dsilverz

The descriptions you wrote resonate a lot with myself.

I'm often "robotic", I even sound like some LLM as someone recently accused me of being. It's not AI, it's me, although I'm not sure who exactly...

That's because I often find myself fighting with me, as if my essence/soul and my physicality/body were two distinct entities. Part of me wants to "just be normal" (whatever that means), while the other part of me finds no purpose at all, a nihilist perception from a cosmic level, all the way to myself and my existence.

And there's my brain, often diving itself into an almost obsessive seeking for information and knowledge. I try to learn as much as I can find (self-teaching was always an easy thing to me), and I dive into a whole ocean of information and knowledge across several fields, from STEM fields to philosophy and a syncretic spirituality (from several belief systems). Deep inside, it's me trying to flee from myself.

I feel like I exist in a bubble of myself, with my own culture, habits and thoughts disconnected from "other humans", as if I couldn't really get to understand the "invisible and unwritten rules" while having my own "invisible and unwritten rules" which nobody else seems to understand, yet deep inside I know there are people similar to me, struggling to cope with themselves and their surroundings just like I struggle to cope with myself and my surroundings.

Lots of people went from Twitter/X to Bluesky, and we know how much the Twitter environment has long been toxic, so the probability of toxicity within Bluesky increases as more X people are establishing there as we speak. I mean, it's obviously not everyone, it's obviously not a rule of thumb, but Bluesky was made a new agora by currently 20 million people (numbers from news dating back to two weeks ago), with the majority of them having left X long after that billionaire bought the platform, so they kept within the toxic environment (the X platform) longer than expected. Chances are that people who were structural maintainers of the toxicity of X are now on Bluesky, trying to toxicize it too, by means of attacking people. (I read through a Lemmy post that there's an entire botnet pretending to be people and these bots are engaging in combative/trolling replies across Bluesky)

I have no Bluesky account, and many things make me dismiss my own intrusive thoughts of signing up there, one of which is directly related to this, the possibility of facing bots and toxicity from X, following the exodus of people (bots and trolls need people to spam/impersonate and to troll). While Mastodon (the real fediverse's Twitter/X alternative) is often a cemetery (lacking enough interactions and activity), it seems to lack the toxicity from X.

Terraria. I'm trying to make a flat small world pre-Hardmode, starting at the depth level from the western ocean (240' above surface level) and going all the way east. I'm trying to keep the biomes, re-placing or filling blocks as needed (e.g. mud for jungle, snow for arctic, sand for desert and stone for crimson), while also making some hellevators, especially a wide (5+ blocks of distance) one between the crimson and its two neighboring biomes (so crimson won't spread, specially if and when I enter hardmode).

Specifically at the desert biome, which was way below 240', I needed more sand than the world had to offer, so I needed to smuggle sand from another world I temporarily created. I dug thousands and thousands of sand blocks and sandstone blocks, taking them with my character to this world that I'm terraforming.

As I started to smuggle blocks from a world to another, my objective became two: terraforming two worlds, the first world being leveled from sea to sea while keeping every biome, and the other being almost emptied (I'm calling it "voidforming" because I'm intending to take out literally every block I can, from space to underworld; as for the underworld's lava, I'm using the infinite bucket trickery to create honey so I can convert the lava into crispy honey blocks which can be converted to hive when casting them to the shimmer, and part of this hive can be possibly converted to honey again while digging it; Lihzard blocks, Crimson altars and Dungeon blocks seem to be the only blocks I won't be capable of removing in a pre-Hardmode world that actually won't see any hardmode at all, as every single pool of lava will be removed so the Guide Voodoo Doll won't have lava to be thrown to). Blocks from the voidformed world are mean to be used to help terraforming the other world, while the achievements from the terraformed world (such as tissue samples from Brain of Cthulhu) can be used to build tools and resources that will help on voidforming the other world.

Lots of work, but it's just so I can have something to keep my mind busy.

There may be no changes on the article yet, but there's a lot of ongoing discussion at the Discussion page of the article:

... drawn on a paper sheet, so it has no other side (the sheet is blank at the back)

Exactly!

Optimistic, me? Lol! I'm far from an optimistic person.

On the one hand, you're right, humans easily forget things, especially when our daily lives are so exhausting and humans have limited attention span (it reminds me of a video about an experiment involving attention span where a person wearing a monkey costume appears during a moment where the viewers are trying to count how many times a basketball kicked on the ground: as our eyes are focused on the basketball, we can't even notice them).

On the other hand, I never saw this kind of broad and unified reaction and feelings of "justice had been made". Hell, it even caused a reaction inside myself, and I'm not even an American. I'm Brazilian but I'm following what's happening around the world, especially what's happening with USA. I notice how the world has long been a gunpowder barrel, ready to explode. The bad things kept happening, humans kept being enslaved by this modern slavery, humans kept being silenced ("shut up and work, get us our profits, peasant!"), and everything has a tipping point. Everything has an "enough" point. A broad "enough" reaction was just a matter of time. And it seems like it happened through an anonymous symbol of this "enough" sentiment inside everyone.

At least that's what I feel, even when I'm from a whole another country and hemisphere, because it's a system with tentacles over the whole world. Corporations are multinational, they got branches here and there and everywhere. For example: back in 2015 and 2019, hundreds of Brazilians were killed by a mining corporation, when a dam broke, flooded an entire town and drowned people to their deaths. If was known as "Brumadinho dam disaster" and "Mariana dam disaster". It took years for their families to receive money (I'm not sure if this happened yet, when or how much they received), and some people even weren't found. People were "indirectly" murdered by a mining corporation, and that mining corporation continued to operate until nowadays!!

Something definitely needs to change, something definitely needs to happen so our "that's enough" feelings can be awakened, so things can change even if it's a little bit.

You're considering that these photos are his photos, when actually it could easily be an entirely other person or, worse, AI-generated person (sites such as This Person Doesn't Exist is a clear example of how AIs can generate non-existent faces). IIRC, these photos came from news outlets, so it couldn't really be trusted as a matter of fact.

Despite that, people here on Lemmy seem to be sharing it just for the lulz of it, because meaningful things need a meaning symbol to symbolize it. And those photos, even when they're not his, is a well-agreed symbol.

If those photos really helped the authorities somehow, they'd already have a grip on him, but they haven't. So, hey, relax...

I first knew fediverse through Mastodon, so my answer has more to do with the whole concept of fediverse than with Lemmy alone.

My main reasons initially were the following:

1. I don't really like crowded networks (it's actually a personal trait of mine, derived from the physical fact that I don't really like crowded places at all).
2. I hate when algorithms try to lead me, ruling over what I write and/or ruling over what I read.
3. I like alternative options and the unknown. Between a latin/roman A and B, I often tend to choose a greek Gamma (trying to always think outside boxes).

And I kinda of liked it. Well, Mastodon has been a cemetery, so most of my fediverse interactions happen through Lemmy.

Just out of curiosity: among several Lemmy instances, I specifically chose The Lemmy Club as an instance for having a Lemmy account for a symbolic reason. Back when I was signing up on Lemmy and trying to find a good instance, the initial "thelem" from "thelemmyclub" got to my attention, because at that time I was delving into Aleister Crowley's Thelema (Liber Al Vel Legis, The book of the Law). So "the lemmy club" kinda of resembled "Thelema club" to me. I'm not a Thelemite, at least not entirely, because I'm more inclined towards a syncretic Luciferianism, but I liked the hidden symbolism that I got to see within the instance's name (also it's actually another personal trait of mine, trying to find patterns everywhere at every time, even though it's just a pattern to myself).

One could also argue that posting a man as a homeless is ignoring countless homeless woman and countless homeless trans people.

“…And so we know his name. I will share it with you. His name is John Doe.”

A better version:

“…And so we know his name. We worked tirelessly to identify him, yeah, we did, believe me, as I will share his name with you. His name is... uh... [check notes]... John... John Doe.”

If they really had a name, of course it'd be all over their public "wanted" posts and lists (e.g. FBI's "Wanted" list)... except if they finally realized that the public now see THEM as population's "wanted" and are afraid of actually doing something.

So, if they really have a name, it's just a brag because they know the moment the cops touch him, he'll become more powerful as a symbol for resistance. If they have no name, well, it's also just a brag, so they can pretend they're "doing something".