Where's everyone going? We are right here!

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I believe Pixelfed Loops is the only one currently, it's actually not half bad, apart from how barebones and stuttery the app is, which isn't a big deal since the issues are only occasional.

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Dude. The Russian propaganda flows freely around here.

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Even for people, who are not Leninist/Stalinist or similar, it is noticeable.

From my perspective (being not from the US) us-american arrogance is very present on lemmy.

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We got https://loops.video/ right?

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Both, but there was definitely blatant astroturfing after Biden withdrew and Kamala became the nominee.

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My god, where will the centrists turn to without lemmy

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That's so sad. Anyway

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Downvotes hurt, I get it. But remember, it's only an attempt to remind you you're an asshole. It's up to you whether you believe them or not.

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I see a lot of Chinese propaganda as well

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That wouldn't work that well, especially when you take law into regard. For example, the european Digital Services Act regulates platforms and platforms have to respond to obligations, sometimes deleting content. Communities are not platforms, instances are. Ergo, you need instance admins be able to comply and respond to the DSA.

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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.