Main site has following rules:

• No abusive language

• No bigotry

• No advertising

• No pornography

Obviously last 2 aren’t relevant here. First two, strictly as written, I wouldn’t have issues with but I have seen sooo many leftists sites use the same language to basically virtue signal that they don’t like conservatives, conservative ideas, or speaking out in any way against minorities.

Like I can understand not wanting slurs or personal attacks. But not being able to voice the opinion that affirmative-action hurts minorities or that gender-affirming care harms the patient as well as society without being called a bigot seems practically impossible on reddit or 99.999% of Lemmy instances.

Could be these guys interpret those rules literally like I do or could be they interpret things through a Critical Race Theory / leftist lens. I have no clue but I usually put it in reverse when I see this cuz it’s so often the leftist interpretation.

fwiw, we got a quasi-reddit like sub on nostr here: https://satellite.earth/n/explodingheads (mostly just people from here but you do get some crypto bots still if going thru browser than than app using MOB’s relay but no human crypto fags as long as you stay in the sub. but gotta be honest - the UI is complete shit compared to lemmy or reddit). not expecting that’ll change anybody’s mind, just figured i’d mention tho

Anyway, got plans for where you going instead? Ive made accoutns at a few places like gab and have been hopping around a few places. not much on lemmy… EH has spoiled tf out of me for wanting free speech again. but just curious if there’s any more good places i missed 😃

were there any other instances that do free speech? i see your quotes so not getting my hopes up lol

excellent point. it probably was closer to this originally based on how my freind described it

can fuck up your spine on any of them. i see people mess up their neck especially on phone/tablet, laptop, and desktop

wish i had known what ‘ergonomics’ was before i spent my career on a computer messing mine up

but yeah, i like bigger screens too 😉

thanks, not sure about Alice but you encouraged me to get off my ass and make my bed, even if it wasn’t the first thing

edit: saw you replied on nostr so moved to there

yeah that part wasn’t so great. i guess the thing I liked about her was pointing out the limitations of what the position of president can actually do. I feel like a lot of the debate is basically what amounts to “I’m for this” but realistically if you had house or senate packed with dems, then a republican pres would still be pretty limited. was just refreshing to see someone actualy acknowledge that i guess.

But like I said, wasn’t my 1st or 2nd pick or anything.

link for the satellite earth discussion:

https://satellite.earth/n/explodingheads/npub1wg6u23gjc2y33fxukr284fy8p8lw7hztu30gtat89nwy4x3j4pcsh0xxwc/note1a587rvcdand93rw6mxvgrg080xrqm38nvc8hqpkstmhhnszrfutqnsvrlk

link to discussion on satellite earth:

https://satellite.earth/n/explodingheads/npub1wg6u23gjc2y33fxukr284fy8p8lw7hztu30gtat89nwy4x3j4pcsh0xxwc/note1xnxh8smy3ml79ry56d6qshcg9e05lkwnmlnsdsfc0h9h427kqngqq07fqd

lol. no, this was just something i threw together while trolling that one ai bot on satellite earth and figured i’d share

yeah, totally get this. replace ‘phone’ with ‘computer’ and ‘sad’ with ‘bored’ and you could be talking about me too.

some advice i got secondhand from a fren’s therapist was to try to do at least one thing different from your normal routine everyday just to break established patterns. drive a different route, exercise, clean something you don’t have to, try something new for dinner, reach out to a buddy or relative you haven’t talked to in a bit, whatever. friend had been going thru depression when he got the advice but i tihnk its good regardless. i just need to kick myself in the ass and actually follow it lol

i listened to one of the jordan peterson audiobooks last year and it had some similar stuff in there. i think one of the examples was if you had let your paperwork pile up and were overwhelmed by the task, then start off with 1 or 2, just do some small piece and force yourself to come back to it and keep doing small pieces. probably can be adapted to a lot of stuff but my brain is shutting down for the day and can’t really think

another friend swears by getting a dog. i’ve thought about doing that too. if you actually take them out to dog parks, exercise, etc could even add to social aspect. i like big dogs but am horribly lazy. especially since i’d probably want a retired police dog or something similar

if you use it from the browser, it’s pretty easy as long as you save a copy of your private key somewhere (websites will offer to create it for you). if you lose it, then its equivalent to forgetting your password, except there’s no password reset - basically you’d just have to create a new account.

this is the one that is a little closer to lemmy/reddit: https://satellite.earth/n/explodingheads/npub1wg6u23gjc2y33fxukr284fy8p8lw7hztu30gtat89nwy4x3j4pcsh0xxwc

this is the one thats a little closer to a discord/irc chatroom: https://www.nostrchat.io/channel/08642dad6729819cc79650d18b93c5c913362f17f0160b57bc3603345d6658e3

haven’t used it from apps, so can’t comment there.

im good, just tired. you?

guessin yuo mean how dead the site is tho? yeah, seems deader every day but cant really blame everybody

fair enough; you just seemed more knowledgeable on it than me and wasn’t sure if you were familiar with the admin at all. no worries tho

Oh ok, yeah, that’s cool. I thought maybe he only wanted what was there, but sounds like that’s not it

Any clue if he ok with free speech stuff like what we do here? I’m not very familiar with it at all

Do you know if these are supposed to be free speech? Most of them seem like they haven’t really posted well defined rules, except for dbzer0 -marxists.

Straylight and basedcount seem promising but really depends on if admins are cool with us or not and to what degree. personally i don’t really want to invest too much in a place where we aren’t welcome, especially on lemmy where we can be censored.

As a tech, I like lemmy featureset way way more than nostr so far but seems like we do really keep hitting a wall with censorship there.

Would non -lemmy, free-speech Reddit clones be an option in the meantime? I would be down for signing up on lotus or saidit or whatever as long as i can post stupid shit wo getting banned and people going to be there to bs with. Might try creating some alts today or tomorrow

They afraid you gonna troll the Bitcoin people over there lol

Do they still prevent users from creating their own subs? I think I had tried that one awhile back but gave up cuz it was only compass memes and 1 or 3 other subs. Unless I’m thinking of a different one?

Edit: just rechecked and it only has 3 subs so I think is same one. Would be more interested if it had at least freeforum and dankmemes subs but if only compass memes, books, and announcement seems a bit sparse

Division by Zero

Yeah super leftist. they’re good for info on piracy and not much else