I’ll start it off:
- Windows is a perfectly fine OS, as long as you use Enterprise or Server (Home and Pro are crap)
- Self driving cars are the future since the US won’t fully embrace mass transit
Liberals are the way of the future and most leftists are as bad as MAGA.
Proton has a shitty CEO but is also the best VPN (their email and other services are very good too) out there (in Switzerland too, they have one of the best laws for freedom of communication there is, and their servers are locked away under the mountains so both nuke safe and EU/USA regulations-safe), nobody has an alternative except like make your own email server (so easy!/s). Or Mullvad who finances a fascist political party.
But man if you’re on Proton you’re apparently adolf hitler.
I agree with the hivemind’s general direction, but I really hate its absolutist thinking style, which dictates:
- Every issue has exactly two sides: the Right side and the Wrong side, and they’re extreme opposites.
- Nuances don’t exist; if you think they do you’re just shilling for the Wrong Side.
- Moral and ethical purity are expected of everyone, zero tolerance, no allowance for human weakness - and if you don’t agree then obviously you would forgive Hitler for “human weakness”.
- Everybody is the worst person they’ve ever been. If you cured cancer and brought about world peace, you’d still be a piece of shit for Liking a misogynistic tweet in 2015, and so is anyone who hasn’t taken you off their Friend list and spat on you.
Carbohydrates and fibre aren’t essential nutrients (I know it sounds crazy, but look it up, even the national academy of medicine agrees.) But try to even say this on here and watch the downvotes pour in. In fact, look at how many downvotes this comment is going to get.
They’re not essential for survival, I’ll give you that. Still, I think low carb diets resemble vegan diets a lot; you will be missing some micronutrients for which you have to adjust. They also resemble vegan diets in how certain proponents seem to be on a mission to promote them.
They also resemble vegan diets in how certain proponents seem to be on a mission to promote them.
Pretty much any eating pattern other then the standard western diet will see improvements, people get excited about a tool that fixed whatever problem they had.
Calcium and electrolytes like magnesium can be tricky. You’re spot on with your assessment, I think.
LW is American style liberal with its many problems. Mods aren’t the best.
DB0 is cringe pro AI and somewhat not that anarchist
ML has some cringe users that don’t just support ideologies but praise leaders such as Xi as if they’re their god when they aren’t even Chinese or have ever been to China, lol. Talking with such users when my field is China is quite funny.
Solorpunk is too offline to have a hivemind.
The mindset that treats AI like the bubonic plague. It’s not something that should be avoided. If used properly, it can be a great asset for people.
AI is just a tool, and you shouldn’t blame it for humans’ misuse of it. Instead, we should treat it like other tools: as something to use for appropriate situations/tasks.
The “if used properly” is the hard part: AI is good for simple tasks, like organizing and labeling things. However, as of 2026, AI is not sufficient for tasks involving creativity like art and music. It doesn’t capture that human aspect yet (It could in the future).
TL:DR: My point is that AI isn’t inherently bad, like many people make it out to be. Instead, it’s how humans use it that can make it bad.
I’m fairly Anti-AI, but some people here definitely have a ridiculously absolutist stance towards it, which seems to be getting more common. Like if AI was used to fix a bug in otherwise human-written code for a videogame? That game is now slop and needs to be shunned apparently.
I fully agree with you.
I stated something similar a week ago or so and had one dude going nuts. I mean nuts;
- Spamming “fuck you” towards me.
- Saying I was bad at coding (he had no idea that I didn’t even care because, in fact I can’t code and never cared to learn).
- Saying my opinion does not matter (as if his opinion was superior lol).
No idea who the guy was, skimmed the comments and immediately blocked him. I thank Lemmy every day for having a infinite blocklist possibility.
I think people blame AI for incompetent management, which is like blaming a saw for bad carpentry. AI doesn’t force employees to use it whether it’s appropriate or not - managers do that. AI isn’t building massive datacenters regardless of impact - executives are doing that.
I agree with this.
I use AI at work, it has significantly improved my productivity, it does the shit mundane stuff (like transferring information into new corporate templates) leaving me to concentrate on the actual job I need to do.
.world politics, seems to have wierd relationship with being pro-israel/zionist not aggressively. but enough to say “this did not occur in the states , you are just promoting nazism” the triad are tankies and suck of CCP/russia quite alot, eventhough these countries are conservative asf, chinese people are socially very conservative if you ever interacted with people who were from there. also the blahaj instance.
There exists legitimate reasons behind Play Integrity, the check that requires you to use Google Play to download certain apps.
Let’s say a company is developing an app for a bank. They’re responsible for any malfunction that can happen on it; including the user somehow installing a tampered copy, or if the user’s device being compromised. The law might wary in wording; but most countries would find the app devs in fault if the app itself got hacked. You’re expected to uphold as much security as you can, and enabling an option that increases it is only logical.
You’re hard pressed to find a more vindictive audience than what we’ve got here. Everyone’s on a constant hunt for something to disagree about or to maybe spot a small crack that lets the actual motives shine through and when they spot something they point it out viciously. Can’t just politely disagree with anyone let alone try and have a constructive conversation about how much we actually disagree about. No, they used AI and thus this person gets written off completely and called an asshole and fascist for it.
This makes even less sense when you consider the fact that usually the underlying reasons are political. To win in politics, all you need is numbers. That’s it. So why the fuck is everyone constantly put through this Navy SEALs hell week level of scrutiny. Nobody is ever good enough. Sometimes makes it feel like some simply want to lose just so that they can keep complaining how everything is the fault of someone else.
AI is the devil, humanity is doomed, parents are evil / selfish / idiotic for having kids, cars shouldn’t exist no matter what, the list goes on…
Also, 99% of the population here is Western. Nobody ever recalls that different cultures can have different opinions, different priorities, different cultural mores, etc — and I’m not talking about China vs US here. (I may still be a little salty about being temp banned for a ‘dogwhistle’ that’s nothing of the kind in Asia).
Sometimes I wonder why I’m still on Lemmy, the toxicity is pervasive and exceeds anything Reddit had.
Sometimes I wonder why I’m still on Lemmy, the toxicity is pervasive and exceeds anything Reddit
Had the same thought before but then I realized, Lemmy’s blocking system is infinite. So block anyone who is immensely toxic. Win-win.
The absolutism and the common thought process of “it’s obvious” often make me wonder how much of the lemmy community is angsty middle/high school students.
“Anyone who uses any form of AI is intellectually inferior to me” Not condoning dependency on AI, or the risks involved with it, btw
I use AI a LOT. Once a year, I go to McDonalds. I love my iPhone. There, I’ve said it.
Oh Christ, I went to McDs 3 or 4 years ago for the first time in eons because I got nostalgic for their fish sandwich. I doubt I’ll ever perform that experiment again.
Once a year is about my limit. Usually by the time I’ve forgotten why I don’t go, and then my ass reminds me again of why I shouldn’t do it until I forget again in another year.
The virtue signalling here is exhausting and constant. It doesn’t matter what you post or where, 1/4 of the comments will be trying to convince you that you are horrible for whatever it is you posted about, and how the obvious moral thing would be to run off into the woods and eat berries. Everyone is boycotting everything. No nuance ever.
Example: You donated time at a homeless shelter and want to provide a link to others to help donate? The page takes paypal, don’t you understand how horrible that is, and you’re horrible for suggesting they pay in paypal!
I think it scares a lot of people away from Lemmy, and frankly from our political causes as well. People spend so much time making everyone else feel terrible for even moderately trying that they just give up, the other side is usually pretty willing to accept them in and say “no no, you aren’t horrible, look you’re a good person”. With Lemmy and Reddit they feel annoyed as hell here and not welcome, go back to Reddit where they get a warm hug in the thread. With politics they’ll all share in how the other side is crazy. It feels good to be included, and Lemmy is very exclusive.
For a bunch of nerds who claim to have been picked on a lot in high school, we sure do push people away quite a bit.
To turn the example around, a better way to rephrase the response would be “Hey very cool! Is there a way to pay without paypal?”
Yes, so many people here are desperate to make sure you know how shiny their halos are.
Overall the discourse is very angry and agressive. I get that people are stressed, scared, angry and frustrated, but the number of times people go from 0-60 in 1 second over a political difference is wild. And I’m not talking about “full on Trump supporter” or “ICE is saving America” differences. Like saying “I hate that that Democrat said that he doean’t support trans women in sports but his opponent is literally a Nazi…” will get you dragged to hell. Hell, I’ve seen Canadians snapping at people in political threads, so I know everyone is well past their breaking point.
I don’t fuck with comments much on other sites/apps so IDK if this is a Lemme problem or an everyone everywhere problem.
For a bunch of nerds who claim to have been picked on a lot in high school, we sure do push people away quite a bit.
You’d like to think the pain of being excluded would lead to people be more accepting, but it usually just pushes them to form their own groups so that they can exclude others too.
That’s been my experience. The other day we had a post that made fun of “sportsball” and very few seemed to get the irony of it. Sure I made that joke for a while when I was younger, then I realized that by doing it I was doing the same thing to those who like sports that they did to me in high school with video games.
It’s not some equalizing or justice, it’s lowering yourself to their level. What’s worse is that at least most of them did it in high school when that stuff mattered. It’s sad doing it now as adults when it takes nothing to just be accepting of everyone’s interests.
As D N’D Greg once put it, fantasy football is still fantasy.
Big Tech is enforcing ID verification more and more aggressive, some people will take whichever non-compliant networks they will find.
I really really just want to look at pictures of cats without people bringing up Trump or Musk or Epstein. Yes politics are important and that’s why there are political communities, but even Anne Frank wrote about other stuff in her diary sometimes.
- “Old web” things were replaced by VC-backed apps because the apps had a better user experience, not just because big tech conspired to kill the old web. People wanted to use social media instead of RSS feeds because social media is easier to use than RSS feeds. Ditto for Discord replacing IRC. People here sometimes act like IRC declined because of a bigtech conspiracy against it. IRC declined because you had to message a freaking bot once a month to keep your nickname.
- Wayland and systemd solve a lot of problems and are overall a step in the right direction.
Ditto for Discord replacing IRC
Ditto for Matrix replacing Discord. Stop explaining that it’s technically better, almost feature parity, etc. Most users don’t care and the network effect assures nothing will happen. Just make it easier to use with an equally polished UI. FOSS enthusiasts (I’m one) don’t seem to contain a single UI expert along their multitudes.
You can prize my Qbot from my cold dead hands!
