That’s a great way to put it, love the analogy too.

We kindly ask everyone to engage in civil discourse and remember that not everyone will share the same opinions, which is perfectly acceptable.

It’s really actually not acceptable to ignore what a bad actor Facebook/Meta has been. Catch up on the news if you need to. Cambridge Analytica scandal, unwitting social experiments, and the insane amount of intrusive permissions required just to use threads etc. They’ve been anti-consumer in an almost dystopian way and failing to call that out is an immoral stance. There’s really no polite way to say, “that’s a hell no, fix your attitude, or I’m out.” That people have characterized folks telling you this is a deal-breaker as “blackmail” is the absurd stance here. We’re asking you to stay true to the anti-corporate “power to the people” spirit that created Lemmy in the first place and call out Meta for being an obviously bad actor in this space, as a bunch of Reddit refugees… You actually arguing against this and acting like “both sides are fine” about it is being completely tone-deaf and is 100% antithetical to the purpose of the fediverse.

“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.” You’ve already committed to doing nothing during an important time with a “wait and see” attitude. Meta is still a face-eating leopard, a frog-stinging scorpion, or whatever analogy does it for ya. It’s not a tough choice and there IS a right and wrong answer.

I got one of these yesterday with the minimum roll…so it’s 1-200% and thus utterly worthless.

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Only replies to the original post will ever be at the top.

“Break the loop and you break the chains.”

Nobody actually said that to my knowledge but putting quotes around it lends some legitimacy. 

Thank you very much :D

I posted somewhere about how that didn’t happen to me even once last Christmas :/

Bad analogy, it would be like meeting up with all your ex-girlfriend’s other former partners and all bitching about that shared ex because you have that thing in common.

We’re all deciding what to do with you right now. Tyrael has the deciding vote.

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Everything is an opportunity cost. That is, if you’re engaging in YouTube you are missing out on something else. It’s fine if that’s the choice you want to make, but understand that you’re “missing out” on hanging out with friends or reading or video games or calling a family member.

Hey, no prob. It’s been a genuine struggle and I’ve lost friends over it that I wish I’d kept.

“Beat a path to thy neighbor’s door” still applies to us. I’ve explained it to people that I go in and out of feeling social, I expand and contract basically in cycles. When I’m not responsive to “you” I’m not being responsive to anyone else either, my world has shrunk and I go introverted again for a time. It has nothing to do with how I feel about you, I just get like that and I always have.

This has worked really well for me, with the people who are willing to get it. Often they tell me it’s the same for them.

I can’t stress this part enough: People are making up reasons for why you aren’t responsive in the absence of you telling them why. The imagined situation, due to all of our little self esteem and confidence issues, is that it’s about how you feel about them in particular. I’d tried to explain this to my mom so many times over the years and what eventually did it was me explaining that I go “invisible” on Steam and Battle.net for instance when I’m like that. I even hide from the people I just play video games with. She recalled her sister being a bit of a recluse and got it finally. Your examples might be different, but you do owe your friends that explanation of what it’s like to be you, so that they don’t think this is what it’s like to be them.

The doomscroll is all there is. The good news about that is that anyone can emulate it.

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This is like asking someone to check in on your ex, sure it sounds like a good idea, but…

Samesies, I wish someone at Reddit would leak how many users deleted their account on July 1st and leading up to it compared to a normal month of people coming and going.

I’ve deleted 2 Reddit accounts now, most recent on July 1st in protest. Not going back this time, but for the people who feel like they lost something, I have some advice. Go to your own comments and sort by top. Read through the stuff you’ve said over the years that got the most positive feedback. Take it all in, and then let it go.