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LostCause, in It would be cool to have Lemmy pen pals. Asklemmy, what are your hobbies and what's your life like?

I got ADHD so I enjoy a lot of things, top of them are reading, drawing, writing, learning English and Japanese and various IT/tech tinkering.

I‘m working in SAP, though I see that only as a means to sustain myself and conform, but I refuse to see the work as part of my being or personality. I try to be pleasant and funny IRL, which I‘m told works well, but on the inside I‘m a depressed mess. I try to work on that in therapy, but it‘s not super effective for me. Well it helped a bit, as I now have more of a "try to find joy in little things" attitude, but the doom is still all there.

Online, I‘m mostly to offload some of my darker thoughts on the world, which haunt me if I don‘t let them out occasionally. Reddit was my main outlet for that as it had a large variety of "doomer" subs, now I got unleashed on the fediverse, right now looking for some anti-corporate instance or maybe something anarchist to fit into.

cwagner, in It would be cool to have Lemmy pen pals. Asklemmy, what are your hobbies and what's your life like?

Late 30s German guy, married a South African. Hobbies are listening to metal and folk rock, watching tv shows and complaining that movies are dumb, selfhosting, and playing CRPGs.

xtremeownage, in What is your opinion about Lemmy not having karma but Kbin having reputation points?

Technically, lemmy does actually track a user’s karma.

It’s- just not exposed via the user interface… as of right now.

Kinda of like how kbin displays who upvotes and downvotes. Lemmy also tracks this data too, and can easily report on exactly who is upvoting and downvoting.

In the case of this post, for example-

https://lemmyonline.com/pictrs/image/3ecc096c-ddd1-4580-8851-a4699f032860.png

xtremeownage,

In the case of karma- Its all there too.

Comment Karma https://lemmyonline.com/pictrs/image/5d1cef06-9cb5-4f79-b04e-5ddc03f25bdb.png

Comment Negative Karma. https://lemmyonline.com/pictrs/image/2f6ac98d-b0d2-4a24-a431-cc40066c47a4.png

And- post karma exists too.

floofloof,

Oh dear. I am disappointed to see that. I can understand the point of scoring posts and comments, but what’s the point of keeping a score for the user? Is there a use for it now, or is it being kept just in case there’s a use for it later?

Hopefully it will not get exposed in the UI.

xtremeownage,

For votes to work, the data of who voted where has to be tracked.

Karma is just a matter of adding numbers together.

I think the data can be useful for anti spam reasons

communist,
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It's necessary because the website is transparent, if you were to federate with an instance, you'd need this information in order to moderate your instance, in order to check for bots, and various other things, that's the only reason it exists.

gylotip,

I am disappointed by this. Karma ruins whole discussions, and I hope the devs never add something bloody dreadful like that.

communist,
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It's necessary because the website is transparent, if you were to federate with an instance, you'd need this information in order to moderate your instance, in order to check for bots, and various other things, that's the only reason it exists.

Link69, in It would be cool to have Lemmy pen pals. Asklemmy, what are your hobbies and what's your life like?
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I’m a software engineer and as a hobby I organize events and play Super Smash Bros. Melee competitively!

Also I like to travel in Asia and plan to move there probably next year 😁

jgrim, in You can have any superpower, but the first person to reply chooses a side effect

Clear anyone of debt just by thinking it.

Orvanis,

Their debt transfers to you.

nichty,

And then to you…

CanadaPlus,

And then to an orphan somewhere. You monster.

skillissuer,

removal of debt happens by way of destruction of banking infrastructure. this may or may not be related to other harm

-- this is actually how quite a lot of people got debts cleared on 9/11 (this was before offsite backups)

TheChancePants, in Is there a listing of which instance each subreddit moved to?

Not aware of one personally, but my MO has been to just find the one I’m looking for with the most active users and go for it.

ShlorpianMafia, in You can have any superpower, but the first person to reply chooses a side effect
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Ability to transform into a dog that shoots bees when it barks

UsernameLost,

Bees come out of your eyes

demvoter,
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Your eyes are 10 feet wide.

UsernameLost,

Nope, hard pass

108, in I need to survive for 3 days while pooping as much as possible. I can pee as often as I like. It can take up loads of space. What food do I pack?
@108@kbin.social avatar

I too had to go on a trip with people I hate

captainjack, in Is there a listing of which instance each subreddit moved to?

Here is a list that claims to show “instances of the Reddit communities on alternative platforms”: sub.rehab.

miraclerandy, in You can have any superpower, but the first person to reply chooses a side effect

Control time

Goob,

You retain no memories of anything that happened during a time stop. If you go back in time, everyone else remembers things normally, but you forgot that period of time completely.

lurkeymclerkface,

You can only control it one minute at a time and only forward

Jon-H558,

When you stop time you cannot move as all the air molecules around you are stopped.

GunnarRunnar,

You move with time.

Anissem,

Severe IBS

miraclerandy,

Worth it

JuxtaposedJaguar,

That’s my secret. I’m always shitting my pants.

GunnarRunnar, in You can have any superpower, but the first person to reply chooses a side effect

Fly with farts.

theusualuser,

You have uncurable IBS

Bradamir,

The only way you can generate fart power is by eating poo.

Crayon8027,
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Yeah, but then you get to have a cool catchphrase like, "Eat shit and fly".

RomanRoy, in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?
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I wonder how he will behave as soon as the first thing the date does in the tent is, unceremoniously, going for a poop.

nicerdicer, in Why does Lemmy feel so fresh compared to Reddit?

I noticed two things, along with all the good answers in this thread:

  1. There is no such thing as Karma, and I hope it will never be implemented into the fediverse. The reason is that on Reddit Karma was handled like a currency, an in order to obtain Karma, the general quality of the content declined, as a result of Karma-farming. Also it was used as a threshold for posting comments in certain communities. Imagine you could join an instance only when you have a certain ammount of a Karma equivalent. That is something I don't want to see.
  2. At this moment there are mostly tech savvy users (former heavy Reddit users) here, who are interested in creating content and participation. Also these folks are helping each other. It feels like a little community. I think, the threshold to join the fediverse is still too high for the average mainstream user. Maybe it will be easier to get started when there are mobile apps.
whiny9130,

Karma is useful on things like discourse or mattermost as a spam prevention feature, you gradually expose features to people who aren’t being spammy. The same thing is true of a user joining a new community on the same site.

fubo, in Is water denser at the bottom of the ocean?

Water is not very compressible; even at the bottom of the ocean a kilogram of plain water still takes up 0.982 liters of volume (compared to 1 liter at the surface).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water#Compressibility

However, actual ocean water is saline (salty), and the salinity of the ocean varies widely. Dissolved salt makes ocean water more dense than pure water; and the more salt there is, the denser it is. That's why it's easier to float in the ocean than in a freshwater lake.

Typically, the water at the bottom of the ocean is slightly less salty than the water at the surface. This is because evaporation happens at the surface.

JWBananas, in You can have any superpower, but the first person to reply chooses a side effect
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In this thread: Monkey's paw curls.

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