Timbers are shivered.

Didn’t realize only old people could have organ transplants, cancer, autoimmune disease, or just simply weaker immune systems.

Good thing it’s only old people.

They also push their VPN a lot. Every week or two I open Firefox and they send me to their VPN page on their website telling me to try it.

Like no. I’m not interested in paying for a rebranded mullvad.

That’s an extremely small minority, and you can turn it off if you want.

Affinity

I didn’t know what to do. I was being threatened with a ban, even after explaining myself and my edits.

At the end of the day the Wikipedia page didn’t matter to me that much. Who cares if people get misinformation about an OS update. I quite literally didn’t get paid enough to deal with that.

It just really changed my perspective on Wikipedia. Unless you look at the history and check out profiles of people who get in edit battles, you really don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes.

At the end of the day the Wikipedia page I was trying to edit ended up being corrected by someone else (who completely disregarded all of my effort), but it took a month, and someone else to do it, before the page wasn’t full of misinformation anymore. RIP to anyone who visited that page within that month and never returned, because they were fed 80% misinformation.

Their profile was banned last time I looked about a year ago. My profile I deleted because it was permanently tainted by that asshole spamming my talk page.

I remember posting about it on Reddit back when it happened a few years ago, and everyone in the comments told me how they’ve had similar experiences. Really just made me weary about trusting Wikipedia. I mean sure, if they get the date of a movie wrong that’s fine, but as for more serious topics, I just can’t really trust it.

Even sources can be garbage. I’ve seen plenty of blog spam cited as sources, which means nothing.

Have you ever looked at the sources? Some pages have some insane blog spam “sources” linked.

Nah.

I edited a page for a new OS update that was coming out. The page was FULL of misinformation, and I cleaned it up, linked official documentation as sources, etc.

My edits were reverted by some butt hurt guy who originally wrote the page full of misinformation, 0 sources, and broken English.

I reverted back to mine.

He reverted back to his.

He spammed my profile page calling me names, and then reported me to Wiki admins. I was told not to revert changes or I would be perma-banned. I explained how the original page was broken English, misinformation, and 0 sources were cited. They straight up told me they did NOT care.

Stopped editing wiki pages, and stopped trusting them. They didn’t care about factual information. They just wanted to enforce their reverting rule.

In Ontario, disability gets you $1200 per month if you are lucky and max out everything. Most people get $800-900.

For one person on disability, you get $497 for rent. You wont even find a ROOM for $497.

Tell me where you can even rent and pay utilities for less, let alone groceries, clothes, etc.

Canada doesn’t even give people on disability enough to afford rent, let alone groceries, power bills, car insurance, etc.

Maybe start there. Help the disabled survive.

Lemmy is no different than Reddit. Just constant reposts.

It feels worse on Lemmy because the amount of content is so low. Really sucks.

Meanwhile I have 25ft cables running my large format vinyl printers lol

Neckbeards fighting about Linux. No girls in sight.

Like Lemmy.

This is the 3rd redesign in the last 2 years lol. Damn.

Sadly the quality isn’t better

You mean checking 6 different Android communities across 6 different instances just to keep updated on what’s going on isn’t fun?

You mean seeing the same post on the front page of everything, posted across 30 communities, every damn day isn’t fun?

Either Lemmy needs to natively support it, or a third party app, but we need the ability to create multi-communities (like multi subreddits), so I can check all 6 Android communities in 1 tap.

We also need the ability to consolidate all of the same links/titles into 1 collapsed post, so we don’t have to scroll through the same news stories a million times.

Unpopular answer: you should.

Lemmy is already going downhill since the big surge. Even if you look at sign ups, numbers don’t mean better.

The entirety of Lemmy is too FOSS and Linux focused, and even trying to have a normal basic tech discussion about anything you’ll find yourself getting hate thrown towards you for not using Linux or FOSS. Lemmy users bully the crap out of Sync and Boost developer for asking for a few bucks to support development.

I’m only here because I got IP banned from Reddit, thinking Lemmy would take off. I don’t miss Reddit, but I’m a little sad I ruined my chances of ever being able to go back. Any new account is immediately permabanned.

Even if you stick around, I genuinely don’t believe Lemmy will be here by next October. All of these instances will see a decrease in users, decrease in donations, and they’ll shut down one by one. Actually, weirdly enough having everyone move to just a couple popular instances might keep Lemmy alive longer, as everything won’t be so fragmented.

I’d advise against joining any .zip or .mov instances, as many businesses ban those TLDs for security reasons.

I even have them banned at home so my girlfriend who works from home sometimes doesn’t get tricked.

Well ya, it’s not about Linux, FOSS, or hatred for cars. Lemmy only likes those things.