• rosco385@lemm.ee
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    My first thought is always “Must be Nicole the Fediverse chick again” 😂

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    A bunch are usually people disagreeing and making up situations to make themselves right… i.e., you posit that the sky appeared blue when you went outside today, the replies are: not if it’s night, not during cloudy days, etc. and at least one that sounds like they disagree but are reiterating what you just said.

    • I’ve made this observation before, but the funniest thing about Lemmy is that !ShowerThoughts posts elicit more controversy than !UnpopularOpinion. Like, someone posts “I love pineapple on pizza” in !ShowerThoughts, and it’s downvoted to hell with people writing long essays about how pineapple on pizza is justification for bringing back shock treatment. The same thing posted to !UnpopularOpinion brings out a mob of people saying how not unpopular an opinion that is, quoting statistics about how Hawaiian Pizza is the most popular pizza in America. It’s absolutely hilarious, and one of the few areas where the Lemmy community is truly contrarian just for contrarian’s sake.

      With the exception of populations of some instances which I won’t hex by bearishly naming, and a few individually excessive dicks (or trolls, but I think most are really just assholes), the Lemmy community tends to argue in good faith, admit when they’re wrong or have had their minds changed, and are generally polite netizens in most exchanges. But !ShowerThoughts and !UnpopularOpinion just being out the contrarian in people, for some reason.

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        Unpopular opinion is just posting things that plenty of people actually agree with. Like pineapple pizza. An actual unpopular opinion would be something like agreeing with restricting abortion or something difficult that elicits very strong feelings.

        • But do we really believe the posters think what they’re posting is a popular opinion? Maybe they really think it’s unpopular, because of their IRL experiences, or what they see online.

          I think it’s because people know what’s unpopular, but the heavy stuff, they don’t want to be associated with. So they choose milquetoast unpopular opinions, which aren’t really unpopular as much as maybe a minority. Like, a majority of voters voted for Trump, but thinking Kamala would have been better isn’t unpopular, it was just the minority opinion among people who got their fat assess out and voted.

          Now, saying “only white, biologically born males should be allowed to vote” would be a truly unpopular opinion, but although there are absolutely more than zero people on Lemmy who believe this, no way in hell they’re going to post that.

          So people stay with “safe” unpopular opinions, like… “NYC is the ugliest city I’ve ever seen.” Sure, you’ll learn some new insults from the responses, but nobody’s going to troll through your post history and throw it in your face in every argument, or follow you around and downvote everything you post because of it. Ok, maybe some New Yorkers will do the latter, but you know what I mean.

          Consequently, because they’re just minority and not truly unpopular, all of the people who agree come out of the woodwork, incensed that this entirely reasonable opinion would be posted a being “unpopular.”

          Thank you for coming to my Ted-L talk.

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            I think it’s because people know what’s unpopular, but the heavy stuff, they don’t want to be associated with. So they choose milquetoast unpopular opinions, which aren’t really unpopular as much as maybe a minority.

            That’s pretty much it as far as the /comm goes.

    • You’re asking the wrong person. Due either to my client, or my instance, I get, like, a 20% success rate on attaching images. Most of the time I get an error.

      On my client, there’s a little picture icon. When I click that, it lets me select a picture and, if the wind is blowing in the right direction and the stars align, the picture is embedded. Otherwise, I upload to catbox.moe and manually embed the URL. The markdown syntax for an embedded image is:

      ![](https://url.ofyour.pic/thing.jpg)
      
    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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      If you’re using voyager you can just copy and paste and it will handle it, usually, assuming your instance has image uploads enabled.

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          I know mlem just got a new update, so I can’t comment on that BUT I can say that always come back to voyager.

          It’s as close to the Apollo Reddit client as there is (as far as I’m aware)

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            I’ve been playing around with the different options, Mlem isn’t bad. Voyager’s interface was a little all over the place for me.

    • I use Jerboa client on Android. It feels very much like the Reddit is Fun app.

      There are rich text buttons at the bottom of the new post field. One is a photo icon, click that and it takes you to your photo/file browser to select a pic.

      Here’s a pic I took of Earth’s bff, la Luna.

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    I just assume I said something factually wrong and now dozens of helpful people are lining up to correct me.

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    This is my primary use of reddit.

    Late night shitposting, i instantly forget, and seeing lots of interesting comments in the morning.

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        Since there’s no serious answer: hexbear is a highly toxic instance that has been defederated by most other instances. However, their users will keep tabs on what’s said on other instances, and they’ll occasionally show up en masse with alt accounts to attack something that particularly enraged them.

        Many of them are…not quite mentally stable.

        They’re probably the single largest base of tankie support. For them, America = bad, and anyone opposed to America = good. They pretend to care about communism etc but they’re really just anti-American. Saying anything negative about China gets you instantly banned.

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          You are a disingenuous liar.

          Go to the hexbear news megathread and you will find criticism of China:

          There are many Chinese hexbear users that discuss the flaws of their country, people that are banned are those that spread misinformation.

          Of course the United States = bad there is no modern equivalent to the outsourcing of death, despair, and destruction the great satan exports.

          lemmy.world “preemptively defederated as a last resort” you can find their reasoning here: https://lemmy.world/post/2498330 sounds like lemmy.world wants an echo-chamber yet despite whinging about “brigades” there has never been any actual proof that brigades are organized.

          hexbear defederated FROM sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ca, lemmy.blahaj.zone, programming.dev, lemmy.nz, aussie.zone because those instances were NOT moderating to the standard that hexbear places on cultivating a space for marginilzied people.

          Who are you to judge the mental stability of people when you constantly project your insecurities on to those seeking a better future.

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            that is the limp dickiest ‘criticism’ i’ve ever seen. please go back to your tankie instance.

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              no need to display your homophobia and i will stay right here. it took me minutes to easily disprove the “any criticism of China = ban” I’m sure anyone who as any intellectual curiosity will see that you are hypocritical swine that wallow in your treats to distract from your exploitation.

              why are you so afraid of hexbear?

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              yes, you and the two others have proven that if anyone “brigades” it is dronies

              how do you not feel shame for your rampant consumption and utter lack of critical thinking?

              while you cry to each other about the other China has built more renewable energy than the west combined

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            I cannot see Hexbear and it has zero impact on my life.

            When right wingers are wrong they like screeching about Hexbear. That is what Hexbear is for Lemmy.World users. such as ourselves.

            You yourself are on Lemmy.World which begs the question why you are so obsessed with Hexbear.

            • Hexbear is left wingers, so they say. Just vehemently anti American. Russia is their ultimate hero. It’s co.pletely contradictory. Saw one today arguing that Alexis Nolvany was a secret Nazi and got himself killed. And God damn, do they hate Vladimir Zelensky; he’s a Nazi dictator despite being popularly elected in an election that all observers found free and fair, and despite living a fairly modest lifestyle; and that’s in contrast to Putin, despite Putin living in multiple billion dollar secret bunker mansions guarded by the military and being president for life thanks to what all international observers agree are sham elections.

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    Most of the time I know exactly what I’m getting if I see more than maybe 3+ comments. Usually it’s me saying something anti-communist, something on brand enough for me.

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    HAVE YOU EVER BEEN BENT OVER BY BIGFOOT WHEN EXPLORING THE WOOD AND MISTAKEN FOR A MATE. THEN LEFT THERE LAYING OUT LIKE A WET SPAGHETTI NOODLE! THIS IS HOW IT FEELS DRIVING A FORD F150!

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    Half the time you just have to say “Fuck Tankies” or “Vote DNC” and you’ll get 4, 10, or even 20 of the most cookie cutter responses you’ve ever seen in your life.

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    Also, what was happening in that other site many of us used to be in so interactions between the same people talking the same points were so rare?

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    If your in for a wild ride, you can post something like “Steam sucks”, or ask anything about “Hexbear”. If you just want positive attention, go with “What’s the best distro for…?”

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      If you just want positive attention, go with “What’s the best distro for…?”

      Clearly the best distro is Windows 10!

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        Looks like we have a noob that wouldn’t survive 10 minutes in a kitchen lobby here. Everyone knows that cooking with steam preserves nutrients, enhances flavor, and retains the natural texture of food.

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              I didn’t say there weren’t some forms of generation that didn’t involve steam. I’m just saying those pathetic puny sources will never amount to the energy produced by generating steam. The sun won’t always shine, and the wind won’t always blow. And there’s only so many places you can capture flowing water. And even the most effective forms of solar use solar thermal to make steam. We just have to admit that steam is the GOAT

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                They discovered a new power source!
                Does it involve creating steam and generating power from that?
                Well, huh, never mind.