Yeah fair enough, you kinda tagged in to their side.

Then why didn’t you start with that much more reasonable goal-post?

1. Few people like to be the first(ish) one on the dance floor.

2. It’s slightly harder to sign up for than Reddit, so people interested in this kind of thing usually just sign up for Reddit (or stay there).

3. Most people don’t care about the advantages Lemmy affords us; they care about what’s on TV tonight or which celebrity is dating which celebrity.

Right right, that was one use of teletype.

Teletype, not text-to-speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_(disambiguation)

I remember ICQ fondly, but I guess I’m too young or didn’t inhabit the same tech niches you did/do.

To me, ending a typed message with “qq” or “QQ” is for teletype systems that lacked length and special characters, so it helped if you alphanumerically stated that your message was an interrogative, which wound up being “qq,” presumably two for certainty it wasn’t a typo or a word ending in Q.

E.g. “THERE” could mean “I am there” and “THERE QQ” could mean “Are you there?”

Q.Q I can understand, qq I cannot.

Who uses qq instead of question marks? I’ve only ever seen old school cops do that.

True, but they seem to dominate every feminist space I’ve been in, so the definition of “feminist” is hard for me to work out; nicer people seem to think it’s 1:1 with “egalitarian,” but then why have two words for the same thing?

So my conclusion has been that I’ll just keep voting and speaking in the interests of making our world treat men and women equally, and just shrug my shoulders at the labels. As I said elsewhere, that’s not enough for some feminists, so they’ll just have to continue disliking me. Misogynists dislike me too, so I’m used to it.

Most feminists I’ve talked to about it say they hate people who describe themselves as “egalitarian,” essentially equating it to the “enlightened centrist” meme.

I used to, but I don’t think I should any more. I’ve been kicked out of two feminist spaces:

1. Someone said childcare is exclusively a women’s issue, as in men cannot or do not help with it, and I disagreed.

2. Someone said it was hilarious that some men think there are unique challenges men face that women do not, and I disagreed.

So if 100% of feminist groups I’ve joined don’t believe I’m a feminist, I guess I’m not a feminist. I guess you could say I failed the purity tests.

Right, and I’m saying that’s not due to the VR, it’s due to the moving around.

Fair enough, but that’s kinda independent of VR.

Depends on the comfort factor for the individual user+device. If it’s not a good fit for you, it’s going to be exhausting pretty quick.

Did you make a new account?

I blocked one of yours because your comments are always rage-bait drivel and I’m not 13 any more so I don’t find the funny:rude ratio good enough to waste my time with you.

Yep, I’d blocked /u/SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world, but it looks like they’re switching to /u/SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social now.

There’s plenty of documentation surrounding people getting banned for little to no reason. Blocking obviously has much less accountability and transparency to it; don’t you think people are much more willing to block for even less?

Not to be rude but, there are tons of people in the world and they’re all completely different. “I wouldn’t do it so nobody else would” is naive.

I don’t know how you’re measuring both or why you’re apparently missing my point.

I think this is for people who are less “annoying” and more “actively lying and being bad faith.”

It can easily be co-opted by people willing to block either, as evidenced by the flame war in the comments here; the post suggests “I don’t like this” -> Block. I don’t like annoying people. I also don’t like people arguing in bad faith.

This is further complicated by the fact that a lot of people misconstrue good faith arguments from very different points of view with bad faith arguments. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been labeled as someone arguing in bad faith because my view differed from theirs and I didn’t immediately reverse my stance when confronted, or someone simply can’t read very well (literacy rates being what they are these days).

In part, this is because trolls sometimes like to be very subtle and drag a conversation out for 50 comments.

In part, this is because people are dumb and/or paranoid and don’t understand that people with other apparent viewpoints might not be trolls.

Okay, but you do see the difference between finding it funny and telling everyone about it, right?

That’s more illegal than I can openly suggest.