I’d say most folks at Lemmy are actively trying to grow the communities and the Community and so are genuinely welcoming and helpful.

I’d ask you to bring your friends and family. This might be controversial because Lemmy tends to attract amazingly talented tech geniuses — but others should be welcomed here as well.

I’m here to watch the corporate owned hegemonic control of all social media crumble— so I say we grow the Fediverse a great deal. Of course it’s not big enough to take the whole world but perhaps slow and regular growth will be met with the kind of independent commitment needed.

Anyway: WELCOME. Look. I wasn’t afraid of all caps. We’ll see how that goes.

Oh my god yes. You are all my people. Bluesky is dogshit!!

What do you mean they aren’t active. It’s only been six months and here’s my reply.

I checked out your zero original post profile and discovered you’re just a little rage bait bot. Cute. Keep undermining Lemmy. We will persevere.

Oh… and wanna know how a rage bait bot reveals itself? It has to have the last word. Hang in there.

I’ve tried to remain civil but since your dream job is “going shit for other people,” I agree we don’t have much in common. Yes — that’s a quote.

Allow me though to ask you to leave your ignorant, toxic, homophobic, ugliness at Reddit where they need people like you to undermine their efforts at community building.

First: we’re all here because we want to weaken the current corporate hegemony. So… yeah… down with big billionaires. You and I are on the same team. (Unless you don’t get the Orwell reference.)

So… I just want to get this straight.

Let’s say it takes X amount of work to support your needs. Your PB&Js and Captain Crunch… whatever it is.

So… In your world… let’s say you eat for free… whose precious calories get burned in the acquisition of the calories upon which you are sustained?

Touchy much?

I’m not the one complaining about the hours per week I work or my compensation… just saying…

Honestly— we’re just another organism on the planet.

Separate yourself from the system — a hatchet in the wild… and you’ll find you’ll still have to work. The native Americans had to hunt and build domeciles and make clothes… maybe farm… fish… it’s work all the way down to the first turtle.

Sorry — we’re still animals.

We are literally the morons destroying the planet and you somehow see yourself as superior to animals that do not destroy the earth? They don’t use plastic or have subscriptions that make fascists rich.

Listen— I want to be friends with everyone at Lemmy because we all share contempt for the prevailing hegemony… so I’ll tone it down …

Humans can’t use their superior brainpower to boycott Facebook successfully.

Can I be the Genx here and just … yeah, we’ve always had to work for survival. Like each and every organism that find a niche. They are all working… even photosynthesis is a kind of activity.

Good grief.

All critters have to work. Think about it.

I think we’re here at Lemmy because we’re not there — most of us I mean — following along with all the popular trends in the mainstream. And your dish sound fantastic. My challenge with impossible patties is that I get cramping if I eat them and I’m not sure why but they are startlingly convincing.

Thanks.

My son really opened my head about the versatility of meming. It’s like the conversation under the conversation.

Instapot for almost anything.

I remember when we Xers were 42… it happens sooo fast!

Nah… I kinda am.

PLEASE tell me I inspired this!! Is this its first appearance? My GenZ son is gonna be so god damned pleased!!

We are hanging out with different crowds.

What specifically do you mean?

I love the openheartedness and tolerance implicit in the “stop judging” vibe, but what if we apply Kant’s Categorical Imperative to it. How does it hold up?

And now, I feel seen.

I’m reading AGAINST THE MACHINE: the unmaking of humanity. It’s in this neighborhood. You might like it.

Thank you! I come here to be the fly on the wall listening to tech magicians but I’ve got to start upping my game when I get some free time.