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lennybird Sep 17, 2025

Follow-up to this question after seeing many responses: What is your default mode for self-doubt when engaging in discussions?

That is, no matter how confident you may be in something, do you maintain an open door, or are your beliefs you block over completely set in stone?

For me, little terrifies me more than becoming the thing I hate; to be clouded by my own cognitive bias; to inadvertently throw myself into an echo-chamber of self-validation. As such I try my best to always maintain at least the slightest bit of doubt in even my strongest beliefs, and to that end to at least let dialogue challenging that come through.

lennybird Sep 17, 2025

Why is blocking so common nowadays?

https://lemmy.world/post/36058150

Why is blocking so common nowadays? - Lemmy.World

There may be an age or generational explanation for this, but I especially notice this behavior on Reddit while not nearly as much here on Lemmy (though maybe that’s also a mater of implementation). It seems many are so quick to assert overly-confident positions, but then hit-and-run with some smarmy remark at even the slightest challenge, then quickly block. Like, not even crazy stuff. Just basic, civil disagreements. I can pretty well predict when it will happen, and it always feels like such a petty ego-sparing fingers-in-ears denial thing to do, and to me if anything shows they were not very confident in their views being challenged. I think I’ve only blocked a handful of people over a decade who were actively spamming, stalking, or spewing extremely hateful rhetoric and I just reported them simultaneously. You have to cross a pretty extreme and irrational line for me to do that.

lennybird Sep 12, 2025

What P2P intranet(?) mesh services are there?

https://lemmy.world/post/35817592

What P2P intranet(?) mesh services are there? - Lemmy.World

I recall reading about what I thought was an open source peer-to-peer https system intended to link neighborhood routers and relay nodes to other cities via satellite. I can’t seem to find the one I’m thinking of.

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lennybird Sep 4, 2024

Yo some deleted their comments presumably because you’re millennial, GenX, whatever — I still find your comments interesting!

lennybird Sep 4, 2024

For younger generations, what was it like growing up with the internet?

https://lemmy.world/post/19410433

For younger generations, what was it like growing up with the internet? - Lemmy.World

I guess I’m curious about generations (namely GenZ and Alpha) who didn’t live in a pre-Internet time. Like, - How was the concept first explained to you, or when did it click? - Do you understand how insane it is to have the aggregate of all human knowledge — the only comparable thing once being a physical library or university — one search away? That it’s absolutely insane you can engage in a real-time conversation with someone on the opposite side of the world? That you can find niche communities in an instant? - Were your parents super strict about internet usage? How quickly did you find workarounds?