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They’re not exclusive.

I have a website (check my profile) and I also post here. One is my personal space, like my virtual home (like my home, I pay for it) the other is a space where I can share content and participate in open discussions when I fancy doing so.

i’m going to be honest tho, on my reddit account i just got to 1k karma!!

What is karma worth today? Ask your banker how well karma trades against dollars and see what you can you buy with 1k karma, or with 7.4K karma… yep, I just logged back into my reddit account to check how much karma I had in my reddit-bank account :p

It’s worthless. It’s just a gimmick and a trick to keep people wasting even more of their time. Like you said:

i think some of it is taking a lot of my time!!

It does. And not some of it, most of it.

Focus on what matters, which is not some virtual reward that has zero value.

You may have a point here. I used to compare them to oysters until I realized I was being unfair to them, the oysters I mean. What could I use if bricks are also unfair choice? ;)

Great, subscribed!
BTW, you may want to check our journaling community at [email protected] ;) edit: and check the links I added in the sidebar to find other interesting communities.

If by culture you mean Lemmy’s users values, beliefs, or ideals there is nothing special I appreciate (or don’t appreciate). I mean, for me it’s irrelevant as it’s all personal preferences like the fact that I don’t like bananas, or that we have not owned a TV for 25 years (glad to know others may share similar preferences, but it’s no big deal if they don’t).

I care about Lemmy itself not being like Reddit. It’s not ad-driven, there is no algorithmic ‘optimization’, it’s not trying to milk our content and also it’s not being owned by one of those billionaires that think their pile of money means they know better than all of us. In that, it’s very different than Reddit, but at the same time I also expect to meet similar kind of people on Lemmy I used to meet on Reddit.

Interesting, or less interesting, people. People I agree with, and more often people I do not agree with (which is fine by me). Very smart people, while others do have the brain power of a brick. Nice people, or naughty or even hateful ones. People whose values I share, others I don’t and never will (you can go funk yourself, fascists of all types). People who like what I like, and many others that don’t and never will (see my banana and TV examples ;).

And then I also expect tp meet people who think it’s enough to ask their question without even trying to give it the some context or explanation (say, people who ask what we appreciate most in Lemmy culture without explaining what they mean by that), next to people that try their best to give as much context/explanation as they can ;)

Edit: typos + clarifications.

None ;)

I used to use Reddit. I now use Lemmy. That’s it.

To be clear, I do own accounts on many other platforms, including Mastodon, as a way to keep those handles under my hand. I simply don’t use them and see little reason to start using them.

However, not everything is lost at this point.

I won’t lose much myself as I don’t use Edge (and I’d rather not browse the web at all than be forced to look at ads) but it’s clear there is a worrysome acceleration in the vanishing of the little control we have over the Internet and the way we are allowed to experience it.

I can’t tell the future. So, I don’t have a list of what will edited/censored tomorrow ;)

I don’t have a list of what have been edited either, sorry. Out of my mind, I think I can recall a few.

Most of us have at least heard about Amazon deleting t one edition of the ‘1984’ novel from some of their customers device (one doesn’t make that up—if you don’t know what that book is about, it tells the story of fascist-like society in which the main characters works at the Truth Ministry, or something like that, and is charged with editing newspapers clips and change them (remove faces from pictures and change the text of the articles) so they always fit whatever the new and constantly changing narrative of that government is. I would encourage anyone to read it, as well as Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ which is at least as interesting as a way to question our own society).

But it should be really easy to find (many) other occurrences. Some about books or movies or series that were edited or completely suppressed because they’re considered offensive to some audience, others because they’re considered unhealthy (like removing the cigarette they were smoking, from some character’s mouth). Others because the publisher did not like something in it or because the author wanted to—try to find a recent edition of the first trilogy of Star Wars without the added extra scenes Lucas so much wanted to put in.

And then there are the endless list of books, movies, series (and probably music too) that are not streamed at all or not re-printed. Either because they’re not considered worth it, or because someone is afraid of the audience’s reaction.

I won’t list the one I have I can remember because I know very well some people are only waiting for that kind of excuse to jump in the conversation, without any other desire than to get offended and to create some polemic.

In any case, I consider the ever rising call to censorship, no matter the motivation, a good reason to own a copy of whatever I want to be able to read, listen to or watch, no matter what anyone could think about it.

And for all the content for which there is no print, DVD or CD available, no physical media at all, well, too bad for them I suppose because… they won’t get my money. Simple as that. I already have access to enough offline/physical content to last me more than the time I have left to live, and I really don’t think I will lose much by not being able to read the latest best-sellers, or watch the latest series or movies.

If it’s encrypted and if it’s not stored in clear anywhere, no.

That said, the moment encryption will be forced (by law) to include backdoors the question won’t be if they will read our messages (and everything else we used ton consider private mater), but when.

We’ve already seen books being rewritten to remove certain (offensive) words or sections being removed from re-editions, ebooks being removed from our reading device entirely and, obviously, we’ve all seen books being censored in some (school) libraries. Ditto for some comics. It’s a bit less known (?) but a few movies have already been edited too (removing scenes that today’s audience would consider offensive, or adding scenes (like in the original trilogy of Star Wars: all new releases includes those added scenes). With IA there would be no difficulty to edit a single scene, or even just some part of it, say to remove something/someone now considered offensive. We’re now really into Orwell’s 1984.

Imho, the only way to fight against that trend is in owning physical copies of whatever content you want to preserve. That’s why I quit watching streaming platforms and reading ‘purchased’ ebooks and went back to DVDs/physical books that I fully own and that can’t be remotely edited/removed from my home by anyone.

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Not sure to understand your point.

Ideas don’t come out of emptiness. They never. There is no such thing as some genius that get a brand new idea all by themselves out of their unique genius mind. Ideas are always the consequence of some kind of interaction with other pre-existing ideas and/or with other persons and situations. Direclty or indirectly (say, by reading a book). Genius may help, but it still requires something for the idea to grow out/on.

Talking about books, someone rightfully mentioned Descartes. Even him, who doubted absolutely everything, the whole universe around him and even he himself existed as an a person, in order to reach what he would consider a trustworthy certainty (cogito, ergo sum, I think therefore I am). Even that dude still needed the existence of a God to be certain that the fact that he was thinking (aka, that his idea of what he was doing) could be considered true or, at least, reliable enough to build upon. Ideas don’t come out of nowhere and never grow out of nothing.

Dislaimer: no René Descartes was harmed during the caricaturing his thoughts ;)

I’m 99% sure they ripped the note editing functionality from Standard Notes.

Not sure to understand, how could anyone ‘rip’ a note editing feature? Put text in a file (hopefully encrypted since it’s online) is kinda the purpose of all note-taking app… which they all copied from their analog (and much older) version pen + paper. And the vast majority of them do it using Markdown, too. Even sync is available in most note-taking apps (with or without E2EE encryption), or do you have something a little more specific in mind they would have ripped?

and try to sell them back to you with a yearly license, even if you host your own server.

That’s one (other) reason I like filen: lifetime plans are available (the most interesting ones are offered for a limited-time once a year during blackfriday). No sub.

I still use a pen and notebook. But I have an excuse: I prefer pen and paper to write (and I’m starting to get old too) ;)

The only digital note taking app I still use is the one that comes with the E2EE filen.io cloud storage, from Germany. It certainly is very limited but it’s more than enough for my occasional note-taking usage and it’s synced everywhere I may need to access it.

Acting like if he owns a country and its institutions?
I do wonder for how much longer Trump will tolerate such a diva standing right next to him on scene?

(that’s coming from a non-US citizen. I may not be the most well informed, mind you)

its not a huge issue, but its not a non-issue…

Well, it’s not an issue for me and I also think it’s a non-issue. Hopefully, you will allow me to have my own opinion on a question or should I ask for your permission first?

And btw by ‘obsessing’ I was only reacting to the fact that out of the two discussions/threads we participated in you and I in the last couple days (threads you initiated) both were about your very personal issue with people apparently heavily downvoting you. I could suggest you go back reading my answer in that first thread, but I’m starting to realize you may not want to discuss my suggestion and would rather be told you’re right. Which I think you’re not, if that was not obvious. See? I don’t need to downvote you to share the fact I don’t agree with you.

you don’t have to be so black and white with your dismissives.

Black and white? I’m not and I would even suggest that it would help (you) if you stopped making a personal attack out of any remark that doesn’t fit your narrative. Was I supposed to write a 40 pages essay to make my opinion more acceptable to you? Fine, I will do it after I read your own 40 pages.

But worry not as I won’t bother you with that ever again or with any suggestion that you would gain a lot by focusing your energy and time (think how precious time is) on things you can act upon, and learn to live with the world around you and people not being perfect (that means all of us, you and I included). If you really want to believe that fighting the ‘issue’ of Downvotes will make your life better, by all mean keep on doing it.

And be assured I did not Downvote you, and only tried to suggest you may be adventuring yourself in some kind of a dead-end and, once again, that you may be wasting some real precious time, time you will never be able to get back the day you realize you could have spend it on something worthwhile. Have a nice day.

edit: clarifications.

I think you obsess too much with that non-issue.

Hi, I’m 21/male from Germany and to me it seems like people here are constantly negative

Depends where you look, imho. (50+ male, from France ;))

I mean, if you mostly read negative topics, well, you will read more negative content. I don’t read those (no politics, no drama, no call to hate, no nothing like that) and I don’t have to read that much negativity.

Why do people waste all this time with complaining and being negative if they could use this time to be grateful, enjoy life and make the world a better place?

Let me ask you this: weren’t you just negative by asking that instead of, say, showing us by example how to share/read positive content and… make the world a better place? See, negativity is very easy to fall into ;)

I think I’m noticing this particularly in older people including my parents.

I think you may be noticing wrong but who knows? Once again, I’m well into my 50s and I try to see things in a positive way, no matter what’s going on. I don’t think it’s age (or sex/gender, or politics, or culinary taste)-related. It’s a personal thing.

As far as I know, the current culture around dating/relationships includes meeting your SO’s family

Date someone that doesn’t rely on ready-made recipes/expectations to meet people?

I mean if your family is screwed up (mine was), you should not be bothered to try to explain it to anyone. Not mentioning that most likely it’ll end giving the exact opposite result of what you’re looking for (I mean, anyone hearing someone telling them ‘fear not, my family is nuts but me yeah I’m 100% ok’ won’t feel that confident about you). That’s also useless.

Like I said, my family was… problematic. Did I try to rationalize them? nope. What I did is that as soon as I was able to, I let them behind me where they could live their live like they wanted to, and I started living my own… and meeting people that would not care the reason why ‘mom/dad/family’ was not an essential part of my own live. That works. Ask my spouse ;)

• My fountain pen (and ballpoint too), paper notebook and print books: no login required, no tracking, no sub (and no constant need to upgrade to the newest version: some of my fountain pens are older than I’m (I’m 50+ ;)
• My DVDs and CDs: no login required, no tracking, no sub.

Reading. Writing.

Like everybody around here, I get random downvotes too but I’ve yet to see anyone harassing that poor downvote button against my previous messages (I would not be surprised if this changed right after I publish this comment).

A few times, I 've seen multiple posts of mine get downvoted in a row in some thread. I supposed it was the action of someone disagreeing with me and wanting to ‘punish’ me for our diverging opinions but I could not tell, and I don’t care much either.

Much more than knowing someone may not like what I said, I’m interested in knowing their reasons why they disagree with what I said, or how I said it (even more so that I’m still learning English, so any remark can help me correct mistakes no matter how unpleasant the remark can be).

Alas, many people seem to think downvoting is enough an argument to say out loud they disagree with someone and to demonstrate how wrong they’re. It is not, at least not for me. I don’t know about them but I only write what I think, and what I think doesn’t change with the direction of the wind, or with the amount of + or - votes it receives. It can change when I’m faced with convincing arguments.

But arguments require a tad more work to share than just hitting the downvote button. Work not that many people seem to be willing to do.