I might have to try PieFed. I think this might inspire me to.

I almost left due to the toxicity of the tankie triad but luckily I learned the block features work well.

I think it’s also a lack of tech understanding. I know how easy it is to fork a repo so I get how great the fediverse is with all the services being FOSS and anyone can create an instance. This major benefit makes no sense to someone who doesn’t even know what a git repo is or the difference between free (but you are the product being sold) and FOSS.

We aren’t sure. It’s still a billionaire owned social media. For some reason people are too afraid of the freedom actual decentralized social media gives them and they want a billionaire behind the scenes running everything and coralling them to the correct opinions.

i think they will probably be safe. Trump is in the pocket of tech billionaires and they need cheap labor.

Like I said:

“Maybe these people are too terminally online to attend protests”

So I agree you can’t extrapolate the behavior of society as a whole from what happens on Lemmy, but you can use it to pinpoint outliers.

I was just using the .ml instance as one example to show that “democracy” isn’t as universally unifying as OP thinks.

Will they though? The biggest lemmy instance are a bunch of anti-Democratic pro authoritarian tankies. Maybe these people are too terminally online to attend protests but I don’t think we can just assume Democracy is some universal thing we can rally people behind. As they say, if Republicans can’t win via democracy, they will simply abandon it.

“Self-host” is just a euphemism for “pirate” right? …Right?

Just because we go on as normal doesn’t mean that we are unaware of what’s going on. There’s simply literally nothing of any consequence we can do. And tbh at this point, the union is simply not worth saving. It needs to collapse so new better things can rise from the rubble. We’re simply at that point before the collapse.

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The literal source from that line is from an article titled “Experts, advocates deeply divided on question of ‘genocide’ in Gaza”

So it’s obviously not EVERY respectable expert unless you’re playing fast and loose with the term “respectable”.

no u

Because it’s not a genocide.

What? Logic and reality? That’s not allowed on Lemmy! Israel is literally Hitler but also the holocaust never happened!

/s for the idiots

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