[-] borf@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"You're" is a contraction of the phrase "You are." The possessive form of the second person pronoun is "Your." No apostrophe, no letter E. "Your choice."

[-] borf@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 3 weeks ago

Reddit is owned and controlled by a corporation (Condé Nast.) They disabled 3rd party Reddit apps to force people onto the official Reddit app which also broke many third party moderation tools. This disproportionately impacted power users, frequent posters, and mods-- in other words, the people who made Reddit the important community it was.

They showed an unwillingness to listen to their community or work with the unpaid volunteer moderators, instead banning the moderators who took part in the Reddit Blackout and replacing them with mods willing to cooperate with the enshittification of the site.

They've been mangling the web interface to be uglier and less usable (old.reddit.com is still up, but the mobile version of old.reddit.com is gone). They've been experimenting with ways to show more ads and subtler ads.

Lemmy is open source and federated so it can't get bought up by a company and cored out for shareholder value. You can use different instances, or a variety of apps. You can use (or create your own) third party tools for accessibility and moderation.

Lemmy is currently a smaller universe than Reddit was, but it has a high ratio of good posters and moderators who care personally about their own communities, so hopefully it continues to grow.

[-] borf@lemmynsfw.com 24 points 1 month ago

Wow, hmmm. I'm someone who makes personal sacrifices in the name of punctuality because I've experienced the negative effects of lateness and strive not to externalize those costs to others whenever I can.

I'm going to be thinking about this post for a while because I really want to appreciate and relate to this perspective, because my personal inclinations go: food gets cold and won't be as good reheated as it was when it was hot the first time. Other people might have woken early or skipped a meal or made other personal sacrifices to be somewhere on time. I see punctuality as a responsibility to my fellow humans. If I say I'll be somewhere at a certain time, I do my best to do keep my word. So it's going to take me a while to really process the alternative perspective here.

[-] borf@lemmynsfw.com 31 points 1 month ago

What the fuck about this comment made you go "noooo BOTH SIDES 😭"

[-] borf@lemmynsfw.com 34 points 1 month ago

Imagine dying for Trump only for him to claim you never died

[-] borf@lemmynsfw.com 36 points 1 month ago

Your mom is smart and you should listen to her

[-] borf@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 1 month ago

"Kamala Chaos" sounds like a roller derby pseudonym or punk rock stage name

[-] borf@lemmynsfw.com 38 points 1 month ago

Fucking yeesh. The problem with Reddit isn't Redditors and mods, it never was. The problem is the Reddit admins and owners. Let people do what they want, it literally doesn't affect you.

[-] borf@lemmynsfw.com 26 points 1 month ago

Part of the reason conservatives are so obsessed with policing the lives of others is that doing so is the only context in which they're "allowed" to think about these taboo things. As long as they carry the shield of hate in their heart, they can go back to thinking and talking about it again and again and again. No, no, they're not obsessed with gayness because they like it or want to fantasize about it, noooo, they are just really into virtue and purity. /s 🙄

[-] borf@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 1 month ago

If only there had been a good guy with a gun, they might both still be alive.

[-] borf@lemmynsfw.com 33 points 1 month ago

Classic TERF island headline. "Trans people turn billionaires into conservatives." 🙄

[-] borf@lemmynsfw.com 39 points 5 months ago

Daily Caller readers aren't ever going to read the retraction anyway. Truth doesn't matter to the right in the slightest. Journalists who pretend otherwise are basically larping.

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