The evening news is where it’s at.
Is this just a re-posting bot? I literally made this meme this morning and posted it somewhere else. This user seems to have posted >10 memes over a few minutes.
Honestly I’ve thought cm002 was a bot before as well, but they engage in comment sections often enough to say either it’s not, or it’s a user hopping on to check bot progress.
Either way, most likely case is it’s a user that saw a funny meme, and reposted it since not every sire is federated with others and some communities might not see it, especially if it’s to a world or ml domain.
Possibly related, I did not see your post from this morning, this is my first time seeing it. Not sure about federation between instances but yeah.
Also tangentially related, anyone remember the huge r*ddit drama over a poweruser constantly reposting things with top comment responses to farm karma? That was a fun glance into people who take imaginary internet points too seriously. I’m glad lemmy doesn’t keep track of total votes.
I’m glad lemmy doesn’t keep track of total votes.
It does, it just doesn’t display it; sites running Mbin do, though:
Ew. Gross. I liked not knowing better. Ah well, at least I can’t check it myself so I don’t really care that much. I didn’t want lemmy to feel like a competition like I used to feel occasionally with r*ddit.
Also this is the first time I’ve noticed my name doesn’t show up as “Miles O’brien” for everyone. Now I’m sad :(
I think you’re right. But why?
I still follow the news cause as a trans woman, I gotta know if I’m allowed to do things like travel and pee and get groceries.
I’m with you 100% on this. I wish I could turn it off and do something more important. But the way things currently are idk whether I’m gonna have basic rights one day to the next.
And it’s such an exhausting cycle. Trudging through the constant deluge of hate and fear, finding some little glimmer of good news, and then back into the fire.
You can either read all the news and talk about all the things that should be happening.
Or read just enough to get on with doing something useful in the world and avoid getting yourself stuck or depleted
The headlines are the worst thing to only read. Sometimes they’re flat out wrong and other times you’re being lead by the nose. Headlines are for an emotional response and/or propaganda.
If you read the first 3 paragraphs, that’s usually okay. If it seems like they’re fluffing it up, then try 3/4’s of the way down and skim the last paragraph.
So now I see previews are useful here on Friendica 😁
That’s why I read the headlines and the expert commentary in the Lemmy comments.
Forty years ago you still had the daily paper and the Sunday paper.
Even then you only needed the Sunday.
Forty years ago the newsrooms were staffed and the editors edited (sure they’re biased but they had some ideas of integrity) and you could read the paper. Now there’s just so much noise.
I find my problem being news source that expect me to read once a week; instead of assuming I’ve read twenty times yesterday
