my nightmare is somebody knowing all my unsent comments

Brought to you by: double checking the community before posting.

I've been doing this more recently.

My thing is that during my 15-minutes of toilet time each morning, when my brain is coming to and my mind starts perking up, I either get deeply sentimental for some reason and start commenting some of the most heartfelt and poetic shit, or I think I'm a well-established comedian and start dropping some weird/gross jokes that strangers could easily wind up taking seriously and think I'm a fiend.

The sentimental stuff always goes over well, but the jokes are either overlooked entirely, or they hit and my ego thinks I just performed at Madison Square Garden.

Post then delete. Or, alternatively, post, then refuse to look at the replies for like 3 weeks because you're not sure if they were trash or not

The most powerful force in the world is the one that makes you delete a draft comment hours into writing it because you know with certainly your comment will contain at least one mistake and you'll receive replies from the many people much smarter than you eagerly, dutifully correcting you and never recover from the embarrassment of your comment being revealed as an archetypal instance of the Dunning–Kruger effect and you an imposter.

This way you can be right in your own mind, and no one will question that your sources are The Daily Mail and Stormfront.

My policy is I will respond exactly once if they keep going you're just looking for a fight

Bro I hate when you have a comment halfway typed up, switch to a different app or go back to what you're doing, hit "close all apps" on your phone, then lose everything 😭😭😭😭

Gonna be serious here: 99% of the time If you try to debate me on anything I post: If I can't make a joke out of it, I'm not gonna bother responding. Especially since you're already gonna be debating me on a joke that wasn't supposed to be taken seriously. If it was serious, I would specify.

This infuriates me when I accidentally do it. I maintain a Lemmy client that will save your work as long as you don't hit reload. I'm working on an update that will recover the comment if the network request to submit the comment fails. Sometimes I'm on the fence about posting a comment, but even if I hit cancel my work is still saved.

My problem is that people are still fucking wrong and don't care

All the time. Mostly, it's to help me clarify my own thoughts on the matter, but I can't be arsed to write things out in a way that makes sense to others.

Same, idk why I do that, it just feels that it's not worth it. Makes no sense.

It's a reddit habit. I feel it too.

I wish I had the strength to do this

Wow, I can only do this one comment at a time

Your time is precious. Do not use it to engage with louts.

My version involves not realizing I tried to click submit while I'm behind a VPN, because the app I'm using, Lemmy with VPN looks & feels like a shadowban.

Don't bother. My advice is to examine the vibe of the Lemmy Community you are in, and try to fit in.

Be sycopantic, speak only within the bounds of what a typical member asks, do NOT stick out in any way.

As a former /r Collapse member said, you don't know how evil people really are, follow the gray man principle when interacting with society.