Image transcription: a post from @xed.bsky.social that says: “i never block anyone” is the social media equivalent of taking floor drugs
My block rule is simple:
Yeah I don’t want to just see content from people I agree with. Guess I’m crazy.
Yep. The only time I block someone is if they are actually being a dick specifically to me, my family, or my friends.
Floor drugs? Back in the day we called them Ground Scores.
I instance blocked lemmy.ml because of mods deleting my comments. I don’t want to accidentally get involved in discussions and spend time writing comments for them to just be deleted because the mods don’t agree with me.
Comments in [email protected] are very unlikely to be deleted
I think lemmy.ml mods/admins often wipe entire comment histories in the community/instance when they remove specific comments. Say something about Taiwan and boom, your comments talking about toilet paper patents are gone
Don’t quote me on that though
Once you realize that 90% of society is genuinely not worth interacting with, life gets better.
I wouldn’t say that. But I do think 90% of society probably isn’t worth interacting with through the medium of current social media.
Reddit’s short list of good decisions definitely includes “disable replies.”
“Hide votes” is also a nice decision in lemmy :3
Strong disagree. Voting is preliminary moderation. It’s the wisdom of crowds. The fact Lemmy does nothing to hide comments at +1 -48 is fucking horrifying… especially when mods don’t just delete that shit, despite demanding all responses to it be “civil.” As if gentle and polite replies are appropriate in the face of plainly intolerable horseshit.
yeh but as a user, votes r unnecessary info that just makes u worry about fake internet points instead of just focusing on the post or comment itself, they make u compare posts and comments by their votes and often affect how u react to something when what matters is the content and replies in them
Sometimes I like seeing crazy unhinged posts 🤷♀️
Let’s not count out floor drugs just yet. Get to know them a little.
floor pills??? ss13 reference 😳
I dunno if you’re talking about the Simpsons, but in season 14, the episode about Rock Camp, Homer eats a pill off the cabin floor & talks to Jesus over in the corner.
I also do that.
I prefer to make people block me.
So many blocks. It gets especially bad when US politics are spammed literally everywhere.
You mean everyone throws blocks at each other?
I only ever block spam. I don’t block people with differing opinions to me because that’s not how I roll. On the flipside, I block lemmy communities all the time - logic being that I’d rather sort by new and remove communities I have no interest in because you never know when something interesting you’re not subscribed to can come up in your feed.
Easiest example being: I’ve never seriously watched Star Trek or considered installing Linux, but you bunch of cunts have convinced me into transitioning. I’m not quite at the stage of programmer socks, but I’m sure y’all will force my hand eventually… ❤
what about toxic idiots whose every comment is downvoted to oblivion and they make you want to stop even looking at comments anymore
If the point is to deliberately not contribute then yeah, fair enough, but through my experience of Lemmy so far I haven’t really experienced many of those.
Dw you’re government issued thigh highs will arrive upon you installing arch
I’ll be honest, I’m holding off only to do more research into what version of Linux I want installed and - more importantly - how to install it without fucking everything up.
I’ve never dual booted, but I think that’s the most likely solution for me right now so I can get used to it.
Since getting a Steam Deck, I think what I want is essentially a desktop that is very similar to the Deck. All I really use a desktop for nowadays is Steam and Firefox.
I’ve seen Pop!OS being mentioned in several articles I’ve read, along with Mint and Bazzite. I’ve heard of Ubuntu, of course - I think that’s one of the more well known distros.
The whole thing can be overwhelming when you’re not used to it. I had the same issue when originally joining Lemmy!
If you want to dual boot I suggest getting a second hard drive (a little SSD maybe) and installing Linux on that. Then you can select what OS to boot through the BIOS
It’ll be way easier and less risky than trying to install Linux alongside windows on the same hard drive, and it’ll also stop windows from screwing with the bootloader when it updates.
I use the Steamdeck as my main PC and I have Bazzite on it! :3 and yeh Mint is the one I see being recommended to new people the most so I bet its a great choice :3
I thought you’d be an Arch gal for sure :D
Hehe actually I am x3 The Steamdeck is the only PC I dont run Arch on but apart from that Im such an arch fangirl >v<
The steam deck uses the desktop environment called KDE Plasma if I remember correctly. I recommend using the Fedora KDE spin since, right after Debian, most apps will support Fedora. It is user friendly, feature rich, stable, secure (with massive community and corporate backing for timely Security updates), and simple.
Dual booting is a smart decision. If you opt to dual-boot, I recommend encrypting your system through the built-in OS installer. This stops Windows (or malicious software) from spying on your new install. It is also just a good idea in general.
Pop!OS doesn’t yet support Wayland, which supersedes the old and slow X11 with better security (on X11, any app can capture what you type, their is no isolation).
Bazzite seems neat but I wouldn’t go for a gaming focused distros in my experience.
Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, is trying hard to create a closed ecosystem. Even though Ubuntu is Debian based, they are making it hard to install native applications, instead enforcing the use of Snap, which uses a closed-source backend to provide the app repository. Snaps are also slower than native or Flatpak apps.
If you need any help, explanations, suggestions, or other thoughts about Linux, I am willing to help best I can or point you in the right direction. Ive installed linux maybe 50+ times on most of the major families of distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch Linux, and some others), and have personally used many distributions that are derivative of these. I’m not like crazy experienced, just familiar (with a focus on Security).
There’s always Bazzite’s vanilla KDE cousin, Aurora: https://getaurora.dev/ It is essentially the Fedora KDE spin with way better hardware support and QoL features.
But Bazzite isn’t really a distro in it’s own right anyway, it’s an unofficial Fedora spin that gets updates pretty much immediately (<24hrs) from upstream. It kind of “solves” a lot of the issues with most gaming distros.
I’d highly recommend both to new users as well, as they are immutable (like the Fedora Atomic Desktops) and make it a lot harder to completely mess up your install while you’re still learning.
Now all together: One of us, one of us, one…
The only things I block are legit spam, and hexbear. And the only reason I block hexbear is because I’m banned from their instance and can’t interact with it anyway.
I don’t like your profile pic. Always makes wanna check my phone screen
It’s a classic.
Even if you’re not banned from hexbear can you really interact with it?
I wouldn’t call someone going through the wikipedia article for informal fallacies like it’s a checklist then brigading all your past activities an interaction so much as an experience, and not a good one at that.
I don’t block often, but I do mute often, purely for the mental image of someone shittalking into a void.
