I didn’t say it was funny. I have PTSD, depression and an anxiety disorder. I’ve been in counseling for these things on and off since 2017.

But to clarify, the knee jerk reaction I referenced comes from my own triggers to certain things. So, that was an actual question; do people experience an instant PTSD-like reaction from their time on corpo social media after they leave it?

Absolutely, reddit was invaded by 4channers and Digg refugees as a foundation. The “culture” of the hivemind there was founded on being a snarky asshole to get internet points. And with that, power is inevitably desired by abusive people. Spez might as well be the posterchild for social media abusers. The mods and admins are just wannabe Spez.

But much like an abusive ex, at some point, people need to stop giving that abuser their energy. Giving it to them means they still have a level of access or influence they don’t deserve, and it’s a cycle of self harm.

Anyways, back to your point: I browse All and prune as I go. I need to make the time to prune again.

Honestly, that’s an interesting thing to consider and I hadn’t done that before. I think my own extremely strong hatred for centralized social media clouds my ability to not have a knee jerk reaction.

Is PTSD from being in a techbro’s walled garden a known phenomenon? LOL

What’s the point of having this community? People that left Reddit after deciding that it’s not a place they can tolerate anymore, joined Lemmy, or mbin, or piefed to get away from the abuse. This smacks of a jilted partner occasionally stalking their ex from the bushes, seeking out validation that the breakup was warranted.

Instead of giving energy and time to the Reddit dumpster fire of the moment, put more time into the fediverse. We all know that corporate social media is never going to get better.

Hubzilla maybe?

Hey. Glad you’re still with us.

So are the gay frogs!!

Is anyone truly ok in this timeline?

He always looks like his crush just caught him with her panties are hanging out of his ass while fucking her dog.

Ahem… I believe you mean BEST KOREA.

Are you sure about that?

This article could have been written by AI. All it did was reference other articles from other sites, and when it got to the “rest of us” bit… it just ends on that with nothing else.

The irony of having to watch this on YouTube…

I’m winning. I don’t use AI and I’m too broke to shop for anything besides necessities.

I love how you got downvoted with no one giving a counterpoint or any indication as to why they disagree.

Oh well, I upvoted you to counter that laziness.

At the end of the day, every single representative, in both parties, in the House and Senate, are 100% personally insulated from the outcomes of the legislation they vote on. Pelosi doesn’t rely on food stamps, nor does Speaker Johnson have to worry about getting disappeared by freshly employed Jan 6 insurrectionists cosplaying as ICE stormtroopers.

The government serves itself, always.

Simple.

We vote with our wallet.

We support indie devs.

Lol I also hope no one is out there suggesting it’s healthy either! Some people I’ve interacted with have gotten pretty repulsed by seeing ranch as a pizza dip, going as far to insist it is strictly for salads. A weird hill to try and die on…

Yup and would eat it again! I used to work at a place that would bake a cheese pizza in a stone oven, then set the pizza under heating lamps. Immediately after that, those 2 ingredients would get tossed on top. They also did other veggies like broccoli or zucchini.

The veggies were already pre-steamed or briefly baked, and would get kept in a walk-in fridge or in cold drawers in the kitchen. Avocados were freshly cut up, and still kinda firm (not super ripe, but edible) so the heating lamp wouldn’t make them weird after too long.

The heating lamps do the magic on about 10 minutes, the the pizza is sold by the slice.

I will end this with a controversial suggestion: this type of pizza belongs with a side of ranch.