i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.
I know right! I often get more than 5 upvotes here, while on Reddit most of my comments would have only gotten 2, maybe 3.
Im still finding it a strange world to be part of
Have you talked to the Atheists on here? Cantankerous bunch. They’ve been in their little bubble for so long they get triggered by the slightest perceived critique of capitalist materialism.
Wait. What does atheism have to do with capitalist materialism?
How does my belief, or non belief, in god affect my lust for a Playstation 5.
I don’t think they’re against atheism. It’s just the stereotype that online atheist communities tend to be insufferable, and, I’ll say it, holier than thou.
Atheism is the religion of materialism, which is the philosophy of capitalism. People who idolize power, technology, and industry worship a mechanical universe, but they get mad when you point it out.
Or, they’re getting mad at you because they hate power and money, and you’re claiming they idolize it.
Atheism is materialism is capitalism. They don’t just idolize money, it’s the basic unit of their reality.
I honestly have no idea what this means and I’m super confused by this comment.
I was pretty religious for decades (Christianity) and things like money and power were all up in there. In theory, it wasn’t supposed to be, but it absolutely was.
Christianity is a religion which serves power, not God. Materialism and Atheism are the ignorant beliefs that nothing exists that cannot be measured or known, cooked up by beings which have a such a narrow field of perspective that they can’t perceive a tenth of their surroundings, even with scientific instruments.
Well, all I can really do is speak for my experience.
I’m a big fan of the New Testament’s teachings on loving your fellow humans, not judging others, forgiving others, and treating people the way you’d like to be treated. That said, there were a lot of people in my churches / fellowships that claimed to care about that stuff, but got so caught up in the other dogma that they ended loosing site of JC’s main teachings.
My motivations for non-belief are not driven by idolizing money or material things. I’m kind of a hippy and I distain people that overvalue that stuff. I simply of the belief that I don’t need to understand the afterlife in order to be a kind an empathetic human being. Life is hard, and since most of us have experienced hardship, we know what it’s like when other’s are suffering hardship. So we should try our best to love each other and help each other out.
I take offense to people judging me as a materialistic capitalist without taking the time to get to know me. I’m not happy with people that hoard wealth, I hate materialism, and I’ve spend the last decade volunteering my Saturday and Sunday working in recovery clinics to help my fellow man… because life is hard, and sometimes you need someone to help you out without casting judgment.
Man have you talked to the Tankies? They attack you even if you try to promote the idea of Socialism (while applying flawless historical materialism). Some people just value circle jerking higher than the exchange of ideas.
Disagreeing with someone and still acknowledging the other perspective as ‘correct from their perspective’ just isn’t something that that online communities can foster that easy. It requires effort and imo a kinda ‘small’ number of users.
This just happened to me. Even tried to use Albert Einstein as a “see, Socialism can work” even though the topic was about tankies specifically. It felt like gaslighting so I stopped engaging.
As a general rule I have rarely interacted with other self-professed atheists that are specifically pro-capitalism. I’m going to have to go scroll through the community here, and see that for myself because I’m having a hard time squaring that in my head.
Well at least we have the circlejerk going for us
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Nice try, you will have do better to get my upvote 😄 👍
No they are not. You are in a echo chamber. :) (Happy face to show lack of hostility)
I find that it very much depends. It was very positive a month ago, but day by day I see a lot more arguing, name calling, and petty downvoting.
There was a guy posting literal gifs of shit and also DMing them to people and somehow I still prefer it over reddit.
Probably got something todo with the know how to use it
Well Karma ain’t a thing here so there’s not that much reason for bots to exist. Where on Reddit people make certain karma bots to sell. So here! Have a updoot. 👍
Thanks for the upvote, and back at you. I’m thinking bots would be used to change discourse for whatever purposes.
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There is also no karma whore. So even if you say something offending to some, who cares?
Hogwash you son of a bitch! Now, take my upvote.
It feels like I’m talking to real humans. Not some ultra sensitive sissy all the time. It’s just so much less mentally taxing
more genous with upvotes than reddit.
Why would you care about fake points, lmao
