Even in an array I'd be terrified of more drive fails in a rebuild that is gonna take a long time.

I think "explicitly allowing hate speech with examples" has done most of the recent damage to whatever their "reputation" is at this point.

Them actively suppressing non-fashy political views is basically expected.

Trump started the whole thing because he was unpopular on Tiktok. Republicans jumped on board because young people were politically organizing on the platform and they don't like that.

But up to that point, there was no really effort, even as much as they tried to claim "national security".

Then when the real information about Palestine was being spread there the democrats jumped on board because they are the same as republicans when if comes to foreign policy.

That's what started the actual push that gained momentum. They had no actual evidence about the stuff they claimed. Also, if the claim applied to Tiktok, it applies to all the other social media. But they don't actually care about privacy. They only care about a platform that they couldn't control and wasn't catering to them.

If they cared about privacy, they would have pushed general privacy legislation and/or regulation and oversight on all social media.

The reversal was Biden realizing he does not have a good legacy and with Trump, there was a lot more content this time around that was pro-trump (and also tiktok gave him a million dollars). So now he gets to claim he "saved tiktolk" when he was the start of the whole thing.

Regardless of the community, those people exist. The thing with lemmy, and federation as a whole, is you essentially have to curate your own experience.

Joining a specific instance over another gives you a starting point on that, but even then you're going to have a more wild west than you get from one of the centralized sites. That's both a boon and a curse as there is no algorithm trying to feed you whatever to keep you engaged. Reddit is less algorithm driven than other sites, but there is some secret sauce they are working with that seems to weight the votes on things.

As for user comments. Reddit has enough people that the assholes can get suppressed, especially if the subreddit is moderated well, but it's mostly down to how active the community is and what the community vibe is. Mods can't see everything so rely a lot on user reports.

Also, because of how a lot of people think, most average users went to lemmy.world because it was the easy option. A lot of communities on there are going to be much more rife with that kind of person that somewhere else.

For someone who grew up with the early internet this is a familiar experience, but if all you know is the post social media algorithm driven state things have been for the last 15 or so years then I can see how it could be daunting. There were certainly communities I avoided back in the ancient internet because of overly toxic people who think being mean is being funny because they are a teenager trying to be edgy or never grew out of that mindset.

As for the question you asked them, it's one of my biggest things I think fediverse stuff could be better on. Like, we obviously don't want algorithms, but its kind of hard to find communities that are active without actively searching. And many times you don't know about things you might be interested in. A simple "people you follow like this" or "people who follow this also follow this other thing" and have an ability to turn it off.

It was a joke based on how inconsistent they are in language. They regularly say completely contradictory things in the same breath and it's always absurd. It's not like his cult would actually turn on him over that.

Obviously this is a serious moment, but if we just wallow in it then we can end up in a dark mindset. Humor is a tool we can use to help in dark times.

Like I feel they should want right wing nuts to be mad about the game. They won't stop talking about media that are mad about and so many conservatives will still buy the thing even just to destroy it and virtue signal to the other idiots.

The left? Some may still buy it, but most don't talk about it at all. The idea of "go woke go broke" has always been a message of intent, not reality, at least in the modern era.

Nothing makes me want to try a game or watch a show more than legitimate, non surface level representation that incels whine about.

So, I think that lost will be so long it's basically "everyone".

For the average person, even among conservatives, nobody likes their health insurance. Even if they've had a good experience with theirs, they know peoe who haven't.

Should start saying he pardoned "antifa" or whatever conservatives were calling them to distance themselves.

I guarantee he is projecting how little he works on others. Every accusation these people make is a confession.

And yes, even the "why do you have to make it your entire personality?" is projection. As much of a cult as maggots are, I think the only real difference is trump is too stupid to use the usual double speak politicians were using before and the base that always was out for blood ate it up. He also gave them phrases and symbols to plaster over all their stuff.

Yet they will claim someone having a single pride sticker on their car or flag outside their house is "shoving it in their face" while they drive down the road with a 2 or more flags I their car, along with countless number stickers, and a house covered in at least a half dozen flags and signs.

And no, I'm not exaggerating. I see these trucks (always a shitty truck) and houses regularly where I currently live, and I'm fleeing in a month as I'm queer and one of their targets.

See, for me hunger is an all consuming distraction. There have been very few times I get so hyper focused I forget to eat.

Medication helps, but I still get hungry and crave chocolate.

Accelerationist Theory just means a bunch of people are going to suffer and die. Society might change, but is far more likely to get worse for everyone.

This is exactly how fascism gains power.

Except this was never about "malware" or anything else.

Republicans first wanted to ban it because younger people were getting politically organized on it, and they weren't voting republican.

Then it was the main platform where news of Gaza was getting out, because American owned media, social media included, have always towed the line with Israel and anything that shows them in a negative light is just automatically considered "antisemitic".

Because of Gaza, Democrats jumped on trying to ban it with Republicans because neither side liked that information was being spread and they had no power to suppress.

If they actually cared about security or the privacy of citizens they would make regulation that applied to all social media, US included. There is nothing Ticktok does that Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest don't have a long history of doing. And there was the whole Cambridge Analytica thing where it was found Facebook sold user data and gave access to a foreign group that actively was using Facebook to influence the 2016 election. If China wanted data on US citizens there is nothing stopping them from just buying it from American companies like they already do.

Also, Twitter was specifically doing things to help prop up Trump this last time at the behest of Musk who was not born in the US and pretty much fits the bill of "foreign agent trying to undermine American values", except that he's trying to undermine the people and the push for equality and human rights, which most politicians don't care about.