For now, I have removed my edit since there is a lot of shit going on now with this and there might be a chance of a resolution, even though I’m feeling somewhat down in the dumps.

After reading through this thread, I want to mention that I’m feeling the same way as you and with the amount of politics and uncomfortable discussions I’m seeing, I find that I prefer to go find discussions that are more relaxing instead. This also kind of also reminds me of the ideas of a community which I’m not able to think of what to call it, or I would probably have created it already. Someone did give me an explanation in DM that I think fits it, but still not sure what to call it.

I have been finding myself uncomfortable with a lot of things posted in politics, News, Global News, and some in Not The Onion, Memes. I’m also finding myself not wanting to look inside the technology community because I’m not interested in the latest and the greatest shit since it feels like we are heading for a disaster. Right now, I’m just thinking of ideas on what can be done to make it better, block a lot of the negative stuff out, and focus on getting back into a more peaceful wilderness-like area.

I ended up reporting and blocking them after a few people had told me that its a scam.

I think the next Lemmy Shitpost on this should be something on US Republicrazy due to the direction this election went.

I’m going to do quotes of your response with my replies again here.

I have read your response, and now I have a better understanding of what you meant in your first post. The concerns that you shared with us are all valid. My response is still the same… I fear that we lack the spiritual and mental capacity to deal with it.

It is good you have a better understanding of what I mean here because they concerns I’m sharing here are all valid, and I felt that I wanted to open discussion here on my thoughts since it seems to already be effecting our spirituality.

AI, like any other piece of technology is only a tool. It is greed through corruption that tries to convince us to fight some imaginary evil, and our predictable response eventually makes it a real one. A self fulfilling prophecy. Tools don’t create discrimination, division and conflict. Lack of spiritual and mental capacity does.

Well, its more like AI is becoming a threat of serious job displacement and fueling corruption and greed. I tend to wonder who or what interests are we fueling by using these AI tools and technology even though I feel like they might be a part of what is causing discrimination, division, and conflict.

This old, rigid social economic system that supports only the rule of brute power comes from this self fueling circle, and in the end always leaves us to fend for ourselves. Our inability to cope with the pain that comes from our ignorance has bent enough will to create this horrific state of tension where those who have the chance to save themselves by sacrificing others will do so using any means necessary, using the hopeless to do their bidding, staying undetected, while we sacrifice the scapegoat in anger, create more hopelessness to fuel the repetition, and getting congratulations for being good dogs. To them it is “either them or us”, which thanks to our ineptitude holds true. Some are blissfully unaware of any danger, but many are either crestfallen, overdosing on cynicism or standing paralyzed in a pool of doom. If you think your story can inspire someone to recognize our shortcomings and act responsibly, then go ahead.

Actually, what my original intentions here is to see where my valid concerns that I’m sharing would fit or if I’m going to need to design a new community for this, even though the story I’m currently writing is part of it. As for the video series that I’m also preparing to work on, I’m currently not sure where that would be getting uploaded since YouTube is going to shit lately with blocking Invidious and shit going down.

I decided to do quotes of your response here with my reply as there might be a little confusion going on and I’m just trying to be as clear as possible with my thoughts here.

It is a common effect of being more aware giving us the feeling that the situation has become worse. Medieval times aren’t all that romantic and mysterious as one could think. Information was scarce, societies were more disconnected and it was much easier for sadistic psychopaths to act on their impulse without facing immediate justice.

Well, I do feel and maybe I’m becoming much more aware of the situation with certain technologies becoming worse. The only times I was referring to medieval times was with the story writing that I’m doing while trying to keep my mind off of worrying things, and I have not exactly gotten that far yet with my story writing. When I do begin to get that far, it will not be anything like what actually took place back in the year 1024 or earlier since it will hopefully be a depiction of a place I have in mind.

We are not up against technological achievements of very talented and intelligent people. AI is a powerful tool, and can very well be used to perpetuate discrimination, division and conflict. However you wouldn’t blame the knife for the murder. The solution is not the destruction of technology. The path of salvation lies in the spiritual and mental growth beyond the prison that is constantly being built around us, whether we have technology or not.

I’m somewhat confused there as I feel that certain technological achievements isn’t benefiting anyone at this point, other than leading to the degrading of stuff as well as possibly discrimination, division, and conflict being caused by it. I feel even the surveillance state that is happening is leading to similar issues. The solution may or may not be the destruction of technology in my opinion, but to cut down on a lot of technology due to what it is doing to us.

You could say that is cruel that we are forced to move towards enlightenment in order to not end in absolute misery of this unforgiving world. Luckily there are as many ways to reach it as there are colors. Green is a nice color. Don’t be afraid to grow, but always remember your heart.

Yes, green is not only a nice color, but it reminds me of the deep peaceful forest where I feel the most comfortable in at times, and here I’m just trying to open discussion on ideas I’m working or focusing on and find out whether or not I need to start a new community for them.

Yeah, my topic is basically about ideas on how to deal with our current environment and projects that can help with this including venturing into the woods to reconnect with them, but also some other things that are included such as medieval fantasy based story writing, a video series project which takes place mostly in the woods and can include a scavenger hunt to search for and find a number of certain things, etc. which would be much better for young people than staying indoors and constantly on tablets and phones. This can also help reconnect with natural magics and show things that are on the verge of becoming forgotten in favor of thinking that the next best thing is better, when that may not be the case as it leads to enshittification, such as the degradation which can be seen via remakes of Cartoon and TV Series, the increase in pollution, and internet sites that are going to shit with so many ads an enshittification.

My aim is to hopefully open and encourage discussion on this and about how it might be better to move away from a number of technologies and find happiness being outside, in the wilderness, and mystical places, and to look at what certain kinds of technologies may be doing to us, what needs to be rejected to regain happiness, and also what or who we are fueling by being lured into getting the next best technical thing that hits the market and where their interest lies, and are they trustworthy or are they very greedy. The idea is basically like looking at things that existed decades or longer ago that are becoming forgotten, what did we walk away from while being lured into something else we think is better when it might not be, and what feels like would be a good idea to bring back into the mainstream.

Anyway, I did take a look in !simpleliving@lemmy.ml and I’m not one-hundred percent about that being the right place for this. Probably would need to check with @inasaba@lemmy.ml about that, even though this currently has me thinking a new community may need to be made for it.

Hi, I did think about posting it to !casualconversation@lemm.ee before I posted here, but I was afraid there might be a risk of it becoming seen as a controversial topic such as becoming a political or a societal debate and didn’t want to risk being in violation of that rule over there. If you think I’m not going to be, I can post this topic over there to try to encourage discussion on it.

I had finally gotten this response from Rooki at Lemmy.World which suggests I’m going to be needing help in finding a workaround here, if anyone can help me out.

Hi,

sadly there is no “Whitelist” or some sort for this, so we can not really do much about this for now.

Here is the repository if you want to track its progress / request such feature: https://github.com/db0/fedi-safety

With regards, Rooki

Oh, the link to my community is !koalawallawoods@lemmy.world.

You are lucky the cop didn’t get out of their car, come to your driver’s side window, and point a gun at you yelling, “GET OUT OF THE F***ING CAR NOW! YOU ARE UNDER ARREST FOR RECKLESS VEHICLE REVERSING AND DAMAGE TO POLICE PROPERTY!”, while preparing the open the door or smash the window in to pull you out by force and drag you down to the ground to arrest you.

And don’t forget to filter „xitter“ as that is probably also recommended.

Yeah, I’m already thinking I may have to create a list of every non-profit organization that is currently sending me e-mails and post it either here or perhaps in Casual Conversation. I feel that getting over 200 e-mails a day has become way too much and I could use assistance with finding out which ones I should have been filtering into the trash. I had thought about if it should go under political, but that community has a rule that all posts need to be links to articles. I think the reason the amount of emails I get had gotten this crazy is because we are in a major election year, and I really need to switch focus more on koala conservation stuff and my story writing.

@Mistral@lemmings.world What do you get when you cross a Lemming with a Redditor?

Posting here because of the privacy implications of all this, but I wonder if at some point there should be an “Enshittification” community :-)

There is, its called !enshittification@lemmy.world

Now let’s look at Office. Open an Excel spreadsheet with tables in any app other than excel. Tables are something that’s just a given in excel, takes 10 seconds to setup, and you get automatic sorting and filtering, with near-zero effort. No, I’m not setting up a DB in an open-source competitor to Access. That’s just too much effort for simple sorting and filtering tasks, and isn’t realistically shareable with other people.

Oh you can take a look at LibreOffice instead which is open source and open an Excel spreadsheet with tables in LibreOffice Calc and see how it is there.

There are a few alternatives to Windows out there at this time, if you were to look into React OS and Great Tea OS to see what those are about.

Well, here, I had clouds that had gotten in the way of the eclipse on Monday, even though it had gotten to a sliver of sun left before the moon moved away. I was able to see that there was dim sunlight here when there was a break in the clouds and seem mysterious in a way to me.

Sounds like its a case of Enshittification happening to that once useful website.

Well then, you will hopefully find koalaty discussions in !koalawallawoods@lemmy.world as I have been working on that community.