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Yeah that's been one of the funniest parts to watch. It's been moderators versus admins but not users versus admins. Personally I think it's a pretty simple concept that the instance rules come first, then the community rules. I'm not surprised by anything I'm seeing or hearing on the admin side because I think it's pretty clear what to expect when you enter the place and read the sidebar.

Yeah honestly it's not that serious for me. Personally I've never even visited the front page of 4chan. It's a word that's been around since long before social media too, as far as I know. One other place I've seen it used is autism communities when someone is describing their feelings about fitting in, or not.

I feel like 4chan is a US-centric thing. And a niche one at that. So it's a very niche US-centric thing to assume about random strangers on the world wide web. For a word that a lot of people probably use differently.

Yeah this was kind of a similar story with Reddit at one point too. When I first looked into Reddit, it was because I had seen it included with the 'share' buttons on various websites and wanted to see what it was. I don't think it was as small as Lemmy when I joined but it was definitely never on the same plateau as Facebook and Twitter.

Well, I can now say that I've been around to witness my first big users versus moderators versus admins battle royale on Lemmy. And within my first week here! It's been fairly entertaining and also feels like I should have an achievement badge on my profile now. Just need the next achievement of being a participant in one of these matches.

What an alpha.

Sorry for going on here but just want to say, reading through all of the features for Piefed I already like what I'm seeing very much. Before I've even tried an account. The approach and philosophy towards moderation in particular makes me confident that I wouldn't be instance hopping much there based on those sorts of disagreements.

Edit: also something nice is the ability to use the same import/export from Lemmy.

Nice, thank you very much! I'll definitely be checking it out. As long as I can access these forums or something similar with decent activity and users, I'll be happy.

Yeah I chose the most populated instance there to create an account and check things out. But the app kind of stopped my exploration dead. It's a little barebones right now for my tastes right now, especially as far as customisation goes. And I'd be spending more time there than in front of my laptop.

Right now I think the only features that I'm really missing here on Lemmy itself are posting to your own profile and multicommunities.

And it would be great if instances like Blåhaj could enforce their own rules regarding things like downvotes properly, so that they could be disabled there for EVERYONE but enabled in places that still allow downvotes (this should go for individual communities too). The current implementation seems a little like an afterthought on the Lemmy devs' part.

Edit: the biggest problem that I can see so far with excluding Blåhaj users from even seeing downvotes is that it gives an incorrect perception of things. If a bigot gets 2 upvotes and 20 downvotes, I'll only see the 2 upvotes.

Next step: political adverts that quiz you on what you've just heard and repeat each segment if you get the answer wrong.

Just kidding though (or am I). This is truly some dystopian shit. My first reaction was what the actual fuck. And I bet you that their numbers aren't really going to hurt that much because of this. Mark my words.

Doesn't have the same vibes though. To me 'normie' has always been a little bit of an insult on top of just describing the 'average person'. "Average person" is for when you're describing statistics. "Normie" is for when you're describing people that clutch their pearls and their bible when a goth walks past.

Yeah, I use "normie" occasionally and it kinda makes me feel like le edgy teen. But the problem is that I'm not sure if there's another word that quite replaces it either. Sometimes it's the only word that works in a particular context.

I'm a few days late for this AMA, I apologize. I actually asked on the Reddit sub ages ago if SubSimGPT2Interactive was going to be here (and it would've been a deciding factor in me coming here sooner at that point). At that point I got a maybe but don't remember ever seeing any announcement.

Anyway, I got banned from Reddit and can now join that Hall of Fame along with the likes of AgentSmithGPT2 and PabloBot. I was pretty excited when I saw the sub / community here, then sad and disappointed when I saw that it's kinda dead. Probably moving to mbin soon but will still definitely subscribe to it from there, just in case.

And for anyone passing by that doesn't know SubSimGPT2Interactive on Reddit, these aren't the evil type of GPT bot, these are just cute and demented and primitive and fun, and usually require a degree of roleplaying to make sense of in the first place.