word less.

Splendid, we have an example!

Some of the earliest studies I read about COVID was how it can enter the brain like meningitis and effect a person’s cognitive functions. This was a while back and I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the information, but seeing how much people have seemed to have lost their minds over the last few years makes me think back to that study.

I can’t say I’ve been immune to it either. I have never been “symptomatic”, but the last 3 years have definitely felt more hazy than the times before, and have made me question my own sanity.

I get this all the time. Too often I’ll even get someone trying to pick a fight with me, but if they actually read my post they would find I agree with them. Either that or they’ll bring up a point I already addressed in my post.

There’s a certain point where if I feel someone’s not comprehending what I’m writing, continuing the conversation is a waste of my time. Even insulting them would require literacy on their end.

I love how early in the bible, Satan’s role is actually to be the contrarian to God’s designs. Doesn’t actually commit any evil unless given permission by God to do so. Is kinda treated like one of the angels rather than the fallen one.

Trump travels back in time, and mugs Socrates with his invisible gun.

Redneck here. Lemme check.

“HEY PAUL! INNERNET WANNA KNOW WHAT COUNTRY YER FROM!”

That’s the kind of place I wish i could be right now.

I mean…I do like cheese

Well it’s not like the Youtube comment section is where I would expect anyone to safely interact.

Like I’m forgiving of artists because most of their customer base is there, and internationally, alt platforms are even more unknown. I am somewhat forgiving of journalists who want to reach the widest amount of people possible, despite the fact that Musk has been intentionally targeting and censoring journalists he doesn’t like.

I really don’t get a lot of leftist or liberal content creators though. Many constantly push the message that you vote with your wallet, and discourage patronizing businesses, services, or franchises that actively hate or harm marginalized people. Yet at the same time, they are using a platform owned by some who is literally trying to make the platform as hostile to marginalized people as possible. A lot of users have left twitter because they no longer feel safe using the platform. In fact, the reason you see a lot of queer people here on fediverse is because many of them are twitter refugees.

And yet many leftist and liberal creators remain on twitter, exclusively in fact. I could understand it if they pushed some content to alts to keep within reach of users that left while still maintaining their fanbase on twitter, but many of them won’t even touch any of the alternatives, much less make themselves more reachable on youtube or other social platforms. By remaining on twitter, they are encouraging their userbase to remain as well, which creates engagement, which benefits ad companies who pay Musk, who funnels that into groups and causes that undermine their audience.

At this point, It is an integrity test for me. How large is this creator’s following on twitter? How often does this person post and interact on twitter? and What have they said in the past about interacting with harmful brands? What’s their excuse for remaining if any, and would they had accepted that excuse if the shoe was on the other foot?

I accept some people have an addiction, and as someone who tried to leave reddit many times, I know it can be a hard one to kick. But if your brand is built on integrity, standing up for the marginalized, and being ethical with your consumption habbits, remaining active on twitter is not a good look to me.

As a former redditor, fair.

I’ve just learned to follow smaller accounts with similar interest. As a celebrity follow machine, it’s awful because nobody is really on there officially except for a handful of people.

Hashtags are much more important on Masto too cause without an algorithm, its one of the only ways your posts are visible to others. I find with the right combo of tags though, I can get a decent amount of interaction.

There was a good solid week where most of my attention was focused on Mastodon. I guess it all depends on what you were originally using twitter for. I guess it clicked for me cause I barely used twitter to begin with.

British Petroleum. The meme comes from the South Park episode lampooning the BP oil spill and BP’s response to it. The meme is making fun of the fact that youtubers use the same non-apology whenever they’re in trouble.

Isn’t that the show with the lightsabers?

yep!

The animated series that feels nothing like the movies for some reason.

It’s The_Boulder for enthusiasts of the Avatar character.

I probably spend just as much time on lemmy/kbin as I did on Reddit. The biggest difference is most of my time then was based on consuming content and fishing for any kind of interaction and approval I could. Here I feel like I spend most of my time creating, and interacting with other users who are invested in helping the fediverse grow.

There are definitely less active moments here, but those are the times I usually try to fill in the void with my own content, give someone’s community or post a boost so that they see more interaction, and engage in one of the discussions being had in the threads of more active posts.

Plus whenever I’m starved for content, I go over to new, upvote posts as I go, and I usually find something interesting.

They were, but it kinda feels like every new instance I try is a kinder egg of new errors and issues. I would also like to return to my old instance if I can.