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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I used to think of “blocking” as an extreme measure, but for us individuals, it’s really not. You get to decide what your feed looks like. Especially here.

    BAMO -> block and move on

    What flipped the mental switch for me was facebook, of all places.

    I hate it and was off it for years, then we moved to a small town with no subreddit, only a damn fb group. Man I went on a blocking spree with all the proudly terrible people, and now I have both an actually useful local town group AND a separate handy list of people I don’t need to bother meeting.




  • Ragebait. It’s boring and pointless, and it brings out the worst in everyone. I never understood the appeal of being a “troll” though, so idk.

    Something else I don’t miss, and maybe this is a little more personal, but often when I would try to participate in a conversation, my comment would get auto-removed for some rule/etiquette based reason I could never really wrap my head around. Like, derailing? I thought I knew what that meant, but had comments removed when I was like, “yeah that answer really resonates with me too! My 123 is xyz.”

    Lemmy so far has been much more welcoming to the neurodiverse and I appreciate the organic, freeflowing nature of conversation here.

    Obviously, if someone’s being provocatively hateful / an obvious troll, then nuke 'em.

    But if people are just trying to join in on the conversation, don’t be a pedantic dick about exactly what kind of conversation is allowed. It had gotten to the point where I was afraid to comment at all for fear I’d be doing it wrong.



  • So many…

    The Hidden Athlete (long form interviews with endurance athletes)

    No such thing as a fish (fun conversational about random weird factoids)

    Sawbones

    The One You Feed

    The Debaters (stupid Canadian comedy debates)

    The Art of Manliness (dumb name, decent content)

    Discovery by the BBC

    Ologies with Alie Ward

    The Emma Guns Show (idgaf about beauty stuff, but love her quality of life & mental health topics)

    Trail Runner Nation

    Maintenance Phase

    You’re Dead to Me (bbc history in a light funny way)


  • That’s an overly simplistic take.

    Over the years, ads have become louder, bigger, more intrusive, more voluminous, and alarmingly much more “personal”

    I value my peace and my privacy.

    I support creators with donations, subscriptions and purchases. If it’s an exclusively ad-supported service that does so respectfully and reasonably, I might whitelist it.

    Everything else gets blocked. I use AdGuard and their extensions, and a VPN set to a Swiss geo helps with the rest.