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Cake day: June 18th, 2023
  • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eetoFedigrow@lemm.ee•How are you doing with your communities?English
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    25 days ago

    About a week ago, I posted some pages from a graphic novel I’d been reading (“Falafel with Hot Sauce”), which concerned neighborly strife in an Israeli community. My focus (which I talked about) was the rather wild interpersonal dynamics going on, which ultimately ended on a high, empathetic note.

    What I naively wasn’t expecting was for a group of users from a rather notorious instance to find the post and begin ranting about Israeli-Palestinian politics, which is putting it mildly, really. So we wound up deleting some comments, and banning some users for going from 0-to-60, flagrantly breaking our SubLemmy rules. A couple days later I made a bumbling, community announcement addressing the situation.

    Frankly, I’m disappointed in myself for not handling that more smoothly, nor better-anticipating the potential shock of being attacked so virulently. Unfortunately, with the way my health stuff affects me, I can have a pretty short fuse when under the gun. Ho hum.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eetoFedigrow@lemm.ee•How are you doing with your communities?English
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    2 months ago

    I’m not too frustrated anymore (as I was a month or two ago) about the lack of posters, and have pretty-much just resigned myself these days to people treating EGN+ as my personal blog.

    Maybe in the future, contributors will organically develop and/or I’ll hit upon some method to get more people involved, I don’t know.

    I think part of the problem is that while plenty of people can appreciate the cool art of ‘BD’ and the little tidbits I write up, there’s not many people across the Lemmysphere who are all that knowledgeable themselves about Euro GN’s, and who also want to spend time posting.

    This actually kind of goes back to my disappointment with Reddit users, in that I thought more would jump ship after learning about the many ways they’ve been disrespected and monetised by Reddit mgmt through various means. I.e., with a bigger userbase here, chances of more engagement with niche communities like ours would increase a bit. Ah, well.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eetoFedigrow@lemm.ee•[Weekly thread] How are you doing with your communities?English
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    2 months ago

    Ack, sorry for the late reply, Blaze! :S

    Is there anything we can do to help?

    Appreciate. <3
    I think I’ve made the critical adjustment necessary, which is to not push myself anymore, trying to make one post per day. It was very ambitious, and it seems to have grown our subscribers a lot over the months, but it’s just too much for me with the low energy, aching hands & back, etc.

    Other than that, I think my disillusionment with my community & Lemmy overall is fading a bit. Indeed, one has to keep adjusting one’s expectations across life, mais non?

    Do you think you need another mod?

    Yes, there are three distinct positions available.

    My current mod to me is like an old friend, life preserver, and provider of cool Moebius stuff, but his time is limited for this extra stuff.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why are many people in America so politically unaware?
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    4 months ago

    No no…we had it fixed for centuries

    I really don’t understand you there.

    No, in fact the very founding of the USA was arguably done primarily so that the ruling class could disregard the respectful boundaries that the English imposed to avoid strife with Native Americans and other colonial powers, which incidentally tended to curb our exploiting the land willy-nilly as we’ve shamelessly done since. It also locked out women and slave voters, preserving a classist system.

    Since then there’s been various periods of little / negligible useful social policies, as well as periods in which the ultra-wealthy and common capitalists were UNCHECKED in their ability to thoroughly exploit people and form monopolies, etc etc. Seriously, if the Roosevelts hadn’t come along, those things might have progressed scarily unchecked.

    So, no-- I certainly don’t see evidence that our form of democracy was ‘fixed for centuries.’ No, the fact is it’s been a shaky, wild, perilous ride from the day one.

    …the 1964 presidential campaign, as that’s the markings of the first ever attack ad.

    Maybe in terms of TV, but TV is just a natural extension of media, and media in the States has been used since… at least the early 1800’s? to completely slag-off or outright attack enemy candidates. Indeed, it’s been a perfect blood-bath of disinformation at times, which doesn’t even address all the nasty, vile tricks used to disenfranchise, or outright turn away undesirable voters at the polls. Which yes-- includes outright violence against undesirable voters across centuries in the States.

    So, yeah… that all happened.

    Altho I DO agree with you that somewhere between 50-70yrs back, the USA has been outright under attack by right-wingers, paving the way for fascism. Basically attacking most of the progress made under FDR and even Republican presidents like Ike.