I know anyone who does.

The only time I notice someone’s order is if it’s ridiculously elaborate. Like I doubt you’re actually interested in drinking this but abusing a worker for content or entertainment. Otherwise yeah I not only don’t care I probably won’t even notice.

Moreover if I’m in “coffee person” mode I have a little list of cafés I go to. To me judging your order at Starbucks would be like judging your order at McDonald’s. None of this stuff is good so I can’t really be elitist that you ordered fish instead of a burger, we’re just here for convenience.

Mobile, in browser with desktop mode on.

I’m weird about apps. It’s not even a privacy thing really, I just never got into them as a concept.