Snapchat for only texting other people

Instagram for memes & some minor ““celebrities”” (YouTubers and some trans folk that give tips)

Pinterest for outfits/tattoo designs/etc. I get memes from there and post to 196 sometimes.

discord for uhhhh… discord stuff, idk. I scroll meme channels sometimes. and sometimes chat

YouTube for 99% of my online things. Unhealthy AF addition

Lemmy for more memes and news (not the best practice tbh) I mainly use just bc I want to support the fediverse and it’s better than scrolling reposted Instagram reels

I don’t use any twitter/bsky/threads/mastodon type platform, I just don’t mesh with the type I guess. It’s just short political stuff that’s depressing and memes which I get from literally everywhere else 🤷‍♀️

that’s so cool. Is it as awesome as it looks online?

my mom forced my sister to go to the doctor to get a pregnancy test every month for years instead of letting her take a contraceptive pill because it would ‘let her get away with stuff’, which was hilarious because at time time my sister was lesbian* 😂

Yeah once my mom found my (soon to be 🤞) brother in law is trans she freaked out because “now you’re acting on it” and is now essentially cut out of our lives for the time being. I don’t really see her getting any better since she’s now living with her really conservative mom, so probably cut off permanently.

*(my sister now finds bi fits her better, hince the boyfriend part lol)

that’s how you know a q&a platforms bad at it’s job lol

a classic

I think it’s more important to realize the harm that’s happening now than the 200+ year old technicalities, though being important themselves, aren’t what’s most vital at this current moment.

complete inability to have a conversation with people who disagree with them

I’ve seen Ada talk to people who were 90% a troll in an effort to educate someone. You can DM her and ask questions if you want.

they’re cultivating an echo chamber of toxic behaviors

aka not having to fight to justify your existence. If another instance makes people fight to justify their existence then it doesn’t fit blahaj’s goals and defederation is the solution.

… what

Lemmy doesn’t have a sub for it but ‘dont stick your dick in it’

I think that’s a good idea. I’m planning on cancelling my $3/month discord subscription so money can go twords TIA instead
I have about a spare laptop I can setup to be a seeder in the closet or sthm

I have a question. Would it be better for me to donate money to the Internet Archive, or would it be more beneficial long term to purchase a NAS and torrent as much stuff from TIA that I can?

I love this artstyle of “Google images + Photoshop” vibe!

my sister’s foot size is 12. She has larger feet than me and I’m AMAB

hmmm I don’t really care about having a logo on my undershorts. Usually I’m really bothered about advertisements but in that circumstance it doesn’t really bother me.

doesnt help that every other brand of cycling shorts suck

the best thing we can do for the Northern Korean people

I think the best thing for the people of North Korea is to not force them to live under a brutal dictator.

You’re fitting the problem to the things you want it to address.

I mean, so are you. That’s what the whole conversation is about, adding our own views to get a better idea of the topic from all sides. You brought the topic of sex, I brought the idea of a stable life. It’s not a bad thing to bring in a different opinion.

As someone who was formerly a young man, I can tell you that I didn’t care about owning a house, healthcare was an ephemeral thing I didn’t think about, and making fast food wages was good enough for me.

As someone making fast food wages right now and is literally a young man right now a stable future is the #1 topic for me. Housing is so expensive I don’t know if I’d be able to live in the future without my parents. Wages are absolutely horrible and jobs aren’t hiring.

for context, in currently in highschool and when I get out in a month I’m concerned if scholarships fall out bc defunding education I won’t be able to go to college and my parents are also coming on rough times (personal) I’m concerned that they wouldn’t be able to support me either.

But I did care a lot about the fact that I wasn’t getting laid.

I’m actually curious and trying to learn here, how was that your main concern? Like I genuinely don’t understand how that was the biggest deal in your life at that point.
I’ve learned that i’m a LOT less sexual than a lot of my peers so I just don’t get it.

but also, completely ignoring how bad everything is, the ONLY factor that would lead me to voting for the right leaning party is probably peer pressure as I live in a conservative area and saying you vote left is kinda seen as odd.

And I really do want to have a conversation here and learn. Sorry if my earlier message came off as rude, I was kinda in a bad mood when I wrote it 😓

sex, or a relationship, house, and stable income?

I feel like being able to live for longer than a month if you get sick and can’t work is a WAY larger deal for mental health than if you can have sex once in a while.

de-extinction ≈ decompilation, apparently

we can’t even get it to 15, what do you think are chances of doing that are lol