I was reading this reply from my inbox and took longer than I should’ve to realize this was about the Minecraft post.

I haven’t played Minecraft really since the alpha, but I can’t imagine why they shouldn’t. What am I missing?

I’m sure we all remember when our parents had the talk with us about this.

I had them! Hurt myself plenty…

Yeah, I’m guilty of that one too. Lol

Also “It’s probably gas” explained many, many things for a while.

This is the way.

Social media will jump from one super important and stressful thing that we all need to lose sleep over to the next with or without us. Yes, these things might be important, but a lot of online activism seems to be about who can scare more people into supporting X, Y, or Z with zero regard for the reader’s mental health, the rhetoric used, or even being 100% factual.

It doesn’t hurt to disengage every so often.

I try to watch what I read online, and it truly helps.

Do:

• Keep yourself informed by reading bland articles about climate studies with direct interviews from the scientists conducting them.

• Stay knowledgeable about who to vote for to support reasonable climate policies.

Do NOT:

• Read articles that inject opinions from the web journalist, terrifyingly worded headlines designed to get you to click, or anything written for a secondary purpose (e.g. voter mobilization).

• Get your info 2nd, 3rd, or 4th hand from social media personalities on tiktok, youtube, twitter, or any website with an algorithm than rewards the most extreme takes with more engagement.

• Let fear prevent you from living the life you want to live or making long term plans.

I think a partial mistake is just too much for them to process, so their toddler brain would rather finish whatever behavior they started, then figure out what to do next.

Toddler brain: “Oh, I’m spilling my drink… Better spill it all the way, because we need to clean it all off of the floor.”

I love that he called it “vger”

I mean, probably Linux at some point. I’ve dipped my toes in as a complete novice, but I expect I’ll take the full dive eventually.

There are problems in the world, but it’s important to remember that both news and social media get way more engagement when showing you doom and outrage, so the most extreme takes rise to the top.

It’s good to be informed, but don’t let the doomsaying scare you out of living your life.

Reaching behind her back and underneath her shoulder strap to hold a gun is absolutely hilarious.

It’s important to remember that you don’t owe it to anyone to engage in a comment fight. If someone decides to be grouchy and try to pull you into an argument, you can just ignore it and move on with your day.

I post a lot of memes across Lemmy, and you’d be surprised (or maybe not) how often someone goes out of their way to be upset and attempt to bait me or others into arguing with them. I think some people just enjoy being mad, but I’m not one of them, so I’ve decided that it’s not worth the mental energy to engage with that.

What color are they elsewhere?

If anyone artsy were to draw up a really basic fediverse recruitment image that could be plastered around, that would be useful.

Basic, as in no complicated explanation of how the fediverse works. Something more like “Drop corporate social media - join the fediverse!” with the platforms listed.

Discord Support.

May god have mercy on your soul if your account ever gets wrongfully banned. They just kept bot-replying me to say that the decision was permanent and would not be reversed, then closed my tickets.

I eventually got a human to look at it by harassing them on social media, as a last ditch effort. They realized it was an error and restored my account.

Strawberry

In my experience, how your boss tells you to treat your staff is exactly how they’re going to treat you.

Yes, commander.