Yea I can see that, we can live comfortably on earth with Kessler syndrome but some carrington event and already struggling populace would probably set us back a century at least and wed be trapped on earth nearly forever, or until we can solve Kessler syndrome
This is in regards to our brethren down south, poking fun at 2nd amendmenters and their manly façade. Seems like cons all over the globe mostly like to larp as strong men but like if you gotta hide behind a firearm, are you really manly? 🤷♂️
Piggybacking off this comment to repost a comment I've put elsewhere. I'm new to Lemmy and understand its not as dynamic as reddit due to the smaller userbase, but figure some people might not be reading all comments.
That's the beauty, I spun up my own and you can too. It allows for data sovereignty and ownership if you own your own node and once critical mass is reached then its game over for established social media oligarchs. SReddit is issuing warnings and likely only time before they kiss the ring for Cheeto Mussolini and ban and dissenting opinions.
That's awesome! Yes each country, region, municipality should have their own instance. I've spun up a Lemmy instance and going to try and make grassroots in roads by going to local businessses and trying to get them to sign up.
Its a chicken and the egg dilemma. Trying to get users is hard, but if there are businesses that interact with local users then there's something more whole some. Not zucc, musky, or the other broligarchs making pennies on each local interaction. Their power needs to be usurped by the people.
Yes it's good on the surface, but echo chambers are near impossible to break. Having everyone on fediverse where there's not perverse incentives to tailor algorithms to keep your engagement could help free some younger minds.
Its still a curated echo chamber and not reflective of the broader society, but its not a broligarch making pennies on each click either. For online social discourse, transparency is key.
Reddit has recently been issue warnings for users that engage (read: upvote) with content construed as inciting violence. Free and open discourse is not tenable on the main platforms (Meta, X, Reddit, etc.) and are being astro-turfed by bots trying to drive wedges in the communities.
Lol I was quoting Mitch hedberg, "I used to do drugs, I still do, but used to do too"