From what I understand, “whispers” were what private messages were called on twitch. And it’s “then existing,” I don’t use twitch, but I guess it doesn’t exist anymore, that’s what they mean. Pretty poor wording though, don’t blame you for not knowing what the hell they mean.

The trending page is horrible on mastodon. I wish they’d implement some better discovery features, but the devs seem to think that a better user experience would mean they’re just as bad as twitter or something. I’m so rarely tempted to use it.

Okay?

Yeah I’m not arguing that deplatforming doesn’t work, I just think the highly improbable boat story is silly to even address.

Lol as much as this is a fun larp, and reddit did take too long to ban them, I’m not partial to taking random twitter/mastodon/<insert social media> discourse as gospel. I think it’s goofy when conservatives do it, and I think it’s goofy here.

A normal person lmao

SLAMS

Oh is that very recent? I think I’ve been using the instance block feature that my app has. Which blocks me from seeing any of their posts, but I still see them show up in comment threads. I’ll look into this later, would love to be rid of them entirely

Lol yeah, I have to block individual hexbear users whenever I find a thread where the instance hasn’t defederated from them yet. I’d love to be able to block all hexbear and lemmy.ml users

Lol yeah I can’t get on it at work anymore. Goodbye to all the traffic they get from people looking for tech advice on corporate networks. Fucking morons.

Goddamn dude, you skipped millennial and jumped straight to that boomer mentality

Go on mastodon and click on public, it’s 80% spam and ads

90% of the time when I see someone swerving in traffic because they’re blatantly staring at their phone, it’s somebody 50+ years old

Y’know sunsets? It’s like that but on the other side of the sky

Politics baby

Laughs in KDE

I have no idea why you were downvoted for this, I love my omnivap and it’s a genuine upgrade.

It’s incredible how many people leave their router with the default password

Remember that you’re often talking to teens on the internet, lol. And for them it’s more of a peer pressure thing. Apple got em good.

I’d honestly love a glass bottle if it doesn’t break. The only downsides are weight and fragility. To be fair I’ve never tried. But I’ve smacked my water bottles against doorframes while in my backpack, dropped them on rocks while hiking, etc. It’s gonna get knocked around. I’d be concerned about getting soaked with water and shards of glass everywhere.