I'm leaning towards underdiagnosed personally

I think the best part was after my diagnosis and I told my parents (I was diagnosed as an adult @ 29) they went on a rant about how it wasn't real and my teachers and doctors have been trying to shove pills down my throat since I was a kid. So I guess that was pretty eye opening into why I wasn't diagnosed sooner.

And then promptly get distracted by said random stuff and end up not finishing the job

🌠 ADHD things 🌠

With strict discipline you too can learn this power

Or so I'm told

IDK I just basically had a few days where my focus landed on organizing my DOOM Piles after I took my medication and my watch later list was (luckily) caught in the cross hairs

It also helped that a lot of them were from different hyper obsessions I had over the years that I was no longer obsessed with

Taking steps to prevent it's growth also helped

The amount of ADHD content in my watch later list is astounding, but it makes sense I was recently diagnosed with ADHD

But hey, I recently got my watch later list down under 400 from over 5000 videos

No I didn't watch them all, I purged most of of the list

I had no idea the phenomenon had a name

This is a great write up and honestly seems to describe what's going on quite accurately

Both the communities you list have rules about being civil/not brigading.

"The dunk tank" rules explicitly say you need to link to source and the point of the community is "This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes."

I'd say that's a pretty big difference in purpose of the community.

I feel you on the wanting less political stuff but still wanting to be informed.

Honestly it was the main reason for making multiple accounts on multiple instances for me.

One account subbed to memes, one subbed to news, etc.

I've got a few alt accounts and I'd recommend it so that you can more control news hitting your feed vs memes.

I don't think they mean it like it's written but I could be wrong here.

And if you're curious the uncensored name is the name of one of their admins.

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Edit: And the comment from said admin is still up, with higher up votes than when I screenshot it last night.

Fun fact, there's a tankie version of 196 on Lemmygrad

I know because when browsing all I stumbled onto it

I blocked it when I found it

Fuck tankies

Please utilize the spoiler tag and label these as NSFL

Like this

Honestly I think we should change our banner.

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On the app Jerboa at least it's hard to see that it says fuck tankies, it really should be more clear.

Perhaps having it off to one side, split across both sides, mentioned on both sides, across the bottom 3 times, etc. IDK graphic design is hard.

Does the fact that they have a community dedicated to organizing dogpiling and brigading not bother you?

Does it only bother you that they used it on you?

Personally I don't agree with the decision to stay federated with them given the kind of community they foster. A great example is that the top post on the thread where they announced the rules change that was enough to remain federated a little longer is straight up abuser language.

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I'd recommend checking out the thread and sorting by top to see what the most popular sentiments among the users over there is in regards to other instances.

Don't participate, but it's fairly eye opening.

I do hope that when you run the poll you have a way of ensuring that only people in our community can vote on it because given that they have a community on their instance dedicated to dogpiling and brigading I don't trust them to not interfere with it.

Not to mention they're basically saying, "You should enjoy our abuse and be thankful for it."

Yeah that's straight up abuser language.

And given that they have a community dedicated to organizing dogpiling, I'd say that the admins are complacent in their abuse of others and that's not a community I'd want to be associated with or for us to be seen as associating with.

Edit: I accidentally a word

Hexbear literally has a community for organizing dogpiling and brigading (even Ada mentioned it) and Ada's only problem was when it was used on them and their community†.

That's not behavior that should be condoned by our community.

By not condemning it it makes us look like we support that idea, which could easily lead us to being defederated by choosing to associate with Hexbear still.

I don't want to see our friendly instance get defederated because our admin won't defederate from an openly abusive instance.

Edit: † By community here I mean specifically the meta post, and if it's used in other spaces frequented by queer folk against queer folk.

Yeah I'm a strong supporter of Ukraine in that conflict not just for political reasons.

I know 3 people who's lives have been massively impacted by it; a friend who went home to defend his home who has been unreachable for a year, a friend who lost his whole family less than a month into the conflict, and a friend who now has his parents and younger brothers living with him because they fled Russia when it all kicked off.

To say I have strong opinions about the conflict is a bit of an understatement.

Unfortunately it's how I keep touch with some relatives, but at this point it's going to be pretty easy with the amount I've blocked since they found out.

A genocide being perpetrated by Republicans.

Who can forget these 16 states (blue states) introducing trans refugee bills. Does that look like something republicans would do?

The parties are not the same, there are differences between them.

And the right is currently openly talking about raising the voting age because younger people tend to vote more progressive.

Sure sounds like voting works and has republicans scared.

Obama didn't refuse to seat a justice, he was blocked by Mitch McConnell. Who also blocked every single judge appointment that Obama should have been able to make in the last 2 years of his presidency. And Republicans were talking about leaving that seat open until a Republican won the presidency. This is why trump has the most judicial appointments of any president.

And RBG reduced to retire likely out of pride during the Obama years, but smartly didn't retire during the trump years.

Biden refusing to stack the courts is pretty shitty, but if he does so it's going to open the flood gates for that being a possibility. Do I think he should? Yes. But I also think that if he does so their should be a cap put in place, but to put a cap in place would require a constitutional amendment, and there's no way that will get through our current Senate.