My mental health was actually beginning to improve in 2018 and 19, with the pandemic decimating any progress I had made up to that point.

Hello welcome to the internet, having the collective maturity of an 8 year old boy since 1998.

Me: I know, I’ll choose…

Linux community: WRONG!!!

From what I’ve seen from experimenting, the only accounts that seem to have weight on each other on lemmy are my lemmy and kbin accounts. There is definitely room for abuse if I were to make many lemmy accounts accross different instances, which I have seen people abuse, especially on lemmy’s version of r/place.

I get maybe 2 upvotes at most, and even then I don’t usually upvote my own content because it’s unsatisfactory. Upvotes tell me people are engaging with my content and like what they see. It does me no good if I know it’s just me. The only time I’ve ever upvoted my own content is on very small communities where no one on would ever see the content otherwise.

I try to be ethical with my interactions with fediverse, but I definitely see the room for abuse.

No arguments here.

What we don’t realize is the guy in the center drank a lot of Powerade, and is relieving himself in the lemonade pool.

The year is 20XX. The only way to comfortably post a picture of yourself online is to shop your eyes onto a black bar.