Some tips:

• We do have some trolls, we’re getting more popular. If you feel like someone is picking on you, those are them.
• Active is the default, but can seem less active because the active posts stay up longer. I made my default Hot, but then I check Active and Top 6 Hours.
• You’re probably going to go through a withdrawel. It varies by person, but mine took about a week or two.

Welcome.

I loved reddit for the first year or so, we had some quiet communities for reddit that were everyone just messing around. It was fun and then it really wasn’t.

It’s quality comments though. I just went to old.red to see if it worked for me. It did, but the comments were very shallow. I’m guessing bots? It’s hard to say. After being here for years, it was a shock.

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I don’t think that’s true in my experience.

It’s the moist cracks that get you.

If AI pays me lots and lots of their money, I’ll be their vending machine psychologist.

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There are so many waves of this happening though, I think that you might be noticing it on your favorite music for this wave.

The “My wife passed away…” is so common. I would think that would be a turn off to the young generations on the music. Maybe that’s the point? A lot of the music it’s used on has been repurposed already in a new song.

I could have sworn that it just posted last week. Oh well.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/trendingcommunities@lemmy.cafe has a bot. I always forget how to make it crosspost, sorry about that.

I struggle with Scottish, but I think that’s because they have a lot of slang mixed into the typical English words. If they took those out, I would hope I would get the rhythm. Japanese accents can sometimes be hard, but most of the time I have no issue. That might be a speed issue as well. I think exposure has a ton to do with it.

Both you and OP would never be thought of as a non-english speaker. You guys really picked it up.

IRL I might just have an unorthodox, even ignorant, way of looking at things. Which often leads me to be in the minority opposition. So yeah, wouldn’t hurt to be a better communicator lol

Or you might be smarter than them on that topic too. Imagine that first guy making a working machine that can read your mind for video games (I have articles that can explain that, but I can’t search for them now). Maybe don’t look at it as wrong vs right or ignorant vs knowledgeable, but look at it as a 2 way learning process.

It also depends on whether it’s real life or online. Online especially, it’s harder to tell if they’re discussing with you in good faith or they’re trolling you (depending on the topic, of course). If it’s not good faith, leave a clarifying comment and leave.

Don’t be afraid of getting it wrong or misunderstanding someone. That’s exactly why there is a discussion. Just admit it, take the loss, and learn from it.

I know some of the people doing this hate America because of legitimate reasons, but they hate our government, not most of the others. Maybe I’m jaded because of where I live, but the city empties when a world catastrophe hits because they’re running around the world to help. That’s the America I know.

I’m all for everyone doing their own thing. Defend if you want to defend, feed the children, etc. Even if you feel like you want to do suicide by cop, go ahead. Promoting a general idea of fight and chaos seems like trolls trying to get America to descend into a civil war, which is the stupidest, most asinine, only good for Russia and China thing America could do. It’s always foreign trolls that say and promote that kind of shit too. It really makes you wonder.

Did you watch the video you linked? Their name is “The Black Panther Party of Self Defense.” There are so many things about that to discuss and I don’t think you’ll come at in good faith, that I feel like that discussion is best left for another fediverse person. You have to attack them first. The OP is talking some other shit.

Also, the reason I mentioned “gun laws getting changed,” is because the trolls usually go there first. This is a new one.