• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Elon actually hands these out to people who don’t want them because they were unpopular and an easy means of telling chuds apart from… uh, chads? There’s a good chance hers is a forced advertisement and not something she’s actually paying for.

            • Ziglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              I mean this one is run mostly by people who agree with what is being said in the echo chamber too.

              Though the architecture of the Fediverse does make it impossible for it to become as bad as the commercial ones.

              • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                0·
                6 months ago

                No, both sides are not the same. There is a way higher percentage on Twitter and it’s centrally controlled by one.

                • PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.worldEnglish
                  01·
                  6 months ago

                  Both sides? Good grief. Not everything has to be a you vs them. And of course there is a higher number on Twitter. They have, what, 300 million active users? And Lemmy is probably .001% of that.

        • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          01·
          6 months ago

          So are an insanely large amount of people.

          I don’t think people on here realise that we are in an echo chamber ourselves and often times not very forgiving of people with differing opinions, where I would assume we should want to bring people to our point of view by being accepting and trying to educate on our beliefs.

          So in this echo chamber of what 50K MAUs it can sometimes be hard to keep sight of the fact we are the smallest of minorities in this space and what we see is absolutely not a representation of what most people in the world care about.

          I’ve never used Twitter but I’m not going to shit on other people for using it.

          Were you on Reddit when they had loads of jailbait subs? Would you like to labelled as part of that same group just because you shared the same space?

          Does it not seem reasonable that some people might use Twitter as a means to keep in the loop and not isolate from the crazies, Nazis, bigots or whatever. You can’t converse with the other side if you ain’t where they are at and if we all stay in our own echo chambers what are we really achieving other than a self-righteous circle jerk?

          To be abundantly clear I am including myself in this too and not just calling you out. But this place is exhausting at times, I am the most cynical person I know and this place really gives me a run for my money at times. Even in the less serious stuff, like you can’t oppose Linux here you’ll be downvoted to shit for even having a different opinion. You have to use FOSS everything, and you should even be eating open source food 😂

          • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            Not just Linux, but you obviously have to use the correct distro of it, which obviously is…

            correct

            Are you shitting me right now, why would you click that!? Allow me to explain in this 50 part manifesto why I am so very smart and everyone else is beneath me…

            That said, X is legit an Alt-Right Nazi bar. Even as we here are an Alt-Left one. I suppose it simply comes with the territory.:-|

          • Klear@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            tl;dr, but I still think displaying mild disgust at anyone who uses twitter today is the correct reaction

          • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            If Spez had given a Nazi salute and taken over the US government, I would have left.

            • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              0·
              6 months ago

              That’s your prerogative, but I wonder if you see the danger of all people online splitting into their own groups?

              The way I see it is you have a place just filled with say Nazis then they’re never going to learn or understand different perspectives and they’re going to become more radical.

              • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                6 months ago

                Not quite but I can see why people think so. Both words stem from the same Kanji pair: 腹切. Abdomen cut.

                But one is read natively (harakiri) with an informal and colloquial feel to it and the other uses borrowed Chinese readings (seppuku) that makes it sound more formal/ritualistic to be used in formal settings. But they mean the same thing and both refer to the ritual.

                A similar example is Japan’s own name: 日本. It’s usually read as “nihon” but has a special, formal reading of “nippon”.

                Lemminary to Science Memes@mander.xyz • nuked from orbit English6•

          • Coldmoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            0·
            6 months ago

            Harikari = seppuku. They’re even written with the same kanji characters.

            Oh, and harikari usually has a helper.

            • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              02·
              6 months ago

              Oh, and harikari usually has a helper.

              Other way around. Seppuku is the whole ritual, which includes the helper. But if you just gut yourself out in the woods with no ceremony, it’s harikiri