Feddit.org has chosen to support the Palestinian genocide and censor ALL speech against Israel or in support of Palestinians.

I call on lemmy.world to support and protect its users by defederating from any instance that chooses to support Nazi ideology, especially when they should know better.

The interface on old Lemmy is perfect. If a post hot into the front page allowing for seamless connection from your reddit account to Lemmy this site would instantly get millions of new users and probably overtake reddit cause the fedverse is superior.

Bit of a long post here.

I am an 29 year old Autistic guy from the northwest USA who started developing a serious addiction to Instagram and TikTok during the COVID pandemic. It got worse around 2022 when I lost my job. TikTok, like Reddit, does have lots of very informational and interesting content on there and I enjoyed watching lots of travel videos as well as many math and science related videos. What made TikTok a very attractive platform for younger Americans was how it tapped into a niche market very well. TikTok was mainly good for short form video content and especially videos that were under a minute. There were lots of interesting information on TikTok and interesting features that made it much more interesting to use compared to Reddit. Since TikTok is a very international platform, we could see lots of news and travel content from all over the world. I loved watching travel and international videos on TikTok However even those “educational” travel videos can become toxic as it’s mainly travel influencers who travel all over the world to visit nice places and make give us FOMO. In reality, they most likely come from wealthy families, have an abnormally high carbon footprint flying to all sorts of different places, and likely staying in Airbnbs instead of hotels to save up on any accommodation costs.

Unfortunately like Twitter and even Reddit, TikTok does have some major problems when it comes to toxicity and trolling. Especially if users are relatively anonymous by having some obscure username and profile picture. Most of these problems started when I got into some problems with some younger women on TikTok I didn’t know but made me very angry for some reasons. I made some nasty messages about them until one of them called me out. Thinking about it now, I very much regret it now and I wished I could apologize. After this, I’ve been contemplating about deleting TikTok. I already uninstalled Instagram but I still don’t want to delete it completely as I have lots of great material on there from the past.

TikTok, and social media in general, has became a massive scourge for younger people. It has made marginalized men significantly more misogynistic and chauvinistic. It has made marginalized CIS heterosexual people significantly more homophobic and extremely transphobic. It has made people in general much more racist towards people of other ethnic and racial backgrounds, and much more bigoted towards people of other religions.

Nowadays, TikTok has suddenly became an extremely vile place for anyone who is Indian. Many of these incredibly racist and hateful comments are being made by non-White people of color and sometimes Pakistanis and Bangladeshis who share the same racial background as us. TikTok a Chinese social media giant that was banned in India for some bizarre reasons, but this means that India has become the punching bag for jokes. I don’t mean playful jokes. I mean genuinely disgusting and racist comments. I am of Indian-origin (born to Indian immigrant parents) and right now there is a conflict going on with India and Pakistan. On one video, there is a comment made by an anonymous user that has over 3,000 likes that said “I hope Pakistan nukes the sh** out of India and cleans the entire world of this plague!” On another video, another comment with almost 50,000 likes said “The smelliest war in the world!” India has a myriad of problems, especially when it comes to public safety and corruption. However after reading some of these comments, I am ready to pull the plug on my TikTok account and say “Bye Bye” to TikTok forever. I hate how Google also uses TikTok for many videos as well.

Hello folks,

I was wondering if I should open my secondary number for public use, what I mean is that anyone could use my number for temporary SMS to make a burner account or for some privacy reasons. I know that there are tons of services out there which provides a temp SMS however most of those numbers are blocked by all the big tech like G**gle, Micrsft etc, my number is new so it will take some time before they ban it as well.

I have a concern though, what will happen if someone tries to use my number for malicious purposes ( is it even possible that someone could use it in a way that will put me in trouble? ). that mobile number is going expire in 6 months anyway, so I guess it's not an issue.

what do you say? your thoughts?

The U.S. is both for hating immigrants, and made of immigrants. I would like to know (doesn't matter where you live) what were your experiences of having immigrants in your life, for me... I'd say the man who drives me to work hardest isn't my father, it's my neighbor who busted his ass daily working on cars, yards work, anything. He hasn't had a day of rest since I moved in 3+ years ago it seems.... But it's what he chooses. When I got chickens, he wanted in, and got yelled at by his wife. So now I find random corn kernels and feed thrown whenever his wife is gone lol. 35 years on this earth. I actually judge where I rent off if I have neighbors who aren't white. That makes me racist I guess. But seriously, what's your story of why humans are fucking human.

When you try to ignore someone because they are being an ass while drunk, and try to sleep on the couch, and they yell at you to get in bed, then they bash you in the back of the head with their phone while you are laying their facing the other direction, they say, "call the cops, they'll arrest you". Is it true. Could be. Im back on the couch and under control but man could I use someone to talk to. Im so tired of being abused and treated like shit. I know I don't deserve this shit, but fuck does it hurt and I won't let myself yell. I won't allow myself to fall to that level. If they want to be that way, that's them. But I need to be better. Yes, I know I'm dumb. 35 years dumb lol

Man the only reason someone like me looks good at something is because the average person is terrible at it lol

i have heard this a lot with downright cruelty or bullying. i’ve talked to someone and they have said “they could just be having a bad day!!”

you may think you’re helping if you say this, but it doesn’t help in my opinion.

Now I'm hangry and I want a pizza.

Fuck that guy.

I've been using a 3rd party client to access posts on Lemmy. I loved the experience back when Reddit allowed 3rd party apps. But I felt the feed was a bit........one sided.

I figured it was just because I was new to Lemmy, but then I sorted posts by New.

Nothing but trans anime porn. It's like the only people that came to Lemmy were the people that got kicked out of Reddit circles because all they could think about was trans anime porn.

Maybe I signed up on the wrong instance? But I don't think that's the problem.

How are so many people trying to treat Lemmy as a balanced alternative to Reddit?

What the fuck?!

I cannot do a damn thing. Be it easy, be it hard, be it rewarding, be it just pure pleasure. I cannot enjoy a thing thinking it is just waste of time. I cannot carry myself to do a hard task thinking about the high effort it requires. Even if I break it into small parts, I would only do the bare minimum for a day or two and stop it.

My entire life is being passed away coming back tired, hungry and yearning for sleep, from a job I dislike to the core.

I am not moving towards my goals. I cannot quit this job. Time is passing. I'm stuck. Weekends cometh, I use them all trying to catch up on sleep.

Every week I'm doing just the bare minimum to survive thinking I might do something on the weekend and I don't. How do I break out this cycle? There's a lot more I could unwind upon but this post is already long enough.

Argh

When despite the isolation and difficulties and people being terribly ill and dying, there was this feeling of something good might come out of this great reset of society?

That feels very distant now.

Discuss any hobby you've not found an active community for yet.

"“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently."

We need to help everyone imagine a better world--one where none of us die from lack of housing, health, or purpose. One where our fundamental needs are always met without anyone asking if we 'deserve' it.

There is enough in the U.S. for this imagined world to be real. There is no justifiable reason why we shouldn't have it.

It's not enough to simply critique the billionaire-dominated hierarchy currently attacking us. We need to also give people a reason to imagine a better world, and to recognize that right now is precisely the time to make this better world real. At a bare minimum, we should assure that all of our fundamental needs are met without ever asking whether we 'deserve' to live.

There's so many communities I found because someone I looked at the profile of someone who posted there. So many I'd missed despite being on a lot of discovery/promo communities. Just a YSK.

PS: I will be going through the history of anyone who replies to this post :P

Nope, before you're jumping the gun by accusing me of spreading Russian propaganda simply because the domain ends in .ru you should know that "The Insider" is a Russian opposition publication like Meduza. Shows a lot how you can't place absolute trust and adulation on any single platform and entity these days otherwise it might lead to this one day.

But even tho, I feel like I am predicting something crazy persons on Schizophrenia would constantly talk about, I rather feel calm and accept that the dystopia is not part of my life, because I have no issue isolating myself from the internet as a Linux user and just life offline with enough of fun and nature.

But I think the second reason why I dont go crazy, is because I have a good faith in the EU, to not allow explotation for profits like the US is doing or like China which is doing it for Socialism.

The dystopian fantasies are around Artificial Intelligence, and I see more and more restrictions around it in the EU which is a good thing.

Are allowed to tag users as a brand new account 🤔

I just signed up for this instance. I just posted in Technology and my first post got removed.

How am I supposed to use this space if my posts are going to get removed for the first 7 days ?

Just curious why my post got removed in TECHNOLOGY Community. I literally just signed up today??

While there are legit use of gen AI in various automation or more so in advanced text processing, apart from these in real world these are useless gimmick at best. Nobody wants to read AI novels (at least in current SOTA).

The perfect demand market for LLMs is ad business and marketing. Surely marketing strategists won't be replaced, but illustration, copy writing (for low interaction rate ads especially, like car ads. Very few people will buy the car with respect to how many see them), emotion analysis, marketing communication to consumers and spam botting; all will become much cheaper with gen AI.

Nowadays nobody with a thinking mind trusts ads, those are already filled with lies and deceptions. A hallucinating model won't be much of a trouble. Moreover less people will do mindless these mindless jobs and contribute to something more meaningful.

Fellow lemmings do you agree?

• CNN: The ADL says Wikipedia contains antisemitic bias, amid dispute over how the Israel-Hamas conflict is represented on the site

• MSNBC: Anti-Israel and anti-Jewish bias undermines Wikipedia's neutrality, says ADL report

Regardless of your standing with regards to the Israel-Palestine war, this is an unexpected development as now legacy networks are finally paying serious attention to criticisms of Wikipedia after years of neglect.

Any observers who've been following Wikipedia-related rabbit holes long enough would know that criticism of Wikipedia is for a long time dominated by the political fringes (i.e. far-right) and many Wikipedia critics normally gets ridiculed out of the room as they're been characterized as "fascists" and "anti-knowledge". Now it's like a dream come true for those critics as they seemingly get vindicated on television networks.

If you do not understand why this is inappropriate you are the problem.