It looks like the Flotilla that is allying itself hard with the Triad is also becoming problematic. e.g. it seems to either be initiating walling itself off from other instances or at least strongly okay to have that happen to it, playing up the “victim” angle heavily (despite every shot having been fired so far being initiated by them, afaict).

I wonder what term this will eventually be called - like maybe Triad+? :-P Regardless, it’s so sad to see hexbear leaking, that is always the problem with the Paradox of Intolerance. 😓🙃

The Threadiverse seems poised to split into two factions based on whether people are pro-murder enough for others’ tastes. e.g. if you think that luigi should be a noun rather than a verb then they don’t want you to continue to exist, either irl or here on the Threadiverse.

The Left, like Veganism, always eats its own, thereby often causing the Right (in this case Reddit, Xhitter, and Meta/Facebook) to win, since utopia is only a place that can exist in theory (it requires too much work to implement in practice, which people are typically not willing to put forth).

Thank you for correcting me. I edited my comment to indicate that it was maga.place.

But for most people, its difficult to even stop eating unhealthy food, and thats not even difficult.

It is if you are poor. Healthy food costs more than junk, in the short-term.

Or hexbear, Lemmygrad.ml, hilariouschaos, and [edit: false stuff removed] maga.place.

Lemmy definitely has its dark corners.

While Lemmy lacks those, PieFed already has both advanced automated mod tools plus other features that dramatically increases the democratization of moderation itself.

e.g. if someone wants to see less Trump and Musk content, keyword filters allow someone to personally set that up, without having to rely upon a moderator to make that decision for the entire community.

Another example along those lines is the automated collapsing or even hiding of content that falls below a certain score threshold - personally I have that turned off, but if someone wants that then again, they don’t have to rely solely upon the efforts of a moderation team, and can rely instead upon the community engagement. Again: if they want.

Still another example is showing icons next to usernames - e.g. one shows new users that are <2 weeks old, another shows someone who receives ~10x more downvotes than upvotes, and so on. These are not “filters”, just helpful indicators so that you know more about someone’s reputation prior to responding. Most conservatives for example have warning labels next to their usernames, in these more leftist spaces.

Also - and I cannot emphasize enough how crucial this is - PieFed moderator reports actually federate. This has been a source of huge pain in Lemmy, and tbf I think a future Lemmy release is planned that will do that… but meanwhile as with so exceedingly very many other features, PieFed has had them for months.

PieFed thereby helps avoid some of the major issues that cause community fragmentation. Which ironically PieFed also helps solves that issue too, by collapsing comments (old example of this phenomena), and with the Categories of Communities suite of features, including the user-customizeable and shareable Feeds.

Also PieFed is easier to install, requires less maintenance, uses fewer resources (even sending 25-fold less data to end-users), and so on. So yeah, I don’t think Lemmy is capable of scaling up, despite its reliance upon its sourcecode being in the hyper stable Rust programming language, because of all the other issues with it (database issues requiring constant restarts, and especially lack of moderation capabilities), so I am putting all of my hopes into PieFed. Sorry if this reads like an advertisement - I feel like PieFed is to Lemmy what Lemmy is to Reddit, except that analogy does not begin to come close since PieFed has added features that even Reddit never bothered to, plus some others that it continually tried to take away from people by not retaining it in new-reddit despite how it was present in old.

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Good point. In fact if someone is taking physics, it’s probably too late actually.🤯😰🤢

Must resist temptation to ask wHy NoT bOtH… (for mutually exclusive possibilities)

You is kind, you is smart, you is important.

One money, as requested.

Uses AI to insert small Mexican gril… what could go wrong?

Oof, too soon…

Oh is that where the skeletons came from? 🙃

I heard that they just used real ghosts 👻 too 😱 /s

Turns out that was a lie - instead they only did it for maximum profits… for themselves, obviously.

I mean… yeah, it requires manufacturing for it to be produced:-P.

Yes, and data centers are specifically depleting the available water (and RAM) supply, thereby generating anxiety about that fact.