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  • I just wanted to say to not feel bad about not being able to cry.

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  • Holy shit I forgot about Poptropica!

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  • Ask Lemmy isn’t your personal blog

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    No you cannot. This post violates the rules of this community. Want a blog? Start a blog. Hell, start a community for yourself. This isn’t the time or place for it
  • It sounds like you dont know who you are.

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    Get yourself a cat
  • A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?

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    I ended up replaying Wind Waker and I still haven't finished Breath of the Wild. I think BotW is a spectacular game for kids who don't have access to just about any game they want.
  • He's toxic cause he doesn't want to share his instagram?

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    He’s 28 yeah he lowkey said I am acting crazy but I was just mad that he was lying for no reason.
  • What is Compuserve

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    Yeah, I was never on Compuserve, just aware of it's history.
  • What do y'all recommend for new dishwashers?

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    This is a great little unit. I had the same one, and gifted it to my friend who took over my apartment when I left. It was his first time ever having a dishwasher.
  • He had a baby.

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    Something something Mitch Mcconnel M-preg
  • Hopefully, my senator will die.

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    God bless America 🤮
  • Hang on, core memory unlocked.

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  • You're overthinking it.

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    never meet anyone sounds scary
  • RIP your DMs.

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    Ahahaha 0 actually
  • If he gets to die peacefully, a great tragedy will have been committed

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  • Maybe he’s dead.

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  • As a stoned person in their 30s, I have no idea what to say here.

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    Well not necessarily,, like today I wanted it but I can’t but I feel fine with that. Maybe it’s because I didn’t have sex much before in my relationship that now I have this urgency to fill it all in. And no, I have friendships with people just fine and even some guys my friends boyfriend brings and it’s fine, I don’t want to do anything with them obviously. And no no health issues other than being horny allot
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    @WhyJiffieoh, I too often do this, with emails, where I compose it for a long time, all the while it changes a lotCuriously, there seems to be a psychological factor behind this: when we're compositing emails, we are focused on a single mail. Email composition boxes are often bigger and wider than those from social networks, and they often appear as fullscreen textareas (separated from the mail being replied, if there's any). That's possibly why it seems easier to do this with email composing. A tip? Notepad apps (such as Noto, Sketchbook, Joplin or even mainstream ones such as Google Keep) can mimick a composition box from emails. My previous reply to you was initially written in Noto, until I transferred it to PC. Perhaps this could help if you wish to apply the same habit for fediverse.that, or what reddit does: replace the username with “deleted”In a sense, yeah, "deleted" username placeholdering (automatically, when a person chooses to delete their own account) is also an interesting solution. However, there are some things I forgot to mention in my previous replies, one of which is GDPR's "Right to be forgotten", which could pose a legal obstacle for such a solution if, like Reddit, the content is restored against the user's will (as a context: when people left Reddit to come to fediverse/Lemmy, Reddit undid many of the deletions, so they could both astroturf the Reddit platform (make it appear like they have a large userbase when they don't anymore) AND train corporate AI with all posts and comments, and this probably led to legal issues or will lead in the future if people eventually find a Reddit's legalese contradiction inside their ToS and decide to sue Reddit based on GDPRs rights).In the end of the day, it's a complicated matter, because it feels like there's no easy solution that could both respect community AND the user behind the content while complying with certain laws out there, especially when things can unexpectedly change in the future (e.g. corp AI managing to haunt the fediverse) and leading people to decide on nuking entire posts.
  • What are the modern design trends you hate most?

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    I'm talking about pre-HTML5. Back when a lot of non-web devs hated JacaScript. Back when people liked ActiveX. Back when CSS wasn't universally supported. If you're too young to remember those days, count yourself lucky.
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