Religion and education are two things that violate the law of supply and demand. The less of either that you have, the less you want.

14 years, here. From the Digg exodus.

The reason is simple. Misinformation sticks with conservatives more than liberals. With liberals, someone posts evidence that the story isn’t true and the whole thing fizzles out. If someone tries posting counter evidence in a conservative forum, they get banned.

There’s no money in trying to push misinformation to liberals.

I was on Digg before switching to Reddit 14 years ago and once people were told Reddit existed there was a landslide of people switching because Digg admins were being such jackasses.

I’m sure there are people grabbing constant captures so they can put out an unedited version.

How many of them don’t know about Lemmy yet and would switch in a second if they found out?

Fascists don’t like to admit that they’re fascists. Or at least they don’t like it to be publicly known.

I don’t know. The users are way smarter than the admins. I’m sure people can think of a way to do it that the mods won’t notice until it’s too late.

It’s never going to be gone, specifically because of people like this.

Just like the flu never went away after the 1918 pandemic, again, because of people like to this.

I’ve been using Firefox for years.

But you interact with other people pretty much the same way? Text/voice/video chat?

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”

– Steven Weinberg

What are the differences between Matrix and Discord?

Actually, they moved to Hollywood so they wouldn’t be under Edison’s camera patents.

What if an instance were able to block specific communities on other instances without defederating?

I don’t think there’s a lot of blind people going to r/AccidentalRenaissance anyway.

Feed, Labs

First level support staff generally aren’t allowed to have creativity. They just follow the script and then pass the problem up when it’s something they can’t handle.

Google releases plenty of projects. It just cancels them after a couple years.

Also, it’s very easy for someone to replicate the biometric features that the reader would use in something they could wear.