I am not aiming to convince - much less convert - anyone to anything (this video looks to me like pseudo-Buddhist philosophy), but I enjoyed this piece to mull over and thought I'd share in case you might too:-).

Context: I made a poll on PieFed about the new post flairs (so if you are one of the few hundred people who have a PieFed account, follow that link and answer there). Unfortunately Lemmy has neither polls nor post flairs, so this post is to open up the discussion to the wider Fediverse, or rather the subset of it that encompasses Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, which is called... what exactly?

Is Threadiverse too traumatic & tainted by association with Meta's (all but entirely defunct) Threads? Is The Verse too cool/poetic/nerdy (but niche) to be understood? I highly advise against Lemmyverse bc mainstream normal people are far less tolerant of tankies than we who are here are willing to put up with. Simply listing the software available sometimes is the best option - like the Interstellar app supports all of Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, but most support at best 1 or 2 of those - but usually is too long to say and does not roll off the tongue, plus will just keep growing as time goes on. Is Forumverse thus the least bad of the available options, or perhaps you have a better idea? 💡

Anyway, the start to a listing:

1. Threadiverse
2. Forumverse
3. (The) Verse
4. Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed
5. Something else?

- source for image

(Not my OC, so thought I'd share, if it works despite the defederation)

Not my OC, nor even current, but I hope it makes you smile nonetheless

(not my OC nor my OP, just helping spread the message around:-)

It's kinda damn cool no matter what! 😎

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/413830

(the top image is a screenshot of a post that was on Lemmy, but then it was removed.)

For me it was only 2 out of at least 3, if I count "hear about" as being more than a casual mention (I wanted the title to be shorter but I actually mean looking up as in reading an article about, to find who / what / why / etc.), and if I ignore the cache of explosives found in Virginia.

For context, the three that I mean were: the driver in New Orleans, the truck explosion in Las Vegas, and the shooting in New York. (Edit: people are saying that the last one is not strictly speaking related to terrorism, at least that we know of. A better title for this post would have been "violent" rather than "terrorist" events.)

Damn, we sure live in "interesting" times! 🙄

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/6234778

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23669729

(not my OP, just trying to help add content to the community and increase awareness of other communities as well - i.e. follow the cross-posting trail for even moar fun:-P)

(not my OC, just reposting so this community sees it too)