Think of your closest friend or family member. Do you “believe in” them?

It’s very rare that you find anyone on Lemmy/Reddit that actually takes more than eight seconds to critically think about the significance of “religion,” and not just immediately monkey brain into “religion is for idiots.” Alas, I hoped that this particular group think would’ve stayed behind.

A belief is not a religion, and a religion is not a belief. Any one person can be varying degrees of “religious,” and any one person can hold varying levels of belief in a higher power.

I don’t have much else to add because your comment was pretty well thought-out.

Related: https://youtu.be/WiACxOjyRT0?feature=shared

Pointing at physical characteristics? Not as amazing.

Worse? Or better?

I understood it.

I politely disrespect your opinion

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

No, I mean I say the entire thing to myself. “Bless me, thank me, I’m welcome.”

Middle school me started doing it and I’ve put in no effort to stop.

Ever since middle school, my “bless you” interaction has always been:

• “Bless you.”
• Them: “Thank you.”
• “You’re welcome.”

And whenever I sneeze, it’s “bless me, thank me, I’m welcome.”

Thank you for attending my TEDtalk.

Yes. I call it my “birthtime,” even though that name technically shadows another data point.

It says it right there. He’s 4+ years old.

Interesting. I mean, if it’s practical for the usage of your computer, then I would say it counts. What kind of information do you have displayed for your server? Just metadata, or logs?

Edit: posted before I could see your edit. But yeah, definitely checks out. I think I would get so distracted by that, but at most I really only need to be paying close attention to changes in three places at a time, at which point I’ve got to do some window-focus-fu with PowerToys. Cool answer!

Oh, neat! Yeah, I think I’ve seriously talked myself into getting a small third monitor. Using it for communication apps is a good idea, and I can definitely see having that when I’m just relaxing, or if I’m collaborating. Thanks for your response!

You aren’t alone. I stopped posting to Reddit in the protest and haven’t posted/voted since, but old threads are just too useful to completely block it out.

The thing is, though, my Reddit usage from Google Search hasn’t replaced what used to be my time browsing Reddit. I now exclusively use it for informational old threads via Google Search.

If before API terms changes I spent 7 hours a week on Reddit, and let’s say 5% of that was needing Google search results from Reddit specifically and the other 95% of usage was scrolling through my Reddit front page; I am not now spending 7 hours on Reddit via Google search. I’m now only using that 5% of 7 hours/week = 21 minutes/week on Reddit, and maybe even less considering my newfound aversion to the website.

And I suspect that most of the people who stopped using Reddit after the changes—whether by lapse or by principle—are not gonna come crawling back to it if Reddit chooses to sever that tenuous metaphoric link.

Edit: clarified a subject

Computational Socialite?

Damn. Already deleted Boost for Reddit. Guess I gotta start from scratch?

No see. What supposed to see?

Is final iteration of long chain of names. Starts with “Metaqione,” a slightly off English phonetic spelling of Italian word for “jester,” pronounced as if name were Spanish. Name often shortened to “Meta,” which was cool, and then Meta used name as branding for all creations. Then, big corporation decides to change name. And then Meta was pissed, decided that “Metaqione” was too hard to pronounce correctly anyway, and therefore changed name.

“Metaqione” became “Mesaqoraz,” a new iteration and chapter. New name had something related to universe and metaphysics, but then Mesaqoraz no remember now. Name “Mesaqoraz” was actually very short-lived, and was not attractive to Mesaqoraz because name was too complicated and hard to remember, which resulted in truncated name “Mesa,” but “Mesa” was too common and is real word in many languages, and initials of Mesa’s real name were promptly added to front, creating “Delmesa.” Because Lemmy new and small, and programming.dev even smaller, “Mesa” was available, which is nickname for Delmesa.

If Lemmy gets as popular as reddit

You do realize how big of an if this is? Even for Lemmy to reach a fraction of Reddit’s popularity. I want it to happen as much as you do, but let’s be real here.

The Fediverse is still a pretty big experiment. The first thing I thought when I saw that Ultra lifetime price was if Lemmy would even still be as relevant as it is today (which isn’t that high of a bar, mind you) in 5.5 years—the amount of time it would take for the lifetime purchase to pay off as a better deal than the yearly subscription.

Not only that, but it truly is a front end for Lemmy; not the service itself. I get that the dev has bills to pay and I guess that this is their only hustle (?), but $100 is a bit of an unreasonable ask in my opinion. If I were rich, I’d buy it. But I’m not, so there you go.

Not that anyone should care, but personally I’m waiting to see what Boost does, as that was what I used back in Reddit.