Libb

The default home feed: out of the box, it puts too much shit in the face of newcomers.

Once filtered out, it’s great but one must first learn to filter the noise out which, I’m pretty sure, is dissuasive to a lot of non-geek users like myself.

if you self-censor, probably ;)

I don’t think I need to spend that much money on my current hobbies. But I obviously could

• A real lot of pencils, a lot of Bic and a lot of paper to write with (and to make paper planes, too). Like a good chunk of a lifetime worth of supply :p
• A lot (but already a little less) of top quality watercolor paint (that I don’t need to enjoy my hobby watercoloring), too many top of the line watercolor brushes (that I don’t need for my hobby either) and a lot of excellent watercolor paper (that I may enjoy using but still don’t really need for my hobby ;)
• The entire line of Caran d’Ache ‘Luminance’ colored pencils and the entire line of Faber Castell ‘Polychromos’ colored pencils, in multiple examples. But why would I need that many colors when I use maybe 10 or 12 regularly?
• I do a lot of scratch building also using… cardboard. SO, a 1000€ would buy a few decades, centuries?, worth of cardboard and fresh hobby blades too. But since I mostly used recycled cardboard from old packages and parcels… I won’t need to buy those.

Back when I was making scale models (plastic planes and tanks) I could have easily spend that In a couple hour in any hobby shop worth shopping at, buying a few fancy model kits, too much paint and some of the fancier tools, plus reference books. Or on a single camera lens, but that is another hobby I quit practicing. Or on some rare books… which I also quit collecting. It looks like I won’t be able to spend much money :p

• “Klaatu barada nikto”
• “Anál nathrach, orth’ bháis’s bethad, do chél dénmha”

The first one is a classic. The second one may not be as familiar but still is a great movie ;)

I’m not hardcore anything but I quit using Reddit and have not looked back. I also don’t use any other social, even tough I own other accounts I have not logged into for many years.

Why I don’t see myself hardcore? Because there is no hate, or anger and no desire to preach anyone to switch either. I respect people’s choice. I disagreed with a few of reddit decisions & their policy change back then and took my decision accordingly. I posted a goodbye note explaining why I left reddit and switched to Lemmy. The same with X, Facebook, or whatever: when I realized I could not trust those services, I told people around me and moved away.

I don’t date/wed a religion, or a god. Only a person.

That being said, there would still be the obvious limit that I would have to like (and be liked by) the person which, as far as I’m concerned, would most probably exclude some of the more… extreme religious beliefs.

Using your example, you could be lying.

True that. It’s even more interesting considering ‘Libb’ is not my real name, just the one I fancy using online. But I would say that it’s beside the point of your question (which was not about the possibility one would be intentionally telling lies, just how much data makes a ‘fact’ reliable), still, it’s obviously related.

But then… considering that for some undisclosed reason you could not get access to more (source of) info, how would you decide if I say the truth about my name or not, when at the same time next to me some people (more than one) are claiming I’m a liar and that my name is Gertrude? Maybe that can’t be decided? Or that should not be? Or mayb the dude claiming his name should be given some extra credit? Or maybe not (I may say I’m but I doubt Elon Musk will admit I’m his natural son and that I should therefore be entitled to a part of his huge piles of money, plus change for the trauma I endured ;)

If I was to consider myself dependent to anything, I would say I’m more of an analog dependency kind of guy than a digital one.

I mean, I have a computer and a phone (and a tablet) and I know how to use them, but I also don’t feel much excitement building up thinking about using them, at all. On the other hand, I enjoy doing analog and IRL activities.

I keep hearing “it isn’t the quantity…” and I do not understand why it isn’t seen as just as important as trustworthiness of source because even the best source needs a high amount of data to back up a claim.

consider my flat-earthers example: the trustworthiness of the source(s) is at least as important. If I told you my pseudo is ‘Libb’ you can bet that it is indeed so, even if that just me saying it. And that would remain true if, out of nowhere, 100s of people started telling you my pseudo was in reality ‘Mickey’ or ‘Gertrude’. I would still be Libb. Conclusion? All by myself, against that hypotheticla large crowd, I’m still a more reliable source of info concerning my identity.

On the topic of flat earthers, did you ever see the video of the guy who tried to demonstrate the earth was flat and proved it was round? The look on his face was priceless. haha

No, and I’m almost wishing to see it. Almost.

I must admit the rise of flat earth theory came as a shock to me. I always have had a sweet spot for absurd theories but I could not imagine people taking those seriously. But maybe that’s just me being manipulated/lobotomized by the government? As a matter of fact, I’m also a pro-vax and that may explain a lot :p

I would say, a good starting point would be a few examples of those so-called facts and their corresponding data.

Half-jokingly, I have little doubt I could find a lot of data demonstrating the earth is flat on flat-earth.org or whatever flat-earthers main website is called. But no matter the amount of data I would find there that still would not cut it as far as I’m concerned to accept their certainty as a fact—Incidentally, I also just answered your first question: it’s not just the quantity of data, it’s also its trustworthiness that should matter ;)

Like with questions posted in a forum: at least, having little more to read than just its title ;)

It is not anymore as far as I know, right?

Waterfox

Edit: on my computer only as I don’t surf the web with my phone (I don’t know if there is a mobile version of Waterfox)

1. Don’t buy crap
2. Don’t keep crap (recycle, don’t trash them)
3. Stop wishing of buying more crap.

Any impression this incredibly wise list of advice could be based on personal experience (and on multiple failures at following them) would be correct. My life changed and the clutter vanished the day I stopped wanting to buy always more stuff and decided to only keep what was… worth keeping aka actually of any use/importance.

No ads, no tracking, that’s exclusive to Lemmy and I would like it for that alone.

People (aka, in Reddit language, ‘content’ or ‘the stuff we write but they earn money with’) are the same everywhere, I mean assholes and nice guys are not exclusive to any platform. There are just a lot less of us here than on Reddit. So, there is a lot less noise.

Plus we have decent filtering tools, so we can even have less noise ;)

Lemmy is tiny compared to Reddit and the niche communities I’m interested in are not very active but I don’t care. I will keep posting here and not on Reddit as long as they won’t change what I disagree with (which won’t happen).

Not current US politics. Election happened 7 months ago.

I know, with TikTok brains becoming the norm 7 months ago may seems like veeeeery ancient history, but isn’t Trump the current US president? Isn’t his election the active presidential election? Trump is US politics, dude.

So, come on, if you want to troll try at least to put in some efforts.

rule 6, maybe?

I think it’s what I said

My spouse and I have been together for almost 30 years and I see no sign of us parting ways anytime soon. We’re both persuaded we’ve lasted that long because we were both ok with the fact that the other is not perfect or faultless.

I will let anyone decide for themselves what limits should be made in a couple, and I will keep ours to ourselves, but even crossing those limits it should always be ok to try to fix it provided both parties are doing it with the right mindset and a willingness to be/to act better.

That’s what we both think and that’s how we managed to get through quite a few… difficult times, but that doesn’t make it an indisputable truth either. It’s just our 2 cents ;)

People discussing their opinion is just that: people discussion their opinion. There is no rule, end of the story. No matter how well formalized said opinion may be.