Same. I’ll still search there for stuff like BIFL or sone of the niche hobby subs but I don’t just go to scroll at all anymore. I’m kind of glad I’m getting a more reasonable amount of content at one go on Lemmy - I read more, have better sleep habits.
Edit: I still miss you Apollo!
Better? Never. I will say it is the by far the best real multi player rpg I’ve played.
The only answer
“Do you know how I got these scars?”
We do too, so I just tell my team to flag everything as spam
No more drugs for that man.
I just realized who this picture reminds me of. It’s the old paint huffer guy meme - Patrick Tribbet.
Anyone else see the resemblance? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/paint-huffer-guy-patrick-tribett
Of course not, that isn’t what I mean. I’m taking about why media in general reports as “straight news” the inflammatory blathering of political figures. Whether you as the reader agree with it or not, these kind of statements in headlines get the publisher clicks.
Clicks == revenue for for the media site, so they are incentivized to provide more content like that. Politicians need exposure more than just about anything, so they tend more towards that kind of language in part to get greater exposure through those venues.
I don’t think people posting content like this to aggregators like lemmy are in that incentivizing loop directly, but users engaging with the content even if they hate does incentivize the behavior further(albeit in a very small, incremental way).
For one simple and depressing reason - people click on it. That’s the dopamine button for modern media outlets online; those clicks are the cash register ringing.
If you want to figure out a way to elevate the discourse you have to disrupt the payment model - at the end of the day people do what gets them paid. Doubly so when the harm it causes is anonymized by operating in corporate aggregates.
Ah yes. Donald Trump, Scourge of America, Sorrow of democracy, Trump the Floridian, Trump the Cruel, Trump the Torturer, Trump the Despised, Trump the Unholy.
You’re suggesting his crimes warrant execution by poison, bring shot, stabbed, hung, stretched, disemboweled, drawn and quartered? Ouch.
Jean-Baptiste. Emanuel. Zorg.
He may not have used the term in the senate, but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he committed the act.