This actually isn’t a terrible idea.

The pirate voice in my head nearly ran out of breath singing the post title.

Thank you for the kind words <3

I think it’s definitely had the positive effects that you mention. People are far less cruel, more understanding, and also WAY more willing to go seek help with these types of problems than they used to be.

The negative effect is that anytime something becomes romanticized, it’s human nature for people to adopt it as an identity, which introduces a lot of noise to the conversation, and we lose some of our objectivity toward it, as now there’s an emotional attachment to the label itself. For example:

• Back in the day (early 2010s?) of tumblr, when people first started collecting mental health labels like personal trading cards.
• Or now, with the plethora of pseudoscientific misinformation about mental health on tiktok: random people are just making up terms or symptoms and pitching them in a nearly universally relatable way like horoscopes.
• If you offer people a label that makes them feel part of a group, supported, and potentially explain why a bunch of things in their life are hard, it’s in our nature to gravitate toward that.

All that being said, I still think it’s a net-positive effect. This is just what happens anytime something clinical enters the mainstream conversation.

Absolutely. People want there to be a fair trade-off, but life just doesn’t work that way. I’ve seen similar romanticization of autism too, especially with the “savants”.

Oh yeah, he’s long gone. Only the reincarnated Jimmy Buffett can unite the Long Empire.

How did someone who was in bed for 3 weeks contract this, I wonder?

I stole this, and reverse image search isn’t being helpful…

You try your best to make it feel like one of those luxurious Norwegian prisons.

I think it’s much less intimidating to new users now compared to when I joined last year. The barrier to entry has been reduced significantly.

There are tons of active communities now, mobile apps that work great (this is a big one), and many more tools to block content that you don’t want to see.

I feel this one hard.

In my mind, before I can play a game, I need to have lots of time, nothing else that I’m doing later, and the perfect amount of energy to really concentrate on it. Unfortunately, life has gotten busy, so I’m trying to get more comfortable playing for 20min here, 20min there instead of scrolling on my phone.

Public opinion seems to be souring on all the big corporate social media sites, and I truly think if we’re able to get the word out about federated social media platforms, people will jump ship.

Also, it’s hard to dislike a platform that isn’t showing ads, selling user data, or generally making decisions for the enrichment of shareholders.

The app devs didn’t expect this kind of problem, haha.

Ah, gotcha. It went right over my head… whoops. Lol

…is it a repost? I scrolled back a bit and didn’t see it.

(edit: oh wait, did you mean the original original post, like he’s stuck in a fish bowl?)

Let’s hear some good tinfoil hat theories!

I’ll start. Maybe one of the LLM/AI companies are trying to bypass newly implemented barrers to training data by using the archive, and it’s totally overwhelming their servers?

For anyone who sees this as an (understandably) confusing thing for someone to post, it’s a meta joke on /c/lemmyshitpost at the moment. Just trying to get ahead of any more reports.

Context:

There it is!

No respect, no respect.