jaycifer

I joined Lemmy a couple years ago after kbin.social closed down, and made a Piefed account a few months ago when people said it was pretty good. I use both daily for different things.

For Lemmy I have found there is a big block button on each community page, so I use it a lot more than on Piefed. I also have my default sort set to top of the last 12 hours and to hide a post after I have viewed it. Sometimes if a post is only an hour or two long and doesn't have a ton of comments I'll wait a few hours to open it to have more comments to read. If it's immediately interesting/relevant I'll open it in a new tab, read it, then leave the tab to refresh later for further discussion since it won't show up on my home page again. I also make heavy use of the Active sort after looking at the first page of 25 (I think) top results, which often leads to finding posts that I maybe wasn't super interested in a day or two ago that now enough comments to make me interested in what the discussion is going on. There's also a bug in the Active sort where the second page doesn't load which is great to me because it encourages me to get off of Lemmy at that point.

All this has led my Lemmy usage to be very focused on what I am interested in, and there is a much higher ratio of posts that I am interested in. When I am bored and want to look at my phone, Lemmy is what I open. It's where I tend to discuss things most frequently because I tend to find posts here first and they are more frequently things I want to speak on.

Piefed is where I go after Lemmy (You'll never guess my username there). It looks like you can block communities, but you have to dig into your account settings and search for the community, which takes more work than I care to give. Unlike Lemmy, you can block keywords in your settings, so I blocked "Trump" and "Musk" when I made the account which has cut out the vast majority of the exhausting posts I would see otherwise (I do leave Politics and World News unblocked on Lemmy to see the biggest politics posts that float to the top). I have my default sort set to top posts of the last 24 hours and since I have no communities blocked I get a lot of comics and memes that I have blocked on Lemmy. The first page loads what feels like 100 posts instead of the 25 on Lemmy. I don't know what the Active sort on Piefed is doing, but I do not care for it. I really like that I can set the default comment sort on Piefed, as it saves me the click and loading time of selecting Top comments every time I load a post.

All this leads my use of Piefed to feel like a funny junk drawer of mostly memes and comics that make me go "heh" every so often and occasionally share a meme to my friend group chat. The top 100 posts of the last day don't change quickly so it usually only feels worthwhile to scroll once, maybe twice a day. I also don't (can't?) hide posts on Piefed which leads to a greater sense of redundancy, which by the time I've reached the bottom of the front page means I probably shouldn't be scrolling more anyway.

If you can, you should make an account with both and see what feels best to you. Maybe you were looking for a more technical answer, but I can only speak to how it feels as an end user. A year ago I did start to throw a couple dollars to Lemmy each month for the server usage.

Yeah, it’s been 60 days so they are supposed to need congress to approve any further conflict. This lets them pretend that this is a new operation, and therefore a new conflict, to reset the timer.

I read Kickstarter and thought Patreon. That would be a huge blow to nsfw content. This is still upsetting.

Since you’ve read Cradle and Dungeon Crawler Carl I’ll throw out the Divine Dungeon and Completionist Chronicles series by Dakota Krout. Both are progression focused, pun-laden, and very light-hearted. They are sometimes sloppy in tying things together, but they spark my imagination in ways most other books don’t. Technically Divine Dungeon is a prequel to Completionist Chronicles, but enough time has passed between them that it doesn’t especially matter.

I haven’t met my aunt’s cousin many times, but I did hear about her wedding. For his vows, Mike 3 (the third Mike she dated and I think second she had married) crushed an entire Mike’s Hard Lemonade then declared “I love you so much, Babe!” After the ceremony they took the rifles that had been leaning a few feet away and shot some targets nearby. I think that was a few weeks after she had been excited that 7 years had passed since her last bankruptcy, which meant she could start racking up debt again and go on a cruise.

I guess kudos to them for living their best lives, but if all that’s not a little trashy, I don’t know what is.

Alright, I guess I'll just post the purely humorous ones then.

2-3 years ago when I tried Fedora (I think shortly before Fedora 41 released)? Yeah, after a few hours of figuring out how to get them installed I had serious screen artifact issues still, and ultimately ended up back on Windows.

Trying Bazzite a couple months ago with the drivers preinstalled and functional out of the box? No problems since then, games just work (except Crimson Desert for a month, but I didn't actually care to play it so that was fine), and I can actually focus on learning Linux without stressing over whether I can play my games.

Wow, I had no idea there was such opposition to (as you said) silly things on a meme community. I also don't understand how your assertions invalidate the core premise. It seems to me that by focusing on the meta-context of someone hypothesizing a contrived scenario you may be avoiding the question being posed, which is "if you or someone else is going to die, and you both have control over who does, is it morally defensible for you to allow the other person to die so you can live?"

You could create a different hypothetical scenario, such as "you are on a plane that is crashing with someone else and there is only one parachute. Is it wrong for you to take it and jump?" I think that could be an interesting question to grapple with, but according to my understanding of your argument the answer would just be, "blame the guy that didn't pack two parachutes." Fair enough, but that does nothing to address what is trying to be asked.

You could come up with specific scenarios to ask specific questions, but making it a trolley problem meme instead does a couple things. First, it puts the question in a common framework that many people are already familiar with. If you understand and accept the premise of the basic trolley problem, posing other questions as one should make it easier for you to understand. Second, it's a lot easier to create trolley problem memes. If someone wanted to make a meme of the parachute scenario above, they would have to draw or find art assets to put it together. Making a trolley meme requires three images; person with the lever, tracks, and the trolley itself. It would be really easy for someone with even the most basic photo editing skills to put something together, which makes asking these questions (in a silly format no less) far more accessible to more people, and I think that's a good thing.

Now, being more accessible does mean that it's easier for those who aren't able to articulate themselves to make these memes. Looking at the original meme again you're right that it isn't written well. But the very first thing I learned studying philosophy was the principle of charity, which has two parts. First, assume the other person has something worth saying. Second and more relevant here is that questions of meaning come before questions of truth. When I read the text as written in this meme the truth is obviously "no you won't be charged with murder." But when I consider the typo, the run on sentence, and just take in the scenario as shown in the picture, I have to wonder if the creator is actually concerned with the legal ramifications, or moral and maybe emotional ramifications they feel a need to express through legal questioning.

I don't know, I guess I just wrote a short essay basically saying I feel like I understand the meme better than I understand the mentality you've expressed here. I'm interested to hear your thoughts.

Hey, modern internal combustion engines are the worst they’ll ever be too! What a coincidence!

Additionally, Donald Trump does not appear on the chart of before and after wealth, presumbaly because the "according to Bloomberg" numbers are 20 time higher than the highest number that is on the chart.

It appears the original was removed then. There's a reupload, and also a copy site on .to that kept the number.

That's really interesting. Maybe the pronunciation in that case is like the difference between a midwestern vs elsewhere pronunciation of "boat." Very similar, but just different enough to tell a difference.