They have been blocking my VPN provider for over a year now, demanding a log-in. Sometimes a link accidentally takes me there, so occasionally I get to confirm they are still blocking it. Not that I really care, I can find the info elsewhere, or if I cannot, I do not need it.

What the fuck, that was the cringiest shit I have seen for a long while. I want to thank you stranger, but I also do not, since you exposed me to that! Lmao.

It’s refreshing to have someone point out things instead of just downboating you.

This is essentially, why I try to do it. I think there would be a lot less miscommunication, and overall better discussion athmosphere, if people just stopped to say, “hey, you sound like [this], maybe you did not mean it”, instead of just downvoting - or worse, starting to hurl insults around. Nobody learns a thing, if there is no good feedback given. I know this sometimes just pisses people off, but I think it is still worth to try. Sometimes I get discussions like this one, afterall!

And I think I understand, what you mean with the difficulty, of conveying an unordinary life. I like to keep things more private here, but every time I explain the downward spiral of unfortunate things, and new and new chronic illnesses, my life has been so far, to someone, it sounds like a bad sitcom…

I like lemmy too, since I can have interactions like this, where there is communication failure, but we can figure it out. Keep writing, it is not selfish! There are always people like me, who enjoy reading the comments :)

Yeah, no, I did not mean to imply you did not do all that, that is a communication failure on my part. Just pointing out, that your wording about not bragging, made your message read as something else, than what you likely meant. Unintentionally failing at communication is a big issue online, and I often try to point out, where the miscommunication happened, so that can be avoided in the future. That does not save me too, from failing from time to time, though.

I don’t like to brag

Hey now, no need to lie. If you had said it while appearing more honest, something like “I wanna brag, because I have put so much effort into this”, you might have gotten a better response. Now it just sounds like, you are bragging, and also a liar.

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Only secretly!