It does feel like that.

@memes

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        138 months ago

        And it’s sometimes really local-interest stuff. My block list of commilunities is in the hundreds, because people create comms for their county/city/neighbourhood then that hits my frontpage

    • Gormadt
      link
      fedilink
      118 months ago

      And a lot of those politics are some of the worst takes imaginable

      Sighs and shakes head

    • nifty
      link
      fedilink
      38 months ago

      Just block the communities that you don’t want to see content from. You always have the option to browse things while logged out to get a sense of what’s going on overall

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        58 months ago

        I do. And then sometimes it feels like there’s nothing left except politics (which doesn’t confine itself to communities focused on it)

  • DumbAceDragon
    link
    fedilink
    English
    538 months ago

    What you are seeing is the internet in its true form. Trekkies and computer nerds are the only native fauna of the internet, everyone else is an invasive species.

    • Elley Smith :vote:OP
      link
      fedilink
      238 months ago

      @DumbAceDragon you merely adopted the internet. I was born in it. Molded by it. When I saw broadband I was already a woman.

      I was chatting on local BBS with a 9600baud Hayes external that was a huge metal box which would get hot to the touch.

    • NaibofTabr
      link
      fedilink
      English
      368 months ago

      It’s definitely a Windows descendent, they have terrible security. Random people come on board and just take over the computer and/or engineering and/or the bridge with almost no effort and without alerting anyone.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        198 months ago

        To be somewhat fair to the computer, it’s often from Starfleet officers “showing people around” and by around I mean “look at our cool computer here’s how to access the life support”

        • NaibofTabr
          link
          fedilink
          English
          9
          edit-2
          8 months ago

          Yeah, but like a basic user permission system would prevent those security problems regardless. Why do they only ever have an authentication code for the self destruct function?

          You could show people around whatever as long as guest user = guest privileges.

          • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
            link
            fedilink
            English
            58 months ago

            Their version probably implements an AI permissions system where the computer uses a LLM to pretend to be the captain before deciding to grant access.

            It just hallucinates. A lot.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            3
            edit-2
            8 months ago

            Forget all that, Data proves on multiple occasions that the ship could pretty much fly by itself most of the time.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      148 months ago

      ✅ Every ship is different ✅ Updates take forever to recompile ✅ Massive security vulnerabilities

      Oh no! They’re running the Gentoo derivative I made as a teenager! Everybody run!

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      21
      edit-2
      8 months ago

      I see more complaining about communism than communism itself. Do you reply to users from Lemmygrad or something?

      Edit: Self-fullfulling prophecy in action. No wonder why I never saw it before. 😂

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        38 months ago

        And further on from that the number of real tankies I’ve actually seen on here is miniscule compared to the howling mass of McCarthyites that crawl out of the woodwork.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          18 months ago

          McCarthyites

          I never heard this term before do I looked it up. I can see why you would use it on people who actively seek communist content and then complain about said communist content.

          Interestingly, I found this on the Wikipedia page for McCarthyism:

          President Harry S. Truman’s Executive Order 9835 of March 21, 1947, required that all federal civil-service employees be screened for “loyalty”. The order said that one basis for determining disloyalty would be a finding of “membership in, affiliation with or sympathetic association” with any organization determined by the attorney general to be “totalitarian, fascist, communist or subversive” or advocating or approving the forceful denial of constitutional rights to other persons or seeking “to alter the form of Government of the United States by unconstitutional means”.[13]

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            18 months ago

            Yeah that was part of the first red scare. McCarthyism was considered the second. All part of intrenching inequality by ensuring that the best paths to a healthier society are associated with authoritarianism.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            18 months ago

            Did I say I disagreed with you about the capitalism part? Propaganda can be both true and positive you know. Any information that attempts to change someone’s political views is by definition propaganda.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        108 months ago

        The mental cancer predates capitalism, and has also brutally manifested itself in parallel in socialist nations.

        Stalin, Mao, the Gang Of Four, Honecker, Hoxha, Kim Il-Sung, Ceauçescu, Pol Pot… the list is dismayingly long; so many tyrants as fucked up as anything one could come up with in capitalist nations, and even more. They tapped into the bloodlust of the oppressed, to build a new apparatus of oppression, their generals covered in a hundred solemn yet worthless medals, those bastards sure loved the status and pomp, displays and parades.

        These nations build walls not so much to keep a potential enemy out, but to keep their own people in. That should tell you enough you need to know about how life was in those places.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    248 months ago

    It does work tho. In the past six months, I’ve became a proud Linux champion and really enjoy it. It’s a nice change from Reddit celebrating women getting punched in the face.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      48 months ago

      Eh, I’m quite a big fan of linux, but having Linux mentioned under almost literally every post here feels tiring 😅. Yes I use linux but no I don’t want to constantly talk and think about my choice of operating system.

      Feels like switching to Linux solves all your life problems according to people here.

      My gf doesn’t like me anymore. Have you tried switching to Linux?

      My bathroom door squeaks when opened. Have you tried switching to Linux?

      I have bad diarrhea. Have you tried switching to Linux?

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        38 months ago

        If you are having problems with all of the Linux posts then it’s up to you to fix the problem. I’d suggest you buy an old Lenovo laptop and install Arch Linux and compile everything from source. That should solve this and a multitude of other problems in your life right now. 🙂

      • Kühe sind toll
        link
        fedilink
        18 months ago

        Feels like switching to Linux solves all your life problems according to people here.

        That’s because it does./s

  • KNova
    link
    fedilink
    248 months ago

    No, you’ll still have all the memes about how it’s only Linux and Star Trek content left.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      168 months ago

      I almost never see any porn, despite having NSFW enabled

      I do occasionally see comments like yours saying you’re drowning in porn. What exactly is going on here?

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        58 months ago

        Same for me. Depends on your instance and federation. I’m on ML and never seen porn a single time.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          28 months ago

          That’s because .ml has it disabled. AFAIK, while you can manually subscribe to NSFW communities, it won’t show up on the default timeline.

      • batman without ears
        link
        fedilink
        4
        edit-2
        8 months ago

        I still see lewd ones and weird celeb ones even tho i disabled nsfw. Wish those /c/'s would mark themselves nsfw as i really don’t wanna block instance level. Also ani social is notorious for posting lewd ones without tag .

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    198 months ago

    That’s why I don’t get the arguments about “x and y will kill the fediverse”. Bruh there’s nothing to kill in the first place.

  • batman without ears
    link
    fedilink
    19
    edit-2
    8 months ago

    Also by disabling anime, porn, news, star trek, star wars, lord of the rings and for some fucking reasons bluey and you can go through top day in an hour or somethin lol