I'm not really sure, maybe it's just the extent or the amount of incompetence that makes it different to me. It's sort of like fascism-lite, because even if trump WANTS all trans people taken away / treated as undesirables and has caused a lot more people to hate them, he hasn't been able to enact "if you are trans you will be killed" like I would expect under fascism. I also don't feel like even the crazy maga people want the democratic party to not exist, they just want democrats to "stop being stupid."

I was listening to an expert on cults talk about trump and MAGA, and he said trump plays to the crowd rather than saying what he believes. For instance when he said "I hope you're all vaccinated " in Missouri i believe, the crowd booed him and he quickly changed to "you should have the freedom to choose." I think narcissistic con man fits everything he does more accurately than fascist, but still that's why when someone calls him a fascist I don't really complain.

Then this isn't the site for you.

Well, in some of your comments here you've very nicely formulated conclusions about Lemmy, which are, i think, spinning constantly in many Lemmy users' heads — there are indeed many cons presented on platform. Not only because people, while moving on "another platform", usually forgot to also adapt their behaviour to some new platform, but they moreover bring with them loads of bs that is acceptable on other platforms mainly because of the way they operate. However, some people do it on purpose — to make all possible places as shitty as possible (they kinda build their own image). Another thing is Lemmy's technical limitations — it's not a big corporation making money on selling sensitive user data to ad providers and brokers. So, yes, no fancy features, top-tier functions. Honestly, i have no idea about how exactly devs are running platform nor how they planning to run it in the future. Anyway, for now, i just able to accept it as it is currently presented.

It's nice that you're trying to keep your feed clean by blocking unwanted instances and/or particular communities. But there are at least a couple of hundreds of communities on fediverse, and at least ~25% are those not abandoned, actively posting. This is a real inconvenience of a platform: why not to let users just pick a bunch of communities they like from a big list and then feed will contain only posts from selected communities. C'mon, there must be some other much less painful method to let users discover new places on platform. Another major pitfall for me is that some instances and/or communities within them block access to their content for other ones. Personally, i don't think that atomisation and alienation are the points of federation. Let me also add, that Lemmy, despite it's kinda unique nature, is still an object of monitoring and tool of propaganda and manipulation. Yes, we want some big place on the internet to be exclusively for cool interesting stuff and adequate conversations, but... intelligence 👮🏽‍♂️ always steps in and does it's worst preventing any attempts of cozy cohabitation. Thou, i've seen some definitive tendencies for balance, adjustments for neutrality and compromise in terms of politics and other sensitive topics in major communities and lately there was some significant progress imo + algorithm breaching techniques were quite weak and i've seen as less unwanted content as it's possible for now. However, different parties are constantly seeking for ways to abuse platform and flood it with some total 💩 Moreover, certain countries' intelligences invest in this kinda shit very hardly, so i cannot really imagine the amount of problems everyone is dealing with in here: from developers to community owners and moderators, and to regular users. Usually, i don't scroll much of a feed and go straight to preferred communities. Yet, for me it's still quite interesting to scroll down sometimes and see if there's any unwanted content (and also what's going on with certain people's minds to be ready for bs floods). It's often presented, unfortunately. Ironically, some of this content included complaints from user, who was unable to block all unwanted instances and communities — while that user's instance turned out to be unwanted for me 🌚 leftists... some of them behave more like fascists, or nazis. Not really surprisingly, coz their brainrots are just an extremes of very similar bs, ideologies based on hostility, constant violence and repression for "sustainability".

Only small amount of non-ultra left or right people are able to communicate adequately and defend their position — they often even adequate enough not to consider themselves a part of any modern bs ideologies and so they're just individuals who had appropriated some, idk, the way they perform some little domestic things, prepare meals and so that makes them a bit "conservative" or "liberal", but they're ok, even cute sometimes. But i still get this unwanted content with agitation on "action" (terrorism really), that everything is rotted, end is near, etc. and patridiots screeching on absolutely everyone with different opinion (all 😼, can't change anything, hooked up on some copium or some other triggering for sensitive people, provocative stuff) — in their instances they usually never get banned, thus they ban everyone else, in order to make their poor dumpsers look civilised; they clean any dissidence so hard it's implied like there are some random casual conversations between absolutely normal human beings (yeah, that's exactly why they just always come to consensus in all disputes), while, of course, their communies are strictly moderated and censored as some happy gulag camps or recordings of ice camps of absolute innocence.

Agreed on many Linux users being polite.