Censorship is always going to exist to some extent, but Lemmy has the potential to balance it out because there is no central authority. So you could have censorship of different stuff on different servers, but if you take the network as a whole you would still get a diversity of information.

I remember everybody celebrating Luigi the whole time, I guess some mods and admins were wary of threats of violence being hosted on their servers but overall it’s impossible to criticize Luigi on this platform without getting heavily downvoted, and celebrating him is free upvotes.

So I feel like you’re being pretty overdramatic and also not really accurate with this comment.

Future cyberpunk dystopias be like

I’m not so sure they want to “persuade the leftists”, I think they probably just want to find other conservatives to validate their feelings. But there isn’t any space for that on Lemmy atm.

They’ll probably need to make their own servers, which will immediately get defederated en masse. But I think Lemmy should be for every human being who seeks knowledge, even conservatives. That doesn’t mean we need to federate with them, but that’s the nature of open source software. You can’t pick and choose who uses it.

I just try to avoid it entirely. Every post gets heavily downvoted anyway because conservatives are totally outnumbered on Lemmy. So it’s mostly people mocking them.

I feel like it’s so confusing if you just see the comments without the posts. But also the comments are the best part of Lemmy so it kinda makes sense.

I’m already addicted to Lemmy so that’s not an issue

Wow. I never even noticed that option before. That’s actually pretty cool.

But kind of sounds like a bug in that case, because if the admins wanted to remove the community then it shouldn’t be possible to view comments from there either.

If you can’t see the community itself, then how are you seeing comments?

When you view people’s profiles?

Pretty sure that’s been a thing for a while. It’s like when lemmy.world blocked !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com. They are still federated but they just blocked that one community.

I assume that’s what lemmy.ml is doing with the conservative community.

In my experience most internet spaces that specifically cater to teenagers also tend to attract a lot of creeps. I think it’s probably for the best to nominally limit Lemmy to adults only, especially at this early stage.

You’re assuming that a centenarian couldn’t set up a Lemmy server? That’s ageism

He was an all time great baseball player. Aside from that I don’t really care too much about him as a person.

But since you’re asking, he just seems hard headed and grumpy, and the allegations of being a major racist seem mainly based on discredited biographies from 50+ years ago.

Aside from the very valid points that others have already made, I have some input.

First of all, I do agree that there should be a maximum age limit for positions of great power. But it should be like 80 or 85 years old imo, so it wouldn’t really change much.

Older people are actually far more concerned about the future than younger people in many ways, usually because of their experience and their children. Whereas younger people don’t quite grasp how critical our actions are in shaping the future.

Secondly, and tangentially, I wouldn’t be so sure that Gen Z will ever be a dominant political faction. Similarly to how Gen X was basically steamrolled by the baby Boomers, Gen Z is likely to be the victim of millennial elites. Gen Z is a smaller cohort than millennials, partially due to declining birth rates but also due to the ripple effect.

There were a fuck ton of baby Boomers (1946-1964) due to high birth rates, and most of their kids were millennials (1981-1998). Conversely, there were much fewer GenX kids (65-80), partially because many of their potential parents were killed in wars and also because of rapidly declining birth rates. This demographic reality has spilled down to Gen Z, which is less numerous as well.

Then you’re also going to have to deal with Generation alpha right behind you, who are largely the children of millennials and have grown up in a chaotic environment. Who knows how the fuck they’re going to turn out.

So yeah, good luck wresting political control from the millennials, because it’s unlikely at best.

Well said

Huh, that is interesting.

Definitely a long way to go, but getting better cross compatibility with Mastodon would be very beneficial because I feel like Mastodon users are fairly similar to Lemmy users in terms of attitudes and interests, and they have a huge active userbase compared to us.

Some of the basic markdown seems to work. Stuff that works:

• bold with double asterix
• italic with Asterix
• line/paragraph breaks (I think?)
• block quote with >
• inline code with `
• this list 😅

Aha, took me like 15 minutes to learn how to navigate that site (I never used Mastodon or Twitter) but I figured it out.

This was the reply on Mastodon

Federation between Mastodon and Lemmy is still very limited in functionality and weird. Obviously the image OP attached to the original post made it over, but the one they attached to their comment did not.

The devs need to do a lot of work on that if it’s ever going to be usable by most people. But also users need to experience both sites for themselves to start to understand what the actual use cases for cross platform functionality are.

I think I got a little better understanding of how it is to interact with a Lemmy community/thread from trying to find that user and his reply via the Mastodon interface. It’s pretty confusing tbh because there’s no threading at all, just random replies.

But actually on further investigation there is a way to view the thread, I can kinda see it here

https://masturbated.one/@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works/113872823948648738

Edit:

Wtf clicking that link actually navigates me to this Lemmy thread on sh.itjust.works. Now I’m just more confused than ever.

I’m guessing that it automatically navigates to Lemmy because my account comes from Lemmy. But you can find the Mastodon view of the same comment by manually navigating through Mastodon. Interestingly, the Mastodon view has the same problem where my embedded image doesn’t display. Definitely work to be done.

Oh, idk what you’re referring to and I don’t care to find out, I try to avoid ever hearing anything about that dude if I can avoid it.

It made me think of Louis CK 😳

Legendary domain name

Heh, you old af. My condolences.

But at least that’s a nice round number.

Bro… this is a fucking wild comment I hope it’s satirical.