Yay! I hope Lemmy can grow out of the political fighting and shine bright. We’re all gonna make it thru just fine, friend.

Hey, friend, no worries. What you’ll find out here is that Lemmy is much much more extreme in their viewpoints. Lemmy seems to attract people who are inclined to be more obsessive on certain things, than the general public. So on here, you’ll notice that when someone gets angry at someone, they do NOT let it drop.

Many will follow ya around and just talk shit about you forever if you disagreed with them in the past.

So my fanclub likes to jump in a lot of newbie posts and say, “block UniversalMonk first!!” Not because it’s good advice, but because they don’t like me. There are more posts about me, than posts by me. lolololol

But if ya look at my post history, I pretty much just stick to the little communities I manage. And you won’t find anything controversial. Just some extreme reactions to it. Ask the angry people to be specific about why they are mad at me, and they never have an answer except that they bizarrely think I am pro-Trump, even tho I didn’t vote for him and the vast majority of my articles I post are anti-Trump. LMAO

To be honest, I’m like you and not that into politics. One of the more disappointing things about Lemmy for me is how many people revert to politics every single thread and post. It’s annoying. I think that Lemmy having being so obsessed about political talk will actually doom it. Lemmy is never gonna be popular.

Too much politics. Too much anger. Too much obsessive stalker-types.

I try to do my part to help Lemmy grow, but even when I post something non-political, like about science, or education or something, people like to jump in and say variations of “Fuck you! You ruined the US!” lolol As if the 100 people who post regularly on Lemmy can change anything about society. lololol

I still love the idea of non-centralized stuff, the federation, etc. But the crowd on Lemmy is to obsessive-compulsive to allow it to grow.

You and me are actually more alike, than we are different. Let me know how things turn out for you and if you can find enough non-political content to keep ya here.

but I don’t like news. It’s stressful, annoying, confusing, etc.

So you don’t like news, and that made you decide to tell people to block me?! Ok… Um, what about the other people who post a lot more news than me? Most of the news I post is pro-socialist news. You can just admit you don’t like socialism. But to tell people to block me because of it, is hilarious.

So now I have advice for newcomers: Guys, ya’ll should block Camille_Jamal. He doesn’t like news about socialism.

See how that works?

to be clear: block universal monk

For sure. I’m terrible because I post so many articles promoting third parties, socialism, and anarchy!

Yeah, I was surprised someone hadn’t heard of Pioneer. It was everywhere when I was growing up. Sucks getting old, friends!

I moved to peertube, but wow, it’s not a super easy transition when it comes to posting stuff.

Maybe it’s just me, but the UI is definitely wonky and not very intuitive. Took me a bit to figure out how to post.

I plan to really go big with posting soon, so maybe I can make the workflow faster.

Good point! I forgot where I was for a sec.

Let me know if you find a better venue… I am also disappointed in Lemmy.

I still love Lemmy, and my main Lemmy instance. But ugh, everything is getting so political and extreme everywhere. I’m trying to transition into just posting my writing and staying in writing communities, but my reputation proceeds me (still no regrets and I still believe in everything I said) and things can downgrade pretty quick.

And if I came up with an alt name, people would recognize my writing and say I was ban-evading.

So ugh, we’ll see. I’m trying to just stay out of everything political, but people mention my fucking name all the time anytime someone talks about “trolls.” And I never back down when I get false accused. lmao

Agreed. Lots of missed opportunities, and Lemmy is also shunning away their allies against Trump by overusing the words Nazi and Fascist to describe every poster that disagrees with Democrats. My gf, who is very very anti-Trump, lasted on Lemmy one day. One day!

She said it was way too hateful and political. lol

I feel bad even recommending it to her, and I don’t recommend it to any of my friends anymore.

Lemmy will die in a few years because of it’s extremism. It’s already slowing down. But I’ll ride it to the end to prove to people that they didn’t bully me off of it. :)

I wish people was more forgiven of Trump voters, it is not the monolithic the Left tries to portray it is. Trump sold himself as fighting the establishment, being anti-war and pro-antitrust (many small business owners supported him)

Be prepared to accept accusations of being a fascist Nazi for saying this. You’re right, but Lemmy is so extreme on this subject, that if you aren’t with the majority, then you’re an evil nazi pig–regardless of reality.

I still get accused of it and all I did was vote third party in the election. 9 months ago! lol

Can confirm. about 15 years ago, my bank account was frozen for 3 weeks for child-support enforcement. Only they weren’t talking about my kid or even me. Some dude in Florida with my same first and last name was a deadbeat dad. So they froze my account because apparently, he didn’t have a bank account or something.

What’s super annoying about it is that we had different middle names, not even close to the same social security number, and not one person even contacted me before my bank account was frozen. I only found out because a check I wrote or something bounced. And I was like, WTF?

I was finally able to talk to enough bank people to clear it up. But it took 3 weeks. I never got an apology for it either. And the fuckers did not refund my insufficient funds fee. I mean, it was only $15 bucks, and it would have cost me more than that in my time to get a refund, but still…

So yeah, even here in the US, banks can suck.

I’d like to laugh, but when I was really new I probably would have asked the same question. I remember back in the day, it was fucking hard for me to even figure out how to work with torrents.

Tho I love AI slop, I can’t blame this one on the interwebs destruction bots. I wrote it. I’m old and have been writing terrible slop since long before AI.

I definitely used AI to clean up my comma abuse, edit when I went on nonsense tangents, fix my tense massacres, shit spelling, and all those sentences I start with “And” or “But,” though.

Not everything you don’t like is AI slop.

Now for the pic…yaaaassss Queeeeen!! I absolutely cozied up and gently licked the ear of my AI lover for that beautiful, spectacular hunka eye-poking slop. And motherfucker, I might just turn it into a poster. Thanks for the hate, friend!

Seriously though: if ya think you can do better or even worse, please write something and post it. Lemmy needs interesting content. Not every fucking post or comment on Lemmy has to be about Trump or politics BS. Write something, and post it!

I wanted more articles about the old days of pirating and hacking. Didn’t find a lot, so created my own. We gotta be the change we wanna see, friend.

Sent my money in. Thanks for what you do with the software, brother.

I realize this is an older article from 2016. But it’s just so good, I had to share it in case some here aren’t familiar with her. Her name is Alexandra Elbakyan and she’s the person behind Sci-Hub, a library website that provides free access to millions of research papers, regardless of copyright, by bypassing publishers’ paywalls in various ways.

And she’s my personal hero. :)

Yep. I used to be able to buy an amazon kindle book. Download it, crack it, then read on any non-kindle device I had.

Now they don’t let us download the books. So now I won’t buy anymore kindle books. :)

I’m actually cool with this.

I wasn’t even aware of paysafecard. Wow. Thanks for this info!

Thank you for this!

Ew.