If a person asks you to provide evidence that anything bad is happening in China, you are about to get banned in that Lemmy community before you can collect or post said evidence.
this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2025
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I know arch exists and is a type of linux, which is a type of computer for computer people.
I know there are a bunch of different types of linux but they all require the same socks to work right.
I know beans help corn grow.
I know how to not poop for 3 days.
I JUST DON'T KNOW WHY!
The main LGBTQIA+ space is ran by a troll who bans anyone who doesn't kiss her boot.
Admins and mods are no different than any part of reddit.
They will be the death of their own spaces sadly.
The mods are literally the same. The admins? That's absurd. The admins are people who are spending their own money to provide a service to you that we all collectively own. The admins of Reddit are employees of a corporation that are paid to enhance the exploitation of their users for third parties. If you can't see the fucking difference, you're better off at Reddit.
So many admins here are exactly like mods. They host themselves because then they have some modicum of power and nobody is above them. They don't host out of any altrustic or helpful desire; they host to be in charge.
I know exactly what admin Sapphic is referring to and I 100% agree with their statement.
They guy who asked how not to poop for a week.
I remember the the week I moved here that was in no stupid questions, there was not a lot of comments and post and that became big, references popped in other posts and comments and ultimately was forgotten.
This is akin of the poop in the shower, dunk in the toilet, guy from IMGUR in 2014 and I still think is legit as everyone is "anonymous" on the internet.
- !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org is VERY unique both in content and in what gets posted.
- Almost everyone running Linux (or at least it seems like it 😉)
- Pretty diverse where people are at location-wise. Feels like early internet instead of services trying to bubble you into your place/content.
Im sure there are others. Looking forward to what everyone else says!
.....Also Beans. Yeah didn't expect that.
It may seem like we all run Linux, but some people run BSD too.
I don't always use BSD, but when I do
@
“unknown argument ‘--help’”
Ah yes, devil Linux.
Ill see myself out.
At some point im going to have to give it a try. I like playing around with alternative OSes for fun (like 9front, UXN, LFS, etc...).
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Two leftists with minute political differences calling each other fascists.
My outsider impression is that this is just a long-standing hard-left tradition in general. Not really specific to anything on the Fediverse.
I remember going through the list of UK socialist and/or communist political parties. Lots of tiny, fragmented groups, many of which had split off from others over various disagreements.
The phenomenon is sometimes called the Naccism of Small Differences or the Law of Triviality. It's appears in just about any group of people to some degree. It's a wild and weird little bit of human behavior.
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- About half are Americans, about half are in non-US Western countries, 5% other
- everyone here hates the current US admin
- everyone uses adblockers
- everyone is anti-surveillance (except like 1 or 2 users you find occasionally defending mass surveillance that get downvoted into oblivion)
- everyone is either a Marxist Leninist, Left Anarchist, Social Democrat, or Democratic Socialist, except like a handful of liberals and like 2 conservatives
- almost everyone here supports vigilantism
- Germans... Germans Memes Everywhere
- BEANS
- Frequently, you get extreme CCP shills falsely accusing you of Sinophobia, and simultaneously some are actually some closeted Sinophobes.
- ~~BEANS~~, ~~CORN~~, ONION
Our memes feel very old internet and I miss those times.
Next will be meat? Are we making a chili?
You’re going to write beans in caps, not even mentioning corn in passing? This one right here officer!
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That weird bot that assumed that woman's identity and was messaging everyone?
Nicole noticed me once, that's the only time in my life I ever felt special.
Glad thats gone. It was very strange!
I guess somebody finally replied to her and they’re off happily married. Good for her!
I can say Luigi Mangione all I want.
Even the idiots here are pretty smart.
Beans. Not corn, but beans.
It's not an actual instance, but it was reserved by someone who made a lovely site. No, it's not what you think.
This is now my new favourite thing.
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A much more selective user base. People are very picky in what they upvote. I feel like in the Spez pool people upvoted or downvoted and would comment a lot easier. Here people vote with 3 options. Up, down or not. Feels much more deliberate. Also means you get a lot less comments (despite there being less users), because people follow the Bambi principle more here (if you don’t have anything nice to say, say nothing at all)
AND, I think there are some fediverse issues with the various clients and the fact that language is per post setting, hindering discovery.
the fact that language is per post setting, hindering discovery.
Could you please elaborate on this a bit? It feels interesting for me, but I don't quite see how the language setting impedes discovery.
Ah. The default UI on lemmy.world warns against unselecting ‘undefined’, saying that many posts would be removed from the feed. Dunno how it is on other instances.
It’s not about instances, but about Lemmy clients not supporting the language setting.
I always felt on R that if you commented, most of the time, it goes down a black hole. You come into something "late" and no one sees your comment. No up/down votes at all. Which can feel very bad if you spent a lot of time on your response.
I like that "Bambi principle". Thats a good way of putting it.
Your mention of unix_surrealism is a good point, it really is quite a unique community.
Also for me, the 3 day no poop question will forever be deeply tied to lemmy. It only unfolded days after I first joined, and I believe it was the first big piece of lemmy lore.
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Don't @ me, but I soak in the drama of Best of Redditor Updates and the fediverse isn't quite suited to sagas like that yet.
But the guy who needed to not shit for 3 days made it over there. So that feels pretty noteworthy.
It's one of my favourite subreddits just because I like having "real" stuff to read. I was wondering recently if we should just make a community for reposting the best r/BORU posts to Lemmy? And then, assuming Lemmy gets big enough, we'll already have a spot for posting the best of Lemmy updates too.
there's already a !bestofredditorupdates@lemmit.online but a lot of instances block lemmit for being bot content since their whole purpose is to repost reddit content which like. bots are actually super useful for that kind of thing. A LOT of users don't seem to understand that they personally have the power to set instance blocks for their own account. so instead they push for defeds when like. just block the instance from your settings. it's a checkbox. it's not complicated! Sometimes I worry that all the defeds will create little insular echo chambers when the whole point of fedi is diversity.
I run Fireside Fedi. A show where I talk with folks from around the Fediverse. It's all Fedi powered as well. Live stream, Owncast (https://stream.firesidefedi.live/), VOD Peertube (https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi), GoToSocial and testing Bonfire for the social accounts.
I'm obviously biased though. :-)
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