Where's everyone going? We are right here!

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I think we just have a surprising amount of political staffers in Lemmy. The bulk does seem to be wealthy people living in suburbs. Look at how the biggest groups are people self hosting thousands and thousands of dollars of equipment.

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And Russian and North Korea for some reason

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You don't have to interact with .ml instances, you know?

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Short-form videos, like many things in modern society (e.g. many video games) are essentially just a Skinner Box. You scroll, watch the video, get a hit of pleasure, and then the video automatically replays. That cues you to scroll. Repeat. It's easy to get stuck in that loop, especially if you already are struggling with executive dysfunction and can't find motivation/pleasure in ordinary activities.

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But it's not usually the people running the platform doing that. You can also find instances that go full on 4chan style freeze peach and only delete explicitly illegal stuff, but most of those are probably defederated from the big instances by now.

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How does that work here anyway? Is there a FAQ or something to explain? Do downvoted comments get hidden or pushed down?

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I mean, that's just two different purposes of two different formats.

Short form content is not made to be played in the background while you work, nor is it made for intricate and detailed analysis or essays. It's made to have something occupy your mind during short breaks like toilet or smoke break or while waiting for the bus or something.

Long and short form content don't compete but compliment with each other. If you don't like one or the other, that's totally fine, then you're just not part of the target audience.

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Reddit-tier behavior right here. Because you're just looking at the mod log and attributing every thing ever modded to my entire history of posts.

And it's actually worse over here, because instance admins have access to the history of your up/downvotes, so they can dive even DEEPER and have been caught doing that exact thing.

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In 'Attack on Trans Students,' Federal Judge Strikes Down Biden's Title IX Protections | Common Dreams : transgender

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Would someone transphobic write this?

You weirdo perpetually online Lemmy users always jump to the transphobic conclusion.

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If you think it's contained within one instance then you are the exact type of mark they are after.

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But way to miss the point

Lmao. Talking some irony here. The point was not to analyze all your comments and behavior. The modlog shows you're not being censored, you're just experiencing consequences of breaking community and server rules.

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The amount of people here who will try to convince you that NK is some sort of paradise here is insane.

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Sometimes I don't know if it's propaganda or some inferiority complex because I've seen some propaganda from my country (MX) and if I try to go against it I get downvoted constantly (a lot less since I joined an instance that blocked ml, grad and hex) by people adamant into telling me how they lived here for a while, they have family here or how I am ignorant about that country, like... Bitch, everyone in my family has lived here for 3 generations at least, don't come here to tell me how things work when I have to deal with the consequences of a kakistocracy that keeps shitting on everything.
A lot of the fediverse users just have to be right when it comes to politics... And vaping, don't you dare have questions or doubts about vaping because they get mad.

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Not as far as I can tell. It's really just an indicator "some people thought your comment was dogshit". Whether you take it seriously is up to you.

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Imagine wanting to exist without automatic persecution and being told you are "extremely left"

Lmfao eat shit bitch ️

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Can I get a link to that? Assuming it was recent enough to not be too much of a bother...

(I'm disabled myself and I'd love the opportunity to tear them apart)

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Meh, you're just building an echo chamber. Everyone around is of the same opinion, everything against is downvoted to hell, sometimes bans are handed out.

And you are starting to believe you're normal and you're keeping your space clean of all the "assholes". But instead you're just way too far up your own ass most of the time.

Your downvotes don't hurt. It's just sad that this ambitious project that could've easily replaced reddit, turned into a circle-jerk. The content and opinion-diversity on everything that's reachable from my current instance is approximately /r/antiwork. I could just go back and spend all my days browsing that one sub without any loss. But such pompous name "fediverse".

You got nothing folks. Every community is about USA only and all the top posts are "trump bad", "capitalism bad." Like nothing else exists. You sabotaged yourselves. There's no fediverse. There are 20-40k people chanting together "fuck trump, fuck musk, fuck capitalism". On every instance, in every thread, on every topic.

And you know what, I agree with all three. But even to me you look pathetic. And as my multiple tests confirm, you do not accept any disagreement, and you cannot brin any rational argument to the table, you can only echo.

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The server owners would take care of the content hosted on their server and would need to filter it based on their local laws (to remove CSAM for example, just like current admins need to do), but otherwise this type of decentralization would make the website pretty much a neutral zone that operates outside of specific laws since the people hosting the content (and its backups) could be located all over the world.

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Dont worry, if you put propoganda of opposite polarity together they cancel eachother out. /s

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We should form our own propaganda. Nor as a counterpoint, but as part of a wider dedikerte identity.

But to successfully do this without being grouped together with one of the more mainstream platforms, it will have to be so far removed from established axis' of alignments:

Impossible to place on left vs right.
Impossible to compared with authoritarianism vs democracy
Cannot be tied to a specific geopolitical agenda
cannot align with a specific country's interests

How about this: "Sasquatch did 9/11 to distract us from the fact that Big Farming puts nutrients in our food, and the Dutch lgbtq communities are the only one who can save us"