turns out that normal people don’t want to be around places unmoderated and unmoderable by design, and instead it’s a magnet for nazis, pedos, nazi pedos and cryptobros, but i repeat myself

nostr is packed with cryptobros, other scammers, and worse

do you live within c-suite boardroom powerpoint presentation

op: lemmy is so intolerant against my views!

insert untitled goose with a knife chasing op: what views, fucker?

it’s not always like this, but it happens so often i’m not surprised

Yeah and it’s a good signal about what each instance is like, and where to move to

it’s giving a chatbot, your pfp is genai slop, and by now i think you’ve been reliably informed that fedi in general is generally anti-ai. there is a couple of very good reasons why things are this way. if you don’t like this, you are free to fuck off to linkedin, lobsters, hn or some other corporate hellhole

very few instances have it enabled. calculating it from non-home instance is a bit pointless because heavily downvoted stuff tends to be moderated out and therefore inaccessible

if you mean downvotes in general, i think that’s a very good thing, because when you disagree with something, you can just downvote and move on, and when downvotes are out, it’s a shield for trolls and assholes, and additionally when disagreeing you feel compelled to comment instead and end up like hexbear

ferrets are already domesticated, but i think that having more of/some other domesticated weasel would be neat. imagine pet stoat, or mink, or perhaps wolverine

cheetahs were tamed by ancient egyptians, and even today you can find some random gulf sheikh with pet cheetah. the problem with domestication is that they’re very hard to breed in captivity

who is the cause of that “momentous change in the region”, i wonder

there’s indigo and another plant that grows in europe and also makes indigo but less, so you can just farm this thing, unlike purple dye that requires tons of work, and depending on period it was used by commoners (before 1200 or so, in western europe)

it’s a bit funny to look at this today, but woad (that euro indigo) trade was a big deal, it got protected by tariffs and blockades and diplomacy, and all for nothing, ultimately both woad and indigo farming was completely destroyed by synthetic indigo production. indigo wasn’t first/easiest dye to make, but it’s far from the most complex thing you can cook, even in 1900s. prussian blue is much cheaper than synthetic indigo anyway

blue leds may fuck up your circadian rhytm but won’t give you ballsack cancer (probably)

i heard it’s because leds get brighter per mA but circuits don’t get updated and leds are fed the same current as 5, 10 years ago

there is an ukrainian soldier who shared footage from his raids and became sort of internet nanocelebrity on reddit because of it. at one point somebody made anime girl character based on him, and asked about opinion he said something to the effect of “i feel secure enough in my masculinity to jack off to this”

what do you count as tech?

I read a lot of “back in my day, there weren’t smartphones” comments whenever the post talks about technology and smartphones, and I feel so left out.

reminder that not everyone is a westerner. my home village only had internet (adsl) like in 2008 or so

it’s nit funny only if it’s your job to clean up after them