Once again I find myself thinking, “Dammit, Google!”

Thank you very much for the text summary, I really appreciate it :)

Yep, I learned a good bit of it in school. That shit’s helpful.

It’s super effective!

Thank you! I had no idea what this was talking about but was curious, so this is perfect. I appreciate it!

Fuck yeah. You rock.

Ours does the exact same. Sometimes they even put an obfuscated link to a tweet that was very quickly deleted, so you just get an error and there’s no info unless you both log in and go searching their twitter for whatever tweet they may actually still have that has info. It’s pretty ridiculous.

Yeah, I’m guessing those were typos and it was meant to say ‘DNC’ like it does later on

I appreciate that! & I totally understand. Unfortunately, they really cornered the market for quite a few niche little hobbies’ communities that used to be more filled out with independent and individual forums and sites before they took over. Such is life, eh?

Sweeeet! Thank you so much! That was super fun to play with and I’m looking forward to trying it out again another day :)

Yes, agreed! That was definitely one of my favorites. The one where the cats are bakers kneading bread and are in a union is another favorite of mine.

Oooh, how neat! Off to do web searches for more info I go!

Ooh, I like it! I hope you’re able to save up for it quickly and easily. :)

Oh my goodness, now you’ve got me looking, and there’s so many cool Soviet propaganda style posters. Did you see these great Soviet propaganda style posters with cats!? I love them so much.

Thank you!

Their previous comment read the same way to me, too; just so you know it’s not only you that thought that’s what they meant.

Sometimes when I misinterpret something, I wonder if I’m the only one, or if others would’ve interpreted it similarly, so I can take that information and have a better idea of how to move forward and learn from the situation. So, I dunno, just thought I’d say something just in case you’re similar ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Haha I’ve had the same exact realization while learning about what it actually is!

This whole comment is great! Thank you for typing it all out and sharing it with us.

This part especially helped me a lot:

If you have no stable place to live, no stable income, no stable sense of family, what does a stable sense of adult self look like?

Thank you.

Also, I’m looking forward to watching that video when I’m able to! It sounds super interesting and I’m kind of excited about it, honestly! Lol :)

From someone in the US, smack dab in the middle of very dense Republican land (Oklahoma,) I want you to know that you’ve nailed it! You’re spot on. I wish you were exaggerating, lol.

Some Lemmy instances have downvotes, some don’t. It varies by instance. I think most instances have/allow downvotes. Beehaw & Blahaj are two bigger ones that don’t that I can think of off of the top of my head.

Also agreed with your last bit. I’m nervous about it, too. I wish people would just be decent and… not suck, lol.

I’ve definitely noticed it bugs some people. I wonder if those people maybe just don’t understand why it’s happening, combined with it looking silly on Lemmy when you don’t know why it’s happening? That it autopopulates just like it does on Mastodon and did on Twitter, like you said. Although, I definitely remember people getting annoyed with it on Twitter, too, lol. Anywho, you’re not hurting anybody, but it’s kind of you to offer to stop if it’s bugging them. :) Maybe a PSA about it, why it happens, and why people leave the tags in their replies, posted to a lot of different communities/magazines/topics would help?

It’s nice to see you here on Beehaw, mister Mustaine!