Also The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website

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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Sorry that my response was snippy. This is a pet peeve of mine from reddit, and it seems to have carried over to lemmy, where any time someone expresses some form of happiness (especially involving kids/family), someone invariably shows up in the comments to tell them that they dislike it.

    This was simply a wholesome post about a guy being hugged by his wife and daughter, saying “wow, that guy must be the richest man in the world”, and your immediate response to it was “Huh, guess I’d rather be poor”.

    This same caption could have been placed over a photo of a vet who loves animals, an artist who gets to paint in their dream home studio, or a nature lover looking out into a national park, and if your first thought is to comment under those telling everyone how much you dislike dogs, art, and mountains, it would also be rude.



  • Life comes first, and I hope everything goes well with the upcoming surgery @Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca. Please don’t add a single bit of stress regarding anything on lemmy to your life right now.

    I didn’t catch this drama live, but someone linked it to me after the fact, and I was honestly pretty disappointed to see an admin talk to users this way. I don’t think the reporter was wrong to notify the admins that someone was advocating murder on their instance, and they certainly didn’t deserve to be banned and mocked for it.

    Then I started seeing other similar posts (like the one Blaze linked in a different comment) showing that this wasn’t an isolated thing, and I was a bit disheartened because I love sharing memes here, but it’s really hard to build a community when users are worried about an admin lashing out at them. I’ve lost some trust. =(