This is my plan since I couldn't make my lan (vpn) work in linux for the emulators and games I use

I feel called out... Bless my grandma and my mom for giving me a chance to taste things during family dinners but having a backup because they knew I wouldn't like anything.

But muh age math-rule that totally makes sense and must be imposed to everyone!1?1!??1!?1!

I agree with you, if they are consenting adults, everyone else is the weirdo for obsessing about it and they need a life.

It's worse that this makes even more sense since we are mostly people who left reddit and it's so obvious that people have no idea what the Report button is for over there.

* Happy mexican goverment noises *

I haven't come across an error message that didn't bring up solutions when copy/pasted into google

I still can't make Zerotier nor Xlink Kai work as they should on Linux, they seem to connect but are either unstable or show errors that I haven't found how to deal with. Basically it's for emulators and LAN games (like tModloader).
Searching takes me to the documentation, but their fixes are extremely limited, those didn't work so I am out of luck... And that's how I abandoned my Fedora and Debian partitions.

or they don't have any contact with regular people.

This gets my vote, the memes are so disconnected from reality they feel forced and not funny

True... People are extremely gullible and fall for these kinds of traps

And what's the excuse for things like the fediverse where there's no algorithm?
It isn't rare to find troll accounts (specially on news communities) and people keep engaging with them, I doubt people even attempt at reporting them since they last a long time

In the real world, you cool down hostility by talking it out.

I mean... it depends, not everything can be descalated, dependes on the person, their intentions and the place.

On the internet it’s the opposite, and that approach gives the village idiot a global megaphone to radicalize or enrage others with.

Pretty much, people know how to behave or they don't... and they can learn or not, but we have no reason to tolerate the village idiots.

I think mass adoption social media is new enough that we’re still figuring out how it should work.

I remember old forums, there was no tolerance for trolls and you could get punished along the troll for feeding it, so people learned to leave them alone and just report them, good sites/forums were heavily moderated and curated.
I think it started to go down the drain when moderation/ownership was removed from the users, just like with community servers for multiplayer games, companies care only about their own interests so allowing trolls who cause engagement by bait were more than welcome, they just pretended to moderate the services.
Nowadays... well reddit punishes mods who actually moderate the subs so that's a waste of time, the fediverse seems to need to learn to just not tolerate nor engage with trolls... and the users have to learn to just report and block, just like the BlueSky users do so the mods can locate and remove the trolls (either users or servers).
I think admins/mods must be MUCH less tolerant of possible trolls and not be afraid about curating the content to their liking... it's their server/community after all.

Which is honestly how it should be, feeding the trolls or tolerating them is detrimental to any platform, even engaging with them to correct them is giving them fuel.

Reporting and blocking is the only way and have always been, I don't know what changed that people decided tolerating/engaging with them was being the better person.

What drove you from dbzer0 to cafe, blocking ml?

Yeah, ml and hex.
Too much mexican goverment propaganda and getting swarmed by those users to defend it, is not a good time.

It takes trial and then error because it's user depend, some people might have gone the opposite, from cafe to dbzer0

I know, and it's a pain... And it will always be a pain. That's also what discourages me from trying piefed, having to server jump until I find a decent one again.

Yeah but usually it's just "try piefed", with a smug tone so it's kind of hard to take people seriously.

Aside from that, adoption becomes a hassle for everything fediverse due to the whole pick your server thing, I went from fmhy to nsfw to dbzero to cafe... I'd be so happy if picking a server would not require so much trial and error.

If anything, they just proved your meme is right

Yeah, I've seen waaaay more posts about but why not mastodon? than posts on bluesky complaining about threads

Yeah like... What's the point of using xitter/meta alternatives if the servers are still going to federate with them? I'd use the normal apps if I wanted that.

Here in México we have a say that goes like:

The worst enemy of a mexican is another mexican

You connect the dots

This is being overly simplistic IMO. Lemmy is not a direct copy paste of reddit, just the idea is the same.

But he's not wrong on a practical level, the content is almost the same on reddit and here, even the memes are being reposted from there to here and then reposted over and over.
To me, seeing the same content multiple times on the All feed makes it seem emptier, like I can just check it once a day and I won't be missing anything. I blame the accounts that post content on multiple instances/communities instead of posting once and letting it federate and the reposters who just recycle content over and over... maybe those who keep blindly upvoting too.

A normal user doesn't have any incentive to leave reddit if they are going to find the same things.

If there’s something you are passionate about there’s nothing stopping you or anyone else from spinning up a community or instance about it and creating the niche communities everyone seems to miss.

Yeeeeah no, as I said on another comment, creating a new instance requires some kind of investment, might be monetary, learn a new skillset or dedicating time to keeping it up, it's not something anyone can do/afford and as time goes on, it might escalate if you plan to preserve everything.
A new community... maybe, but then you're gonna have to go instance jumping until you find one that fits you and it might be quick or you might never find one.

But some features don't make sense or seem half-assed, like blocking instances at user level, it should also block every user from that instance, but for some weird reason it doesn't, you don't see the post from that instance, but posts on other instances made by those users and comments from users of that instance are still visible... So we are still forced into instance jumping until we find one that aligns with what we deem acceptable... And that could take a while.

Or the fact that Lemmy users talk a lot about privacy but the delete function doesn't really delete the content as it can be easily restored at any moment.

I just use Image Glass as image viewer and Icarus for the miniatures. For the videos I use MPC-HC.