It’s been better, but for about a year now it looks like a number of lost people have been roaming lemmy sowing confusion…plenty of users used to say this was a really welcoming environment, particularly before the reddit IPO/LLMs…

Whenever I try to be funny, I come across as super-cereal…folks don’t like that in neurodivergent cave dwellers…:/

Depends on why people communicate on social media. The best communities are the ones where everyone understands what they are there to do without being told. It’s not just because memeing communities are fun and technical communities are dull. Places like technology or worldnews generate friction because there are some people sharing/requesting info and people trying to relax/vent/troll/feel important/fight/dunk and that creates an expectation mismatch that leads to toxicity.

I saw one rumor where they uploaded a gibberish file for some reason. In another, there was a Windows update that shipped just before they uploaded their well-tested update. The first is easy to avoid with a checksum. The second…I’m not sure…maybe only allow the installation if the windows update versions match (checksum again) :D

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Nah, some people just have other priorities… and you don’t just have to sheeple through life like it’s a checklist driven by peer pressure to move onto the next stage… you’re fine.

Ok, you’re winning at monkey pawing :D lemme see if I can top that…

Probably, yes. Imagine how superhuman you’d feel skydiving without a parachute outside the day of your death knowing you couldn’t die. (plot twist: you spend 10 years in a coma afterwards and still die from doing it :/)

Depends on income. With more income, I’d travel a lot and do things. With no income, I’d try to make some things, be online and read pirated books :)

This is so 2015…now it would be “Once elected, I will murder every single one of you” and they would reply with joy in unisson: “Hurrah, free lamb chops for everyone, you’re our saviour!!!”