Honestly tho it's been downhill over there. I'm getting old reddit vibes here and I'm cool with never posting on reddit ever again.

And some variety in the userbase as well. This is quite the echo chamber. Not that reddit wasn't but Lemmy is even worse in that sense.

Fuck reddit for several reasons, among them that it's too big.

Reddit as a site is superior to Lemmy, but ever since all the trash have flooded that place, I decided to leave. What I’m saying is that I would pbviously choose Reddit if we’d ignore the kind of people that are frequenting it, but since you can’t really ignore them when it comes to a social media, I use this site instead.

This is me. But fuck Reddit.

I use Lemmy on mobile and (old.)reddit on desktop. They both serve their purpose and I have no complex about it.

I think the usage of all drugs should be legal, but I don't think the sale or the production of all drugs should be legal.

Stop arresting people who are addicted to the stuff and just arrest the people who are spreading it around.

And no arresting people for "intent to sell" just because they have a lot. Do some actual detective work and catch them actually selling it.

I am with you on this. Never tried any, and have absolutely no interest. And yet, the prohibition does more harm than good.

This. It's the easiest way to find intolerant individuals. Those individuals are very rarely just anti-LGBTQ from my experience. They're most often intolerant of everyone not like them.

Something just clicked for me after reading this. The reason people always say things like "don't shove your gayness in my face" is that seeing gayness forces them to think about their intolerance (and of course stirs up fears about they themselves being gay).

This is a very relatable comment. I think a lot of the reason I am so angry is how selfishly people act though. I think it makes me a worse person to observe that kind of shit. I'm sure the anger makes me more selfish too, ironically.

And the fact that Donald Trump won the election in America kind of proves how pathetically selfish a huge swath of Americans are. This and 2016 and 2020 shouldn't have been anywhere near close, 10% of votes is the highest number of votes he could've gotten without making me upset. But people don't give a shit about the harm to others, as long as they think they're not being harmed...

until we live in a society where being pregnant and giving birth does not endanger your health, security, and social status, prohibiting abortion simply can't be an option.

That goes against your personal preferences?

Be advised TikTok is literally Chinese spyware on your phone. It's collecting all sorts of data on all it's users all the time. This is a known thing, and the initial impetus of many organizations to ban it internally

Edit: It's not racist to point out China is currently surveilling America as hard as it can. It's doing this as part of parralel warfare. They've hacked our phones, emails, servers, businesses and even individual routers - all at the behest of the Chinese government. They are afraid and it shows.

You could choose to subtly influence your relatives, but instead you "protest". Pfft. Given the vegan I knew well, what you're actually doing here is not going because you're too grossed out by it. You know not going won't inspire anyone to change, but you tell yourself that lie to justify it because being grossed out is not a high minded reason.

My stance on eating meat is kind of the exact opposite of what I was asking here. It's one of the two things I continue doing despite not being able to morally justify it. Piracy is the other one.