I don't even like the few phones I had with the headphone jack on the top.
This would be a good post for !unpopularopinion@lemmy.world as long as you expand on why you think that.
If someone finds themselves having daydreams about murdering "the elites" or whatever, it's time to get off social media and go take a walk outside.
Preferably to a psychiatrist who enjoys a challenge.
Is there a community about Matrix on Lemmy?
Is Matrix technically part of the fediverse?
I would say no. It doesn't use ActivityPub and is its own thing. It's federated in that indepedent Matrix servers can talk to each other (like email or Nextcloud). So while email would be considered a federated service, it's not considered part of the fediverse. At most, it's like a 2nd cousin.
Who is the developer/team and do they have an active presence on the fediverse?
Matrix.org foundation (https://matrix.org/) and not sure. Maybe some of the individual contributors do, but I don't know any off the top of my head
Bedroom eyes, you say?
This made me dig into my profile uploads where I put Gowron eyes on everything, lol
Some of my various "Gowron Eyes" uploads from posts past
This. So much this. I don't know why it's so tolerated so widely here, and I hate that it's becoming normalized. You nailed it: normal people do not behave or talk like that.
People abusing rules that go unenforced
Can say that at least some of that is due to a lot of communities getting created during the initial 2023 Rexodous, abandoned shortly after, and picked up later by new mods. They often don't change the community sidebar info. Suggestion there is to reach out to the mods (polite DM or even a meta post in the community) asking that the specific rule be enforced or removed.
To a lesser but still important degree, there's nuances to the interpretation of every rule. As an example, I've removed many posts in this community that have the exact same title as this post. The difference is those were not-at-all thinly veiled rants about getting modded or banned from another community/instance (rule 5) where this one is describing specific aspects of the platform.
mods removing posts/banning users only when they take offense
Mods are people, people are fallible. Beats an overaggressive modbot, though. Also keep in mind mods put up with a lot of shit you don't see (abusive DMs, persistent trolls, absurd conspiracy theories and rumor mongering over in YPTB, rules lawyers who come within one Planck unit of the spirit of every rule just because they can, etc). We also don't get paid, and it's a neverending job where you're severely outnumbered and outgunned. Often, if you sincerely apologize and express regret they'll reconsider. You'd be surprised how far a genuine apology will get you. And I don't mean some phony-baloney "sorry I said the quiet part out loud" apology but actually realizing you fucked up and owning it.
users (and even mods) fighting each other over instances like rival gangs
I'm going to assume this is related to the recent LW defed announcement, and I'm not touching that with a 10 foot pole other than say "about time".
communities propped up by single users
That's something you can help with. Unless it's a mods only community, which I don't think is what you're referring to, then you can absolutely tag in and contribute. I'm guilty of lurking, especially lately as I've been super busy with work, but used to try to post content to random communities to help grow them.
There are some good faith users of course, but it seems the vast majority just want to be in a safe space echo chamber and talk shit about each other.
Honestly, just try to notice which users those are and block them. Seriously, don't be afraid. Blocks are free and cut out so much of the immature bullshit around here. The comment sections on news/politics articles here (from my perspective) has gone from a raging dumpster fire of echo chamber circle jerking to a ghost town because I've just blocked so many people who do nothing but comment low effort knee-jerk reactionary garbage. The plus side is the actual insightful comments really stand out that way.
The point is, to a large degree, the experience here is what you make of it. Don't be afraid to curate your experience, and don't give into FOMO just because you've blocked a lot of communities, users, and instances
NPC: (Says literally anything)
Dragonborn: What did you just say to me?!
[Quicksaving...]
That's basically what goes through my head when someone compliments me on my punctuality.
You do realize who would appoint his replacement, right??
The only Tony Todd episode I occasionally skip is "The Visitor" but not because it's bad. Just "too soon" from a losing my own father perspective.
Although when I sold mine, we had people literally break our counter during a viewing
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I'm the Tesseract dev, and in the current build, any posts that aren't your own that have [spoiler] (case-insensitive) in the post title will hide all but the post's metadata (title, author, community, etc) and the vote/comment bar. Clicking "reveal" shows the post's contents.
The nitty-gritty implementation details are up to you, but can we, as a group, please come together and handle this flair consistently? I would really love to be able to disable the "Show NSFW" option without missing totally safe-for-work posts due to people abusing the NSFW attribute. I get why people do that, but I'm also tired of playing "porn or spoiler" roulette.
I haven't added this part yet, but I'm planning to put a "Spoiler" toggle on the create post form which will add [Spoiler] to the post title during the submission if the user didn't add it manually.
Or if other apps I'm not familiar with are already doing something like this, let's do that. Either way, let's get on the same page.
Edit: If there are any other special-case flairs that might be handled similarly, I'm all ears.
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