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I just wanted to define the middle mouse button to insert clipboards content - but then I mentioned that #KDE already did that for me! 
What a (certainly widely known) gamechanger! 
And by the way: What a great #distribution KDE is day by day! 
Judging by the tags, is this originally a Mastodon post? Trying to figure out how all this works
@donuts Yes it's a #mastodon post. You got it on #lemmy? 
That's the #fediverse magic! 
the [@] kde [@] [domain name] parts at the bottom of the post body tells a Mastodon server to notify the Lemmy services about the post and Lemmy shows that post as part of the community so subscribers and people browsing all will have the post in their front page feed depending on their sort settings.
@ericjmorey @donuts ...And the other way around works as well by getting the posts from the lemmy account displayed in the mastodon timeline! 
Does KDE not have the middle mouse button paste from the primary selection? I thought the clipboard is distinct from primary selection.
@ericjmorey Oh you're right! Thanks for this clarification!
Wow but that's an even better feature (didn't think that was possible) because for a lot of cases the clipboard is used for primary selections and then it isn't neccessary to take the detour via copy or cut (while you could go that way though) - that's fantastic!
‘Insert the clipboard’s contents’ sounds like a fancy way of saying paste 
Paste from clipboard is different than paste from primary selection
You are correct. Traditional X middle-button behavior is to insert the current selection, from any application. It is distinct from the cilpboard(s), has no “copy” step, and doesn’t work the same as “paste” because it can’t paste over another selection.
Many people don’t notice the difference, though, especially if they’re used to an environment (like Windows) that lacks that functionality. It’s also possible that OP remapped their middle button to paste from the clipboard, although their phrasing makes it seem unlikely.