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Emily’s not a snitch so it’s fine.

People should respect other people’s body autonomy where food dislikes are concerned just like they should for just about every other form of body autonomy. The fact that they don’t is the reason this problem exists.

I still find the people at fault who deliberately ignore the boundaries of people who say they don’t like a food. I’m unfortunately allergic to things I actually really do like, and wish I could eat.

If someone doesn’t like something (their age doesn’t matter here), we should be more respectful of their autonomy over what they put in their body. Having to claim an allergy in order to have that taken seriously is the nuclear option after saying you don’t like something doesn’t work/isn’t respected.

That people like me with allergies receive some of the fallout of that is still on the people trying to force others to eat foods they don’t want to or shouldn’t.

As someone who is allergic to some foods and has to carry an epi pen everywhere I want to say that I do not care if Karen says they’re allergic to whatever. The problem is people who do not take food allergies seriously and assume that when someone says they have an allergy they actually have an allergy.

If you’re one of those people who have to prove someone isn’t allergic, you’re not just an asshole, you’re an attempted murderer (not you, op, just people in general).

Don’t apologize. It’s okay to express yourself and there’s nothing wrong with relating your story.

I was diagnosed with ADD (now called ADHD inattentive type) when I was a kid and got basically no support for it because my younger brother was diagnosed with Autism at or around the same time. It turns out my sister also has ADHD (and was diagnosed as an adult), and got no support and stims are fairly common. There’s a lot of behaviors in my own life that I didn’t recognize as stims until years later. It seems a lot of us feel fell through the cracks so to speak.

My kid has autism. He once had a complete panic attack because we wouldn’t let him stay to organize the bottles at Wine and More. He has never been diagnosed with OCD and my understanding after talking to his neurologist about it is that this was a stim for him, and not necessarily OCD behavior. There have been other instances all through his childhood like this one, and I can’t help but think that having a completely different disorder or Neurodivergence also adds to people self diagnosing because there’s way too many people who don’t know they’re neurodivergent.

Can I ask what you’re planning to use block chain for? To verify each account? Or to federate instances?

Well. This is good news.

We all know the rules. That guy is gonna be the love interest and learn some cookie cutter BS Christmas lesson.

You are assuming that A. Google isn’t scraping data for their own AI, B. that these companies will create their own instances (which opens them up to a certain amount of liability and requires them to retain moderation/admin and maintenance staff (which costs money)). C. That the enshittification of corporate owned versions of Lemmy and the fediverse won’t push people to Lemmy sooner or later.

A fourth assumption you made is that the Threads federation push was made in order to do anything other than create hype around a feature that might draw people away from places like the fediverse. I kind of assumed (maybe I’m wrong) that they were offering it as a way to have all the benefits of federation - namely the assumption of FOSS adjacent services, but with all the “benefits” of corporate social media.

The truth is that it’s likely that Meta absolutely has had a detrimental effect on the fediverse because it has things that pull users away from the fediverse. Instagram has content. For days. And because the fediverse is small (shrinking as you say), and because it doesn’t have an algorithm that pushes certain content to certain users, Meta and the other services that have analogs in the fediverse continue to be popular.

A lot of this is because the fediverse still hasn’t figured out a way to be profitable to content creators and we no longer live in the early 2000’s of YouTube etc where content creation for free was popular.

I’d argue that a lot of the appeal of the fediverse is organic conversation and communication. The popularity of that as a whole is declining because of algorithms that tickle just the right feel good chemicals in our brains.

As for your comment about these corps investing in the fediverse? The only reason for them to do that is if they can make money off it. The major money making scheme the internet is relying on is ad service. So there’s a catch 22 here. I would rather donate money to fedi services than have the fediverse infested with ads.

I don’t want that. Part of the fediverse’s appeal for me is that people aren’t constant trying to sell me things on it.

While I can understand certain communities having "suggest a (game, service, product), for the most part I really don’t want to basically invite corps to think this is free real estate. And that’s exactly what I think this would do.

It’s seems like it would invite corps to basically astroturf Lemmy and the fediverse the way they’re doing with bot armies over on reddit.

I have run into it once that I remember. There’s the line with “17 38” in it from the Fetty Wop song "trap queen. A restaurant in a neighborhood I used to live in had a menu item that came out to $17.38 after tax. People would shout it back at the cashier. Mostly teens but grown adults too.

I think eventually they added a few cents to the menu cost to make it go away.

Sounds like a lunar lander and I love that about him and or her.

I’ll mess with it one day. Just gotta remember to poke around with it.

I use Voyager (and boost, and sync before that). I like Voyager (now that I’m used to it), but I wish the medium sized thumbnails in compact mode were slightly larger.

The majority of fake influencers? Or the majority of sock puppet accounts?

Also, would you like a breakdown of USA/India relations over the last 50 or so years because that’s a quagmire in and of itself.

India and China Historically don’t get along but India and China have been in talks centered around trade because of US Tariffs.

I chalk it up to what people can be paid to do in those countries. We already know there are social media influencer accounts based in Asian countries. We have seen farms where it’s just cubby after cubby of people trying on clothes and taking pictures and so on.

If they can be paid to lie about and model a bunch of fast fashion clothing and accessories, they can be paid to run sock puppet social media accounts for the purposes of meddling in the politics of another country. And China is and has been an adversary of the USA for decades.

Removing an earring?

They knew what I meant and chose to ignore the meaning to avoid the question.