We need enough people to agree on both a vehicle and a direction.

• There are a lot of people dissatisfied with the current government(s) but don’t agree how to create change; be it through the current system, major modifications to the current system, or even more severe changes.

• There are a lot of people who don’t want wide spread poverty/suffering, but don’t agree on how that problem should be dealt with; be it through universal income, massive public projects, or wealth taxation and better competition regulations.

IMO we need a new digital/decentralized/open-source/transparent ‘social media platform’ that can replace the current easily manipulated electoral systems.

We need ideas & policies to be independently actionable from the partisan politics that afaic specifically exist to mitigate change and maintain the influence of money in policy.

Yup. They just got their satire lessons from the same place as Babylon Bee.

Its worth noting that they had completed “15 to 20 contracts previously” and that they had negotiated previous contracts via text message. This process became the norm during the pandemic.

In other words it’s within this context that made it agreement… not that thumbs ups can universally be used to agree to contracts.

Dunno lol

But one way or another the fedverse is going to be funded by its users/instance-admins.

I think the awards got out of hand on reddit… but having 1-5 on lemmy would be a fun way to incentivize donations.

Plus I do think the sort by gilded was useful in combination with viewing just the comments of a sub/com.

modern society

You mean theocrats, aka christo-fascists and neo-christo-fascists.

Almost every single problem with society today is because of outdated social constructs and the religious tenants that enforced them overstaying their welcome while humanity continues to evolve.

Yup. This is clearly exampled in the generally negative attitude towards reddit awards aka their only real revenue stream afaik.

“If you run a company based on the goodwill of millions of volunteer users, contributors, and moderators, one of your top priorities should probably be to focus on making them happy.”

Holy fuck this is an old picture lol

Yo so I like/agree with your post but NGL the title is off putting. I ran your post through GPT and it spit this out.

“Unveiling the Power of Federated Universes: Rethinking Digital Autonomy”

Yea I think bot posting and rehosting content from reddit has served its purpose but come July should be dialed down significantly.

Even if it isn’t reddit content, bot posting should be restricted. There are niche examples where it’s beneficial. Eg, Daily Stock Tickers, Geolocal weather, or weekly Q&A threads, but those are clearly different than just content aggregation.

Comment bots also provide value. I agree grammar/etc bots are annoying but as long as people can easily block/delete their comments its okay. Prequel memes chat bots were hilarious and if a community wants them they should be allowed.

People are what makes internet forums fun. Keeping lemmy.world a space for human interactions is important.

I’m told the newest version 0.18 has more sort options but they haven’t been able to successfully update lemmy.world

They want to bully people. They’re only able to feel better about themselves by making themselves feel superior. This is why when they rely on culture wars because as soon as they don’t have an enemy to hold their attention they all turn on each other out of necessity.

Explains a lot. I never saw the appeal but I am not a racist.

the complaints aren’t really about fascism but are actually complaints about right-wing authoritarianism or even political conservatism in general

You keep splitting hairs like that and your chin gonna be bald to buddy.

FYI fascism doesn’t come from a genie in a bottle… its born from authoritarianism and bigotry. Maybe you should take a break from the internet and let those brain cells grow back so that your ancestors don’t have to rise from the dead and slap some sense into you lol

I wasn’t fed up with reddit enough back then to stick with voat. IIRC it literally was a reddit clone just with 1% of the content.

First, thank you.

Second, you guys are ON TOP OF IT!!! Excellent work, you guys are amazing!

Third,

Surprisingly nobody here was interested so now we deleted them completely

HAHHAHAHAH so you saw my comment???

“FYI nobody is interested go back to reddit”

Holy shit… either that was in the last 10 hours or my lemmy was lagging.

Props to the admins/mods!

NGL part of me wanted the banned mod (OptionHome I think) to stay and be our community laughing stock.

brilliant.

The unilateral rejection of right wing antics gives me hope for humanity. Not just that lemmy admins are willing to take a stand… but that the entire community here is downvoting them and not letting them thrive anywhere.

When I joined a week ago, the founder of c/conservative had already been run out of his own community and created c/conservativesonly… which he was subsequently run out of a second time and forced to make a new account to mod it.

In a weird way… lemmy might be the proof of concept we needed that democracy can beat fascism.

I get the inclination to want admins to ban them… but not only is that unnecessary (at this point in time!) it’s also a far, far weaker rebuke than the entire community refusing to let them trend.

We saw how on reddit, banning subs simply resulted in them making new ones.

At least on lemmy there is visible evidence that no matter what they call their community it will be rejected by the lemmy community as a whole.

At least here’s hoping!