I love that sentiment. I feel learning about things I don't have any familiarity with, be it cultural, historical, physical, or anything else really helps me understand and empathise better.
Celebrating, or hating,someone for characteristics outside their control is really weird to me.
Sites like the one mentioned aren't worth giving time or attention, even mentally. My mind short circuits into thinking the same about sites celebrating the same.
I'd be awfully annoyed if someone went around celebrating me for having brain damage, as if I'm some prop to be hoisted around.
Instead I'd prefer we'd focus on building sites and communities where such things don't matter, and where we can all give each other enough leeway to get along amicably.
I'm aware it's a pipe dream, and people just aren't good at that, myself included, but the idea is dear to me.
I just watched the latest Starfleet Academy. I've not made up my mind on it yet, so I can't recommend it for other reasons than it being Star Trek. I would recommend watching it before making up one's mind about it though.
As for something I would recommend, Journey Quest, on YouTube, recently came out with new content, and is well worth the watch.
While I agree with this sentiment, some places are easier to just avoid, be it Reddit, x, or wherever.
If you go on a tankie instance to discuss the finer points of day trading, you're gonna have a bad time, and might be better off going somewhere else, provided they don't ban you.
Personally I just block annoyances and move on, no point in me getting upset at people spamming in German in English communities, and I've got no interest in interacting with it.
From just the name my mind instantly thought of the conflict as "conflict diamonds", and I began to wonder what constitutes a conflict free boolean or integer.
If anyone wants to take a crack at writing up why primitives are unfortunate, and we should move on to new "conflict free data types"™ I will cheer you on!
Also, very interesting read about actual conflict free replicated days types. Cheers!
I only show communities I'm subscribed to explicitly in my feed. I also block users like it's going out of fashion.
Anyone spamming things I don't care for in my feed, trolls, rage baters, or just people posting shit I have no desire to interact with our think about on the regular.
I'm using Lemmy mainly as an aggregator for memes, cat pictures, sci-fi, comics, and the likes, and like to be able to browse it on the bus or similar without worrying about what might show up.
If it's not for me, I'm most likely in the wrong community. If that's not the case I just block the poster. Nothing personal, it just doesn't jive with my desired experience for any number of reasons, so I just block it, ignore it, and move on.
Lemmy is for everyone, and I can't expect all of them to want the same out of it as me, so I can't, won't, and shouldn't do anything else about it.
My headcannon for a lot of those things is that it's really hard to retcon earlier made statements and actions, so some times He can't go with the sensible approach in order to get around it.
I decided long ago that Christmas and birthdays just wasn't for me. Easy enough when I live alone.
I don't decorate, don't eat anything out of the ordinary, don't dress up. It's just a normal day, that passes without much ado. Hate is too strong a word, I just ignore it.
Or Heyerdahl... Definitely a Christopher though!