No, this loser has a persecution fetish, nothing more.

It feeds his narcissism to think people care that much offline.

They permanently banned my 9yo account with 2 million karma for using the "boxes of Liberty" metaphor in a highly up voted comment about Republicans taking away access to voting. They said it was a threat of violence. 🙄 Meanwhile fascists make literal death threats in conservative subs with no consequences.

The site has systematically been banning high volume contributors who aren't right wing enough for at least the last 3 months. They, like Twitter, are trying to suppress the voices of people who are against fascism. It is deliberate and planned.

This is great advice, coming from someone who pondered using the "Mother was really sick and had to manage her illness and passing" excuse if I ever went back, as it was true for me too. (I'm sorry for your loss, it's a really painful life transition, I know.)

I ended up taking a slightly different approach. I worked in IT project management before I retired early. My LinkedIn resume shows me currently employed as an "IT consultant" and will until I decide I need another job or I kick it.

I'm a RIF person myself but I have so much respect for Apollo and Christian's work, even as I've never had the opportunity to use it, just from how he's handled and documented this situation. I'm sad both Apollo and RIF are being taken from us and I hope Christian and Andrew find amazing success in whatever they decide to work on next.

I'm leaning more toward "incompetence" as the explanation for this. What good does it do Reddit to leave RIF intact, but simply disallow logging in?

Reddit's value depends on content creation and interactions driving ad views. Read-only RIF users create no content or interactions with the site. And for many like me who purchased the premium ad-free version, we see no ads.

Admittedly, I'm not sure if the RIF ads in the free version are Reddit's own ads or not, but without the content creation, and the interactions driving more engagement, RIF does little but drag on the site.

When my FIL what was a veterinarian was cremated, his remains were in a nice wooden box on his old antique desk. My SIL always referred to it as, "Doc in a box."

I'm old and out of the loop but that astroturfing was so blatantly obvious it pinged my BS meter immediately.

Plot twist: All of this is made up.

Change is uncomfortable. There's just no way around it. And there's nothing wrong with you feeling that it's kind of empty here and not what you're used to.

For me, it will be uncomfortable regardless. My preferred interface (RIF) is gone in 2 weeks so nothing at Reddit will feel comfortable either.

So I've chosen to embrace the discomfort of Lemmy's newness and comparative "emptiness" over the discomfort of using Reddit's inferior app, for a couple of reasons: First, Reddit turned on us, not the other way around, and second, because this place is relatively new it's not littered with bots and spammers and trolls. The energy here is just better for me.

Even if all my favorite places and posters aren't here yet, I'll be here waiting for them when they arrive, and I'm the meantime, I'll be doing my part to recreate what I used to love there, here.

His persecution fetish is showing

I have found that by brute force hitting the button between Subscribe and Pending enough it eventually switches to "Joined". I'm not proud of my troubleshooting method.

Mazel tov!

I read about an 1800sf home in St Pete, not on a flood plane, yesterday... $8000+/year for homeowners insurance. 😳

Make America Florida, Rhonda Santis? I think fucking not....

Yes, servers can disable downvotes. Beehaw does that, for instance. I'm on lemmy.world which allows both. I prefer both because I think it helps silence bad faith participation with less active moderation, but I respect that some places don't want it.

OP, this person knows what they're talking about. One of the screening questions when I was diagnosed with ADHD had to do with clumsiness. My own parents used to call me, "An accident waiting for a place to happen."

I have slowly been able to improve my clumsiness a little bit, by exercising regularly with a trainer 5 days a week. One of those days is a balance-focused day and after 2.5 years I'm actually able to hold poses and (mostly) stay upright and steady. But it was SLOW going.

The night before my 50th birthday, after I had been taking this class for 7 months, my husband and I were on a sunset cruise and his phone fell out of his pocket and over the side of the ship. I reached out with one hand and successfully caught it. THAT KIND OF THING NEVER HAPPENS TO ME!

I celebrate that day every year as much as my birthday now. I managed to show off hand eye coordination before I was 50!

Get screened... :)

This is great but I've turned it off because sometimes I want to go back to a post I've recently read to see new comments.

I really wish there was an option to hide posts I've downvoted. It's still early days so I imagine that will come later.

Thanks for the PSA!

Like the world's largest kidney stone, hopefully.

Same here. My domain name and email address will turn 30 next March. I've been doing this since the days when Usenet posts were transmitted across sites using UUCP.

We will always find the next place. Reddit has peaked and is destroying itself and it's time to move on.

It's "safe" to work out but you'll want to make sure you aren't compromising your form any due to being sore.

I'd suggest making today a lighter weight workout or just focusing on cardio. Getting your muscles moving will increase the blood flow, which will help speed up getting things back to normal.

There were also:

• Golden Club
• Supreme Club
• Centennial Club
• Platinum Club
• Apex Club
• Pinnacle Club
• 500k Club

Don't have their descriptions anymore since I logged off of RIF but they were all variations of the same sort of thing