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why not ani.social? the local feed is just anime and manga

And that's exactly the ambiguity I was trying to get at with my last paragraph.

I'm kind of surprised I got downvoted while contrarian "source?" comments got lots of upvotes. In all honesty, it feels bad. I am not sure how I said anything anywhere near offensive that deserves disapproval, but being contrarian seems a lot more purposely meant to piss off and still meets lots of peoples' approval.

But even still, I have gone and assumed bad faith or at best, an attempt to be funny and make people laugh through what is still in the end just contrarianism. I do not think it is possible they are genuinely asking for a source because I think we're making claims based on general observation of the world, things that do not need to be cited, like "the sky is blue" or "things fall when you drop them". Just look up and see (or trust the wealth of statements talking about the sky's blueness if you are (color)blind). Perhaps I'm incorrectly assuming bad faith here based off of a trend of seeing contrarianism, and I'm incorrectly extrapolating that trend here. It is very ambiguous. I really do not think I am wrong, but given that we're literally talking about the difficulty of determining good vs. bad faith engagement it feels a little arrogant to not acknowledge the possibility that I might be wrong.

I think the key part is whether it's being done in good faith or bad faith. Sometimes I ask a stupid question on Lemmy, but because I am honestly curious and not trying to get into a fight, and I usually accept the reply to me and don't take it as an invite to get into a debate, I think people can tell I'm not sealioning.

If I replied "source?" for your comment right now, I'd be trolling. I almost certainly know that it is a bad idea to discourage sourcing information, and that should not be something I need a cited source for. That would probably be sealioning. Someone asking for a source on a meme I posted is probably genuinely curious and not sealioning.

And as per usual, judging intent can be difficult, especially when people (including me) come into a forum with my own sets of biases, pieces of knowledge I have that I incorrectly assume that everyone else knows, and absence of knowledge that others incorrectly assume everyone else knows. So people who are not sealioning might get mistaken for it just because they want a source on something they do not know that most people do. I see where you are coming from.

Eh. Got sent this from someone else and thought it was funny, figured the watermark wasn't the main point so it should not matter too much. If the watermark is truly an issue for you, perhaps post or petition the mod to make a rule that you cannot have watermarks in your post, besides those that artists make themselves to ensure they get credit when people inevitably repost the funny thing.

In more blunt terms: I'm posting this on Lemmy and didn't source it from Reddit myself, what more do you want from me? Should I use an art program to edit this watermark out in the future?

the human

This is my comfortable position. Wonder if that'll change as I age ;-; (No seriously, I'd like to know so I can do my best to avoid a lot of physical pain I don't have to have.)

While I appreciate improvements (disclaimer: I'm not Anna), as far as I know, things pad around floors. I checked that same website for "pat" to make sure I wasn't missing some way that word could be used to describe an animal walking. I am pretty certain cats pad across floors, not pat across them.

Although "padding" is apparently "walking without noise" according to that dictionary I linked, so that might not be the best replacement either considering the sound of the cat walking wakes up the speaker. (I knew the "walking" part but not the "without noise" part until I made this reply.) Then again, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pad is more generous to us here, not requiring the walking be without noise, so maybe it does work.

The most inoffensive, on-topic, accurate posts and comments get downvotes. I mostly chalk it up to a few trolls, and also accept the possibility I am unknowingly treading on someone's sensitivities. Goodness knows I've seen posts that reflexively make me feel bad that clearly were not intended to do that, stuff posted on Lemmy Be Wholesome that I felt wasn't actually that wholesome but actually harmful and wanted to downvote despite the mass upvotes. I try to be sensitive and think of others' feelings, put down common trigger warnings, but also I can't account for every single possible sensitivity or viewpoint, especially when posting on the internet to the public, and neither can those people who inadvertently made me feel bad or posted something I personally thought did not fit Lemmy Be Wholesome that everyone else clearly thought was wholesome.

I wouldn't worry about downvotes unless there is a significant ratio of downvotes compared to upvotes.

(I did not create this community, and I am not a moderator of this community, but I'm usually the only one posting anything. Can we change that?)

Thanks for disclosing, usually it is a community's creator posting it here although there are exceptions, so I assumed you made the community.

This is very much not my lane, but props to you for trying to single-handedly keep what seems to be a non-harmful community going, and good luck with attracting new contributors.

Thanks, I needed this too. On Mbin, not Lemmy, and I have no image in the post and there is also no link for me to click. Just the title "Timeline of Linux Distributions". I checked on mander.xyz and the image does show there.

It would be nice to do something similar without locking it down to Amazon, a known Bad Company™

I remember reading a lot of these books as a kid and I enjoyed them. Now I wonder what I did with them…