A lot of the comments so far are trying to stay with the negative connotation to exploitation. You exploit your comfortable shoes to walk further each day. You exploit the microwave oven’s ability to more quickly warm your coffee than the stove.

This is the same with discrimination. You choose the raspberry danish over the cheese danish. This is you practicing discrimination, and it’s fine.

Any evil in it comes from abuse or impact to yourself with respect to others, that second definition of exploitation in the OP.

Yes. When somebody else has a better take and I want it to be the top comment, I will downvote mine.

Barbershop quartet singing (ala The Barbershop Harmony Society). Instant friends and such satisfaction to hear yourself lending a note into four-part chords. (It’s the basis of my username.)

Working out with weights

Unfortunately, I’m finding Lemmy 2023 just as shallow as Reddit 2023.

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Lemmy.world announces blocking communities via Discord

I can’t even verify if this was posted on their site.

• Discord is currently up. It’s usually up.
• https://lemmy.world/ is currently down. (Cloudflare - bad gateway.) It’s often down.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending (perhaps with a long tail). Perhaps the only wrong thing is that we forgot about that. All of these Internet services tend to have a long tail, most of everything we remember once using is still around in some form barely being used but for a tiny and loyal user base that is still hanging in there for some reason.

None of these things were great in and of themselves, it was always the community.

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How have I been on Reddit for 15+ years, totally aware of Reddiquette, and never saw that video? Thanks!