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May his tomorrow be without... No, wait!

I have been more than 2 years on Lemmy and I have had an amazing experience with everything, but lately I see more and more US politics on all! I also see new communities regarding US politics + newspapers about the US, cross-posting same article in multiple communities and so on.

me, personally, i’m an 8. i’m talking to my fiancé but i feel sick and i got mood swings.

(I hope this is the right place to vent out my thoughts and feelings, idk who will read this though, but pls be kind (: )

Feddit.org has chosen to support the Palestinian genocide and censor ALL speech against Israel or in support of Palestinians.

The interface on old Lemmy is perfect. If a post hot into the front page allowing for seamless connection from your reddit account to Lemmy this site would instantly get millions of new users and probably overtake reddit cause the fedverse is superior.

Bit of a long post here.

Hello folks,

The U.S. is both for hating immigrants, and made of immigrants. I would like to know (doesn't matter where you live) what were your experiences of having immigrants in your life, for me... I'd say the man who drives me to work hardest isn't my father, it's my neighbor who busted his ass daily working on cars, yards work, anything. He hasn't had a day of rest since I moved in 3+ years ago it seems.... But it's what he chooses. When I got chickens, he wanted in, and got yelled at by his wife. So now I find random corn kernels and feed thrown whenever his wife is gone lol. 35 years on this earth. I actually judge where I rent off if I have neighbors who aren't white. That makes me racist I guess. But seriously, what's your story of why humans are fucking human.

Man the only reason someone like me looks good at something is because the average person is terrible at it lol

i have heard this a lot with downright cruelty or bullying. i’ve talked to someone and they have said “they could just be having a bad day!!”

Now I'm hangry and I want a pizza.

I've been using a 3rd party client to access posts on Lemmy. I loved the experience back when Reddit allowed 3rd party apps. But I felt the feed was a bit........one sided.

I cannot do a damn thing. Be it easy, be it hard, be it rewarding, be it just pure pleasure. I cannot enjoy a thing thinking it is just waste of time. I cannot carry myself to do a hard task thinking about the high effort it requires. Even if I break it into small parts, I would only do the bare minimum for a day or two and stop it.

When despite the isolation and difficulties and people being terribly ill and dying, there was this feeling of something good might come out of this great reset of society?

Discuss any hobby you've not found an active community for yet.

There's so many communities I found because someone I looked at the profile of someone who posted there. So many I'd missed despite being on a lot of discovery/promo communities. Just a YSK.

But even tho, I feel like I am predicting something crazy persons on Schizophrenia would constantly talk about, I rather feel calm and accept that the dystopia is not part of my life, because I have no issue isolating myself from the internet as a Linux user and just life offline with enough of fun and nature.

Are allowed to tag users as a brand new account 🤔

Just curious why my post got removed in TECHNOLOGY Community. I literally just signed up today??

I just signed up for this instance. I just posted in Technology and my first post got removed.

While there are legit use of gen AI in various automation or more so in advanced text processing, apart from these in real world these are useless gimmick at best. Nobody wants to read AI novels (at least in current SOTA).

I was wondering if anyone here is into crochet. if so, what projects are you working on? I'm making two mushroom guys, one I had to pause because I ran out of the color of yarn I was using lol

Two days ago, I became an unwitting victim of Amazon's lack of policing their 3rd party marketplace ecosystem. I hope I can get this in front of a few more eyeballs to save people from the experience I am now in. Here's how it went down.

Dont forget that nothing bad lasts forever, and previous generations went through wars and hardships too.

Right now, I'm a 2nd year student in university doing Computer Science.

I packed my bags to spend time at my girlfriend’s house to see what it’s like before I move in, so right now, that’s where I am (although she lives next door to my house) and my sister got invited to a sleepover with several eighth grade girls. Apparently they’ll be staying for a few nights but probably just one night.

sorry about crossposting the same thing 17 times, that was my bad. That was *definitely* spam and I won't do that again! Apologies for possibly making a mess out of anyone's feeds.

Last night I had a dream of a song I even know its title it's called "Another song to a brighter world", it's about a person telling another person who is stuck on a depressing present moving on to a brighter future, I faintly remembered some the lyrics it goes "or is it you here for me waiting for a brighter future" "you was there I was here", this is all I can remembered it has a lot more lyric than this. PS: it's not between 2 humans interaction, the one that is not depressed is human but the singer's perspective is not, they're a sea creature that look like human (not mermaid) stuck on a human port town by the sea trying to fit in with everyone else.

what I see in a lot of these communities is that they are about the same as any other community in functionality and how people interact, without any additional accessibility. They just happen to have disabled people and such.

Remembered there was documentation, and understood it a little better this time around!

The book I was waiting on was back for me to borrow!

Saw a neighborhood cat lounging about!

not everyone acts like this, but i’ve seen this enough times to be bothered by it.

I was expecting it to be just another post-apocalyptic drama, and I’ve seen so many mediocre ones that Station 11 wasn’t high on my list. I was very wrong.

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Does anyone know of any Lemmy communities / instances that could act as fednews alternatives?

This may be more an ask than anything. To all the data nerds, or those that know them, in the public sector in the US: If you or those you know are working with large public datasets, please consider taking the steps necessary to ensure that data is not lost to the world. Between many institutional organizations local and abroad down to the many selfhosters out there, there are many places this data can continue to live, thrive, and serve the public that has not only paid for it to exist, but benefitted from its use. My mind immediately goes to all those scentific datasets necessary for helping analyze the state of our planet. Of these there are an incredible amount online only because of federal funding. The stakeholders are too great to count, but they are critical not only to the US but all those with access to do so. I can not fathom how much work and research has been made possible. I know this to be true of so much public data. Others may know more of specific needs and methods of preservation. This is a kind of book burning in an abstract sense that would be unrecoverable, too costly, or immensely difficult to restore. The hard work of the collectors, maintainers, and contributors should not be lost due to gross negligence and malevolence.

Random post, also he is quite controversial.

Just getting really unhinged and confused messages from my parents. They are holding on by a thread. I don't even think they know who Musk is.

stan is a very political conservative, especially in early seasons. in season 1 (2005), his daughter hayley says she’s 18, meaning she was born around 1987 during reagan’s presidency.

Likely preaching to the choir with this for many here, but felt like putting together a list of sources and a little explainer of why go out of the way for unrestricted digital media.

Title pretty much. I vaguely remember a post and in the article Grandpa Musk said he was proud to finally embrace Nazism safely or something.

I have just made my first lemmy account on lemmy.world. What happens to my account in the event that this particular instance goes offline temporarily or permanently? It seems like I will have to either wait for the instance to come back online or create a new account, is this correct?

No matter where you go on the internet in 2024/2025, there's post after post after fucking post about Elon Musk. Always about him saying or doing something incredibly stupid or comically evil. There are even entire communities dedicated to it like "enough musk spam" which is ironic because I see more musk spam from them than anywhere else.

If Honda and Nissan can't survive at their size, well Subaru and Mazda are tiny by comparison.

Does anyone else think Star Wars is a bit muddled? This may be a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I haven't delved into much of it outside the OG 4-6, 1-3, Mandalorian, and a couple games. It just seems that there is sooo much out there. Are they cohesive?

Seriously, why is nobody talking about this??