Yep! And it’s about time Lemmy started to realize this. Because for the longest time, Lemmy was in denial about this. In fact, saying what you just said, would get you banned in this sub real quick just last year.

Oh, that’s a good setup!

your cam is sooo much better than my feeder cam

I can’t remember. I bought it on amazon, and it’s solar powered for the cam

Pretty much same thing!

Yep, I have my bird feeder on a thin metal pole, and a squirrel still managed to get up there. So I got an upside down cone thingy, placed on the pole under the bird feeder and he can’t get around that, so it worked. :)

I’m assuming the red one is the male? In birds, the males are more colorful usually, right?

So after some more of watching these two, they may be mates, and maybe even same species? Wing patterns look the same. The fly around together in the trees of my backyard.

They have names now: Harold and Maude.

Idaho, US

I haven’t seen one in these parts before so I was pretty excited to see it. I feel bad that there wasn’t any seed in the feeder when he stopped by! So I loaded up and hope he comes back.

I’m actually terrible at identifying them as well. My birdfeeder has a cam and for a small monthly fee, it can AI identify the birds. But I stopped paying the fee, so now I’m clueless to most birds. lol

But I love the sound of birds in the trees, and it’s fun to see them on cam.

Not sure if these two are buddies, or mates, or what. But they are at my birdfeeder every day many times right beside each other. Red one first, then the other one usually flies in.

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Since karma isn’t tracked,

Some third party apps do track Lemmy downvotes though. And I’ve seen plenty of obnoxious posters bring up someones “downvote count” in conversation–just so they can try to win their argument.

We just need more people posing shit, the fact that one or two users can dominate my feed if they choose to is not ideal.

That’s because so many on Lemmy would rather downvote rather than post anything.

People here are way bigger smug assholes than even Reddit.

Yep, and I am legit shocked about that. I still have a burner reddit account that I go to, and honestly, as much crap as reddit gets, I see way more assholes and ban-happy people here. On reddit someone gets mad at you or your opinion, and they just block you.

Here, a lot of posters who dislike ya will refuse to block you. Instead they’ll follow you and downpost every single post you make. I never had stalkers like that on Reddit.

Like you, I was an early fan. And even tried to talk my gf into getting on Lemmy. The other day, she finally decided to, and I talked her out of it and told her to just stick with Reddit. lol

NOTHING is stopping a conservative from coming here and making cogent, factual arguments, aside from their own fragility.

Except for all the Lemmys saying that no conservatives should be allowed on Lemmy. I have seen conservatives try to ask a question. Then so many immediately jump to calling the poster a sealioning nazi, that they just get run off. Lemmy is one of the more hateful places I have seen.

I’m not conservative by the way, so you all don’t have send me nazi dm’s.

You don’t have to subscribe to political communities if you don’t want to see political discussion.

True but it seems like the majority of Lemmys like attaching anything and everything to something political. I saw some post about a squirrel or something, just chiling in the heat. Supposed to be cute. Immediately devolved into how fat the squirrel looked and how it must be a MAGA squirrel. Then the conversation just devolved into “cheeto man”(stupidist overused Lemmy term ever!) jokes over and over.

Also, Lemmy: why the fuck do you all think saying “cheeto man” is so hilarious? It’s something that 2nd graders would snicker at. Once. And you all say it over and over. WTF?! No wonder you all can’t get girlfriends.

Zoroastrians

Zoroastrians for the win. I never thought I’d see that word mentioned on here!

Votes and vote manipulation are destroying Lemmy.