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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • My dental hygienist told me that the best tools for cleaning your gums are wooden toothpicks.

    the second best are the interdental cleaners.

    The worst are the plastic toothpicks and the dental floss.

    I’ve been using a combination of the wooden toothpicks and interdental cleaners for a few years and they are game changing.

    Also use a good electric toothbrush and an tongue scraper.

    An electric toothbrush gets into the places in between your teeth that a normal brush can’t get to and an tongue scraper is a game changer for the smell of your breathe overall.

    Take good care of your teeth and gums. Brush 2 times a day, clean your gums at least 1 time a day and scrape your tongue.

    Bad dental hygiene and no gum cleaning whatsoever will lead to receding gums and may lead in extreme cases to periodontitis .

    Receding gums are a real thing and when they happen they DO NOT grow back. Your roots of your teeth will be exposed which are a pain in the ass itself.

    Bad dental hygiene and no gum cleaning will also lead to deeper “gum pockets” which can lead to periodontitis. Look up what that means for your teeth and gums and you will start taking care of your mouth flora like a possessed being.

    I am not a dentist of any kind, a few years ago I just really took an interest in dental health and tried to educate myself about the subject for a few weeks.

    Correct me where I am wrong or if you want to elaborate on something, be my guest ;)!



  • It is Random chance.

    I have read your comments;

    “I think it’s probably doomed. It’ll never overtake reddit. But, it’ll be a nice, quiet, alternative.”

    No one knows if it is doomed.

    You have to start somewhere but you can’t expect a platform that has seen an huge influx of users the past weeks to immediately operate on the scale of what Reddit does.

    “I humbly apologize for my personal, speculative, opinion about the unknowable future. The downvotes have made me realize my math was wrong, my opinion is wrong, and I am wrong. My corrected opinion is that Lemmy will overtake Meta, Mastadon, Twitter, and Google (wtf is reddit!?), and every upvote will be worth $1000, making everyone rich! Or, we can have fun guessing, and wait and see how things go. I hope they go well!”

    Who is claiming the above?

    The fun thing is that Mastodon is in your list and before the fuckery with Twitter it didn’t really have traction.

    Why can’t lemmy/Kbin be the same in a year from now?

    The problem for Reddit, is that it made people actually look for alternatives. It is stupid for a competitor to make it’s customers aware of the competition, but Reddit did exactly that.

    Maybe it flops, maybe it stays “niche”, maybe it explodes in popularity.

    I think it is indeed random chance and just being at the right place at the right time.


  • Should we care that other people still use reddit?

    Do you have to chose one or the other?

    Why are people so hell bent to “take over” Reddit?

    I found an alternative in Kbin and Lemmy that suits my needs and focuses on user experience and growing communities instead of growing the pockets of a handful of people.

    I decide to not use Reddit anymore because the upper echelon can go fuck themselves.

    Is it so weird to have a set of values and stop using a service/product, because they cross the boundaries one has set for themselves?

    I have used Reddit for more than a decade and I haven’t missed it all.

    I am here because I enjoy it and not because I have a deeper desire for Reddit to evaporate out of nowhere.










  • The word here is indeed supplementing!

    I like that I see the disclaimer about it being an addition and not an replacement more and more on the products that you can buy like protein shakes, protein bars and such.

    They should be an addition to your meals/diet and not an replacement.

    Of course there is no harm in replacing 1 meal a day for a shake or such if one feels like it but all meals is not gonna help in the long run and isn’t giving enough variety in your nutrition.

    But indeed like you said, they are good as supplements!





  • “I regularly get called a power-hungry mod by the crybabies who get angry when they aren’t allowed to break the very clearly stated rules, and repeat their offenses after getting first, sometimes second warnings. They run to other places and go try to stir up other crybabies to come and cause the same kind of trouble.”

    Isn’t there something about this in the rules/code of conduct or something?

    I’ve seen the vitrol that mods get called on the daily.

    Why isn’t Reddit taking concrete action against this?

    I see it as Reddits obligation to educate the community about moderators and what they do on the daily.

    It is in their best interest to of course not do the above because otherwise moderators may actually feel like an important part of the eco system.

    And Reddit would not like that.


  • “Do you think Reddit cares? Honestly.”

    My post says what I think. Of course they don’t they haven’t cared for the better part of 8 years. It’s why I ran PDS and stopped with using Reddit as of this week.

    “But there are people who need these little rest stops. They need a place to post a picture of their Mickey Mouse balloon, or their engagement photo in front of the castle, or their debate about what on earth the writing on some poster says. It makes them happy and there’s a whole blossoming community there, of happy people in a safe space.”

    You know that Reddit will use this as leverage whenever they can right?

    “We’re just some stupid, terminally-online folks who need to touch grass. Doing unpaid labor for an abusive place that doesn’t care. All to make some little virtual people on the other side of a box (who also hate us) happy.”

    Why would you even talk about yourself like that?

    If it wasn’t clear I am hardcore in the moderator camp.

    I would not be a moderator even if you would glue me to a chair and threaten me to mod or I would be forced to watch every season of seinfeld in that same chair. I absolutely despise seinfeld.

    You are literally the gateway between the community and Reddits pockets. Why do you think that Facebook pays a buttload of cash for their moderators.

    I come of as harsh maybe, but for some reason I feel like I care more for the moderators then the moderators do for themselves.

    You should be proud of the work you do and the shit you take on the daily.

    Sorry if I come on strong, but believe me it isn’t to dunk on you or the moderators in any way, shape or form.

    I am probably way to invested in this part of the saga so I will stop posting about this part at all.


  • I show enough consideration because of my post where I go deeper into the whole situation. I also used to be a part of the communities in Reddit.

    You are missing my point.

    If you really want change you should know what that would entice and what that would bring.

    If you just wanted to posture and get brownie points then the 48 hour blackout was perfect for doing something without actually doing something.

    But humeur me; How is this beneficial for the community in the long term?

    What has Reddit shown that it cared about its communities and moderators over the years?

    It does prove Steves point though; It all will blow over and people will bend the knee.

    The motives of the community and Reddit do not align in the slightest.