Does just broader vocabulary count? Maybe it's just a rule that everyone sits down with a dictionary every couple of weeks for 30 minutes just opening it to a random page.

Also, more latin phrases. That's cool shit.

Shun the extravert. SHUN!

Seriously, though, I guess it depends on the question. If it's something nuanced and interesting to me that I have an opinion on, I'm likely to launch into an impromptu TED talk and monologue at you until I lose track of time. (God help you if you get me started on whether she exists or not.) If it's something simple like what species of bird that is, you'll get probably the minimum number of words necessary to convey an accurate answer (or "I don't know").

I hate conversation just for conversation's sake, though. There has to be a point to it. And the point can't just be "conversation." What you're talking about feels too much like "small talk" for my taste.

But also, it takes all kinds. You're not bad or invalid for liking small talk. Just... not necessarily my taste. Heh. Go find some other extraverts.

Also, I don't think your opinion is terribly unpopular at least in more western, individualist cultures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw

I joined when it was for students only and quit sometime around 2007. There was a "quit Facebook day" once a year that was for raising awareness about how evil Facebook was even back then. I quit on one of those days. At least that's part of the reason why I quit. Also the only Facebook friend I really interacted with abruptly got extremely fundamentalist Christian and started posting stuff that I couldn't stand to be assaulted with.

Jean-Luc Picard is entirely too classy to snore.

Yeah, it's like prosecuting women for miscarriages. Oh wait.

Yeah, this unfortunately can only be addressed by fully blocking her in every way you can. Phone, social media, everything. Never agree to see/meet her in person even in public. If you run into her in person, say only that you're no longer in a relationship and then walk away and ignore her entirely.

NO

Last time I made a post on Reddit, the automod hid and locked my post for advocating something my post wasn't advocating and then responded to my post saying my post was a duplicate, which it was not. The automod also DM'd me to tell me I would be banned shortly if I didn't take action quickly. I messaged a(n ostensibly) flesh-and-blood mod who agreed with me and unlocked/unhid my post, but by that point, the post was old enough that it wouldn't get any significant amount of responses.

I'm not necessarily entirely against automods, but if we do end up with automods, they definitely need to be more judicious than the ones on Reddit. (And they are, from what I've seen. I don't think I've ever seen that an automod on Lemmy has done something and thought "that automod is out of line."

Maybe just as a rule of thumb, I'm thinking maybe automods shouldn't delete/lock/hide posts. The whole automatically responding saying "your post is a duplicate" is pretty infantalizing as well. But I could certainly see use in an automod that flags any posts for review that mention such-and-such keywords.

And maybe I could even be convinced that automods actually deleting/locking/hiding posts (or even banning users) could be a good thing in some cases as long as they err on the side of false negatives rather than false positives.

Anyway, I guess all that to say that I'm broadly sympathetic to having concerns about automods. Though "it's lazy" isn't really my objection to them. And I don't think talking smack about mods is exactly good PR for your opinion. (The communities I mod are all pretty chill and modding really doesn't take up any significant amount of my time, but I'm all for making mods' jobs easier.)

Both Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez.

I mean, as long as they don't butcher them like they did to, for instance, Ready Player One.