Alright. Well, gotta deal with the pain of having a criminal conman for a president on our individual ways, I suppose.
I'm not really interested in criticizing people, myself. You can do what you like and convince people to join you in whatever way you deem fit, but in my experience, they tend to shut down and stop listening (maybe it's my delivery). I'd much rather show them there's hope elsewhere, especially because right now, that's what a lot of people want. Honey vs. vinegar, and all that.
I appreciate your answers, but I still don't follow the logic. Thanks anyway.
For my part, I'm not sure it is, though lack of votes didn't help. The meme is perhaps meanspirited so soon after the painful news, but here's my question, and this is genuine: now what?
Trump will get to pick a bunch of lower federal judges and probably two more SCOTUS judges. What's the way out when it seems to me that he and his jackals control the military, the police, and the judiciary? Seems like a hopeless setup to me.
Harris lost, so what's Step 2?
I don't get it. Are you happy Trump won, or...?
Unfortunately, this is the most accurate take, and I don't recognize this country anymore.
That's interesting. Always good to be able to make informed choices
You know, I'm okay if an indie dev wants to use an LLM to generate lore text to save time, effort, and/or sanity. I sometimes feel bad skipping that stuff, because I know a small team of people worked really hard to write multiple pages of a "book" in some hard-to-reach corner of their game.
On the other hand, these giant corpos have the resources to pay for writers and artists, and I think they have an ethical duty to society to provide jobs.
I'm not sure how you'd solve the problem of big corpos becoming cheap content farms while avoiding harming the people who use these tools to make something rich and beautiful, but I have to believe there's a way to thread that needle.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Plus, presidents regularly create carve-out exceptions to tariffs, anyway. This is likely overblown fearmongering.
Not in particular, but at least I could ostensibly set up a filter (or automod) that hid or removed low-quality comments like that. Removing downvotes is kinda the same effect.
I'm not saying voting should go away entirely. This instance still has upvotes, after all, but Lemmy will just turn into the cynical, pessimistic, self-fallating shithole that Reddit has become if we don't do anything differently as a community.
(And yes, it was just an open invitation—a reminder, if you will, that The Fediverse is a cool place where you have choices regarding how you experience it.)
This instance actually drops downvotes before they hit the database, so unless another instance tracks users on different instances, they simply disappear for people on this instance.
Because downvotes are lazy commentary. I'd rather judge for myself what constitutes a bad take and use words to encourage or debate. I don't need a bunch of angry keyboard warriors poisoning the discourse with voluntary polling.
Plus, seeing a bunch of negative numbers doesn't make anyone feel good. I would rather Lemmy be a better place than Reddit.
Ew, you went through my post history from almost a year ago? Gross and creepy. No wonder y'all can't win converts to your cause if that's how you behave.