I had triple reverse anti-pro uber TACO squared, for whatever that’s worth.

It’s even more infuriating when I hard boil a bunch of eggs and about half of them peel pristinely clean, the other half end up looking like the surface of the moon. Ya’ll was in the same damn pot, what’s the excuse?

It’s Gremlins who cause the chaos in my household. But also, I’d like to find out more about this long lost and formerly unknown brother of mine.

These types of posts/memes/graphics … they have to be created and posted by MAGA supporters, right?

I know willfully ignorant people span all political persuasions but this kind of brain dead logical fallacy, so obvious a dementia ridden pedophile would notice it immediately, serves purely to delegitimize the people who support birthright citizenship. So whether it’s someone trying to be supportive or someone trying to be harmful, the intent doesn’t matter so much when the effect is indistinguishable.

At least their status bars are, presumably, somewhat honest. It’s pretty common for the status server being used to track various Lemmy instances to show all green even when the site has clearly been down several hours or even for days.

NOT LIKE THAT

Bee extinction means drastically fewer crops and less pollination, but not no crops. It would be devastating, but there would still be agriculture. Lots of staple crops are wind pollinated and don’t rely on insects at all. But for the rest of our food, that would all become very expensive and widely unavailable.

I’m sure things are different in different parts of the world, but where I’m from, pretty much none of the big crop farms let fields lay truly fallow. Most of them plant various cold season cover crops that include things like clover, brassicas, and legumes like vetch. Those all produce lots of flowers that feed the bees in the off season.

The issue with wildflower meadows, and correct me if I’m wrong, is that most of those wildflowers bloom at times when the fields would otherwise be needed for crop production. Of course, there are farmers who skip planting at all some years, but in my neck of the woods, nobody does that. They plant every year, at least once, they just rotate different crops in and out. Corn one year. Hay then soy, the next. And so on.

I don’t remember.

However, I gave up gaming when I was around 18 and preparing to head off to college. Then after I graduated, I was at a store and saw Quake Arena on deep discount (b/c it was a very old game at that time) and based on the hardware requirements, it looked like my crumby ancient tower computer could play it. I don’t know why, but I decided to buy it, and I guess that sort of got me back into gaming (ish).

I was in my 20s and although I barely remember the game now, yeah, it was worth it. The graphics and performance were far superior to anything I’d played up to that point. It had online play, which was entirely new to me at the time. And a few years later, I got major “friend points” when I gifted it to someone who was a game collector and had offered many times to buy the game from me.

It’s been so many over the years and I really don’t recall the names of a lot of instances I’ve been on. I’m here on .zip because .wtf was having major stability issues a while back. Every time I’d get on, it was down. This happened for days/weeks at a time and I got irritated. Prior to that it was .world, similar story. Lots of stability issues on days and times I’d normally try to hop on there. Plus there was an update fiasco, or some other issue I don’t recall, that took it down for a bit. Prior to that I was on one of the kbin instances that is gone entirely now.

I don’t recall the first instance I joined when I first signed up. I had read that new folks should help spread the load by going to lesser used instances instead of all signing up for the big ones. That first instance was only around for maybe a couple of months. There was one that used the “magazine” concept for subscriptions, maybe kbin, I dunno.

As I said, it’s been a lot and I’ve been around long enough that I can’t recall all the names. Plus, the kicker to all this? Those site status trackers are highly, highly unreliable. When lemmy.world was down, at one point for like a full day or so, the site monitoring link showed all green. It’s one reason I stopped even bothering to try and troubleshoot on my end in case it’s something I’ve done because that started to become a major waste of my time.

From a technical standpoint: No.

I’m on probably my dozenth account now. The majority of my jumps are because the instance I’d chosen became unstable, had long and/or frequent outages, or just died and went away completely with no warning.

Even the biggest instance I’ve ever joined, lemmy.world, choked whenever there’s a large exodus from Reddit or a lemmy upgrade or a bug farts in Belgrade.

The instances with fairly open enrollment will likely break under the load. The smaller instances with ridiculous sign-up requirements and/or a need for manual approval of accounts will discourage people from using Lemmy at all.

And because of those technical issues…

New instances will pop-up quickly from determined Redditors, because the stuff that’s already around can’t keep up. Then those new instances will become the heavy hitters. The ones we have now will be vulnerable to atrophy and becoming insular. The overall Fediverse will be vulnerable to the silo effect, diluting its value to folks, as it will basically be RedFed versus OldFed.

From an end-user standpoint: Also no.

The “culture” would shift practically overnight. I’ve already seen that happen. When I first got here, people were actually kind to each other. Users stood up for others and disparaged others for being hostile, aggressive, overly negative, etc. Then we had the API-calypse surge. Now those radically kind days are long gone. It happened fast. I tried to keep it up in my own small little corner, but even I don’t do as good a job as I should.

While the Fediverse may be “strong” overall, the individual pieces are too fragile to handle a significant Rexit onslaught. If even a small fraction of all Reddit users came to the Fediverse en-masse, this place as we know it would be gone.

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I’m listening. This sounds like a story my grammy used to tell me.

If you triple over a stretched HDMI cable it will safely disconnect.

If you triple over a stretched VGA cable… Well, may God save you and your monitor.

Like 3 plugs in the same port? How do you even accomplish that?

Ain’t got no money. Ain’t got no heterosexuality.

These waves usually turn out better quality users than the lulls when we’re otherwise mostly getting the people who’ve been permabanned from Reddit. So, hopefully we get some good ones!

Were you permabanned from Reddit or just banned from a specific subreddit? Those are two entirely different things, and sometimes people don’t seem to understand or don’t care to admit it.

Sucks to be permabanned from the whole site over that comment if that’s what happened, but hopefully you took that as an experience to learn and grow (and not just as a reason to reinforce your discontent with Reddit itself) so that you don’t necessarily bring that same energy to other spaces.

Honestly, that’s a problem for a lot of ex-Redditors in my strictly subjective opinion. They claim to hate the place, but then bring the same exact energy here. I’m fine with a diversity of opinion and antics, but if I wanted to interact with Redditor behavior, I’d just go to Reddit.

Anyway, I myself LOATHE having to use “/s” to denote when I’m being sarcastic or deploying a bit of mockery/parody. However, I recognize that my intent does not obligate others to abide, nor is my intent and its effect on others guaranteed to align. I would say in the context that you describe, I probably wouldn’t make that kind of comment or if I did I would at least do the thing I hate so much and just use a “/s” or sPonGE CAsE, perhaps.

In your new non-reddit home, the bad Reddit-like moderator behavior is alive and thriving here as well. It’s not all fairy farts and unicorn blow around here. You probably already knew that, but just in case, figured I’d give you a heads up.

A while back I was standing in line behind a few people when one of the people at the head of the line mentioned something about a “bum leg”.

The smooth brain behind them immediately seized on the opportunity to start a super sarcastic to the point of being aggressive spiel about how “you can’t say that anymore, that’s not politically correct” and then continued his butt hurt tirade calling out “liberal snowflakes”.

However, the grand finale and pièce de résistance of his rambling was a comment along the lines of “there’s only 2 pronouns, male and female”.

Anyway, this comic from 1994 kinda reminded me of that hilarious but also horrific little nugget.

NEW USER: “I came to Lemmy because Reddit permabanned me for saying puppies and kittens are cute.”

Then I find myself looking at their comment/post history because that doesn’t really sound like a normal thing anybody would get banned for. And after seeing what they post/comment here, I think to myself “I disagree with permabanning people, but I think I understand why it might’ve been done.”

Denise - it’s French