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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"This thing that is terrible for everyone is also terrible for this specific subset of everyone ..."

also rating social media apps is like rating your favourite STDs

[–] Murdoc 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Umm, does that include Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

I hope you used protection!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

depends if you think anonymous interactions are as impactful as people you actually know.

oh god, is this actually worse?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I haven't seen that. If you piss off the group mind here you pretty much move on. On real social media you have to worry that someone will just show up at your home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Message boards aren't social media.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That's good, that means my use is healthy