Perhaps OP is a Marxist and/or Leninist.

If 90% of LinkedIn users are making the same OPSEC errors, then I’d say it works as advertised.

At least the soundtrack would be incredible.

We’re a waffle-stomping household 'round these parts.

Friendica says “hello”.

Saucey subs have to beg for it.

the childlike whimsy that Misskey has.

This, so much. I really wish I could read Japanese, because the really active Misskey instances look genuinely fun to be on. It reminds me a lot of the OMGPOP days, which I miss dearly.

Even if you enjoyed game testing (which there is definitely some appeal to for a certain type of person), it’s not worth doing if you’re relying on having any sustainable amount of income. The pay for game testers has always been among the bottom rungs within the gaming industry, and has only gotten lower in recent years as more game studios have begun using overseas contractors to do all their testing, which lets them skirt a lot of labor laws.

On Mbin, it shows as just a regular upvote. Emoji votes would also be a great change, too! I like the way Misskey-like instances use them.

I think votes should honestly be a bit more like old school SlashDot voting, where you had several different types of votes you could leave on a comment like Insightful, Funny, Helpful, etc. Have a few negative ones like Bad Faith Argument, Spam, Advertisement, etc. And also like old school /., you’d have a limited amount of votes you can give. Make them replenish once per day, or have users earn additional votes for receiving positive votes on their comments, or something along those lines.

That would prevent bombing an entire comment thread with downvotes, and provides much-needed context for any given comment’s score.

Well that just gave me a new fear.

Given the average user experience Matrix offers, they’ll be back on Discord within the same day.

Matrix is just not anywhere near ready for what most Discord communities want out of a platform.

Won’t happen. Google ran YouTube at a net loss for a decade before turning a profit. Very few companies have the kind of money to invest like that. Video hosting is crazy expensive, especially when it’s free.

I have to imagine that anybody savvy enough to make the decision to install a third-party launcher is also savvy enough to immediately uninstall that shit.

Discoverability is a major problem for PeerTube, as it is for pretty much every fedi platform. Even if there WAS content on PeerTube, it’s basically impossible to find.

I also work in an EMS-adjacent field (NEMT), and the work we do genuinely helps people in need. I would be doing a major disservice to my community by not going into work. I will only be spending the bare minimum needed to get myself to and from work, as that’s the best I can conscientiously do right now.

You should probably tell them your plans before going through with it. They know you better than anyone on Lemmy could know you, and could probably help you identify the real issue that you’re trying to resolve, because I don’t think that chemical castration will fix the thing you think it’ll fix. Looking through some of your previous posts, I get the feeling that perhaps you may suffer from some social ineptitude, which I can almost certainly guarantee you is not going to be fixed by castrating yourself.

You say that you’re aromantic, but you also say you’ve “never been successful in dating”, implying that you’re not actually aromantic and have actually been seeking companionship, and just not finding it. That’s not what “aromantic” means, and I worry that you’re twisting your own self-perception to fit into the definition of aromanticism. If you were aromantic, then the lack of romantic connections would not be affecting your everyday life as you say it is; the lack of successful romantic connections would be a boon to you.

I’d strongly recommend a different therapist, maybe one who specializes in this field.

Someone tell the creator of Girls Gone Wild.

I don’t think Joe Francis is going to be the good guy in this scenario.

What makes you think those are mutually exclusive concepts? I already do all those things without God. Except I do those because I choose to, not because I was ordered to. Also keep in mind that the commandments came out WAY after the Garden of Eden, anyway.

But let’s also not pretend that God’s rules are all great, either. If the guy who enacted a worldwide genocide and commands fathers to kill their sons is your moral compass, then maybe you should consider that the characters in these stories aren’t 100% “good” or “evil” to begin with.

The world isn’t black and white. Embrace the grey.

Satan represents rebellion against arbitrary, self-appointed authority. Satan defied God’s law to bring the gift of knowledge to humanity, hence the name “Light Bringer”, or “Lucifer” in Latin. Satan doesn’t reside in Hell because he is evil, he resides in Hell because he was banished, as punishment from the highest autocrat for trying to set humanity free from eternal servitude. Satan was never the enemy of Man; he was the first angel to treat humanity with dignity instead of as an experiment, or a pet to be dragged on a leash.

If you don’t see yourself in Satan, then I have to wonder what you’re doing with your life.