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I meant I wish there were more of those communities on lemmy.

Oh yeah, my hands are covered in tiny scars where my cat got a lil carried away chewing on a knuckle or whatever while I was giving belly rubs. Worth it.

Same, I’m engaging more often here than I did on Reddit because it feels less like shouting into the void. I just wish there were more active communities for philosophical/political/religious debate on lemmy.

Also I didn’t even realize there wasn’t a karma system here, but that seems like a good call. I never paid attention to it on Reddit either (I couldn’t even tell you off the top of my head how much I have.)

And the US isn’t? The US doesn’t exactly have a stellar record either, so if you think the US is some bastion of human rights you haven’t. been. paying. attention. And if you think LGBT rights are safe from that you’re delusional.

And that’s not even considering the many, many atrocities and war crimes the US has committed and continues to commit overseas (Yup, that’s a ChinaDaily link - if you believe US media reports about Chinese human rights violations then you must be willing to give the Chinese media the same courtesy about US violations, right?) So my advice to you is to hold on to that smug sense of US human rights superiority for as long as you can, cause once the illusion fades you’re in for a rough time.

There’s a world of difference between supporting the liberation of Palestine and praising it. I don’t think anyone is under the illusion that it’s a great place to live, but that doesn’t mean I want them to be murdered.

Hmm, more belly to rub, I’m all about this. One for each hand!

Really? I found lots of pretty far-left subs that were pretty friendly to those ideas. Wish I could find more here, honestly, but the ones I’ve seen seem kinda dead.

Yeah, I almost left at that time too, but I didn’t believe the alternatives were really up to snuff. I have been pleasantly surprised to be wrong.

Oh I think some of it is, especially in light of how fashy they’ve become of late banning people for even just upvoting shit about Luigi Mangione.

No indeed, and in fact it just came out the other day that Musk privately pressured reddit to censor shit against him and they did.

I mean these were political debate subs that presumably exist for the purpose of having these discussions so it seems weird to filter it, but… shrug Reddit be kooky sometimes.

Indeed, I quite like it, cause I’m here for discussion not just shouting into the void.

I would generally agree, except it seemed to crop up more on longer posts in general, and especially on political posts. It even happened using old.reddit, and that’s - as far as I know - an entirely different codebase, though interacting with the same servers, so… shrug

Yeah it felt a little empty here at first, but then I realized I get way more replies on most of my comments here than I did on reddit where most people just scrolled right past it.

It’s a frog/boiling water situation. It never gets suddenly, dramatically worse, it just gets slowly worse over time. I had been noticing some weirdness (described in another comment under this post) for a while and was kinda starting to wonder what was up, but it didn’t rise to the level of ‘Oh I should do something like this’ until I got temp-banned for saying Luigi didn’t deserve to go to jail for what he did (which was then reversed on appeal, but not before I got a message saying I was perma-banned for ban-evasion with other accounts (I’ve had only one account in the 14 years I was on reddit, so that was bullshit), but the ban was lifted instead. It was that combination of an increasing sense that something fucky was going on and an inciting event that made me realize it was considerably worse than I realized. People tend to need an inciting event, otherwise the concern doesn’t overcome the inertia to keep doing what you’re familiar with.

I commented a lot in political debate subs before I left, and one thing that I noticed is that Reddit would refuse to accept (error out) or act like it accepted and then just outright delete my comments. I don’t have hard data, but one pattern I really noticed is that any comment that included both ‘Israel’ and ‘genocide’ got errored/eaten a very high percentage of the time.

Oh they only care about tyranny that affects them. It’s not tyranny if it’s hurting the people they want hurt.

Heh, I came by my abortive (due to disability) cybersecurity career honest - I never really did much hacking, but I built and maintained networks for years and sorta just picked it up. Course it helps that I’d had a couple friends for years before I got into it who had been in the business a long time (one was the network security head for a Tier 2 ISP that covered most of the American Southwest, and the other was on the penetration-testing red team at a US government national laboratory) and liked to talk shop.

That’s… extraordinarily stupid. Sounds like you need better word processing software.

I mean maga has always had a strong religious component built into its core, as has the conservative party in general since like the 80s, so this isn’t new.