If you have the answer, and have had it for over a month

Why can't you say the same thing about the Lemmy developers? They are the ones who installed the mistake. now suddenly others have to fix their mistakes for them? It's really odd how you deflect from their responsibility.

Your entire response seems like "fork it", without anything in advance of that.

1. Study the project leaders of lemmy, which I have done for hundreds of hours now. Analyze and learn, not JUMP TO "fork it".

2. Criticize with critical thinking what they are doing. And contribute. Which I have also done. They clearly need to stop letting their anxeity of PostgreSQL be central to the project. There are tutorials on YouTube for example that can be shared. Or Lemmy communities.

It's odd, do you go around telling everyone who criticizes Elon Musk to "fork it" about Twitter instead of actual;y sharing discussion about the problems. You seem to show cult-like loyalty to Lemmy and intend to run-off factual criticism. I've seen people behave that way towards Elon Musk too.

You already have so much on your plate to deal with

What does that mean?

think it’s right that you have to shoulder through the pain your brain gets when you type.

It is doing anything, really. It became much worse in 2019, I still remember when I was more functional and I could write with far less pain.

I don't think you realize that avoding typing does not mean the pain goes away. Even speaking to people is bad, worse in fact, typing has less pain than verbal.

It seems you really want to drive me away instead of actually understand how much I struggle to write and speak.

You should take care of yourself more, and not put yourself through more pain.

How? By going from verbal to entirely giving up social interaction and social concerns? What are you suggesting exactly? Being dead?

Again, why do you keep bringing up American authors?

For one, I'm in the USA. And you must think Marshall McLuhan is from the USA? He is not.

Marshall McLuhan identified the USA as the world leader in media long ago, and I think his analysis was correct. I don't think it has changed that much in 2023, USA still leads a lot of media types.

No, why should I know who he is? How is he relevant to how Lemmy is run?

On the Internet, you can search. Instead, you go all "WTF" ranting.

so forking the project, and starting your own Lemmy-alternative seems like the logical next step no?

No, it isn't logical at all. People have set up Lemmy instances to 'fork" Reddit, and nobody comes. Why set up one more social media site nobody will use because audiences actually seek out what is popular. You seem to think code is all that matters, that quality actually attracts audiences. I suggest teachers like Neil Postman, they really spell this all out. The audience has to develop self-awareness of their compulsive media behaviors. Huxley was far more right than Orwell.

And if I’m being honest, I was seeing others’ pain, but I was mostly seeing my pain.

I find everyone is in pain, and often covering it up. I gave up covering my pain in 2009 and haven't turned back. But a lot of people want to deny the suffering in the world and do not want to see authentic pain. They want memes, superhero comics etc.

It is sad to me that humanity can not organize a mass funeral for those who died in the pandemic. There is so much hate and pain between people, online and offline. People seem to show trauma towards even basic medical science facts in 2023.

Take care of yourselves, y’all.

Thank you and love to all, have a good weekend

if you don’t want to be here, leave. It is that simple.

It's funny how you are projecting. You do not want ME here, you keep telling me to leave. If I wanted to leave, i would have left But you seem very confused. Simple flippant dismissal seems to be your approach to complexity.

How the flying spaghetti meatball monster fuck is this relevant to your rant over how you were getting sidelined on GitHub?

Do you even know who Neil Postman is, is that why you think nothing is relevant to how Lemmy is run? That would explain why you think it isn't relevant, because you never heard of Neil Postman. He did die decades back, so it wouldn't surprise me. It must be easier for you to jsut give flippant replies "how the flying fukc" instead of actually learning or reading a book from Neil Postman.

"Fork it", "wtf", you like simplistic answers to difficult problems. Clearly you would not spend hundreds of hours testing fLemmy and watching the developers before posting something like I did this past few days. It's really sad to see your total faith and blind faith in action.

I can see why you might have never read something from Neil Postman and responded as if it was off-topic to social media applications and their cultures.

by accusing everyone

"everyone', yha. You really think Lemmy is "everyone", or you lie and deceive that at least.

I think people are pro-authority in their religion to books about dead people; It doesn't even have to be a living China government. Even the machines or an application code can be what you are loyal to. But they like the power, attracted to even the server crashes, spectacle.

Well, I’m nice, I don’t want to hurt your brain further by engaging in pointless conversation with you.

You commanded that I "fork Lemmy", that I code, that hurs my brian too. But you lack comassion and enjoy mocking weakness.

is that really that hard to explain?

to you, yes. As I don't think in flippant attempts to trivialize human beings and reduce things to simpleton answers for something they have struggled with each and every day of their life. It sure is easier to dehumanize me as you keep doing.

writing online is about the only thing in my life that I can do, despite the constant pain, and I'm near death. Once the writing goes, there is zero left, I'm not even really surviving.

Simon Baron-Cohen; July 1, 2003; "The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism", page 146 quote: "Another man with AS described his life in a very graphic way: 'Every day is like climbing Mount Everest in lead boots, covered in molasses. Every step in every part of my life is a struggle.'"

Welcome to the federation.

on upgrading to 18.2

0.18.3 was released today, maybe see if a change went in.

One of the cool things to me about Lemmy is it is like email where people have their own custom domain names. Personally I think people using their real identity should come back into fashion and post 9/11/2001 USA culture of terrorism fear-ism should not be the dominating media emotion in 2023.

"Real humans, not bots" for the ongoing Social Media reboot of Twitter since September 2022 and Reddit since May 2023 could really leverage it. The "throwaway" culture of Reddit.

ChatGPT GPT-4 is incredibly good at convincing human beings it gives factual information when it really is great at "sounding good, but being factually wrong". It's amazing to me how many people have embraced and even shown deep love towards the machines. It's pretty weird to me that a computer fed facts spits out anti-facts. Back in March I would doing a lot of research on ChatGPT's fabrication of facts, it made wild claims like Bill Gates traveled to New Mexico when BASIC was first created. It would even give pages from Bill Gate's book that did not have the quotes it provided. https://www.AuthoredByComputer.com/ has examples I documented.

EDIT: another example, facts about simple computer chips it would make up about in a book, claiming they had more RAM in the chip than they did, etc: https://www.AuthoredByComputer.com/chatgpt4/chatgpt4-ibm-ps2-uart-2023-03-16a