The Little Internets That Could

I like this one.

Threadiverse is a terrible name, the most immediate word association is Threads, ostensibly a large corporate competitor, and the most immediate search result is a geeky/nerdy tshirt/merch company.

Better names?

Fuck uh… I dunno.

Lemmyverse

Lemmy and Friends

Reddit Asylum Seekers Club (RASCL?)

The front page of Web 4.0

Fediverse’s Fractious Forums

???

The original post was a 5 panel comic, as stated, with two people in a relationship talking to each other like 5 year olds, hat ended on one of the characters saying ‘what have we come to?’ so … maybe its the comic author’s story, in some sense, but it wasn’t like a lemmy user just directly posting their own picture with an attached personal story about why it was meaningful.

But I wasn’t mocking anything.

I have known people that have been in relationships like that, I’ve known they’ve both come from shitty family situations beforehand, I’ve had each person in the relationship either ask me for advice or at least complain or commiserate with me about how their relationship devolves from the cutesy stage into the codependent stage, and then collapses into mutual resentment, massive drama and despair.

I’ve known many different couples and individuals where their relationships have played out like that.

My comments were not meant to be mocking, as I said in the other, subsequent post that is captured in the modlog pics, that I am entirely serious, that you can interpret my initial read of the comic as a PSA style warning for how to look out for relationship dynamic red flags.

I really don’t see how this can be interpreted as mockery, or being intentionally edgy for the sake of edginess, as PugJesus seems to think it was.

I am completely serious, intending to inform, not mock, not insult.

I get now that the community is literally intended to be a hugbox, but I don’t think that giving psychologically based relationship advice is abusive…

Would be neat if there was actually a rule that stated ‘this is a hugbox, be nice, don’t be negative.’

Being cold and realistic isn’t positice and cheerful… but it also isn’t abusive.

Had the post actually been a person’s personal story, obviously yes, it would have been needlessly cruel to just jump right into a completely deadpan analysis like that.

But it wasn’t. It was a comic.

Did… anyone actually go to hyperlink of the post I put into this post?

https://lemm.ee/post/56734338

I mean, I could be wrong, but I don’t think Bubs, the only moderator and main person who posts in this community, and mainly posts Sarah Andersen quick comics… is Sarah Andersen.