Sorry, habit of mine, didn’t know Lemmy out of everyone wouldn’t like people being communal with old posts. Found it while looking up the stuff I mentioned to see if it’s area-specific (which it is, the only caveat) and the search engine for some reason has a Lemmy bias.

The idea that a mugshot should be universally unsmiling is a social norm, it’s not a law and I wouldn’t see it like some kind of rule. My psych ward mugshot from the beginning of my dark times is still visible to anyone who looks me up by name, and I am quite thankful I was smiling in it, even if the only reason I was smiling was to try to imply nothing was wrong with me. Smiling is also a form of acknowledgement.

The reason I explained the first part that way is to accommodate to the “debt trap swindle” kind of counter argument that goes contrary to a foreseen sense of “owing”.

Take what the concept of national debt refers to and apply it to a city to city level. Why doesn’t the latter exist mainstream?

I can’t unsee the visual of me trying this now.

Right now my modus operandi is to post once in each community I see that I can provide anything for.

Triangular tomato slices.

In a way I agree. In my experience with Reddit, the closest you’ll get to posting somewhere with zero downvote risk is in r/CasualConversation, and even there, there have been times I’ve had fate handed to me because of some form of bad influence. There was one question where I basically got called a narcissist for, of all things, asking for advice on what makes an apology good, and ended up getting the short end of the karma stick.