I need to read that book again. It was scary, but I finished it utterly confused. I clearly missed a ton from the appendices.

I think the point is the mix of weird, nonsensical lyrics with intense, serious political points lol

Does anyone know if there’s a way to identify nearby unionized stores? I’d like to only go to my unionized Starbucks or unionized Trader Joe’s, if there’s any of those close to me.

In what way did he not do an insurrection? They’re just trying to get laws and rulings to apply to Democrats but not Republicans now?

Republicans are insane right now. They’re going full fascist. I don’t know what else you call it when they so blatantly ignore the rule of law to disrupt the peaceful transition of power to stay in power.

I feel like their arguments always eventually become “Well other countries got to do genocide or colonialism, why can’t we?”

That’s what defund the police is about. It’s about shifting the funding to other sources, social workers and such, that can handle calls like these. It relieves police of having to deal with stuff like this, too.

It took me way too long to figure out what was actually going on in this picture.

Honestly, there’s a reason hype has died down. The site has all the same problems as other alternatives.

After the initial hype, it’s only as big as a reasonably large individual subreddit. In fact, here are the top weekly posts of lemmy’s federation partners and T_D’s exodus site. The latter edges out the former slightly in upvotes and much more substantially in comments, and it’s just a single community. Even in the fairly small category of “biggest extant reddit alternative”, lemmy doesn’t take first prize.

Same content problem as all the others: roughly half of the posts are politics of a uniform orientation, and the other half are reposted facebook memes.

Reddit’s killer app is the presence of a sizable community for every little niche thing, and that’s not there. Unless your only interests are politics (within roughly .3 standard deviations of the median Huffpo writer) or Facebook memes, it’s not a viable alternative.

Competition: Sure, it’s federated in theory, but the block-happy, drama-centric culture means that, if an alternative were to pop up with the userbase of 2012 Reddit (or even 2018 Reddit), it’d get defederated almost immediately. Open federation solves the “dozens of sites competing for the same thousand-or-so people” problem. Closed federation just pretends to do so.

This is basically all the same issue: not enough users. It’s so dumb. “Lemmy isn’t as good as Reddit because everyone isn’t there yet. But ya, Reddit sucks.” /face-palm Then come over and get users to come over instead of saying there’s not enough people.

Maybe that’s the first test. See how much abuse you’ll put up with lol.