Ask Lemmy

Not talking about obvious things like crime.

I mean things that people just accept as part of life.

Things everyone does, but when you really think about it, it actually makes no sense.

While aristocratic oligarchs taking down a populist tyrant isn't the unambiguous step towards freedom it's sometimes portrayed as, it's important to have a day to celebrate the end of tyrants.

Who will you be toasting the demise of today?

For exaple: why are some of them so obsessed with it?

I wondered if there was an appetite for a ridesharing drivers' community here.

I love learning, but I don’t like formal education (which is why I do online school - it's mostly a formality, not much actual schooling). No career really appeals to me. I honestly just want to be a housewife. Thankfully, I have my family's unconditional support, so I would never have to depend on a man.

I was looking at Graphite Editor project and how the hell is 24k stars on GitHub translate to 600$ per month?

This is not the first open source project that I see with this problem.

Why the hell is no one supporting open source developers?

Just to clarify, I don't think it's a problem that hatred is minimal here, and I don't just mean politics.

I feel like I very rarely see alternative opinions about anything, whether it be software, ai, news about companies, etc. it just seems like everyone universally agrees about anything with only a tiny handful of exceptions.

It makes me hesitant to believe I'm on the "correct side" and I never see any arguments from opposition. This makes me worried that I'm in some sort of echo chamber. In real life, I do see much more diverse opinions and, if I only used the fediverse for social media, would likely be weaker in defending my own since their arguments would be "new" to me.

I understand the reasons for which the fediverse has pretty collective opinion, but it does still worry me. I want to be able to see all the other people with their own thoughts (given it's respectful) on the Internet, which should be the most capable tool to do so.

What's something normal that should remain a taboo?

I bought a safe. wtf do I need a safe for?

I was wondering how users tend to judge what to upvote, what do downvote, and what not to vote on.

I made this comment which got me wondering what others think and do

Personally I upvote almost everything. I see upvote as "this is a good Lemmy post/comment" and downvote as "this is a bad Lemmy post/comment". Most of what I see is good. Bad things are things such as misinformation, bad faith stuff / trolling, people being mean/annoying, bad (in my opinion) takes, people being wrong/stupid about stuff, irrelevant things, etc. When I do not vote it's for one of 3 reasons: either I don't understand what it is saying, it makes a reference I don't get, or I can't determine whether it's good or bad (usually because it's unclear).

cross-posted from: https://suppo.fi/post/11006271

This is probably a really weird question for most, and I apologise if this doesn't fit this community, I couldn't find a more applicable one. I'm trying to find a roleplay group. It's very strange and niche, but I'm looking for people interested in roleplaying as anthropomorphic countries (CountryHumans). The platform would specifically be Stoat Chat. If anyone is interested, DM me for the invite link! For some reason I'm not able to view replies on suppo.fi, but I can on piefed.social, though I don't have an account there, so replies may be slow and I will just make comments and @ the person I'm replying to, sorry!

Hi all,

I want to start a photo community.

I'm trying to figure out the best place..

Mastadon?

Lemmy?

This will be a lot of (hopefully) high quality images. What is the best place for this?

What about pixelfed?

I'm a bit stumped!

You can take "justifiable" to mean whatever you feel it means in this context. e.g. Morally, artistically, environmentally, etc.

Shill your favorite product and service. MLMs and corporate representatives need not comment.

Cut out Amazon. Quit facebook and twitter. What else, though? If the mighty dollar reigns supreme, and I wanna vote with my spending, what small steps can the average person make to disrupt the patterns of the nihilistic ego tripping energy vampires who are willing to burn it all down so they can live forever?

Greetings,

I subscribe to the .....sublemmies (is there a better tern for this?) That are the main ones for subjects that interest me: Linux, privacy, .....and others, I'm sure. But they're very "high-level." How do I find the "deep cuts?"

A while ago I asked whether you are a do the good thing first or save it for later sort of person, like eat the best part or whatever.

Now I’m curious if it was a zombie apocalypse, would that change your calculation?

So not in daily life, but if you found something good but you know you’ll likely die soon.

Do you consume it all now (not just food, but media or friendship), or do you dole it out to yourself to make it last?

I have deleted my LinkedIn Account after a long time of inactivity with occasionally logging in to "connect" with somebody.

I told 2 people about this, both of which were rather surprised and immediately asked me what I would do if im back to search for a new job. I got my current job through a normal job listing website and sent the application directly to the company, that was 8 years ago I don't know why that would not still be viable, but their questions still made me unsure.

Has anybody on here found a job recently? Did LinkedIn help you in a big way, do you think it would not have been possible without? Am a web developer btw.

I mean of course it does help to spread your wings a little more. But on the other hand opening LinkedIn gives me instant depression, so i think you have to value in those things as well.

EDIT:
Or if you are HR would you see it as a negative if you received an application with no existent LinkedIn account?