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I'm not sure why, but there has been an increase in the use of the large emojis lately outside of their instance of origin. It really ruins the experience on mobile, especially when there are several in a row. Furthermore, I have nsfw blocked because I use this at work, and now there are giant emojis of a pigs shit covered balls on my screen.

I am not joking when I say that I thinked for hours about how do people find each other in 2025.

Currently, the world is in very weird state. People online are either using social video platforms or they are reading news or lurking in online forums in it's different shapes and forms.

Most chat platforms that I know had shut down and most alt social platforms are almost dead. Even Hackernews had started to see a lower amount of comments compared to previous years.

I want a serious answer, how should I find people online to talk to about anything really other than politics?

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21789538

Not necessarily your favourite fruit to eat, but what is/are your favourite fruit tree(s) to grow based on survival rate, fruit yield, ease of maintenance, ease of harvest, grass-killing prowess, and any other combination of factors? What is/are your least favourite? If you have photos or diagrams to illustrate your point, even better!

(If you provide your region and/or Köppen-Geiger or Trewartha climate zone, it will help others to know what to plant or what to avoid!)

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21477992

What did you harvest recently? Post photos if you like, and brag about what you grew or foraged.

I seem to find most of the stuff I read posted both on Lemmy and Mastodon. What is the connection? What is the difference?

I do understand it's too different platforms (servers, code bases), but what is the intersection between them?

I'm interested in hosting my own Lemmy instance. Never done any hosting but I have done a good bit of programming/web development in my life so I don't think I'll struggle.

Just curious if anyone has any good advice or common mistakes that I could avoid.

Also if there is already a thread or community around creating Lemmy instances, I'd love links to them!

Like, you choose to be drunk or high. No one chooses to be disabled and it's horrible that a whole demographic is treated as a joke.

So I've been thinking about this as my community is watching reports of FBI unload heroin, cocaine, fentanyl crossing the border. As my family is talking about how they should deport all the democrats on the left, I was thinking how this wouldn't fix anything.

War on drugs will go on and on because of who? People who buys the hard drugs. Who buys hard drugs? Happy people working a regular job? No, I would think a happy person doesn't just shoot up some heroin. Homeless people, sad and depressed people, the people society treats like trash.

The war on drugs is really a war on the working class if you think about it. If we fix wealth inequality, I have no doubt that there will be less drugs on the streets. Of course, we will still want drug rehab and stuff but in the big picture, it's getting people to not even try drugs in the first place.

But you know, that's just a theory...a game theory.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/20339542

Got a burning question you want to ask someone from the US like "Why is the imperial system superior" or "Why is Texas"? Join us over at !AskUSA@discuss.online (!AskUSA@discuss.online for the mbin users) and find out the definitive answer. You can also just chat if you don't have questions, because this is the land of the free and there are no laws 🇺🇸🦅 (there are actually, please be nice)

Hi guys, I'm trying to read this article my boss sent me, but I can't find a way to read it. Tried archive.org, archive.is, reader mode, incognito mode, different browsers, tried removing the paywall thing with ublock, but nothing seems to work. Would any of you be able to help me out?

I really just want to read this one article and have no interest in getting a subscription; I would then have to set a reminder to cancel it which would likely involve a lengthy phone call with their support, which I'm really hoping to avoid.

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/26461279

Previously, I asked the question here and I got quite a few answers. 😃 Due to the nature oft my question it seems to be the best to "reply to all" ...... but how to do this (technically)?

...and why?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here, surely that's worthy of an immediate perma ban?

Is he considered A or B list ? What do you think of him in general ?

I need help solving a frequent bug-bite problem. My young child gets lots of bug bites (dozens), seemly every day or so, and I can't find the cause or get it to stop. I have:

• Pulled up all the carpet and padding so there are only hard-wood floors.
• Sealed the window.
• Sealed/used gap-filler on all the edges where the wall meets the floor.
• Switched out the mattress for one from a hospital, which is sealed and hypo-allergenic.
• Applied repellent spray on all edges, corners, and cracks.
• Vacuumed regularly and always switch out clean sheets/blankets.
• Treated all pets in the house for fleas.

I believe it is isolated to this bedroom because all other members of the house use all other rooms and furniture but nobody else is suffering any bites at all. However, I am at a loss as to what could be causing it. All I can think of left is:

• The hardwood floors that now remain, having pulled up the carpeting, do have tiny cracks between them. Perhaps there is something underneath this specific section of the house (crawlspace)?
• Could something be coming in through the HVAC? If so, why is it so regularly making the adventure to come out and repeatedly bite this child?

I suppose I could still try:

• Covering the floorboards with some kind of sealing paint.
• Bombing the room.
• Switching rooms with the child.

I really need some insight, I'm at a total loss. Why only this child and why so many bites so frequently? I've investigated other environmental sources and it doesn't seem to happen at other houses nor is it coming from school as no other child suffers.

Does anyone have any ideas of what I could try to not only determine how/why/where this is happening but also how to stop it?

Source: https://lemmy.world/instances

I've tried a few times and resorted to leaving a link. Is there a better way, alternative, or a Lemmy version of imgur or something?

I mainly use the Sync app.

Feels like all of a sudden every thread I open has the worst takes in the comments: religious apologists, conservative propagandists, people defending the worst abuses of power, people stanning for CEOs, middle managers and other corporate ghouls, people defending shitty landlords, etc.

Is this Reddit now? Is this going to be the death of Lemmy as a bastion of progressives?

I'm not a fan.