• turdcollector69@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 hours ago

    This is literally what got me off reddit and onto the fedverse

    Lemmy was/is my last bastion of online life and honestly when it goes I don’t care to continue.

    I really want to unplug entirely and leave all this shit behind for good

    • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Welp, either see you next year, or sayanora…

      👀

      Is there a remind me thing on lemmy? I’m gonna revisit this on January 1, 2026 when Mamdani gets sworn in and a new era of hope is ushered into America.

      "And there are others who see politics today as too cruel for the flame of hope to still burn. New York, we have answered those fears.

      Tonight we have spoken in a clear voice. Hope is alive. Hope is a decision that tens of thousands of New Yorkers made day after day, volunteer shift after volunteer shift, despite attack ad after attack ad. More than a million of us stood in our churches, in gymnasiums, in community centers, as we filled in the ledger of democracy.

      And while we cast our ballots alone, we chose hope together. Hope over tyranny. Hope over big money and small ideas. Hope over despair."

      Watch Mamdani’s full speech, you’ll feel a lot better, trust me. Democracy will prevail. Its a long night, but sunrise is about to come. Be excited about that light, and not keep fearing that the flash in the darkness is a mushroom cloud.

      Wong Kim Ark didn’t give up even when he faced more discrimination than my family ever did, he persevered, and he prevailed.

      I can’t just lose hope from this 4 years, when those before us fought decades. Too early to lose hope.

      We will have more people like Mamdani to be the guiding light towards the future.

      I know its ironic considering I’m the one making this post, but I was kinda half joking. Let hope persevere in our hearts. Hope for a better tomorrow.

  • Rooty@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 hours ago

    Can we not do the Reddit thing, where we pretend we’re all shut-ins and social outcasts for some reason? I got sick of idiots making the same tired joke of “hurdur, what is sex, we’re Redditors” in every thread, and frankly I don’t want the same sentiment here.

  • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
    3·
    4 hours ago

    I kept using Reddit till I was banned despite agood amount of it was bots. As long as a site lets me scream into the void with the void occasionally screaming at me back then I’m fine.

    • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.worksOP
      11·
      11 hours ago

      Tbf, these days, a lot of people WFH so you literally don’t need to go outside.

      Besides, I think the “going outside” generally is understood to exclude essential activities like income-finding (work) or essential-resource-obtaining (buying food), as in “going outside” for the sole purpose of fun/socialise.

      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        I’ve had weeks where I didn’t leave my property for days. I don’t have a big property.

        just didn’t need to. a couple long days at work, gardening, other house projects/chores, workout at home because the weather was too crappy for a bike ride… whoops it’s Wednesday midday and I haven’t left the property since Sunday

      • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        10 hours ago

        I spend a lot of time outside. Go for a walk or a hike or a bike ride just for fun, feel the sun, touch the grass. Hug a tree. Human beings are animals, and animals need to be outside. Read Ralph Waldo Emerson for some going outside theory, bonus points if you do it under a tree the way Jah intended.

        • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip
          1·
          4 hours ago

          I did that till the temperatures dropped below 50. I can’t stand the cold even when wearing 4 or 5 layers of clothes (which is already uncomfortable).

        • 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.worksOP
          2·
          9 hours ago

          Yea… so much energy required. Idk why but I think Covid made me have Germophobia/Mysophobic. Sometimes there are like bird poop or sometimes literal dog poop in the nearby park. And its a city park, not a national/state park so they generally don’t get cleaned and its kinda like in a sort of rough part of the city (not that rough, but sort of rough). I think there are drunk dudes pissing in the bush or something… ugh… idk… feels kinda disgusted to go in public. I remember having covid, that really fucked with me, so much coughing and throwing up. Idk if my depression was partly resulted from covid.

          I wanna go into like some woods or hills/mountains to explore, but my parents have kinda instilled this “stranger danger” thing into my subconsciousness and “there are kidnappers there, don’t go to those places”, and as for cities… yeah about that… I had I think it’s what’s called “CPTSD” from childhood of me being alone, after running away from home from my older brother who was fighting me. Yes, it was probably a bad idea to do that, but I was like 6 probably, I knew was home = danger, but my parents were at work during that incident. So I just left. I went to look for my mother so I can tell her about what my brother did, I didn’t even recognize how dangerous it was going outside. Nobody even cared about me being outside alone, this was mainland China, nobody cares. Anyways, after the incident, my parents found me, and then, she told me “yoi could’ve been kidnapped”, so yea, that only exacerbated my fears. I was a 6 year old (probably, can’t be sure), and all I understood about the world was brother = bad and outside = bad people kidnappers.

          So you wonder why I fear outside so much…

          This is why… outside, alone, tends to get my heartrate up. By alone I also include like in a crowd of strangers. I need someone I can trust to be with me.

          Its a very complex thing. When I was a kid, and at home, parents (especially my mother) and my brother was the danger, but when I was outside, I’d have to stick close to the known dangers (my parents) to protect me from the unknown dangers of the world. So I have this weird separation anxiety connection towards the very people who emotionally abused me.

          Basically, I think its the fear and loneliness that I developed on that fateful day, that has been encoded into my brain and I just fear the outside. Outside = Advsersity. Its where people want to kidnap you, its where racists are (when I first came to America and experienced racism). So really, I don’t feel safe anywhere.

          Yes I realize I probably need a psychatrist lol.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
    32·
    14 hours ago

    90% of the fediverse are acually bots, but you have severe social anxiety.

    In this case, it is very likely that you are a bot yourself.

  • Tai@mander.xyz
    10·
    14 hours ago

    Of course I would keep using it, bots don’t understand opsec and would likely give up key information about Organization schemes. El Psy Congroo.

  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
    6·
    14 hours ago

    Tbf, the 10% that are real people still would represent more people than the handful of people I both know and can easily reach to talk to outside. And even then, what about when one gets home? Can’t stay out all the time

  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    10 hours ago

    As someone who in the past had panic attacks for entering a pub with friends.

    I would ditch internet as a whole if necessary. I would do whatever it takes to never go back to that place. There’s no social interaction in social media, that thing feeds the monster of social anxiety.

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    2·
    11 hours ago

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            10 hours ago

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