sanity_is_maddening

They want everyone's private data to be accessible and actionable. It's not even about avoiding the hassle. It's about you not being able to avoid them.

Now, think about how much they could use this to crush dissidence and prevent assemblies of protests or worse, jail people because they criticise the government.

I got nothing to hide. By today's standards. If it changes, and criticising my country's government becomes a legal offense, then I would be a criminal. So would most people I know.

This is about control. Surveillance is always about control. It's disguised as a necessity through the paranoia that those in power help veiling over us.

I'm afraid you won't find it to be the norm anywhere, unfortunately. Online or offline.

I take what I can find.

But I do understand your frustration. Oh, how I do...

Thank you for the thoughtful reply and all the tags as well.

I do think your comment was far more for the OP than myself as I agree 100% with you and was already arguing somewhat in alignment with what you wrote.

As to the "Eternal September"... it's inevitable. I just came off of Lemm.ee after all. Everything exists within cycles. And I've gone through quite a few, online and in the real world, as I've worked with cultural associations to create events and formimg communities. And the same happens. It is what it is. And I don't feel resentful anymore for the disruption, specially towards the young or the newcomers to a platform or an event or space. If I ever do, is to the people who allow that to ruin what is there that we were enjoying all along. But I can't even say that I haven't been that person either. Because I have. Now I just know that when that is happening inside me is time to move on.

But I completely agree with you that both can co-exist and have their moment or even exist separately alongside one another. There's a place and a time for everything afer all. It's all about one seeking moments and not forcing anything onto anyone, and that includes oneself as well.

And In the case of most of the fediverse I do believe that it is relatively easy to manage the distance between what one wants to find and what one wants to avoid with the tools that we are given. At least for me it is. And the absence of an algorithm to raise engagement is the only way I accept to join any platform now. I want to see what I choose to see. The user has to be driving the experience.

Although, even with all these tools and the absence of an algorithm, anything regarding the U.S. these days definitely isn't so easy though. Not even for me as an European in Europe.

And I thank you for having the courage to step forward and moderate communities in the first place. I never have. It's one of the most delicate and difficult things to do in the digital world. Even the coders would say so. I've heard them say so. That it is easier to write code and build an app than it is to moderate the user base. I'm not a coder so I can't make that claim. But I've heard it first hand.

And by the way, stay safe over there in the U.S. What is happening there is terrifying to witness from here. I've seen this before in my lifetime, but never seen a descent as fast. It's spiraling at a speed that I've never wittnessed. In the big picture it has been happening for a very long time, but anyone who doesn't thing that what is happening is at the fastest rate now, it's either not paying attention or in denial.

So, stay safe.

I do agree with you. But to be fair, I think amongst the flood of the posts you described, there are indeed people who are genuinely posting with the genuine intent of starting meaningful exchanges. And I would say the most easy to spot, are the ones like yours. They tend to have long written opinions, instead of copy pasted text from articles or links or images with a short caption to them. But once again, to be fair, I think some of these are still seeking to start meaningful discussions as well.

What you seek, can't be triggered, it has to happen naturally. One can't artificially generate the genuine. It's quite paradoxical. Even though I completely understand one craving it in its absence.

But I don't want piefed to start having floods of rage bait like any other platform outthere. There's no algorithm to reward it, not that has stopped some from dumping it on Lemmy.

I'm a newcomer on Piefed. I came like many others did recently, from the shutdown of Lemm.ee, and there is a reason why a lot of us jumped ship to piefed, and it has to do with how peaceful it is here. But to some that might translate as boring or empty. Not to me. I see the same complaints towards pixelfed as a platform for a long time now. I quite like it there. I think people who didn't engage with early Internet or have been stuck in algorithmic driven platforms, don't know how to seek their own engagement. One has to seek it and chase it to find it.

I think the people who come to the fediverse, are either a bit older like myself, who seek to see the Internet back on track to its true potential of complete decentralisation, or they're refugees seeking asylum from the derangement that algorithmic driven platforms have created. But a new wave has started to arrive, this year, and it's the people who want to assemble the Leftist Resistance. They generally come from the Boycott US, BuyEuropean, BuyCanadian communities on reddit. I don't have a reddit account anymore. But I still go there from time to time to snoop through the derangement. Anyway, while I support these movements I mentioned, I already see bad news on the horizon. Because we're gonna start seeing more and more of the deranged alt right trolling. And we know how that goes. Lemmy already has the Tankies vs everyone else to contend with. But so far I would say the mods of the larger instances both on Lemmy and here on Piefed have done a good job at the triage level. There's still some reddit level of toxicity that slips through though. But in general I think the control given to both mods and users and the absence of an algorithm to drive it will always keep it somewhat sanitized. Unfortunately, it might also make it harder for you to find what you're looking for.

But not impossible at all. Case in point being your post and the replies that you already got.

There's plenty of crisps and chips out there which might not labeled as vegan, but are still nonetheless made without animal products.

To me, it's salted dry fruits and nuts all the way in the situation you described. I do some farming and salted peanuts and toasted salted cashews are my favourites. Although cashews are quite on the nose more expensive, so I sprinkle them amongst the peanuts.

Pair me that with some lemonade in a thermos and I'm good to keep going.

I used to snack sandwiches, but that just made me feel like going to lie down after munching on them.

But like I said, there are chips too.

Turning on the heating during an heat wave??? What??? Did they throw some hot rocks and water on the floor of that bus and called it a "sauna on wheels service" while they were at it???

Also wow. And I thought that corruption here where I live in Portugal was bad. We do rank amongst the highest on corruption in the EU. And I bet these awful people take pride amongst themselves when looking at that ranking. May I ask what country is this going on? You don't have to answer if you don't feel comfortable doing so.

Definitely. Good isolation is paramount for both harsh winters or summers.

Thank you for being so considerate.

I live in the south of Portugal. In the Algarve to be more precise (lots of Americans started moving here since covid by the way). It's hot and humid because of the proximity with the ocean. Nights don't cool off when it's this bad and that is the shitty part.

I can't say that I'm not used to it. It happens every year. But I can't say that I've ever gotten used to it either.

It has gotten worse over the years, though. I'm entering my middle age now and when I was a kid the temperatures here would go up to maximum of 33 °C (91,4 °F), and now we get 40 °C (104 °F) and people think "it's just another one of those days". My girlfriend caught 43°C (109.4 °F) in the thermometer in her car this weekend.

Anyway, I use most of your suggestions every year, and they're all helpful to anyone who's not used to this kind of heat.

I would say my most unusual ones is to remain covered when I go outside, not only a hat, but long sleave overshirts and pants, both so that the sun doesn't directly hit my skin, which both dehidrates us faster and raises our core temperature as well. Then when I get to the shade or indoors, I remove the shirt and the hat and let the cooling begin. It's essentially the same idea that people did and still do traversing deserts. They're all wrapped up to preserve humidity and keep their bodies from heating in shade. This works much better in dry climate than humid, but still does work. It's not the most pleasant feeling though that's for sure. The other one that everybody thinks I'm nuts is to never shock my temperature with too much cooling. That means no cold beverages or ice-creams. Or cold showers. Why? While they provide relief, I find that my body then doesn't stop the craving effect, and it gets harder to sustain the periods in-between those "shock reliefs" as I call them.

But yeah, salty snacks and drinking water continuously rather than too much at once would be my top suggestions.

And keeping an eye on the elderly of our family and community too.

I've been barricated in my room with the Air Conditioning for as long as it is possible over the last few days.

And while it brings me some relief, it also burdens my conscience to know this relief is also contributing to the problem that makes seeking this relief necessary.

Just shoot me already.

Good to know that that's better now.

Thank you for answering my question.

It checks with everything else. I've never seen this level of overt neglect to public health from any government of any country in my lifetime.

From vaccines to healthcare research and healthcare access and even food inspection safety... from climate research, to weather monotoring to natural disaster prevention... they're readying a level of catastrophe that I can't even fathom what's to come.

I've already met a lot of terrified Americans who migrated to my country in Europe to avoid so much of this. I can already see a lot of more of them to come, and it frightens me the global health crisis that will erupt from it.

And by the way, isn't asbestos still legal to use in the US? I'm genuinely asking. I remembered being told so and was shocked that it still was. But that was a while ago.

And not just in California. Or just the U.S. But the whole wide world.

One can dream.

But seriously, Android users from all over the world who haven't degoogled should sue and keep extending the precedents.

And then use the money from the settlements, if they get them, to buy a degoogled phone.

Or just degoodle the one they have and install Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish OS, Graphene or /e/os depending on the hardware they have. That way they're not even spending Google money to get rid of google.