They felt extremely small, too.

Because they are extremely tiny.

I agree, this would be a bad setting to have before the platform fixes the broader issue.

There are lots of reasons people downvote things and for many communities it has nothing to do with that community’s content quality. Until communities can opt out of inclusion in the All list it’s just going to disappear communities for people.

Plus virtually all of the layoffs we’ve had are due to the fed’s decisions.

I bought right before the pandemic and was able to get a slightly lower rate without paying any extra refi-costs during the pandemic.

But my job is extremely stressful, in an industry hit hard by layoffs. My neighborhood was hit hard by tech flight during and post-pandemic, so my home is not worth what I paid.

I’m made lots of good financial decisions and still got stuck as a result of things outside my control!

No worries! Glad to help.

Did you comment this in the wrong place?

If you search for mod, it changes to modded for all of the search types other than User. And it’s not just OP experience it, I see it as well.

That’s bizarre. I can reproduce this.

Only if the ad was sexually transmitted.

It’s an ActivityPub protocol implementing fediverse platform. It has the equivalent of lemmy’s communities which it calls magazines, but it also has microblogging similar to mastadon mixed in.

As a result they sort of work together which is awesome, but also you get stuff like what OP is asking about.

That’s fair. I didn’t mean to imply anything about the drug use.

The way OP views the world reminds me of how I see things when I am experiencing certain depression symptoms. I tend to filter my view of the world so that only the negative things are true, and it makes it harder to do anything positive in my life.

When my symptoms let up, either through treatment or sometimes on their own, I can still see the negatives but they’re there with a lot of positives, too.

If OP does have depression, it’s possible that treating it in a more effective way would be the answer to their question.

Have you considered that you might be self medicating depression rather than getting high?

Maybe a professional could help more than anyone on lemmy?

But they said I wouldn’t have to tip if they got rid of the humans!

I haven’t tried LLMs myself, but even completely made up garbage would be better than today’s search engine results.

You either get advertisements for things that have nothing to do with what you’re trying to find or you get privacy preserving links to sites that have nothing to do with what you’re trying to find.

This is true. I asked my LLM.

How the car is going to buzz into my building, take the elevator, and deliver to my front door is beyond me. Technology is amazing!

Like search bars.

If you think of LLMs as a thing to replace search bars then this kind of makes sense.

City.

I want to be able to surround myself with a variety of people and cultures, while also being able to surround myself with the community that makes me feel welcome.

Growing up gay in a rural town that was relatively progressive was still a nightmare, and the town’s best feature for me was the commuter train that took me to the closest big city.

I love having access to basically everything relatively easily and I love having a multitude of options for all the things I have access to. Small towns can’t provide that.

I also hate yards, though gardens are nice.

So yeah, for me while I have found some small towns I could make work, I would always be giving up things that I value to do so. Big cities are the best, and smaller cities can be good, too, but I’m a city boy through and through.

For me the important difference between the two isn’t just a zoning problem, it’s a people problem.

Small towns, like the one I grew up in, even ones that are comparatively progressive, are still a nightmare for anyone who doesn’t fit in with the community norm.

Big cities let people find their community because therefore a lot of different ones to try.

This doesn’t go away with different planning or by fucking cars or whatever the kids are into these days.

It’s all about girth!