This particular post isn’t very… polite toward neurotypical people.

Like you say, there’s a key difference between “making a behavior into the default” and “consistently managing to do something.”

But I think we can both understand that this is likely to offend the neurotypical folks wandering onto this page. Especially because we’re all pretty new to Lemmy (NTs and NDs alike) and I can guarantee you most of us still don’t know where to find the “block community” button on the sidebar. Meaning they literally don’t know how to avoid this kind of content popping up on their “all” and “local” feeds.

To put this in real-life terms, this lemmit is like an ADHD support group… but there’s a young, inexperienced sommelier standing outside on the street offering free pizza and beer to random strangers saying, “come on in! This place is bumping!”

… and then, the neurotypical people he has invited in (along with neurodivergents and everything in between), after sitting down in a circle with the rest of us – not sure why there’s no disco lights or dance music – proceed to immediately receive complaints about how much easier their life is than ours.

It wouldn’t feel great being in their shoes right now.

Thank you. I appreciate the politeness.

We can indeed “get the fuck out of here.” But you’re going to have to perform a few tasks for us to do that.

1. visit this community’s homepage: !adhd@lemmy.world
2. find the sidebar
3. click “block community”

Done. After following these three steps, none of our posts will show up on your “all” feed or on your “local” feed. Then you won’t have to see this particular group of people complaining about how hard life is.

I think both the duration and intensity are important. I’ve seen ADHDers online describing their brief spurts of focus and productivity as the “Hour of Power”

Which is a bit of a misnomer. I know we’re all time blind and it feels like fifteen minutes, but that spurt can occasionally go four or five hours.

Alternately, we can have a few slightly productive weeks where everything is easier. I’m undiagnosed, pretty sure I’m ADHD, but I do occasionally have two-week productive cycles. Getting up early, completing tasks, maintaining a routine involving eating, exercising, and showering.

And then when it all comes crashing down, I never do any of those things on time again (or at least until years later, when stress put me in another two-week cycle).

Manic episodes, on the other hand, regularly last over a week at full intensity. From what I hear, the person feels like a god while the episode is going on. They make plans that are downright hubristic, because literally nothing feels insurmountable to them.

Can an ADHD person have two weeks of suddenly being able to maintain routines? Yeah. Sure. Two hours of nothing seeming impossible? Absolutely. But unless the two are combined, it’s not a manic episode.

I’m a little lost myself, so take this with a grain of salt, but…

kbin has more complete microblogging integration. I don’t understand what it looks like or feels like, but here on Lemmy, I believe you can only post URLs-to and screenshots-of Mastodon posts. Not the posts themselves.

The ActivityPub protocol underneath Mastodon and Lemmy technically supports that kind of interoperability. That’s why Mastodon users can comment on Lemmy posts and on Lemmy comments. But Lemmy has not yet adopted that feature. As far as I know.

kbin has.

As far as I can tell by reading the Redditor’s guide to how Kbin works (your what/how-to guide) over on reddit, it appears that microblogging posts can be made from within kbin.

Which makes kbin a combination twitter/reddit. And it makes Lemmy a “reddit, but twitter users can find our posts and comment on them using their Twitter account in such a way so that they’re visible even to us Lemmy users, and boost our comments and posts to their followers.”

I will say that the short blackout was enough to get me onto the Fediverse. I didn’t even use the apps that would be affected by the API shutdown, so I never would have noticed the controversy without the blackout.

But once the blackout was announced, I recognized how far reddit was willing to go in service of harvesting its users’ data. And after that point, I just didn’t feel good on the site anymore. (Granted, I first created an account on Mastodon because the people calling for blackouts never mentioned Lemmy. But still!)

Between Facebook’s notification system repeatedly failing to direct me to comment replies, Twitter DDoSing itself, and reddit turning into the Eye of Sauron (which, again, I would not have even noticed happening were it not for the short protest), it seemed like the perfect time to exit the sinking ship of corporate social media.

Meaning they did something. Maybe they didn’t avert the reddit apocalypse, but they still did something.

Exactly this, yeah. Doing a little debugging.

Oh my god that was annoying! But yes. Now, I am okay.

Firefox wasn’t letting me comment, reply to comments, or edit my comments. I even dragged my home instance’s moderator into helping me debug which I feel terrible about. (Especially because I originally described it as a federation error, only later realizing that the glitch was happening on reddthat as well as federated instances.)

After various debugging attempts, he told me to deactivate my extensions… which I hadn’t tried for some reason… and it worked instantly. My Bionic Reader Firefox extension in particular turned out being the source of the problem. And now I feel like I’ve wasted my mod’s time trying to debug something that he had no control over, but other than that? I’m okay.

Thanks for asking.

test comment.
edit of test comment
edit from culprit browser
edit with only one add-on deactivated

For everyone who told us that they’d never taken a single art class and they could mod this place better with their eyes closed… Well, consider this a golden opportunity! It’s going to be tricky doing it with your eyes closed ever since Reddit’s painfully botched rollout of “disability friendly” mod tools in their disasterpiece of a mobile app has caused nothing but crashes and bugs, but you seemed so confident in the many (many, many, many) times you’ve expressed this opinion that we can only assume you know something about modding that we don’t!

Is such a fun line.

Damn you’re good