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Hmm well i guess you don’t have the yankee (90s? Early 2ks?) slang ‘that’s dope’ to mean something is “cool” up there? If i got the nickname True Dope I’d lean into it.

Maybe the conservatives brought that knowledge up with their trump flags and that’s why you didn’t get that sweet name

Im surprised no one’s come up with Camel Hairs. Vaguely racist/xenophobic and mysogynist with enough wiggle room to pretend it’s neither

Sã-mi bag pula! Saved! Thanks a lot

Lol the more i learn the more i definitely don’t want to flame op, so precious. If we could just help steer them safely towards the loving ned Flanders/high School coach-type and away from all them mass shooter hate pits i would be sooo happy

just that you can’t remove it from said meaning by using it in a different context

I’m afraid i don’t follow (no sarcasm). Can you elaborate?

I am guessing op is mid teens, raised in faith. Nothing wrong with that but it explains a bit of the breathless naivete’. At least they’re curious! Maybe we’ll see em shitposting in c/athiesm in a few years.

Wait, i bet you guys have great swear words. Tell me some good ones. I’ll swear in Romanian and you can sweae in English

Well gosh darnit the study of etymology is gonna want a word (hehe) with you. a faggot used to be an old unpleasant woman who was like baggage, as difficult to carry around as a bundle of sticks which was also called a faggot. Brits smoke fags.

Literally is another example. Through use, it now has a secondary definition which is exactly the opposite of its primary one. (figurative, emphasis)There are less popular examples but your premise as i understand it is just wrong friend

It will never be better, it will only ever get worse. This is the true true

Why do some people hide their view on things behind rhetorical questions? People, man. There’s a billion different ways to people it up. People man …Being all different n stuff!

I’m of the belief that more people more opinions wether you agree or not with them is always better

Right on brother.

As to the second part, I guess i see what you’re saying. Reddit had its own hidey-holes and echo chambers where you could hear different opinions, not so different from here. Federation and defederation between instances act in much the same way (perhaps due to lemmys small size) as the effect as staying in a few niche subreddits. Traversing between instances is familiar, not too different than leaving your sub and scrolling /all.

Hmmm. Hmmm. I guess you’re right, at least the way i use(d) them.

Perhaps the only difference between them is reddit’s success and enshittified corporate rent-seeking. Those guys all sound the same and end up making a place same-y and sterilized

2011-12 is when i discovered reddit coincidentally. Oh no…

In my single year here I’ve seen what i consider some of federation’s limits. It’s still too easy to fed and defed their way to an echo chamber, which to me is it’s own type of toxicity.

But you’re right because the answer to that is multiple accounts, whereas in a centralized server there are fewer players dictating and therefore fewer options.

It may be selfish but i don’t want a reddit migration. I don’t hate redditors cuz i was one (ok i do hate em but only the regular hate redditors have for each other) but if this place became as popular as that one, it would bring with it the things i deliberately left behind.

Lemmy is great the way it is

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Cuz language is driven by lazy American mouths (like mine) fedUHvurse will win this ideological battle inho

Hahahaha me and my iced back hate you just a little rn

i think if you didn’t move locations your vacation would rapidly turn into the movie ‘triangle’ or at least ‘multiplicity’ what with all the yous running around the resort

The preview looked like shit.

This is at least true for me as I’m an xennial or whatever and i use both lol n haha depending on my mood but never lmao. Lol