Agreed on the time of day. My guess was always that older people went there after work and during the day it was mostly school age (college and high school) kids. Though I don’t know if that’s true

These 2 groups - r/NoStupidQuestions and r/AskReddit allow new accounts to post “comments”. New accounts with very low karma totals. If you try to post a comment (NOT A POST) there and you do not see it then you are shadow banned.

Totally agree about banning at reddit. You have to be a complete uncivil clown to get permanently banned with Lemmy. At reddit if you stray just a bit outside the narrative there you are probably going to get a site wide permanent ban

Yes - you can’t reply to people with comments like “you fucking asshole” or even worse wishing them harm or even death. I think all social media platforms should have that rule. Geez it’s nameless people on the internet wasting time why get emotionally involved with an opinion you disagree with?

Your point about going against the grain and being downvoted is a great point. Maybe reddit wouldn’t be so one sided if almost everyone wasn’t so concerned about karma points.

There are some subreddits that REQUIRE a specific Karma level to post or comment. So I understand that and I think that is bullshit. Imagine posting something relevant on reddit but you get massively downvoted so you run like a little baby and delete it because you have to protect your karma total. Best thing about Lemmy is no karma bullshit. I have some posts or comments (that of course don’t violate Lemmy rules) but that get lots of downvotes and I couldn’t care less.

there is a long long auto moderator set that automatically removes stuff in posts or comments. Most individual subreddits align their auto mod exactly like the Reddit Admin’s automod set of exclusions. This protects the individual subreddit from the Admins banning their group.

the one on the right. simpler is better

Surprised at your comment. Just last month I read a review of all variations of milfs in the US. Top rated milfs were the Appalachian milfs. And it makes sense. They marry young and have kids when they are young. They have much less mileage on them compared to the overwhelming amount of milfs.

Reddit Admins ALL THE TIME, will remove posts and comments that the subreddit mods have allowed to post. And in some cases it may result in the ban of the poster and even of the group mod that approved it

The point being made is that reddit Admins have zero problem banning anything that does not fit their “narrative”. And that narrative has a hierarchy not based on basic morality and common sense. Ask yourself this question, even if there was a single post, would reddit Admins allow the promotion of child marriage by a Christian religious group that was mostly comprised of White people?

I won’t equate the death of humans with pets, BUT pets live WITH us. You see them everyday. They make you happy. They live in the moment with zero anxiety about later today, tomorrow, or next week. Over the years I have had 2 dogs. And when they died I was more crushed than the death of any human including my parents. When you live with a pet or a human (spouse) and they die you are reminded everyday that they are no longer there and will never return.

You are probably correct.

Your comment speaks to the nonsense of hating a whole group while never getting to know people in that group as individuals. And just like you, once you get to know individual people you realize how dumb it is to hate a whole group.

The conversations were mostly about the treatments for pancreatic cancer. Again since we were both in the medical field we understood them. He did do one treatment that would supposedly extend your life, but it was the usual of some remission but a month later the cancer continued to progress. During the treatment your quality of life is worse. So he ended all of them. The pain was horrible and eventually he went off into a morphine haze to death.

Other than the medical stuff we did have some discussion of a YouTube interview that I had sent him. There was a study done showing that those very close to death, while awake and conscious would see “visions” of previously deceased family or friends reassuring them that there was nothing to fear. We discussed this several times in his last month, but he never saw any visions.

I had a good friend who I met as a co worker. We were both in the healthcare field and eventually both of us left the original company and moved onto different companies. We were both history buffs. We had lots of discussions over the years about history, politics, and of course the gossip in our industry. He was always an ideolog about politics. I only cared about policies. Did they work or not. I never cared about a specific candidate or party. He was such a nice person that I would kid him about being so serious about political stuff.

Neither of us were religious and due to the field we were in, we both agreed that consciousness, what makes you - you - is in your brain. You die, your brain dies, and that is the end of you.

Our discussions averaged once a week and always via email. Then there came a time when I hadn’t heard from him for a few weeks. Several of my emails went unanswered. He eventually got back to me and retold what had happened over the previous weeks. He had stomach issues. He didn’t think it was serious but regardless of the drugs he was prescribed he didn’t get any better. Went to several doctors and eventually was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Since we were both in the healthcare industry we knew this was a death sentence. Many who are faced with this diagnosis grasp at treatments or even religion to save them or at least extend their lives beyond the usual 6 months to a year death sentence.

My friend died 10 months after he received his diagnosis. We continued to communicate during those 10 months, but there was no more discussion about politics or world events. He had reached the point where all of that stuff was now irrelevant. We are all going to die yet we get so caught up in bullshit that in the end means nothing.

Since his death I think of him often. Out driving someone cuts me off, I am faced with a new policy at work, or I wanted to go to the beach and it rains all day. The things that would anger me or frustrate me are now put in a better perspective. None of it means much in the big picture. I am going to die and how about just enjoying myself without getting pissed off at normal nonsense that we all deal with that we have no control over.

Not a headline about you. Just the top story in the news on the day that you die

Interesting and makes sense

Previous post mentioned this. I never thought that with reddit some of the groups are just advertising scams. I also never knew that people could sell their accounts. What types of accounts do people actually buy? High karma totals? Or something else?