Ech

I think it’s less “this line is for emergencies” and more “our online process could takes days to get a response, here’s a line to a real human”.

I hate that this meme always implies Trump handed that dude something smart when it was just absolute bullshit.

This is not a comment on you, but I do the same thing and have come to realize it’s at least in part a response to being judged in some way (or feeling judged at least) over things I shared with my family, so now I just don’t share.

If it’s important to you, it might be worth having a conversation about why they are withholding and, if it’s for similar reasons, addressing why they feel that way and assuring them you’ll do your best to keep them from feeling bad about sharing.

Fair enough. Glad you got out!

I gotta ask, why did you never look at third-party options if you found it so miserable?

Several admins made it known that instances without captcha verification were getting bombarded with account verifications (lemmy.world got shut off from their email verification for a bit, even), and enabling captcha solved the issue. That only really happens with bots.

You can also see fairly dead instances getting 10s of thousands of users without any corresponding activity. That’s a pretty big sign there.

The dead can’t say one way or another how they would have felt, and using them as a voiceless weapon is pretty shitty.

What Spez is doing is bad enough on it’s own. There’s no need at all to disrespect the dead like that just to shore up your righteousness.