In five paragraphs you’ve summed it up well, and provided an easy, handy rule — what they do matters, not what they say. Not sure I’ve seen it said more succinctly. Sincere kudos, smart stranger.

You can read c/autism and post comments there without joining anything at all.

I’m surprised it’s asking you for an ‘invite’, though. Never seen that. I’d suggest sending a note to the listed moderator. Just click ‘send message’ on their page.

Lemmy is kinda confusing, but it’s worth the hassle. (:

I’m so old, I remember a time when people left home without a phone at all.

My brother just had his prostate removed, can’t eat or leave his apartment for a week, and he’ll probably never have a full-on erection again. My wife had to do dialysis three days a week, which left her weak and ruined after every session. A friend of mine is in pain 24/7, and has been for decades.

I am the luckiest fucker on earth, to have good health, and I’ve never done a damned thing to deserve it. For 50 years I ate almost nothing but crap food, and I’m flabby and never exercise.

Ain’t no justice in this life. Ain’t much life if you don’t have your health.

What is it lacking?

Plush carpet and air conditioning. No, it’s working fine — fun for me, and a handful of others don’t seem to mind.

That’s what I’ve been doing for a year or so…

Medium has a paywall, which tends to keep me away, but Substack pays Nazis to post there. This makes the Substack platform distasteful for those who dislike fascists.

OK, now I’ve read it, and thanks again, OP. It’s the first and so far only honest assessment of the situation I’ve seen anywhere.

“You’ve landed on an exclusive AlterNet+ article. Subscribe now…”

No, and fuck off, AlterNet. Here’s the article for free.

Haven’t read the article yet, but I’m hopeful it’s worth reading because I strongly agree with OP’s summary.

I’m pushing 70 and exhausted when I get home from picketing at a Tesla dealership for a few hours. I don’t want violence, and certainly I’m too old and weak to participate in violence, but my eyes roll when people say we should write to our Congressional reps, or talk about taking back the House in the midterms or such silliness. Sweet Jeebers, are people completely lost in a sci-fi time warp? Politics as usual is finished in America.

This is my #1 long-running frustration with Lemmy, and what you’ve suggested would be the solution. In the software’s innards, personal blocks should be ignored in the communities a user mods.

I don’t want to bother with creating an alt, then switching back and forth several times daily, which means … I can’t block anyone.

It’s not for me, but it sounds cool for those active on both sites.

Sounds a lot like, “Biden & Harris support genocide, so let’s vote for Trump.”

Google is awful, but any other company that could afford to buy and run Chrome would be worse.

It’s Newsweek.

(: Man, the things I learn from smart folks on Lemmy…

Hello, old timer! Pretty sure it was just plain Netscape when I installed it (not yet called Navigator), but I’d never heard of it as Phoenix. It has served me well for 30 years across a dozen computers, but now it might be time to move on.

That does look intriguing, especially if being a Firefox fork means I can bring my familiar add-ons along. Thank you!

Very, very long-time Firefox user here, now open to suggestions for a replacement. Windows, desktop, and it absolutely must have adblocker capabilities.

Is it even worth clicking? The headline is like, ‘Frozen water can be slippery’…