pragmatically speaking, there is little reason they should care.
and there is always a calculus of benefit vs cost. does the ‘good’ of driving an EV outweight the ‘evil’ of indirectly supporitng Elon musk’s wealth?
you also have to factor in for a long time tesla was really the only legit EV game in town, and most of the late comers aren’t getting tons of traction.
there are dessert lasgnas, like dessert pizzas
banning the instance doesn’t ban the users coming into your instances.
piefed just seems more like mastodon/twitter than reddit.
amen. i want to nerd out and make jokes and listen to people’s stories and gain insightful from other people.
but now i have weirdos going into my history from such threads and telling me that if i think there is any subtlely to social or personal or moral issues, than I’m evil incarnate.
i’ve seen a huge uptick in the rage/hate activity on lemmy… and it drives tons of upvotes and comments.
smart thoughtful interesting stuff… gets maybe 1/10 the activity.
i’m sick of how awful and ignorant the vast majority of comments here are. and how they have to conflated outlandish beliefs with being morally correct.
just tell them it’s like when people had their won websites.
except now they their own reddits.
but i guess if they are under 30 they may not understand what any of that means, since people haveing websites stopped being a thing 10+ years ago.
why beat yourself up. you know good content won’t be rewarded or seen.
only the ragebait. the internet is not information driven anymore, it’s dopmine driven.
it’s the super highway of rage and hate.
pretty much. i have been here for over two years. in the past few months it’s become more and more frustrating and i’m getting harassed/attacked/banned, always from bad faith actors that whose grade school reasoning is ‘i know you are but what am i?!’ type justifications. they only reply to call you names and tell you how wrong you are and how right they are.
it’s the same idiots who ruined reddit who can’t tolerate anyone who thinks differently than them and then screech about how tolerate and open minded they are and if anyone disagrees with them the are a stupid facist bigot.
people forget, but redditque was a think people actaully practiced and made reddit a really cool place. people would argue, but they generally didn’t ban/block/harass each other. nobody in first decade of reddit went around downvoting/reporting all my posts. but that’s just how shit is now on the internet too many unwell nutjobs who want to punish people who type words they don’t like.
People do things for social approval. That’s my point. Social approval requires meeting other people’s standards, not your own.
And when your standards are not in synch with the people around you, it’s miserable and leads to conflict.
Where I come from ‘bettering yourself’ got you socially shitcanned. And that’s true for a lot of parts of the world and family relationships.
The mantra of meritocractic achievement is only social and rewarding among the upper middle classes, in the USA at least. If you existing outside of that, you people often regard ‘self improvement’ with hostility.
according to whose standards?
i like to read books and learn and try new things. i also of a lot of athletics, like half marathon type stuff.
a lot of people think i’m a massive asshole for doing these things, as me merely talking about my interests and lifestyle ‘triggers’ them, as in makes them feel insecure about themselves. also they were not making me popular, famous, or rich, so what is the point of any of it?
according to my exes i would have been a better person if i gave up all my hobbies, got a soulless corporate job to make as much money as possible, and then spent most of that money on them…
a lot of people’s desires/goals require other people being subordinate to them, including you. and if you don’t comply, they will think you’re a shitty person.
picking up litter in your local park, or just volunteering to trim the weeds in it, does make a big impact.
the problem is once you start doing that don’t hang around in the park looking for litterers who are trying to ‘ruin’ your good deeds.
i have notice in volunteer work there is a fine line between doing good, and then imposing your rules on everyone else and become massive asshole. this is why HOAs and such go so wrong. they usually start off with good-intentions but get warped into perverse controlling nonsense.
and if you volunteer and find out the people around you are weirdo assholes, just quit and do something else. i joined a community garden awhile back and left after 6 months because so many members were losers who were just shitting on everyone else’s plot for not being as nice as theirs or getting jealous that a plot 10 ft over ‘got more sun’. it was insane how petty and pathetic a lot of the long time gardeners were because they felt they were ‘owned’ the garden.
Nobody has to do it. They choose to do it, and then justify it will some bullshit excuse like they have no other option. They do have other options, they just choose not to exercise them. Often because they feel like social media, or MLM, or other shitty choices will be a shortcut to fame and riches.
Yep. Nothing forces anyone to do anything, people do this crap willingly, and then blame everyone else for their poor behaviors.
It’s called be a shitty human being.
If my ‘struggling’ you mean ‘i want to be wealthy but i constantly overspend’
it creates perceived shareholder value of an emerging market. that is it’s purpose.
it’s utility is not for the end-user. it’s something for shareholders to invest in, and companies to push in an attempt to generate shareholder interest. It’s to raise the stock-price.
And like all speculative assets… nobody will care about the returns on it, until they do. And once those returns don’t materialize… poof goes the market.
Just like they did with all the speculative investment bubbles based on insane theories.
Have you met many people?
Most people’s entire lives are a form of autocomplete.
classes in philosophy, literature, politics, and digital media. typically.
you know, those evil humanities that are destroying society… because they don’t produce ‘value’.
when i go to piefed.social, i just see another twitter/mastodon feed. it’s all images and memes and etc.
lemmy is more like old.reddit. its text focused. images don’t appear unless you expand them. they get equal space/weight. on piefed images take up all the screen space.