Binette

sorry about that. must've sucked a bunch :/

stay safe <3

for real. During covid, I didn't get sick once, and that was heavenly cause when I get sick, it runs for weeks and get really really bad. I thought that wearing masks when sick would be the norm now, but whatever

The rule 2 refers to the rule 2 of the instance, not the community, which is:

Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.

The part you decided to show in the modlog is also a little deceptive. Here is the missing part:

"BoTh SiDeS!" EDIT lol, the instant downvote from OP.

Screw you for making me remember XD

I can recognize a song with just a snippet playing. My piano teacher was apparently surprised by that.

The catch is I never remember the names, just the melody/bass 😅

having this juice at home feels surreal

I was about to write that too lol. I understand

there's also plume: https://joinplu.me/

too late, it's blocked ;-;

Not the reddit-like comment lmao block me too

shhhh! They haven't finished building their strawman

I'm not sure if I've properly explored the idea, but a specific "digital culture" would help a lot. Inside jokes, ways of speaking, emojis, memes, etc. really help an instance to distinguish itself from others.

The best example is Hexbear (ik but just hear me out for a second). Their culture is borrowed from the edgier side of the leftist internet, but they still have a style of their own. They were so recogniseable even, that a user claimed to be scared of seeing pronouns next to someone's username because they knew it would be a comment from Hexbear (they used to be the only instance with such features, before others followed suit).

I have a hypothesis that a good amount of issolation, or at least encouraging users to only post on communities on your instance, would be good for developping some kind of culture, maybe even kinship between them.