Poownd obviously

You can’t reason with people who don’t have the same definitions as you do because reasoning takes a common body of knowledge.

And people who are the propagandized have an instinctual dislike towards people not sharing their same corpus of knowledge: you have to use their own language or chip away the wrong definitions/axioms one by one until the new sets become reliable enough to start building something worthwhile.

Note that this works the inverse way too, which is why we are in such a mess all around the world.

Lif iz hard wif stoopid ppl

Right? It’s like they either been living in cramped farm factories staring at a screen or been working in a soviet gulag since age 8 from what you read online

Oh my god

It was the garf all along

Do share the nasty riff OP

Damn I was going to blame the co2 in the atmosphere

Its also that it takes time building an audience, and some devs are awful at setting up their store page.

If I were rich id get way too much into magic the gathering

Yeah the news are triggering the worst instincts of some users who tend to lash out alot, and some trolls might be taking advantage of that

Yeah it kinda does, WHEN YOUR INSTANCE IS ALWAYS DOWN AAAARGH

It would be best to focus on policies and ideas rather than ideological alignement. The moment someone says “thats socialist!” “That’s right wing!” Is the moment where no meaningful action is taken, where discussion ends since you suddenly decide that your alignment is irreconcilable and makes no outcome possible.

Bazzite, i tried arch and then realized the whole wiki was like a uni level symposium and was burning through steps, kept doing instead of understanding, etc…

It’s probably amazing, but since my only interaction with linux back then was being forced to use it at uni and windows, I really wanted a good experience of what linux could be. I needed it to work out of the box and be unbreakable, so I went with bazzite.

It’s great, and I am digging the immutable aspect even if it broke my brain for any dev work, but once you learn how to use an immutable system (still figuring it out tbh) it’s solid, easy, and works great.

Really wished there was more resources on immutable systems for newcomers though XD

I block only when I see a user who is unhinged enough and is obviously not getting banned by moderators. Usually theses people can be baited into making terrible arguments terrible opinions backed by either terrible ideology or lies, and mods can deal with them.

I think reporting users is more effective to not let the whole site become completely unusable by attracting shitheads/trolls/agitators who even if blocked keep posting garbage because that might be seen by new users.

Also responding to them is taxing on some people’s mental health, so this isint for everyone and I get why people might opt for it. I prefer arguing since there is a chance that they might be misinformed or hot headed (me included).

Honestly it depends on how you want to engage with a platform.