Well i’m very happy for you and for them, but my 76 year old Polish grandmother - who got her first mobile phone at the age of 60ish, probably doesn’t even know what image quality is, definitely doesn’t know the difference between android and iOS, and has recently called me panicked to ask why all her photos were on Facebook, they weren’t, she was looking at her gallery preview through the Facebook app - is not going to be very enthusiastic about learning to use an app only her grandson uses.

so I’ll just stick to messenger

if someone is like, half of the described vampire i don’t mind. Honestly it feels strange to have our ancient way of finding things out (asking your friends if they know) be somehow seen as wrong nowadays. I want to learn from other human being, not disembodied pieces of information oftentimes tied to ads for driver updating software

call me a normie but I do like having contact with my family. And though I’d love to move somewhere where my privacy is respected - there’s no point in using a messaging app if you’re the only one there

and no I can’t convince my 76 year old grandma to move to signal, she barely wrapped her head around Facebook

“Molly” is a common nickname of the drug Ecstasy (MDMA)

“time for molly” kind of implies you’re off to get high

I’ll take 8pm vacuuming over 8am vacuuming any day

istg i have to write those words into every reply i give. Do people even read the words i write? Can they read? Should i give up?

we have killed satire and threw a dance party on its corps. How is this whole situation not just a funny article by the Onion

those headlines can also be debunked loudly and yet, anti-vaxxers still exist, somehow

😔 whack

fuck it’s so hard to resist the urge to mimic (though probably poorly) the writing style of the book i’m currently reading shakes fist at neuroplasticity

can i see a flowchart of that please? it’s 4am

but forgot a button hole, we can still fight them, though the battles are getting harder

is occasionally going feral and unhinged still something that proves i’m a human on the Internet? or has my job been taken again? :(

not to be rude but you called your mind a “conspiracy board” and quite a number of conspiracies are indeed delusions

or perhaps they didn’t think anything and kept using the same site they have been for years, and are simply avoiding the constant drama. Or maybe they’re trying to fight back? Maybe they’re actively working against twitter becoming an echo chamber for the alt right? Try connecting more things in your mind than presumptions that make you hate others

maybe consider medication then? Leaping to conclusions like you do can’t be good for your mental health, and it’s only going to get worse as you keep convincing yourself there’s connections that aren’t there. Sometimes people still using twitter are just people still using twitter, and though that can make them look silly for using a dying website owned by a sociopath, it certainly doesn’t make them nazi apologists

And being neurodivergent doesn’t mean you’re always right. I have an anxiety disorder and intrusive thoughts, but so far no grandma had a knife, and no car randomly swirled to hit me

man, every time i see a batshit insane take it’s always you

yeah now whenever i visit reddit (when i run out of fresh lemmy content) i constantly see things i would rather not. I’m doing my best to limit my “bad news and shit happenings” exposure and reddit recommends i watch all the tragic traffic accidents when people post them to r/maybemaybemaybe, right inbetween the freshest news from the genocide frontlines, and the newest bullshit coming from American politicians