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If someone finds themselves having daydreams about murdering "the elites" or whatever, it's time to get off social media and go take a walk outside.

Preferably to a psychiatrist who enjoys a challenge.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 3d ago

Is there a community about Matrix on Lemmy?

!matrix@programming.dev

Is Matrix technically part of the fediverse?

I would say no. It doesn't use ActivityPub and is its own thing. It's federated in that indepedent Matrix servers can talk to each other (like email or Nextcloud). So while email would be considered a federated service, it's not considered part of the fediverse. At most, it's like a 2nd cousin.

Who is the developer/team and do they have an active presence on the fediverse?

Matrix.org foundation (https://matrix.org/) and not sure. Maybe some of the individual contributors do, but I don't know any off the top of my head

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 3d ago

Bedroom eyes, you say?

This made me dig into my profile uploads where I put Gowron eyes on everything, lol

Some of my various "Gowron Eyes" uploads from posts past

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4d ago

Well damn. Just seeing this. I basically walked away for the same reasons a year ago, though mine's still online because I got talked into keeping Tesseract alive and needed an instance I could test against. You were one of the original Rexodous instances and probably helped me many times in the group chat getting mine up and going in the early days.

My instance is pretty well curated to get rid of the propaganda, violent rhetoric, and other undesirable aspects, so if you wanna pop in, you're free to sign up on mine (hell, I'd even let you be an admin). And since it's my own test instance (more or less anyway), if you wanna keep playing around with some of your fedi tools, you're welcome to. If not, and you never wanna see the place ever again, believe me, I totally get that.

Regardless, thanks for trying to build something better with us and sorry it didn't work out. I share the same frustrations you're expressing here.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 4d ago

This. So much this. I don't know why it's so tolerated so widely here, and I hate that it's becoming normalized. You nailed it: normal people do not behave or talk like that.

Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 5d ago

People abusing rules that go unenforced

Can say that at least some of that is due to a lot of communities getting created during the initial 2023 Rexodous, abandoned shortly after, and picked up later by new mods. They often don't change the community sidebar info. Suggestion there is to reach out to the mods (polite DM or even a meta post in the community) asking that the specific rule be enforced or removed.

To a lesser but still important degree, there's nuances to the interpretation of every rule. As an example, I've removed many posts in this community that have the exact same title as this post. The difference is those were not-at-all thinly veiled rants about getting modded or banned from another community/instance (rule 5) where this one is describing specific aspects of the platform.

mods removing posts/banning users only when they take offense

Mods are people, people are fallible. Beats an overaggressive modbot, though. Also keep in mind mods put up with a lot of shit you don't see (abusive DMs, persistent trolls, absurd conspiracy theories and rumor mongering over in YPTB, rules lawyers who come within one Planck unit of the spirit of every rule just because they can, etc). We also don't get paid, and it's a neverending job where you're severely outnumbered and outgunned. Often, if you sincerely apologize and express regret they'll reconsider. You'd be surprised how far a genuine apology will get you. And I don't mean some phony-baloney "sorry I said the quiet part out loud" apology but actually realizing you fucked up and owning it.

users (and even mods) fighting each other over instances like rival gangs

I'm going to assume this is related to the recent LW defed announcement, and I'm not touching that with a 10 foot pole other than say "about time".

communities propped up by single users

That's something you can help with. Unless it's a mods only community, which I don't think is what you're referring to, then you can absolutely tag in and contribute. I'm guilty of lurking, especially lately as I've been super busy with work, but used to try to post content to random communities to help grow them.

There are some good faith users of course, but it seems the vast majority just want to be in a safe space echo chamber and talk shit about each other.

Honestly, just try to notice which users those are and block them. Seriously, don't be afraid. Blocks are free and cut out so much of the immature bullshit around here. The comment sections on news/politics articles here (from my perspective) has gone from a raging dumpster fire of echo chamber circle jerking to a ghost town because I've just blocked so many people who do nothing but comment low effort knee-jerk reactionary garbage. The plus side is the actual insightful comments really stand out that way.

The point is, to a large degree, the experience here is what you make of it. Don't be afraid to curate your experience, and don't give into FOMO just because you've blocked a lot of communities, users, and instances

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 5d ago

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I stand by what I originally said. It wasn't inflammatory, but don't have enough fucks to give to deal with the inevitable replies.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 1w ago

NPC: (Says literally anything)

Dragonborn: What did you just say to me?!

[Quicksaving...]

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 1w ago

Bonus panel based on my own life: Guy gets home, unloads all the groceries that weren't on the list, realizes he forgot to buy bread and milk.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2w ago

That's basically what goes through my head when someone compliments me on my punctuality.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2w ago

You do realize who would appoint his replacement, right??

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2w ago

The only Tony Todd episode I occasionally skip is "The Visitor" but not because it's bad. Just "too soon" from a losing my own father perspective.

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Admiral Patrick @dubvee.org 2w ago

Lol, I should have indicated I was speaking rhetorically but that's pretty much all true and matches what I've seen from the people with that particular flavor of origin story.