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I’m old and out of the loop but that astroturfing was so blatantly obvious it pinged my BS meter immediately.

Interesting. I always wanted to play the drums but figured I was too uncoordinated.

OP, this person knows what they’re talking about. One of the screening questions when I was diagnosed with ADHD had to do with clumsiness. My own parents used to call me, “An accident waiting for a place to happen.”

I have slowly been able to improve my clumsiness a little bit, by exercising regularly with a trainer 5 days a week. One of those days is a balance-focused day and after 2.5 years I’m actually able to hold poses and (mostly) stay upright and steady. But it was SLOW going.

The night before my 50th birthday, after I had been taking this class for 7 months, my husband and I were on a sunset cruise and his phone fell out of his pocket and over the side of the ship. I reached out with one hand and successfully caught it. THAT KIND OF THING NEVER HAPPENS TO ME!

I celebrate that day every year as much as my birthday now. I managed to show off hand eye coordination before I was 50!

Get screened… :)

Mazel tov!

This is great but I’ve turned it off because sometimes I want to go back to a post I’ve recently read to see new comments.

I really wish there was an option to hide posts I’ve downvoted. It’s still early days so I imagine that will come later.

Thanks for the PSA!

Not to be That Guy (but promptly being That Guy) do you have a source? I’ve not seen anything about him asking for a plea deal. Thanks.

His persecution fetish is showing

• Distraction

• Discussion

Nailed it!

I haven’t been active in the IT world on years, but as a veteran of Usenet from back in the 90’s, I’ve been enjoying how much this distributed setup feels like that; And in no small part because it’s not as easily accessible to the non-techies.

I also feel like the comparison to a “sugar rush” is a good one. Reddit was becoming too much, it was so overrun with bots and trolls. This place feels more sane and less run down.

No, this loser has a persecution fetish, nothing more.

It feeds his narcissism to think people care that much offline.

I’m guessing that they will replace all of the mod teams and forcibly re-open the subreddits.

Doubt that will go as well as they’re expecting it to.

Like the world’s largest kidney stone, hopefully.

Change is uncomfortable. There’s just no way around it. And there’s nothing wrong with you feeling that it’s kind of empty here and not what you’re used to.

For me, it will be uncomfortable regardless. My preferred interface (RIF) is gone in 2 weeks so nothing at Reddit will feel comfortable either.

So I’ve chosen to embrace the discomfort of Lemmy’s newness and comparative “emptiness” over the discomfort of using Reddit’s inferior app, for a couple of reasons: First, Reddit turned on us, not the other way around, and second, because this place is relatively new it’s not littered with bots and spammers and trolls. The energy here is just better for me.

Even if all my favorite places and posters aren’t here yet, I’ll be here waiting for them when they arrive, and I’m the meantime, I’ll be doing my part to recreate what I used to love there, here.

I’ve just gotta know was that local dial up in DC Digex?

I worked with Tale@UUNET during the Eternal September, providing NNTP support to our customers. God that was hell.

Reddit ran me off with a permaban 2 months ago because I wrote about the 3 boxes of liberty metaphor in a comment. 2 million+ imaginary Internet points down the drain. Glad to see the site shoot itself in the foot and looking forward to finding an alternative.

And the obligatory: fuck Spez.