I’d rather be new and decent than experienced and dismissive - thank you for the perspective.

That’s why I’m saying it. I often feel like I’m in the minority of people willing to speak up and get dogpiled for it. I posted this for the handful of people who upvote those comments.

I agree. I didn’t quite mean it as “you can just ignore it” but rather that “understand it’s just words and you can learn to not take it personally”

I say plenty of unpopular things here myself and though I have downvotes disabled I can still feel the pain when being dogpiled on despite having years of experience with it. No one is immune to it - we just have different levels of tolerance.

For the past 10 years or so I’ve pretty much assumed that at some point a superintelligent AI or similar will be able to find everyone’s online profiles and link them to the actual person behind them. Then we’ll all be held accountable for the things we’ve said in the past. That’s why I never lie or say something I don’t actually believe in. I’m not proud of every comment I’ve posted but those are my actual beliefs and what ever people will be able to dig up I can stand behind and explain reasoning.

Sure, but this is true about being online in general and not only relevant to the people saying unpopular things.

It’s also the reason I keep making new accounts when ever I reach 1k comments. Better not have all the eggs in one basket.

I wish Lemmy would have this feature as default. I’d rather give people few chances rather than immediately blocking them when they say something utterly moronic as I do now.

No, there are separate settings for up- and downvotes. I don’t see downvotes myself but I see upvotes.

Individual users blocking other users isn’t what I mean by being ostracized. If the majority of users did then maybe so but that basically never happens no matter what you say. Being blocked by someone comes at no cost to the person getting blocked. They won’t even know.

Or the same instance. You can also import your settings and continue from where you left.

Freedom to speak doesn’t imply freedom to be heard. People are free to ignore you even when you’re saying popular things. If you don’t want to speak unless everyone is listening, then don’t.

That’s the spirit!

Pay bills, send receipts to my accountant, smoke weed, play DayZ.

I also should protect my fruit trees from rabbits but we’ll see about that.

Downvotes can also be disabled in the settings.

Absolutely. In-fact I’d say most people aren’t blocking enough. If someone thinks of free speech as freedom to be an asshole then they should be blocked by everyone and left to shout into the void. However, I don’t think the unpopularity follows you outside the thread you were saying unpopular things at. The vast majority of people wont remember you.

Just like you’re free to say it, others are free to not listen. If an user blocks you then so be it - I’m sure you’ve blocked people as well. Downvotes on the other hand are equivalent to mean comments; it can just be ignored. Getting banned is a real risk though, I’ll give you that, but then again, you can just make a new account.

Well, sure if you’re posting with your own name but not when you’re posting as MrPoopbutt.

Your claim about him “selectively turning off Starlink” is false. You’re spreading misinformation.

My truck is from 2007 and it has every feature I need and none of the ones I don’t need (except automatic wipers) As long as the engine doesn’t blow up or I don’t drift it into a ditch I’ll just keep replacing parts on it as they fail and I have no intention to upgrading to a newer model. Hell, even if I totaled it I might just buy another one exactly like the one I already have.

I’ve lost interest for new vehicles ages ago. They just become more plasticy, filled with electronics and “smart” features and other stuff that’s nice to have for as long as it works but as someone driving only 15 year or vehicles those are just going to be a headache and cost a fortune to fix. On my current truck I can do most repairs by myself and it still feels like a proper tool rather than art piece.

Fine by me as long as you keep old.lemmy for the rest of us. The current UI is about as good as it can be. I wouldn’t change a thing.

I didn’t say it shouldn’t be Luigi, I said it shouldn’t be a murderer. Anyone with even a hint of intellectual honesty can then reason that if I’m against a murderer being picked then I’m probably against a rapist, racist, compulsive liar and an aspiring dictator as well.